Ford Wilson wrote:You guys eat like prisoners of war! Here is an idea of what we would eat on a typical day of a 4-5 day remote camping trip.
Breakfast-French press coffee, instant oatmeal w/raisins or dried cranberries, brown sugar. Occasional donut.

Lunch-Cheese, salami, Top Ramen w/chopped broccoli, carrots, onion, cauliflower, (prepped in a zip lock) and don't forget bottled hot sauce. Canadian beer.

Dinner-Frozen steak or fried chicken brought from home, Lipton Side Kick meals, w/powdered milk, butter/margarine, chopped veggies, green onion, bell pepper, etc. maybe a cut up chicken breast,hot sauce, Doritos or some other snack. Wine of choice, decanted into plastic containers with dinner. Pre dinner cocktails can be either rum, scotch, rye etc. If night is cold, hot buttered rum.

Kipper snacks, sardines, saltines, maybe dry salami are great. Remember, we feed 3 mouths, darn dog gets her two meals per day, plus her share of our 3 meals. I also take a Coghlan's popcorn popper, veg oil, and popcorn.

Now you get an idea of why I am 230#s, but we don't suffer.

Ford Wilson wrote: ...Canadian beer.

DonC wrote:

Ford Wilson wrote:You guys eat like prisoners of war! Here is an idea of what we would eat on a typical day of a 4-5 day remote camping trip.
Breakfast-French press coffee, instant oatmeal w/raisins or dried cranberries, brown sugar. Occasional donut.

Lunch-Cheese, salami, Top Ramen w/chopped broccoli, carrots, onion, cauliflower, (prepped in a zip lock) and don't forget bottled hot sauce. Canadian beer.

Dinner-Frozen steak or fried chicken brought from home, Lipton Side Kick meals, w/powdered milk, butter/margarine, chopped veggies, green onion, bell pepper, etc. maybe a cut up chicken breast,hot sauce, Doritos or some other snack. Wine of choice, decanted into plastic containers with dinner. Pre dinner cocktails can be either rum, scotch, rye etc. If night is cold, hot buttered rum.

Kipper snacks, sardines, saltines, maybe dry salami are great. Remember, we feed 3 mouths, darn dog gets her two meals per day, plus her share of our 3 meals. I also take a Coghlan's popcorn popper, veg oil, and popcorn.

Now you get an idea of why I am 230#s, but we don't suffer.

Yep thats what I call roughing it Ford...

Jump This wrote:Beans, beans, beans, beans and beans........

donknee wrote:It used to be the High Test Canadian Okeefes Extra Old Stock was a very special treat. That's when stateside beer was 3.2% and there was no such thing as a micro brew....but Zane was just Z-baby then. Yep, we're spoiled now, so enjoy it if you can.

The station-keeper upended a disk of last week's bread, of the shape and
size of an old-time cheese, and carved some slabs from it which were as
good as Nicholson pavement, and tenderer.

He sliced off a piece of bacon for each man, but only the experienced old
hands made out to eat it, for it was condemned army bacon which the
United States would not feed to its soldiers in the forts, and the stage
company had bought it cheap for the sustenance of their passengers and
employees. We may have found this condemned army bacon further out on
the plains than the section I am locating it in, but we found it--there
is no gainsaying that.

Then he poured for us a beverage which he called "Slum gullion," and it
is hard to think he was not inspired when he named it. It really
pretended to be tea, but there was too much dish-rag, and sand, and old
bacon-rind in it to deceive the intelligent traveler.

He had no sugar and no milk--not even a spoon to stir the ingredients
with.

We could not eat the bread or the meat, nor drink the "slumgullion." And
when I looked at that melancholy vinegar-cruet, I thought of the anecdote
(a very, very old one, even at that day) of the traveler who sat down to
a table which had nothing on it but a mackerel and a pot of mustard. He
asked the landlord if this was all. The landlord said:

"All! Why, thunder and lightning, I should think there was mackerel
enough there for six."

"But I don't like mackerel."

"Oh--then help yourself to the mustard."

In other days I had considered it a good, a very good, anecdote, but
there was a dismal plausibility about it, here, that took all the humor
out of it.

a64pilot wrote:The original MRE's circa 1980 or so were horrible. Everything was dehydrated, even the meat. The dehydrated pork pattie was the worst.

Mathew Sharp wrote:I usually take jerky for snacks, and freeze dried foods from "Backpackers pantry" and "Mountain House".

Sounds bad but surprisingly good, and requires zero planning.

Just make sure to remember your water filter and MSR stove!

hotrod150 wrote: Quick & easy: coffee, instant mush, soups/stews. Solo: one pot, one bowl,one mug, one spoon, and you're good to go. Add cookies & adult beverages for a more well rounded diet. If you shoot a grouse rabbit or rat around camp, you can throw it into the soup/stew for added protein.................

whynotfly wrote:You
By the way, the food at the Cavanaugh Bay ID resort is quite good if you like BBQ type stuff. Great camping there too!