Boundary Waters Quetico Forum :: BWCA Food and Recipes :: food for 10 day trip
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Bannock |
Tuna Helper; Chicken Helper; Cheese; granola bars and breakfast bars; etc. |
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luft |
quote Beavers: "Yep, Butthead's crab pasta salad was mmmm...mmmm...goood! This sounds delicious! Where are you finding foil pack shrimp and/or crab? I haven't seen it on the grocery shelves in my area. |
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buz |
Portion size is real important, so practice at home with any unknown recipes, or all of it, to get the right amount. Too little or too much is not good. Take the cooler for the first couple of days, eat the heavy stuff first, good eats come out of that thing! |
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eagle93 |
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portager |
I also used empty peanut butter jars to put nuts and trail mix in. |
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butthead |
Happy camp cookin'. butthead |
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popin_popper |
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HammerII |
quote portager: "One of the favorites at my last trip was peanut butter on a soft tortilla shell. the shells are light and are pretty much indestructible if they get to warm & packed down they may mush together a bit but other wise works good. I buy the peanut butter in the smaller bottles and will bring multiple as the bottles once empty work good for putting trash that you are going haul out in. We love these and kick themm up a bit with a drizzle of honey over the peanut butter |
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lskidder |
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OBX2Kayak |
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realandrea |
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Beemer01 |
Check out the recipes on this and other boards - watch how many people the meal will serve - decide what sounds good and go shopping. There are few compelling reasons to use the prepackaged 'camping' meals, if you have even reasonable cooking skills. I'd suggest you try out the recipes at home first to see what you will actually like.... I failed to do this once and wound up discovering that I really don't like certain brands of freeze dried eggs, burned them up and went hungry. Plot out your menu with great precision, I package the meals in plastic bags and ID each with a slip of paper. The menu for the ten day trip is taped inside the lid of the box and I track it pretty carefully. A perfectly planned trip has you leaving with only a package of dried tomatoes and a pack of oatmeal. :-) If I'm tandem canoeing we pack a cold pack and bring in 5-7 days of steaks, eggs, hash browns, veggies, bacon - we eat well. If I'm soloing I exist on raman noodles, oatmeal and power bars. Very much a personal decision. |
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Beavers |
On a ten day trip you would have to pack light. I would leave the cooler at home and go with Pasta Roni, Rice a Roni, Mac-n-cheese and what ever other boxed dinners look good. You can get the foil packed crab, shrimp and chicken that added to the pasta will make it more of a meal. If you have a dehydrator one of my favorites is spaghetti. Just dehydrate some lean cooked hamburger. Then take your sauce and pour it on the fruit leather tray. The dried sauce will look just like a fruit leather. When you are ready for dinner just tear up the sauce leather add water and the hamburger let it simmer for a while and you won't be able to tell the difference from the fresh stuff. |
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Mark Lawyer |
www.adventurefoods.com |
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solitudeseeker25 |
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bjager |
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RaisedByBears99 |
Add soup base, pasta, trail mix, hardtack, flour, oil, coffee - and you're set. |
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packslight9410 |
I prefer any backpacker meals that don't require to be prepaired in a pot. I.e.- pour two cups of water in a bag and stir. I hate doing to dishes in the woods. Eat from bag, and toss when done. Light weight and tons of calories. |
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Spartan2 |
I order some of my food from Packit-Gourmet (online) and recommend looking at their offerings. I make a very good marinara-type spaghetti sauce from their tomato powder, freeze sweet onion pieces, freeze dried mushroom slices, and hot water, to which I add Italian spices and garlic salt to taste. They also sell the small packets of Parmesan cheese, so I have a few of those in the pack. I buy one of our favorite desserts from Packit-Gourmet also; it is a strawberry cheesecake. And I find their individual packets of peanut butter (also almond butter and cashew butter for a variety in tastes) and jelly convenient for lunches. We use crackers for our lunches. We like the Bretons that come in a long, narrow box. They seem to travel well in a large Zip-lock bag on the top of the food pack. As others have said, nuts, cheese, and summer sausage and other high-fat, high calorie foods keep you energetic on hard days. Also, because we have been watching our sodium but needed to add carbs to meals sometimes, we have "diluted" the two-serving freeze-dried entrees by adding extra pasta or noodles or rice to the dishes. For example, if I am doing a freeze-dried meal that is based upon rice, I would take a pack of the Success rice (cooks quickly) or some Minute Rice and cook it up in a pan first, then add the freeze-dried entree to the pan of rice with the water for the meal included, and cook it all a few minutes together. Most of the freeze-dried entrees are better if you actually cook them on the stove or the fire for just a few minutes. Krusteaz Honey Wheat pancake mix is higher in fiber and nutrients than the white flour kind, is just-add-water, and is very tasty. If you happen to be traveling during blueberry season, adding a few fresh blueberries makes them even better. We always take real northern Minnesota maple syrup for the pancakes. Heavy? Yes. But worth it, in my opinion. :-) The pre-cooked bacon works really well. We don't take the box, just the inner bag with the bacon. After it is open, I use it all in two days. Of course there are only two of us. A larger group would have no problem eating up a package or two in one meal. |
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Beavers |
I will be packing a variation of that this year, Suddenly Salad Pasta. Boil the pasta, add a little oil, some foil packed mayo, foil packed crab, and let it sit and cool while you finish setting up camp. Fine dinning in the BW! |