Planning a few trips this summer and looking for some ideas. Here are some of mine.

Breakfast:
Oatmeal (mixed with brown sugar and craisins!)
JAW Pancakes

Lunch:
Ramen
Pizza Pitas

Dinner:
Tacos (mexican rice with sauteed onions, chiles, and chicken)
Chili (make before the trip and freeze, it will thaw by the end of the first day, and just needs a little heat
Chicken & stuffing (obviously)


What's on your to eat list?

[This message has been edited by Terk (edited 4/12/2010 6:39p).]

Shore Breakfast:
1 freshly caught rainbow trout.
2 squirts imitation butter (i.e. anything made of oil that won't spoil).
1 thinly slice potato.
1 thinly sliced spanosh onion.

Fry it all together and tabasco it to taste. Delicious.

I always bring along one hard cured salami (they last the week inside their casing and make a great lunch.

Honestly, I have such a surfeit of MREs in the garage (who can eat 40 of those things on a 14 day FTX) that I stick 4-5 those in my pack pus some snacks and am good for a week. If you have any military friends just ask; I'll bet most have some lying around.

Ribeye. Freeze it before you leave, and it makes for a nice dinner.

Depends if I am in bear country or not. If I am, I won't cook strong odored food.

I tend to carry a lot of jerky, minute rice, peanut butter, smashed up ramen, mash potato mix, and dried fruit. I don't get bored easily, and have no issue with random mixing (pork ramen mixed with apricots isn't bad). I rarely, if ever, use more than one pot.

Man I can't wait to get this knee fixed and throw on my pack again.

spam and eggs

bring cheese.

longer hikes, harder cheese.





i love cheese.

For personal trips, I make and dehydrate my own meals. For guided trips, I provide Mountain House meals. Lots of variety to choose from. No clean up. And in desert environments where water is hard to come by, they require very little water to cook.

'97, what are your favorite Mountain House meals?

In addition to what's already been mentioned...

I like Lipton pasta sides more than Ramen. If you have access to trash disposal, or you don't mind packing out the extra piece of trash, boiling them in oven bags keeps your pot clean.

Frozen foil dinners are good the first night if you plan to build a fire.

Tuna helper, or anything with canned tuna.

I think most Clif bars taste like chewy cardboard, but the blueberry ones are pretty decent for breakfast.

I bet Philmont has some food ideas or menus on their website.

I used to go in the Philmont staff commissary every morning, and acquire squeeze cheese (personal favorite) and applesauce in a tube thing.

with all the goodness on the wall you went for the applesauce?

Terk, they're all pretty good. The only one I've found that I don't like is the Jamaican Chicken. The ingredients look awesome and sound like it will be nice and spicy, it's bland and taste like cardboard. That's the only one I've found I didn't like or heard any complaints about. The eggs are good as well, just don't add too much water.

Also get a long handled spoon to eat out of the pouch with.

zatarans red beans and rice + cheese + tortilla = yum

the NOLS cookbook has some good ideas in it.

I usually get lazy and just get a bunch of cheese/hard meats/tuna/crackers/energy bars

Another good frozen steak type idea is to make chilli before you go and put it in a Nalgene (I really like this one in the winter)

card, I had a reputation in the backcountry for liking to eat. Ute Gulch and Baldy both kept boxes of applesauce tubes for me. I could go through about 6 tubes in one sitting. Other camps saved the Donald Duck orange juice cans for me (at any given time I had at least 4 cans of orange juice stashed in the truck).

I miss squeeze cheese and Pemmican/Mealpack bars.

The cheese I can understand but those things were just flat out bad

I've always said I'm not a picky eater.

I will say, Pemmican bars do not make good bear bait. If they are in the bait mix, they are the last things eaten

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I usually get lazy and just get a bunch of cheese/hard meats/tuna/crackers/energy bars

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I usually do the same thing. But I'm I man, I'm 30! I need to eat better on the trail these days!

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Pemmican bars

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I think that I still have undigested Pemmican bars floating around in my bowels... LOL

I use mostly Mountain House meals, but I do make a few of the meal that are listed here:

www.trailcooking.com

I'm a fan of tabouli salad for lunch. Mix it in a 1 gal bag just after breakfast, then carry it in the top of your pack all morning. By lunch it's nice and mixed and ready to eat with either pita or tortillas.

If it was a longer trip we would always do a first night on the trail stew. Freeze the stew meat and carry it wrapped in a towel buried in your pack and even on hot day's it wills till be partially frozen at the end of the day. Add onions and veggies and a little water and season to taste. We would always plan a long day for the first day so it made it nice to set camp and have a nice bowl of stew.

Mountain House meals, peanut butter, trail mix. a bottle of Cognac for after dinner. Well, not the whole bottle but enough for a drink each night of the trip. Makes those aches and pains go away.

Any of the Zatarains (or equivalent) rice dishes work well. Somebody mentioned red beans & rice. My personal favorite is the jambalaya. Slice and cook 1 lb smoked sausage in microwave until you get all the grease out of it - don't burn it. Put in a ziplock, freeze. Combine with water and Zats mix and half an hour later you got jambalaya.

You can do the same with dirty rice - use breakfast sausage pre-cooked as above. I use Jimmy Dean's hot. This one needs to be first night out - jambalaya w/smoked sausage is good for first or second night.

Several years ago I found a tupperware type box that was just the right size for a loaf of french bread cut in half. Made a nice addition to supper and left over bread for breakfast.