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The only rules is that all you do when in the sticks is boil water, or dump it in a pot of boiling water... Prep work at home in the kitchen, or with a dehydrator is allowed of course.

Maybe I won't have to buy that backpackers cook book you guys were talking about two weeks ago.

MREs and Mountain House gets old after a while...

i like to buy a roll and a tuna in a foil bag with the little mayo packets from fast food restaurants and make a tuna sandwich, saw a add on t.v. a few days ago for starkist and it says it was flavored, plan on trying it next week on the bow season opener.

Patrick Smith's wild casserole recipe, dehydrated at home, then brought back to life with boiling water. Make sure to cook two batches------------you'll eat the first, then dehydrate the second!

Well, fresh trout wrapped in foil and laid on the coals would qualify, wouldn't it? As long as we're talking favorites.

Barring that, I like to cook up the mtn. house chicken & rice or chicken & noodles dishes and add chicken breast from the foil pouches you can get at the store, and a little ghee, that makes it richer and tolerable.

Also, for sandwiches, pita bread (can't crush it) dry salami, and cheese that doesn't need refrigetation, plus the little mayo packs like fishuntfreak already mentioned, mayo goes a long way towards making stuff tolerable.

Also lately I've been trying the peanut butter and almond butter that comes in individual serving-size foil pouches by Justin's Nut Butters, you can order on-line.

Dan, here's a good starting point:

http://www.trailcooking.com/

I don't have any special camp food recipes but after a week of dehydrated backpack food during a 2007 elk hunt this green chili cheeseburger from a drive-in in Antonito, Co. may be the best "first-meal-out-of-the-woods" I've ever eaten. My only regret was I didn't buy two before starting the 11 hour trek home.

That is a 'get two' burgers and a super large icy coke for the drive!


I take either mashed potatoe flakes or rice. Start with MRE pot roast/veges packs and make both, mix in a zip lock.

Other great one is chicken gooh (stew) dehydrated, add spanish rice mice and extra water with some jalapenos in a ziplock freezer bag, mix sell, provides character/essential vitamins/intestinal health.


But that burger would be awesome after a trek.

The "Post Trip" greasy cheeseburger is a favorite of mine too

Brad, thanks for the link.

Smokepole,

What is GHEE?

How to make Ghee

Thank you!

The reason I add it is the Mtn. House meals are mostly carbs and it's a good way to get some fat and long-burning calories added (plus the taste!!!) and sleep warmer through the night.

I am surprised nobody has mentioned the Bachelors Bolognese recipe.

You boil your favourite pasta/spaghetti in the usual way. Then you squeeze a couple of ketchup packets over it and stir through. The little ketchup serves, similar to the mayo ones mentioned above.

That's disgusting. Seriously

Would add, pasta requires too much fuel.

I think I tried pasta and ketchup when I was a teenager....it was nasty then.

Another one is cheesey potatoes, use the instant mashed potatoes, boil water, add to the boil bag, add in squeeze cheese (yeah) or Velveta (never turns green, just gets better), add some thai chili's.

Beef stick or slim jims are good cut up and added.

Another variation is to use ramen noodles, boil the water, add noodles, stir, add some cheese and beef stick/slim jim. And hot peppers.

Angel hair pasta cooks pretty fast.

I looked into the pastas. I compared the food labels and cooked them up. Brad's right. They take too much fuel and don't add anything much in the way of nutrition.
I use double or triple packets of oatmeal with rasins/dried fruit for breakfast, Power Bars and Cliff Bars throughout the day as needed, ( often eat three of each) and couscous, tuna or chiken and maybe some dried veggies for dinner. Talk about minimum cooking time. Just add to boiling water and eat when cool enough. E

So far it looks like instant fake mashed spuds, minute rice, and ramen noodles are the go-to's.


Now when were referring to "bags" I'm assuming these aren't standard issue sammich zip-locs?

They have some pasta at my store that cooks in 3 minutes but it is pretty fluffy in the bag and takes room and as E says it doesn't bring much in the way to nutrition unless you doctor them up.