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Let's take as much as we can of the load off our hard-working, heavy-spending suppliers and feeders — especially as we increase the size of our crowds.

• How can you help make one of these pot-luck meals become a very varied smörgåsbord?
• What would you hanker to find, on a table there, that no one else has promised to bring?
• What do you have a special source of?

apples
avocados
bacon
bananas
biscuits
blueberries
bread
buns
burritos
candies
cheeses
chips
coconut
coffees
condiments
cookies
crab
crawfish
dips
flavorings
hash
herbs
huckleberries
ice cream
jams
jellies
juices
ketchup
kiwi fruit
lettuce
marshmallows
mayonnaise
mints
onions
pancakes
pawpaws
pears
pickles
pies
pineapple
peppers
popcorn
puddings
relish
rolls
salsas
sauces
shrimp
spaghetti
spaghetti sauce
spices
stew
syrups
strawberries
tamales
teas (bags, loose, herbals, sarsaparilla, sassafras, gourmet)
tomatoes (canned or fresh)
tomato paste
tomato sauce
tortillas
waffles

— and what else? What have I missed?

BACON

No special source, but I always bring a large can of coffee and a pot. Garden stuff depends on what I have, that can stand the time of the trip. Usually some canned hot peppers, some homemade and some bought. Some paper goods and aluminum foil. These are standard and then other things that come up during planning. miles

edit: Should have added water. Both for drinking and then washing and making coffee. miles

moonshine

I don't eat half that chit.
Meat
Veggies
Fruit
Tree nuts
Done!

Olive oil, butter, potatoes, rice, bread and brussel sprouts. You may not like the sprouts, but after about 3 days without a vitamin, you can sell them for about $10 apiece.

If ya got a potato(e), ya got a meal!

Our Wildlife Club at the University of Alaska (Fairbanks)
used to have a big banquet every Spring in the 1950s.
We dined on any and every bird, fish, and mammal that
(a) was common in Alaska
(b) that we could get samples of.

Not big helpings of anything —
just hors d'oeuvre samples with tooth picks flagged
with IDs — wolf, bear, caribou, moose, lynx, coyote,
wolverine, ptarmigan, raven, etc.
(Nope — no eagle! And no muktuk or blubber while
I was there — not a grievous lack as far as I was concerned.)

It was amazing how many “inedible” critters were
down-right tasty if prepared well.

One very memorable year, a Canadian member of our club
was a friend of the Superintendent of the Wood Buffalo National Park.
For our banquet, he shipped us a bunch of frozen, professionally
prepared buffalo steaks. I wolfed-down two of those thick slabs
as fast as I could chew and swallow 'em.
Didn't even waste time on a plate or tableware.
And not much time on the old wood stove!

We ate well.

I will bring coffee and some green chile burritos for breakfast and snacks.

Ken, nice lookin guin you got there, pal.

A can of spinach can bring big buks in hunting camp after 4 days of bacon, eggs, meat, potatoes and spaghetti, Pat.

WGAF you going to be at Quemado?

All we ever take hunting is meat, potatoes, beans, bacon, eggs, & bread.

Is there anything else ?

Always...coffee for one!

After a few days of dropping horse bisquits, rabbit food gains a Hole new meaning.

That avatar is the "postage stamp" version
of the "wallpaper" on my big monitor.

Maybe you've seen the door mat that says
"Nothing in this house is worth dying for."
I'd like to have one that says
"Don't mess with nasty old farts
who are ready to die and want company."

(Hmmm! Think I'll add that to my profile.)

As usual, I'll bring some uncut ribbon-cane syrup
and some of those wee cans of juice.

This year, I'll also have some Danish bleu cheese.

If your experience with bleu cheese has been
limited to bleu-cheese salad dressing, heads-up!
All by itself, it's incredibly rich stuff.
You won't want as much of it as you would if
it were cheddar, nacho, or any other variety
of American cheese.

A wee nibble — a crumble or two — goes a long way.
You'll be surprised how quickly you've had enough.

Along with Roquefort, it's one of my favorites.
I love it, but I can't handle much of it at a time.
And a couple of peppermint chasers really
"hit the spot" afterward.

Yep. Gotta have camp coffee. Wen I was a kid, nothing smelled better in hunting camp than GrandDad's old metal Percolator boiling up some fresh Folders!

I'm not a coffee-drinker. Stuff's way too bitter for me.

But as a fire boss in the high country,
I used-to carry fresh coffee in place of
that abominable stuff that we got in our
ancient World War Two C-rations.

Made wee wood stoves out of the five-gallon
cans from the fuel for our pumps — "chimneys"
were stacks of wee juice cans wired end-to-end.
Dry wood in small pieces was plentiful nearby,
of course.

Funny how quickly the word got around — and
guys from other crews came around for coffee.

Might bring some Brach's, too.