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What are your favorite, easy, elk camp meals?

My old man used to cook some fairly extravagent meals in camp, but personally I go out there to relax, and not spend an evening cooking. When it's practical, I'm more of a hotdog, bratwurst, or burger over the fire kind of guy.

But, for my upcomming elk camp, I'm trying to plan out some stick to your ribs, easy meals, and have come up with the following. Most will be prepared and frozen ahead of time.

Chili (obvious choice)

"Gunpowder Stew" a family recipe. Good, spicy, keep ya' warm!

Biscuits and Sausage Gravy. Gravy will be done ahead of time and frozen. Biscuits will be done fresh in the coleman oven.

Beef Stew, again, cooked ahead of time.

Also hoping for some nice fresh elk backstraps on the grill, oh, about day 4 or so would be nice. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

Breakfast should be oatmeal, toast and bacon (pre-cooked kind) sandwiches, or maybe some sausage biscuits that can be popped in the oven quickly in the morning.

Lunch will be sandwiches in the pack, a candy bar, or maybe a thermos of hot soup back at the truck if we make it there. Won't be doing much of anything back at camp until either well before sun up, or well after sun down. Sleeping or eating away hunting hours, even mid-day hours is not my thing.

Ideas?

If I have time, I always do fajitas at least once and liver, potatoes and onions once...

Some buddies take a grill and they have baked taters, and grilled chicken qu
ite a bit- good concept if you have room for a BBQ grill
I like a hunk of dry cotto salami and a bagel for lunch (if it's cold) or a pre-packaged tuna salad with crackers.

pastries & something hot for breakfast (coffee, hot cocoa etc)

Scrambled eggs with melted cheese on top. Cheeseburgers. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Fresh backstrap! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

JD338

Fast and easy.
Breakfast; eggs, sausage, hash, egg sanwich's
Supper; hamburger helper, steaks, stew

We do it up pretty good, meals premade and frozen mostly.

Beef stroganoff (premade)
Swiss steaks (premade)
Good beef steaks
Chili (premade)
Mashed potatotes and Hamburger gravy gravy premade, favorite)
canned veggies, hard bread rolls.

I know im forgetting some, but dad takes care of all that and we pitch in some $$$ and do the dishes/cleanup. I eat better at elk camp than I do at home...

Breakfast of instant oatmeal or bacon/eggs.

Sandwich lunch w/ piece of fruit.

Started doing similar thing for deer camp last year (dad didnt go). For dinners I had all the guys bring food for all for a couple nights each, preferably premade by their wives. We had waaaay too much food. Again steaks, burgers, dogs, sausage, spaghetti, were all pretty easy. Had a camper oven so did a lasagna too. That was good.

Nothing beats a nice steak and taters. ( we are talking store bought stuff here, not fresh backstrap ect)

For something a little less, I like red beans and rice.

Something no one mentioned was pre-cooking a small roast at home. Can be re-heated and served with bread and cooked potatoes and what ever sides you like.
Alternatively the roast can be sliced and used for great sandwiches at lunch time.
I usually have to go on a diet after coming back from hunt camps.

For breakfast I like yougert and a granola bar.

I put a bagle in the pocket for up the trail and predawn munchin.

Dinner for me is usually a grilled chicken breast in a tortilla.

I like to keep it simple quick and easy to leave all the extra room for sack time that I can....grins

Mark D

Nothing better then cooking chicken over a quakie fire. Egg Noodles with cheese. Breakfast is usually a couple pop tarts or something like that. We normally get up and go in the morning and save up for a good dinner. Depending on where I am hunting we sometimes come back to the truck for lunch and see what has been going on each others side of the mountain. If not a big chunk of Colby an apple and some jerky. We save the chili for the last night, in case you get the runs....We also do homemade spagetti, the sauce premade. We also usually do one night of breakfast for dinner, where we have ham steaks in a skillet, scrambled eggs and cheese. Burgers and steaks over a quakie fire too. Burgers are usually first night, since they usually thaw first.

Oops I almost forgot my beloved cinnamon roll instant oatmeal for breakfast.

Can't be for forgetting that!

Mark D

Rueben sandwiches, enchiladas, steak and veggies, eggs /hash browns/ham for breakfeast

breakfast - egg sandwitch
lunch - a can of peaches
At night - we cook one meal each, I do a DO Deer or Antelope roast, or Halibut.

I had a couple of wild turkeys smoked and took them with last time. We ate them room temp one night when everyone was too tired to cook. Made sandwiches out of them for a couple days afterwards.

Geez, I grab a granola bar and drink a Slimfast on the drive up. For lunch, whatever I can stuff in my pack. Cannot imagine getting up even earlier to cook, since I am already walking in the dark.

Breakfast - SPAM & Eggs.

Lunch - SPAM sandwich (in daypack)

Dinner - SPAM & fried taters.

Simple and easy. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

L.W.

Fresh Backstrap, liver and heart with some fried taters.

Here is a good one.
1 large skillet
filled with sliced potatoes
2 or 3 eggs per person
a good portion of sausage for each person (I like home made summer sausage)
cook until done
topped of with Mrs Renfro's Habanero salsa

Fresh tenderloin off the elk we just shot

We you my outfitter in '02 <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />