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Grill chicken breasts, ceasar salad mix, and corn niblets.

We usually take a little BBQ with us to save cooking in the tent on the campstove. Adds some variety to what you can cook up.


SS

fresh Elk liver and onions, fried potatoes and a couple Bud's..

You yogurt and granola bar types remind me of the time I went elk hunting with a friend who agreed to bring the food. His idea of breakfast was hard black bread and cheese - think Russian army issue. Since then I make sure I know what's on the menu, and like as not bring my own "survival food".

Paul

We always had a tradition of frog legs in beer batter for 1 one night. Of course the frog legs had to be pre-caught summer before. Now that is a good one. Can't get enough fried taters with onions.

All that you have said is OK for the "elk campsite," but for my moose campsite this is what have:

BREAKFAST
Hot oatmeal cooked in milk, and a piece of bread
Or sugarless wheat Cheerios with milk
Or an egg omelet as follows: Fried in olive oil chopped celery and onions, plus a few small pieces of sausage. Also, dehydrated garlic, and some Mrs. dash.
Or, blueberry pancakes from blueberries picked around the campsite, plus some sausage, and some maple or other tasty syrup.

LUNCH OR DINNER (one of these)
1. Steaks placed on a large piece of aluminum foil (steaks on olive oil), topped with chopped onions, celery, Mrs. Dash, and dehydrated garlic. We have a clothes washer's drum in the middle of the campsite, and lots of firewood, cut to fit in the drum. We burn enough wood to have a good-size charcoal bed, and then place a heavy iron grill on top, followed by the steaks on the aluminum foil. We serve the steaks with toasted "freedom" bread. We just place the bread slices on the grill to toast it.

2. We boil chunks of potatoes, and while these cook we fry the following ingredients in a large frying pan: olive oil, chopped onions, chopped celery, small chunks of sausage, lots of Mrs. Dash, dehydrated garlic, and cut black olives. We fry these ingredients on high heat, uncovered to allow the moisture to scape, and when done we pour-in vinegar and let it fry a little longer. By then the potatoes are done, so we drain the water from the potatoes, and pour over them the "fried" mixture. Try this recipe outside with your kids, and let us know how they like it. WARNING: be prepared to try the recipe numerous times, because kids and not so kids love it. The recipe is best with your favorite sausage.

Fast meals on the go: dehydrated foods, and MRE's.

When do you gents get time to cook all that stuff? After takeing care of the stock, cooking hamburger helper and doing dishes there is only four to five hours of sleep to get before breakfast!

Had a bachlor outfitter in New Mexico a few years back that had a fabulous menu:

Breakfast: Lunch meat ham and cheese burro

Lunch: Lunch meat ham and cheese burro

Supper: Fried lunch meat ham and cheese burro

Sure was glad to see the McDonald's when hitting Silver City!

A buddy of mine showed up for a week long elk hunt one time with a box of Ritz crackers, a can of spray cheese, a big bag of black licorice, and a truck load of beer...

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Oatmeal, maybe changing to couscous. Snacks for lunch, logan bread, etc.... Mountain house for supper. Can't carry more weight than that in our packs. And don't really want that camp by the truck issue of getting up at 2 am to climb 3 hours or getting back 2-3 hours after dark. That doesn't fly just too long, unless ya'll can tell me where to find elk that rummage around in the middle of the day only and not early and late!!!

The good meals come compliments of a restaurant on the way to and from the hunt.

Jeff

Agreed....but....

Usually the night of the first kill we like to slice up the heart and fry it with some taters and scrambled eggs.

Breakfast is instant oatmeal and an orange.

Lunch is a squished ham and cheese samich and an apple.

Supper is usually something pre-made that can withstand the pack in, or another samich.

Snickers and gorilla bars 'tween meals.

I get-up around 6:00 AM, and it only takes me a few minutes to make a hot oatmeal breakfast. I just grab a small Zip-Lock bag the contains one ration of oatmeal with raisins from a large container. This oatmeal rations are put in the bag by my wife long before moose season. I just boil some milk in a small propane stove outside my tent, pour-in the oatmeal/raisin mix, and let it boil for a few seconds. After I eat my breakfast, I grab a very small section of a 3M green sanding pad, and use this pad to scrub the pot where I cooked the oatmeal.

Sometimes I just stay out hunting and have a dehydrated meal for lunch. This meal I warm with a little propane backpack stove I keep on my ATV. But often times my hunting partners and I return to the campsite during lunch time, and prepare one of those meals I mentioned above. Now, we do prepare such meals at the end of the day when too dark to hunt. We keep a couple of ice chests full of steaks and other perishable foods on the cool ground by the trees nearby.

Also, everybody does his own dishes (all at the same time) since we have to boil water using the stove before going to bed. It's usually cold, and the oil sticks to the dishes pretty fast. We usually go to bed around 11:00 PM. I get up at 6:00, but my hunting partners get up around 11:00 and hunt until 8:00 or so.

God Love ya' man!

Blackened Spam Burritos with home made chili beans and pepper jack cheese and home made salsa washed down with hot black coffee.

SPAM....wonderment of wonderments! Where would we be without Spam!

And to the guy saving his chili untill the last night in case of "The Runs", I think I'll pass on your night to cook.. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

2Crow

If I go, i'tl be MRE's <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

thanks Violator....

My usual schedule for camp hunting.
Rise at 04, cook eggs, reheat meat, (pre cooked the night before) eat, throw the dishes in the tub to soak or wash'em if there is time, pack a lunch, saddle up and ride.

Get back to camp after dark, start the wood stove in the tent, unsaddle, water and brush down the mules, start supper, eat, do dishes, chop wood and wash up. BS for a bit, pass a little gas and turn in around 23.

The only change of fare, like mentioned by some above when game is hanging in the trees. I have found that Hamburger Helper and chubs of burger is light/compact to pack and cooks up quick with out much effort.
Nathanial

Base camp: Bacon ,eggs, ham,oj,coffie, toast,and hash browns. Lunch :Sandwiches, dried soup,candy bar or gorp, coffie heated with with back pack stove carried in saddle bags. Eve : Home made beef stew with biscuts. Some of the food is cooked at home, frozen keep in a good ice box. Also use canned food and freez dry food.

Some of you guys, if you'll just post your location I'll try to get by about dinner time. Others....well, maybe next year.
t

Ours is something I started making when I was single and lived in MN in a house with about 6� of countertop � its an �all-in-one� type of meal, protein, green and yellow, red and white veggies, and anything else that sounds good. We try to use last year�s game meat, ground, but when that isn�t available beef works just fine! This stuff is like potato salad � it tastes better after sitting in the refrigerator for a day or so.

I call it �Slop� but my wife doesn�t like the name. She prefers �Slumgullion�, which literally translated means �sludge from the cesspool�. I�ll stick with �Slop�.

We freeze it into blocks and use the blocks as giant ice cubes in the coolers. When it thaws its time to heat it up and eat! Goes well with sourdough bread!

Here�s the recipe:

1-2 pounds of ground meat
2 cans Three Bean Salad AND the juice (the kind without chick peas, aka garbanzo beans - yuck!)
1-2 cans stewed tomatoes
2 large onions chopped into 1/2� pieces
Mushrooms if you like them
1-2 cans tomato paste
1-2 cans tomato sauce
1 can lima beans WITHOUT the juice
Frozen corn and peas if you like
A bit of Worcestershire if you like

Get a BIG pan. Brown and drain the meat. Add the other ingredients. Be sure to include the juice form the Three Bean Salad! Simmer until the onions are done. It should more or less be the consistency of chili but tastes much better! Divvy it up and freeze.

As you can see, the amount of the various ingredients is determined by personal taste. The Three Bean Salad juice is what really makes this rather unique. Haven�t found anyone who doesn�t like it, and most people like it a lot. Remember the sourdough bread!

i am a 21 year old college student, so this next statement may not come as a surprise. i eat better when i am out hunting than when i am at home. my dad always brings some goooooood grub! anything he makes in the dutch oven is to die for! hes got a reciepe, called lil' porky! this thing will flat fling a cravin on ya!

my personal favorite is either FRESH liver, onions, potatoes ya know. or deer or elk shoulder stew... that stuf is awesome!

Leanwolf, it just don't git much better than that !! That's my kind of house cookin', that way you don't git out of practice.
Once in a while if I feel like splurgin' I open up a can of them little sausages or some corned beef. Life's too danged short to set around and cook all the time !

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