Food!

[AspenAdventures]

I know my menu is limited when I go backpacking but I was hoping some of you would share some of the food items you bring in your pack when you get into the back country on foot for a week.

Here are a few items I take just to get things started:

Breakfast:
Instant oatmeal
Boiled eggs
Hostess fruit pie
Blueberry muffins

Lunch:
Lunch meat (if it's cold outside)
Block of cheese
Onion or Sun dried tomatoe bagels
V8 (my natural daily multi vitamin)
Chips (in a plastic container)
Fruit cup

Dinner:
Minute rice
Sausage, Onion, Green peper mix to saute (add to rice)
Dinty Moore Beef Stew (only tastes good in September above 9,000 feet)
Chili
Bagel to dip in soup
Pudding cup

Snacks:
Dried fruit
Jerky
Granola Bars
Fruit roll ups
Almonds or other nuts
Gummi Bears (to break up the monotony)

So, please add to this! I have been eating the same menu on every backpack hunt for the last 10 years. Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[muliemad]

rme all the way.

 

[eelgrass]

I can't think of who makes it off hand, but I take instant pancake mix in plastic bottles. Just add water and shake. Take squeeze butter and syrup.

Great list though Aspen. I can tell you've been doing this awhile.

Steve

P.S. MRE= Meals Rejected by Ethiopions! (in my opinion)

 

[BUCKSPY]

You must be a bad-ass if you are backpacking Dinty Moore in the hinterlands. Mountain House Beef Strokinoff is the best Dehydrated meal IMO. Their beef stew is good too.

 

[BUCKSPY]

I looked at your list again. Are you really packing Hostess fruit pies and potato chips on your back?

 

[Nelly]

How many of you have had the NEW M.R.E.'s I have and they are pretty darn good..
I make breakfast burritos and frezze them in zip lock bags, and boil them in the bag when your hungry and they are pretty good. I had 5 left 0ver from last year and they didn't last a day in my house..

My list
Jerky
MRE's
stiryfry
Hebrew national's (hotdogs) The best!!!!
My buddy's wallet (full of money)
lot's of fruit
soups
granola bars
trail mix
bagels and onion cream chesse throw a piece of meat on this and it great.
sack of potatoes
ELK,DEER steak
OH and if I'm with the inlaws elk hunting they bring for one night LOBSTER!!!!! (I'm not kidding)
and all the basic stuff..

Well I was just thinking you were talking about packin in, oh well thisa is what we bring on our trips..
curtis

 

[RIMROCK338]

That is for the first day,what ya goning to eat the rest of the week? Just strap the whole vending machine to your back!:RIMROCK

 

[RACKMASTER]

I shop at Costco a week before hunting starts! I buy wild dried blueberrie(which will kill any sweetness craving and taste great in everything like oatmeal and alot of dried dinners that have chicken in it),cherries(which eat and taste like fresh cherry pie!)tub of Granola! theirs is unlike any you ever seen! I split up and vacuum pack 6-8 oz ea.
I vacuum pack every thing, bbq steak good 3 days,soups,bisquit 2 ea do over suck or they crush! Pasta's and sauses, cooked beacon-breakfest sausage,ground coffee and paper filters and tea bags(remove filter from grounds pour warm to hot water in bag pour into cup put grounds and filter into bag to dispose of later!) . Gator had a great one and that was powdered gatoraide!
But this all sounds silly however all you end up with is a pocket full of empty vac bags! They pack well, keep well, quite, and scent free,and stay dry!and most eats well uncooked, and keep a while until opened! just some of things to keep ya happy!
every thing else is work eatting shound be a joy! been though roughing it to where we ate generic granola for 5 days\ only!
rack

 

[Sheepshooter]

LAST EDITED ON Jul-14-05 AT 11:05PM (MST)[p]Damn Aspen that's quite a menu . I must be a puss cause my breakfast and lunch are energy bars , dehydrated fruit , dinner Mountain Hous Freeze dried .

BUCKSPY you're crazy that MH stroganoff( sp ) is nasty . Mountain House BBQ beef with potatoes is really good . Mix the meat , potatoes , sauce all together and add the boiling water . That stuff is so good I would eat it at home . Don't tell my wife .