Thread: What do you take for food while hunting?

Originally Posted by kiwi39

Just like you scoff the leftovers out of your mums fridge ay Toby ???

Tim

Of course

Originally Posted by Toby

Of course

Foodhoover


Tim

Tim you'd love this, the other day I saw some apprentice type looking lad driving down the motorway in his suped-up as much as the apprentice wage would allow lowered hilux 2WD, stearing with his knees, eating baked beans with a spoon straight out of the can, cold

+1 for the man that makes his own boil in bags, I do that if run out of Army issue boil in bags. I also love cabin bread (cream crackers) crunched up and added to the hot stew boil in bag. I'm not a fan of the one square meals for some reason. I had them once and wasn't too fussed. I have been experencing with baking oat goodies and they never seem to be left behind on a day walk or even in the work lunch bag.

I have never taken your house hold bread or eggs into the bush. (Hence why I was suprised when the boys did for the BOP hunt! We ate like kings!)

On the odd cadet exercise I have been known to take in crazy shit just to baffle the kids. Mini BBQs....huge steaks.....water pump to make rangi styles hot tub in the river side....

Fly in trips I spoil myself. As long as I have 2 bottles of Jamesons I am happy.
Vacume packed venny steak keeps for ages if in a cool shaded place.
Walking, I like instant mashed spud, cheese and tuna for a meal.
Backcountry meals as well as my jack rations.




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Breakfast - muesli
Lunch - buns with filling (either spread or salami/meat), chop chop chicken or tuna, saladas
Dinner - usually steak and/or sausages with mash
Snacks - muesli bars, lollies or trail mix

I have had the same menu for all trips for years now and it really works.

Breakfast is always museli. I have milk powder to sprinle on top for milk and water...yummy!
Lunch during the day is always a few museli bars/chocolate.
Dinner is a pasta snack(Not two minute noodles!) You can really get some nice flavours but I also carry one of those small flavoured tins of tuna to add in for a bit of body. Its really tasty and the combined cost is only about $2.50. I don't use the freeze dried stuff as I don't think it tastes that great and what i use isn't much heavier. Plus I can have 4 nights meals for the price of one freeze dried meal.

And if where i am going is easier access I just add a few luxuries as I see fit.

Dougie

Cold Baked Beans are Primo. num num num

We learned to eat them that way last century when I was a sad arsed grunt.

Rat packs back then contained tinned Baked Beans and/or Spaghetti.

Hot tea and cold baked beans = dinner and drinks done inside of five minutes and no washing up to do.

Cheers
Pete

It's been a fair while since I packed in tucker. The dehydrated food is fine as long as you soak it for a couple of hours before you want to heat it and eat it. Breakfast usually porridge/muesli/pankcakes alternated. Lunch first couple of days take a Tip Top spicy fruit loaf and have with vegemite/cheese/salami, after bread eaten switch to cabin bread. Dinner can vary, dehydrated meals, spag bol (with home dehyrated sauce), noodles. Desert instant pud or rice pudding with dried apricots (quick easy recipe). Snacks a bag of scrog, heaps of nuts/dried fruit/choc. Unfortunately I always had a tendency to keep pushing on and forget to eat the scrog on the go and 'hit the wall' after a few hours. Hot drinks can be black coffee, tea or hot vitafresh.

I have a great wee book of recipes, keeps the cost down and variety up.

Originally Posted by Raging Bull

I'm not exactly a light packer, I enjoy my food.

That's why I like hunting with you!

I forgot to add in my earlier post that (if I have been a good boy) the wife bakes up a wicked banana/nut loaf and a mean lolly cake log that are always a winner with the boys on those longer hunting trips!

Oh yeah, and a chunk of vacpacked Chrissie cake or two ..

to give you some idea of the power of this cake, the recipe starts with

simmer 500g of molten butter , 500g of brown sugar and 1kg of ChristmasCake fruit

You can literally leap over small mountains when you eat this stuff


Tim

hahahaha some funny menu's there.

Pretty much we have ended up with some steak, pork, fish, sausages, bacon, mash spud flakes, coffee, milk powder, afew backcountry meals, Tuna, Pita bread, cheese, pasta snaks, musli bars, bag of lollies, re-hydrate powder mix and some beers, not exactly the best way to travel light but seems like we are going to have a good feed over the next 4 days..

ill keep you posted with a write up on the trip once i get back, hopefully some photo's of some nice fresh meat too ...

I often take rice in the bag... and a tin of tuna for the last meal, Pasta and bacon mid meal, Sausages first night (precooked) with pasta or just about anything.. Lunch pita bread and tuna or salami and cheese, potato flakes are good to bulk out a meal with little extra weight.

Longer stay plain rice with extra's to add, a onion/ garlic or two is good for flavor too

I used to get some powered drink with electrolytes in it but can't get them from where I used to...must be still available?

If the truck can get there its a whole new menu

We just eatt normal food you buy at supermarket, when you spend more time in the bush than you do at home you need to eat well. Salt ice in a chilli bin will last 10 days if you pre-freeze the meat etc...

If weight is an issue, then porrage for breaky & backcountry for lunch and tea.

Kj

I'm surprised no one has mentioned scroggin. I take a big bag of that with me too on multi day trips as it'll squeeze into any space in your pack, and grabbing a handful of that when you start to get worn out gives you a real boost.