Thread: Favourite Camp Meal

For the first night I'll often grab a packet of frozen leftovers, by the time I have walked in its ready to be heated through.

On porridge I take quick oats, milk powder and drinking chocolate all mixed together and heat to eat by adding boiling water, the drinking chocolate means you don't need to add sugar.

Originally Posted by erniec

If you are hungry it all tastes pretty good.

@erniec You're right there. I hate roast parsnips and white sauce. Yet on a sailing trip to the Sub Antarctic I can remember getting back to the boat in the evening and being so damn hungry that I was mopping up white sauce with my roast parsnip....

Originally Posted by 7mm tragic

I'm kinda over freeze dry so lately I've been taking a small tin of Palm corned beef and a bag of instant potato. Heat the tin of beef in boiling water for a couple of minutes then remove. Make up mashed spuds with the hot water then dump the corned beef back in the mashed spuds, delicious. You could easily add some dried peas etc if you are so inclined.

I've also used those cardboard box meals you get from the supermarket, can't remember the name but my favorite was butter chicken. Same deal, heat the pouches in boiling water.

Breakfast is either a Dingos breakfast or overnight oats. Mix up some oats and milk powder at home in a zip lock bag, then when on the hill add water and stir before you go to bed and next morning it's good to go.

Decent chunk of home kill salami to keep me going through the day.

The overnight oats is a great idea. I like to add a scoop of protein powder and throw in a handfull of mixed nuts, maybe some chopped dried apricot as well.

My lovely wife just made this for dinner and it would be pretty easy to make in the bush.
Mushroom flavored rice risotto with sliced spicy bratwurst.
Nice, tasty and simple.

In Feb I walked a couple of hours into a hut for my 62nd birthday. Maybe not a favourite meal but... As I was only staying overnight, and coming out in the morning, I couldn't be arsed cooking, So I brought in 4 butter chicken pies; 2 for tea and 2 for breaky; a few bananas and a couple of apples... Oh and coffee! And a chocolate muffin as a birthday cake... A little hex tab cooker because it was mid summer and not worth lighting the fire to heat the water... What a lazy sod! A night alone in a hut for your birthday? bliss!



My birthday treat.

Originally Posted by RUMPY

My lovely wife just made this for dinner and it would be pretty easy to make in the bush.
Mushroom flavored rice risotto with sliced spicy bratwurst.
Nice, tasty and simple.

Forgot the photo.

some years back I took my brother and a Northland farming mate into the Te Urewera for the roar served them macaroni with salami and cheese with chopped onion sort of a crude maca cheese jesus did they moan - cocky mate reckons he has never eaten maca cheese since - bloody spoilt - so pays to talk to ya mates before ya go- what will they not eat

Originally Posted by Barry the hunter

some years back I took my brother and a Northland farming mate into the Te Urewera for the roar served them macaroni with salami and cheese with chopped onion sort of a crude maca cheese jesus did they moan - cocky mate reckons he has never eaten maca cheese since - bloody spoilt - so pays to talk to ya mates before ya go- what will they not eat

Wife and me went to see Mum and Dad a few years ago.
Asked mum how she was, she said I am hungry.
We asked why what's happened.
She said I complained about his cooking haha.

We dare not complain about our mates cooking, I hope you gave him a serve.

yes a bit out especially when they left all the logistics to me and just turned up ready to go in lol

my go to dish was always spaghetti bolognaise . pretty hearty feed after a good day on the hill.

When I got a Jetboil (copy) I started to vac-pac stews, curries etc and store them in the freezer. Boil them in the bag, no need for a pot and you've got hot water ready for your cuppa.
They are heavier as they are full weight meals but last well and you can chuck rice, pasta, potato flakes in the water after heating the main.

Also no messy pot afterwards

Originally Posted by No good names left

When I got a Jetboil (copy) I started to vac-pac stews, curries etc and store them in the freezer. Boil them in the bag, no need for a pot and you've got hot water ready for your cuppa.
They are heavier as they are full weight meals but last well and you can chuck rice, pasta, potato flakes in the water after heating the main.

Also no messy pot afterwards

Get hold of a dehydrator and you've got the best of all the worlds! Just measure before and after dehy-ing so you know how much water to put back in. Makes you wonder what the hell they do to the commercial stuff!

If I can get the 4WD to the hut or campsite I will pack all the tasty goodies, eggs, milk, beer etc. If I am packing into an area then it becomes pretty basic, dehi spuds & peas, tea, sugar, condensed milk tube, raisins, a couple of tins of sardines for hill lunches, meat is what I find, I haven't starved yet!

Bit of veni at the hut. I try to start with fresh produce first then the dehy stuff later in the trip.

Roast Lamb and corn cobs