Thread: What do you take for food while hunting?

Just a few quick idea's off the top from our family tramping holidays
Take a chux multicloth as a towel - lightweight easy to rinse out
We would package our meals into daily requirements
No cans or packaging - as keeping weight down is important
Breakfast - porridge / cut up and add dates for variety
Lunches - Hard cheese, salami & cabin bread - cup of soup

Of late on day hunts I have enjoyed a can of corned beef on crackers / thermos of soup also goes down well.
Tea - Rice / pasta based meals - prepacked sachet meals ex supermarket
Tea bags / milk powder
Powerade

Originally Posted by Raging Bull

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

That's why I like hunting with you!

Try kaweka meals if you can find them, they are the shit. You just boil the bags for a while then eat, its really nice too.

Usually a heat and eat pasta meal in the bag for breaky. use same water for a cuppa. Dishes = 1 spoon and 1 cup. Use left over water to clean them.
Day snacks a mix of peanut slabs/picnic bars. Dinner 1st night is a subway roll. After that is something similar to breakfast.
There to enjoy the time, not wash pots etc

Originally Posted by sako75

There to enjoy the time, not wash pots etc

Well said that man

Originally Posted by ebf

Huh ? Had to check the calendar to see if it suddenly jumped to April 1st...

What to you add to hydrate ? Some water perhaps

Pasta and Rice used to be good, but they're now (according to the Mrs Paleo Diet) akin to eating your own children.

So now its dehydrated and vacpacked (by me) veg and stews, etc ... lotsa protein, lotsa veg.

OSM bars are the shit ... although the full one square meal is WAY too big ... I like the quarter OSM Bite Size Snacks ..

Nuts .... nuts ... nuts ... nuts .....

Porridge always was and always will be a must ... good slow release carb.

Berocca / Rehydrate tabs are good for your dehydrated water supply (just pop them in the mouth) as is a good old fashioned disprin (aspro clear) . Berocca can be drunk hot as well ..

the key for me was and always be simplicity , and dont deviate too far from your at home diet ....




Tim

Backcountry meals for evenings. Biltong and a GF nutty slice my wife makes for daytime, and some apples. Brekky is instant porridge.
And flat white sachets

Kaweka meals are always good for breakfast/dinner. Dehydrated meals I prefer to rehydrate and leave to sit for a while making sure to stir in the powder that stays in the corners. Once rehydrated, throw in a pot and bring to the boil. Again using using water to wash spoon.
When flying in for a week during the roar, we all make a casserole which is frozen for a couple of weeks beforehand. My specialty is curried sausages. Take one out of the chilly bin in the morning and it is ready to heat when the sun has gone down. One bowl and 1 spoon to wash

Why not vacpac food and just eat it cold straight from the bags? or throw it in some boiling water to heat up, then you have clean water for a cuppa later on.

Depends entirly on the trip but, back country meals (cheep as threw the forum) OSM bars, Salami, Bacon and egg toasties etc etc.
Boat or fly, everything... eat like kings

Cold bacon & egg pie is KING on the hill...

I usualy take a couple of salamis an hit that shit like a muesli bar.

OSM bars are good to.

Whats the deal with no meat before/during hunting?

Inspired by MR Gyrlls i eat bugs and drink me own piss hard core

+1 to OSM bars now that there are choc - flavoured ones

Toothpaste-style tube of sweetened condensed milk to go with the tea, Instant-pasta type meals and add a few sliced up bits of salami for protein - that lot will make ya fart.
I tried the powdered mashed spuds and they are surprisingly good.

There is a recipe here

Spill

for Trampers Oat Slice which is basically like a cake of OSM bars you can make yourself - I found it really good but you've gotta watch it in the oven as it can go from brown to black pretty quick

I've made my own boil-in-the-bag before using those slider type ziploc bags - freeze a portion of red thai chicken curry w/rice then, when in the bush, slide the zip open a bit and sit it in boiling water - a good feed
As said before those Kaweka meals are good esp the beef bourgignon one and of course bacon and egg pie rules

I take 3 OSM per day in bush, rather other gear take up the weight and room than food. There to hunt, not have a 3 course meal haha