Thread: Lunch food on long trips

Originally Posted by phillipgr

I bought a wheel of camembert cheese on a couple trips in the winter which was nice. It all turned to custard when the weather started heating up though haha just melted to crap

That sounds like a great opportunity for a impromptu back country fondue party.

And I forgot to mention....
I always take a container of "pancakes in a shake" and maple syrup if we are going to a place not to far to walk or via vehicle. Nothing like making hot pancakes for breakfast if the weather packs in. Love it or hate it, I bet you would be jealous if I was cooking them while you are munching on your OSM bar for breakkie.

Yeah OSMs but also make your own rollie sandwiches in flatbread - not pita or that mexican crap which crumbles or sticks together - multigrain wraps with presliced cheese and salami are good for the first day and a half.

If you wanna undercut backcountry meal pricetags then freeze your own meals of - say, red curry with rice - into a slider zip plastic bag then slide the zip down about 10% and prop it up in your billy as a boil-in-the-bag meal - I've found that it works well for the first couple of days and then it is dry stuff after that - also the pams zipslider bags are crap compared to the expensive branded ones.

The good thing about tuna in oil can is use the oil for frying - venison or onions, depends on how well ya stalk and shoot..

OSM bars are great but $$$ I'm a student

Originally Posted by phillipgr

OSM bars are great but $$$ I'm a student

Make your own then!

Someone posted an old school recipe a while back, you could pimp it up to your own design if you wished.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Make your own then!

Someone posted an old school recipe a while back, you could pimp it up to your own design if you wished.

Good thinking mate

Here ya go

Tramper’s Oat Slice

Ingredients

125g butter (diced and at room temp)
200g (1 cup) sugar
26g (2 Tbsp) golden syrup
1 egg (lightly beaten)
140g (1 cup) flour
1 tsp baking powder
80g (1 cup) shredded coconut
100g (1 cup) rolled oats
75g (1/2 cup) sultanas
95g (1/2 cup) roughly chopped dried apricots
70g (1/2 cup) pumpkin seeds
70g (1/2 cup) sunflower seeds
30ml (2 Tbsp) lemon juice
Finely grated zest of ½ lemon

Optional: ½ cup of chocolate chips, cashews, macadamias, chopped almonds etc

Method

Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
Line a 30cm x 20cm x 4cm tray with baking paper and grease with butter or baking spray.
Place butter into a large bowl, add sugar and golden syrup and beat until pale and creamy.
Add egg and beat until combined.
Add flour, baking powder, coconut, oats, sultanas, apricots, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, lemon juice and zest. Mix till combined.
Press into the tin evenly with spatula or your hand.
Place in pre-heated oven and bake for 30 -40 minutes till golden brown and firm to touch (I find this is quicker with fan bake – only 20 – 25 minutes - keep checking).
Remove from oven and cool. Cut into squares or fingers.
Store in airtight container for up to 7 days depending how crispy it is (the original recipe off Stuff said 4 – 5 days but it lasts much longer).


Things I've learned since last making this
1 The ingredients make it end up nearly as expensive as OSMs
2 cut a strip of greaseproof paper and run it between the stacks of cut slice cos they stick together otherwise
3 Don't get too doctrinal about the recipe, as long as there is enough syrup and butter to bind it all together it'll work
4 WATCH IT LIKE A HAWK IN THE OVEN -shit will go to carbon soon as look at ya

B&E and Choc!!!! doesnt matter how far im walkn they come.


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Originally Posted by 308

Here ya go

Tramper’s Oat Slice

Just add meat for Hunter's version!!

As I pass through town I sometimes buy a couple of cheeseburgers to stuff into my pack. They are fine cold, and keep for a day. They also stand a bit of a flattening in my pack.

Good point - I sometimes carry all the long-life stuff and forget that the first meal in the bush can be a really good one even if it's a bit squished

Originally Posted by Tahr

As I pass through town I sometimes buy a couple of cheeseburgers to stuff into my pack. They are fine cold, and keep for a day. They also stand a bit of a flattening in my pack.

Originally Posted by 308

Here ya go

Tramper’s Oat Slice

Ingredients

125g butter (diced and at room temp)
200g (1 cup) sugar
26g (2 Tbsp) golden syrup
1 egg (lightly beaten)
140g (1 cup) flour
1 tsp baking powder
80g (1 cup) shredded coconut
100g (1 cup) rolled oats
75g (1/2 cup) sultanas
95g (1/2 cup) roughly chopped dried apricots
70g (1/2 cup) pumpkin seeds
70g (1/2 cup) sunflower seeds
30ml (2 Tbsp) lemon juice
Finely grated zest of ½ lemon

Optional: ½ cup of chocolate chips, cashews, macadamias, chopped almonds etc

Method

Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
Line a 30cm x 20cm x 4cm tray with baking paper and grease with butter or baking spray.
Place butter into a large bowl, add sugar and golden syrup and beat until pale and creamy.
Add egg and beat until combined.
Add flour, baking powder, coconut, oats, sultanas, apricots, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, lemon juice and zest. Mix till combined.
Press into the tin evenly with spatula or your hand.
Place in pre-heated oven and bake for 30 -40 minutes till golden brown and firm to touch (I find this is quicker with fan bake – only 20 – 25 minutes - keep checking).
Remove from oven and cool. Cut into squares or fingers.
Store in airtight container for up to 7 days depending how crispy it is (the original recipe off Stuff said 4 – 5 days but it lasts much longer).


Things I've learned since last making this
1 The ingredients make it end up nearly as expensive as OSMs
2 cut a strip of greaseproof paper and run it between the stacks of cut slice cos they stick together otherwise
3 Don't get too doctrinal about the recipe, as long as there is enough syrup and butter to bind it all together it'll work
4 WATCH IT LIKE A HAWK IN THE OVEN -shit will go to carbon soon as look at ya

Cheers for the recipe mate!

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[QUOTE=kiwi39;201393]German packaged bread umpernickel .. Comes in prepagaed slices that keep for ages .. very moist and huge energy hit

Tim

Cheers Tim, never heard of 'Pumpernickel' will defo give it a try.......

This is what you're looking for in the specialty foods section of most supermarkets

Tim

"fitness bro" love it.

Got the marketing right for nz lol.