Trail Menu Ideas

[4x4stationwagon]

What do you guys make on the trail for breakfast, lunch and dinner on a 2 day and 1 overnight trail ride. Since it's cold in Ohio, cold-cut sandwiches and chips don't cut it. I like a hot meal even if it is simple. There are so many possiblities I am sure. Consider I have a cooler, a stove or fire to cook with and water along for cleanup. My favorite breakfast is "Moose Poop". It is pre-browned sausage, potatos chunks (O'rida brand), eggs and grated cheese. It's all done in one pan and scrambled together.

 

[ArmyRover]

MRE's edible easy and come with a meal heater...

 

[texmotoII]

True, but MREs suck.

 

[4x4stationwagon]

MRE's edible easy and come with a meal heater...

Let me first Thank you for your service to our country. atriot: Second, I have eaten my share of the old MRE's. I am totally against cold, wet mornings day after day eating chicken ala king, pork with rice, ham slices, beef strogenof, or cornbeef hash for every meal ... just to name a few quickly. (I"ll trade you a cheese for grape jelly ) I have control over my meal choices now so I was looking to see what others make on the camp stove. Maybe no one does.

 

[landrovered]

My camping "mis en place" has evolved over the years. Early on it was heavy with meat and other unhealthy foods. After a weekend it took two days to get the bowels moving with regularity again.

Eggs are good for breakfast but warm oatmeal and coffee can be easier to cook and provides a bit more fiber for your diet. The main thin is to get something warm in you on cold mornings.

For lunch on the trail I like cold fried chicken or a box of triscuits and a small wheel of camenbert. Trail mix and cheese is filling and easy to eat on the hood of the truck.

For dinner, it is hard to beat Italian sausage cooked with some onions and mushrooms in one pan. Serve it over some rice or pasta that can be cooked at home.

Granola bars, trail mix and fresh fruit will help stave off hunger and keep the GI tract moving along.

 

[ArmyRover]

Let me first Thank you for your service to our country. atriot: Second, I have eaten my share of the old MRE's. I am totally against cold, wet mornings day after day eating chicken ala king, pork with rice, ham slices, beef strogenof, or cornbeef hash for every meal ... just to name a few quickly. (I"ll trade you a cheese for grape jelly ) I have control over my meal choices now so I was looking to see what others make on the camp stove. Maybe no one does.

The menu's have changed a bit now there are 24 different meals some actually border on edible. I never said they were fine dining but they get the job done and I seem to have a pretty good supply of them for some reason:smilelol:

The only thing I really take aside from those is eggs and bacon.

 

[stu454]

Pork loin in various flavors (lemon pepper, garlic, etc) wrapped in aluminum foil and cooked over the coals for about 30 min.

Very tasty!

 

[DiscoS2]

I travel light, mailnly because I camp with my motorcycle. only camped in the truck once. For cold stuff, I only carry a soft-sided cooler and deploy all the cold items within the first 24-48 hours, unless it's cold outside.

My usual:
Breakfast choices
Powdered eggs, home-dehydrated mushrooms, scrambled together and Hormel real bacon bits (in a jar) added in at the end.

Shake & Pour pancakes, real maple syrup, hash browns, pile of bacon bits.

Instant oatmeal or farina

Lunch choices
Zatarain's gumbo, jambalaya, dirty rice & chicken, etc from a pouch, or other brand soup, rice, chili, etc in a pouch, heated on my motorcycle engine over a 200 mile ride.
If I eat lunch in a camp setting, i boil the pouch in my mess kit pot.

Tuna from a pouch and crackers or bread

Ready-to-serve soups in a can, with the can boiled in a pan of water.

Dinner Choices
In addition to the above, I usually have

Scallops (frozen, dry-packed) with Brussels sprouts and bacon bits

Frozen fish sealed in a pouch (either myself or factory), boiled in the pouch, or ham from a can; boiled tiny red potatoes on the side, or canned potatoes salted and boiled in can, canned green beans boiled in can.

Little Smokies & pierogies with onions

Marinated/seasoned Tuna or Albacore fillet in pouch with Zatarain's or Uncle Ben's rice in a pouch. Boil pouches.

2-pouch curry rice kit from my local international food store. Boil pouches.

Ramen noodles with added veggies and dried beef.

 

[LandyII]

The menu's have changed a bit now there are 24 different meals some actually border on edible. I never said they were fine dining but they get the job done and I seem to have a pretty good supply of them for some reason:smilelol:

The only thing I really take aside from those is eggs and bacon.

I've never had a MRE, any chance of getting 1 or 2 to sample?

I'm curious!

 

[Mike_Rupp]

Like Landrovered, I try to keep foods that are high in fiber to keep things moving. My dinners have mostly been Korean style dishes, like bulgogi and kalbi. The nice thing about Korean food is that Korean food is perfect for staying fresh for a while. Before the trip, I make a bunch of sides like bean sprouts, spinach, daikon and carrot, etc. They all can last for a while without going bad. I also bring a bunch of kim chee, making sure that it is securely kept.

I cook all of my meats on the Snow Peak BBQ box, which is perfect for grilling thin meats quickly. What I like about cooking Korean food is that it maximizes flavor, packs densely, and cooks and cleans up quickly. As much as I like the Dutch Oven, its heavy and invariably takes a long time to cook something and clean up.

 

[barefoot]

i guess you can call this a breakfast casserole:

one pan...brown sausage to crumbles, add your favorite veggies (i like red yellow and green peppers) and saute in the grease, add in scrambled egg mix (the real stuff or egg beaters if you like) and scramble then when getting close to done put shredded cheese on top and let melt. you could mix the cheese into the mix if you like, it is good either way.

this is actually quite tasty and very filling but you have to be able to keep it all cold.

the moose poop sounds a lot like this actually

when i actually backpacked i carried stuff like: instant oatmeal, instant potatoes, butter buds for cooking (dehydrated butter), dehydrated "pet" milk, lipton makes good dehydrated stuff (much better than raman and such) like buttered noodles and fettuccine, one of my favorites was hamburger helper stroganof without meat, some of the commercial dehydrated meals are tasty like lasagna and such but they are waaay over priced, granola bars, trail mix and shit like that.

truck camping has its advantages (good food and beer mainly).

mostly when i truck camp anymore i take lots of freezer game that i have killed and cleaned myself. walleye is one of my favorites along with morels but i am currently out of both. deer meat is usually present and is generally used in place of beef for everything. also, lots of canned foods from my fathers garden like home made salsa, vegetable soup and pickles. cant forget my wifes homemade chili...mmmmm boy thats hearty shit! peas, beans (lima and dried green beans are my favorites) and open fire cooked corn on the cob.

enjoy!

 

[I HATE PONIES]

walleye is one of my favorites along with morels

:drool: I also add some cheesy grilled potatoes with broccoli.

My second favorite is an 18oz Porterhouse with mushrooms and mozzerlli cheese. I cook it up on the grill with some tin foiled baked potatoes on the side.

 

[barefoot]

your my kind of man pony boy!

meat potatoes and CHEESE!

man can i cook up a mean fillet Mignon on an iron grill over a fire (learned from my dad). start with a good buzz, rake some coals under the grill, place the thickest most tender fillet Mignon (wrapped in bacon, of course) on the hot metal, generously pour worchestershire sauce, cover with seasoned salt, drink more beer while watching the process, repeat saucing and seasoned salt frequently, flip-repeat until crispy on outside and pink in the middle......enjoy with your side of choice and plenty more beer! laugh if you will but i love shells and cheese....with the squeeze pouch. augratin cheese potatoes, hashed brown casserole with cheese....anything cheesy is good with grilled meat and beer.

holy fuck....that's goooood!

enjoy!

 

[frank]

no one mentioned spam

 

[D Chapman]

Why are there no pics?

 

[barefoot]

no one mentioned spam

you sir, are no longer allowed to post in this topic

however, since you mentioned spam.....

i will never forget my first 4-wheeler ride into the mountains. one of my friends dads toted me up on the back of his 4-wheeler. he was a big nasty grizzly son-of-a-bitch to say the least.

we stopped for lunch. he ate 2 cans of treet meat and 2 whole onions like you would eat an apple.

the 2 hr ride back with that stinky muther fuckers breath blowing in my face was awful!

spam-treet meat....whats the fucking difference anyway?

:ack:

as a side note, i was up in the mountains in the rover one evening and came across a redneck party. you know, the kind with skynard blaring from the blazers speakers, a bonfire the size of texas and bud light being passed out like condoms at an std conference. anyway, this guys son (stinky breath) was there whom i loosely knew. he was cooking burgers over an open pit fire and asked if i wanted one. fuck yeah i says...cook it up! he had some homemade bb-q sauce he was painting it with.

damn thing took about an hr to cook. when he brought it over to me my eyes lit up at the sight of it! no shit, there was at least 3/4 lb of meat in the damn thing. however, it was the best damn cheeseburger i have ever eaten. crispy on the outside, pink in the middle (just the way i like it) and dripping with a combo of cheese, grease and some tasty ass homemade bb-q sauce. not forgetting to mention the faint taste of slow hot coal cooked meat.

man it was good. there's just something about campfire and beer that makes normally mediocre food dee-freaking-licious!

enjoy that.

 

[frank]

a long long time ago, I was a boy scout. A few 50 mile a-foot/a-float (canoe) trips into the wilderness and I found out about these wilderness meals. Many of them had been mentioned, but no one mentioned Spam! Ah!


So let me add something a little more 'real'
In my 8 years in the Marine Corps, I have experienced a few 'wilderness trips'. At the beginning of the war, I had a 600 square mile ammo supply point that I was in charge of maintaining comm. Of course, I get my 'own' humvee (myself and one other person anyway). We always would take a can of soup or spagetti-o's or something along those lines and toss them up under the hood. After a few hours, you had some tasty chow. So let me add that to the roster of chow for the trail's.

 

[barefoot]

found this on another site today...similar thread.

Mountain Man Breakfast

INGREDIENTS:

* 1/2 pound bacon, cooked and crumbled
* 1/2 pound sausage, cooked and crumbled
* 1 large bag Ore Ida "Hash Browns O'Brien" (with onions & peppers)
* 1/2 pound extra sharp cheddar cheese, grated
* 1 dozen eggs (I usually use Egg Beaters for convenience)


PREPARATION:

Pre-heat Dutch oven, 6-9 bottom coals and 12-15 top coals. Combine hash browns, bacon and sausage in the Dutch Oven and cover. Remove cover and stir occasionally to brown potatoes (15-20 minutes). Scramble the eggs in a separate container (or use Egg Beaters) and pour the mixture over the hash browns. Cover and cook until eggs start to set (10-15 minutes). Sprinkle grated cheese over egg mixture, cover, and continue heating until eggs are completely set and cheese is melted. Slice and serve.

SERVES: 6-8

sounds similar to moose poop and the breakfast casserole.

also, check this site out. though i enjoy the cooking process in camp, there are some good ideas for backpacking and even car camping foods.

http://freezerbagcooking.com/

 

[4x4stationwagon]

These are a lot of great ideas. Just the kind of stuff I was looking for when I asked.

Frank - Thanks for the service you have given to our great country. atriot: When I was in the Army doing comms, I had my own MUMVEE too and my trick was to lay the MRE main foil packet on the intake manifold, flip it after a couple minutes, add the hot sauce. That is how you turn shit into gold.

This past weekend I made the moose poop for brekfast and grilled cheese for a late afternoon snack. Lunch was postponed. Supper was grilled chicken breast and baked taters. Never bad. Never bad

I am also an assistant Scoutmaster with my son's troop and we cook in the dutch ovens. There is a lot of menu ideas on line for them. My favorite is dutch oven lasagna in one and cherry dump cake in another.

 

[Discoinjapan]

I've been on the mountain pie makers past couple of months. A loaf of bread and anything you want in between. My son loves the cherry pie filling for breakfast; I usually do the ham and cheese. If your creative thats all you need.