Trail Dinner Recipes

[SavageLlama]

What are your favorite trail dinners? I need some new ideas, as I'm getting sick of eating my one and only meal: Tuna Mac & Cheese (everyone knows this one)

Ingredients:
2 - packets of Kraft EZ Mac & Cheese
1 - packet of Tuna

Heat pasta for a few minutes and throw in the tuna, which soaks up the extra water. Easy, filling meal with protein.

Other recipes??

[Jaybird]

my fave foods on my section hikes are prepared by that great chef:

Mountain House! Yummy!

[MedicineMan]

discovered after vehicle breakdown and shopping at a truck stop:

2 packs ramen noodles
1 pack beef jerky

serves 2

enhance with those small packs of parmersian cheese/tabasco

[The Hog]

Premix the following ingredients at home (in whatever proportion suits your fancy). On the trail, I like to cook this over a wood fire for about 10-12 minutes, but if you're using a stove, you can simmer for about 5 minutes, let sit another five, and enjoy!

Basmati rice
refried bean powder
tomato powder
sun dried tomatoes
dried chipotle chile(s)
dried red & green peppers
chili powder
one clove garlic, minced or mashed
dried cilantro
dried parsley
bay leaf
cumin
oregano
basil
black pepper
cheddar cheese powder

You can also add dehydrated onions, but the aftereffects will reduce your popularity in camp.

[tarbubble]

i just ate this on day 4 of a 6-day trip. one of my companions made it and it was dang good. he had a packet of the Mary Jane's "couch potato" mashed potatoes, then added a pouch of tuna and the hot water. it was amazingly good and i'm going to have it along on my next trip.

[Jersey Bob]

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[kncats]

Stove Top stuffing, a pack of instant gravy and a foil pouch of chicken or turkey. It helps to have something else to put the stuffing in to let it soak up the hot water. Make the gravy in your pan after boiling water for stuffing, add the meat.

[baseballswthrt]

I'll have to second the stuffing and gravy and chicken! It was the best thing we've had on the trail and easy if you have 2 containers. We used our washing-up basin (cut down gallon milk jug that fits inside our pot) to mix the stuffing and made the gravy in the pot.

Anita

[Tin Man]

We like Quesadillas on night 2 of a section hike.

Heat a little oil.
Drop in a tortilla
2 or 3 kinds of cheese
packaged chicken
favorite spices
Cover with 2nd tortilla
Flip once
Heat until cheese is melted.

Repeat until all parties have eaten.

1st night is Steak, baked potatoes, and corn on the cob...with a nice Cab.

Night 3 through 5 are the usual assortments of rice-a-roni or Lipton dinners or things in a cup that you just add hot water, stir, and wait 5 minutes including chili, corn chowder, and pasta dishes. Scotch usually kills any nasty after taste.

[Rain Man]

There is another similar thread.

I posted one of my favorite recipes, for camp fire pizza. Yum, yum.

http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php?t=3004

Rain Man

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[grrickar]

Besides jerky, you can now find prepackaged chicken and precooked ground beef at the grocery stores. I found both at a Wal-Mart supercenter. The ground beef was in a large foil pack on the aisle with Spam and Vienna Sausages, and they had different varieties (italian and mexican are the two I saw). Sweet Sue had chucks of white chicken in foil packs as well - no refridgeration required. With those sort of options, why buy dehydrated?

Cook up some shell pasta, add some tomato paste, throw in the ground beef, and add some cheese and make cheeseburger casserole.

[Rain Man]

Yes, and now some supermarkets in the South and Super Wal-Mart are carrying new, 3.3 oz foil packages of shrimp, smoked oysters, clams, crab, and faux-crab. Yum yum!!! Made by Chicken of the Sea brand.

Rain Man

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[food]

ingredients:

A packet of Idahoan mashed potatoes - 4 cheese or roasted garlic.
A generous squirt of extra virgin olive oil
about 1 and half oz of bacon toppings.

http://www.patrickcudahy.com/product...service-5.html

Tabasco and salt to taste

[squirrel bait]

Becareful on how many foil packs of chicken,tuna or whatever meat ya carry cause the wieght adds up fast.

[grrickar]

Eat the heavy stuff first Tuna packs with mayo and dill relish makes an easy batch of tuna salad. You can get mayo and relish in small packs.

If you drink Crystal Light, the way they normally package it is in little plastic tubs inside a plastic tube.

TIP: Save the plastic tube, and dump in as many Ritz crackers (or any round cracker that will fit) as will fit in it. Now you can have crackers that won't be powder by the time you decide to eat them.

My experiement was with potato soup mix I found at Sam's Club. It is a large bag, and it makes 8 gallons. Yep, I said gallons, not cups. I seperated the mix into quart ziplocs, along with powdered milk, and now all I have to do is boil water, dump in the dried potatoes, wait a few then dump in the potato soup mix and the powdered milk. Very filling and lots of carbs to get you up the trail. My suggested addition would be prepackaged clams (look for them where the tuna in foil packs are) to make a chowder of sorts.

Soup mixes are light, generally easy to clean up afterward (no scraping the pots) and most of the time you just need water to add to them. You can always kick it up a notch with dried vegetables, jerky bits, tabasco, or other additions.

[flyfisher]

Most of my dinners start with a packet of Lipton Noodles - I like several of them. When I have the opportunity to spice them up, I put a heaping teaspoon of dry milk and a heaping tablespoon of dehydrated hamburger in the bag too.

I usually put about three pieces of beef jerky in the bag and munch on them while I am waiting for the noodles to cook in my pot cozy.

I have tried stove stop stuffing and mashed potatoes as the base for dinners, but ended up getting tired of them quickly.

Ramen noodles are my next choice if Lipton noodle dishes are not available. Mac and Cheese are OK too.

[Rift Zone]

Jersey Bob is right, those precooked and "shrink wrapped" ham things are great. I go for the turkey breast myself. The best way to handle them is by not handling them... I'll do my best to cut it in a fashion where the original wrapper holds on to it securely for as long as possible.


I look for versatility when it comes to pack food.

The finest pack bread ever made is the humble croissant. You may crush the hell out of them if you like. They don't care much and certainly will not crumble. They take to butter and honey as easily as a slab of turkey and some mustard.

Pine nuts are found in my pack just as often. I'll put some dried fruit in my breakfast water before it heats up and have partially reconstituted fruit and pine nuts in my morning slop. My dinner slop has sun-dried tomatoes, pine nuts along with cheese and any other dried veggie/mushroom I can get my hands on.

The Mini Baby-Bel cheeses will survive harsher conditions for longer than anything else. It is only cuz of the individual wrapping. Proper handling techniques will keep a slab of cheddar cool for a decent while as well.

Those cans of sardines or oysters barely qualify for food when I'm off the trail. But I tell you, a can of oysters and some tobasco is a wonderful and rare source of pure fat and protein when you are on the trail. Put those things in a freezer bag before you get them into your pack. You DO NOT want to find out the hard way how easy the seal breaks if you compress them just right. I'm just glad I use dry-bags for food bags.

[grrickar]

Bagels and tortillas are also good breads that you don't have to worry about crushing.

[james-skinner]

A technique that I use to make stuffing and gravy is to heat enough water for both the stuffing and the gravy, add the stuffing mix to the water, stir, then add the stuffing mix and let is sit. Only one pot required that way. And to liven up everything I cook, I never leave home without a bottle of Texas Pete hot sauce.

[TakeABreak]

Mashed potatoes, are a good carb dinner, If you have have cup or wbowl with you, you can heat up a packed of instant gravy. pour it in the cup, when the mashed poatatoes are done pour it on, for meat a small can of chicken breast. You think it is Thanksgiving.

I've done the same with stuffing mix.

Mahatma Beans and rice is good too, a little spicy but lots of carbs and cooks quickly.

Spaghetti is good too, if you have some dehydrated sauce to heat up and re-hydrate.

A pack of noodles, some dehydrated vegetables, and a can of roast beef was favorite of mine on cool day.