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Food for Fly-Out Hunts
Posted by Michael Strahan on Mar 16 2006
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Here are some ideas on the food situation:
MINIMAL PREP TIME
Focus on foods that can be readied in ten minutes or less. If you're hunting hard, the weather is bad, etc. the LAST thing you want to do is mess around for an hour with a Dutch oven. Lots of ways of putting tasty meals together with low prep time. Prepare regular meals in advance and freeze them in two-gallon Ziplock bags. Keep this stuff in your freezer at home (flatten the pack out before you freeze it so it will pack in your cooler better). The morning you leave for fly-out, pack the frozen stuff in a cooler. Make sure you pack it in reverse order of when you'll use it. This will allow you to just pop the lid open, grab what you need and close it. This keeps your foods frozen longer. You don't need ice; the food is its own ice.
REAL FOOD
I'll toss in enough freeze drieds for a couple of nights away from camp (I keep one or two in my pack at all times in case we get caught out). But other than that, we go with real foods like we would eat at home. In fact, my camp fare is usually a cut above what I would eat at home. If you shop around, you can come up with previously-prepared items like barbecued baby back ribs, shrimp scampi, spaghetti with meatballs, fried chicken, etc. Good stuff and no trouble to cook in camp. Here's an example. Fried chicken can be re-heated in a skillet lined with foil. Wrap it all in foil and place in a large skillet, wok or saucepan. Put a lid on the pan to trap heat, and you essentially have an oven. While that's heating up, toss some frozen corn (Costco is best; really sweet) into a saucepan with a lid. I'll put some butter in there too. At the same time, you can get a salad going. We use those prepared salads in a bag; on a ten-day hunt they'll last about half the hunt. Go with canned or dried fruit for dessert. Simple, tasty meal.
REPACK YOUR FOODS
Get rid of extra packaging after you purchase your food. Cardboard boxes, sealed bags, cans, etc. These can be discarded before your trip and it will save you huge trash problems in the field.
SEPARATE YOUR FOODS
I keep my frozen foods in one cooler, and other perishables in another cooler. My dry goods are packed separately, in containers labeled "Breakfast", "Snacks" and "Dinner"
Lots more to say on this; but I'm out of time. Feel free to write me privately and I can give you more info over the phone.
-Mike
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