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We call them foil meals. Take meat (cooked), potatoes, veggies whatever you want. Throw a spoon of butter and wrap the whole thing in foil. Then when you're ready you can throw it on the fire or camp stove to warm it up. Since you're basically doing all the prep at home and just reheating it on the trail there are a lot of possibilities.
 

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I am really into cooking. I bake my own sourdough bread, sourdough pizza, biscuits, pancakes, waffles, etc... I love smoking pork butt, chuck roast, brisket.
This bread is delicious, making sandwiches for a hike today!
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says my brother from another mother.
 

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My brother and I have a standard penalty meal in the Boundary Waters... we take enough food for every day, but if we don't catch fish to eat and have no other food left, our last evening's dinner is Mac n Cheese n Spam. :LOL: Just like it sounds... make Mac n Cheese, and throw in cut up, fried Spam. Presuming you can deal with both, it ain't that bad, but if you find either or both somewhat vile it may not be so swell...


Other things to consider...

Shontz on Venture4WD uses his sandwich iron over his stove burner a lot - that can be a hearty hot dinner with easy sammy fixin favorites.

I know it's not necessarily recipes, but this is a list of ideas I threw at my bro for our Boundary Waters trip in June... just a brain dump of ideas - they should apply to car camping even easier than canoe packing. A couple pretty easy gems for a camp stove are the pita pizzas, quesadillas, and the Zatarains jambalaya or dirty rice (or home-made; i was going for simplicity for packing).
  • Summer sausage
  • Lunch meat (first two days)
  • Cheese snacks
  • Granola bars, etc.
  • Pretzel bites
  • Trail mix (nuts and m&ms)
  • Beef Jerky
  • Mini cookies (chips ahoy, oreos, etc.)
  • Shredded cheese (for dinners) - mozzarella, mexican blend, cheddar
  • Pancakes / syrup (plastic bottle - just add water)
  • Bread / bread rounds / english muffins
  • PB&J, etc. (jelly squeeze bottle)
  • Mac & Cheese (+ spam? Other packaged meat?)
    • Take prefab cheese sauce to remove need for milk
  • Pita pizza
  • Dry noodles and/or rice packets
  • Butter (squeeze margarine, etc.)
  • Chicken pouches (to add to spag or noodles or rice)
  • Tuna packets - flavored types - for away lunch(?)
  • Soup starter packets (add chicken, and maybe more rice, etc. to make a stew)
  • Chicken Helper and chicken pouches
  • Tortillas
  • Cooking oil
  • Salsa
  • Quesadillas (tortillas, package chicken, cheese, salsa - maybe onions and peppers)
  • Betty Crocker instant hash browns (just add margaring/butter)
  • Hot dogs or sausage (polish, kielbasa, etc.) - can freeze to keep longer
  • Packaged BBQ, beef tips, or other stuff (can freeze to keep longer)
  • Zatarains jambalaya mix + andouille sausage (+ maybe package chicken)
Pre-make and/or Freeze and carry:
  • Steaks
  • Burgers
  • Taco meat
  • Eggs, sausage, bacon, peppers and onions (either plain or on tortillas)
  • Hamburger meat with onions and peppers (combine with Zatarains dirty rice or spaghetti sauce)
  • Smoked meats (or something like that if you wish to pre-prepare)
 
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My brother and I have a standard penalty meal in the Boundary Waters... we take enough food for every day, but if we don't catch fish to eat and have no other food left, our last evening's dinner is Mac n Cheese n Spam. :LOL: Just like it sounds... make Mac n Cheese, and throw in cut up, fried Spam. Presuming you can deal with both, it ain't that bad, but if you find either or both somewhat vile it may not be so swell...


Other things to consider...

Shontz on Venture4WD uses his sandwich iron over his stove burner a lot - that can be a hearty hot dinner with easy sammy fixin favorites.

I know it's not necessarily recipes, but this is a list of ideas I threw at my bro for our Boundary Waters trip in June... just a brain dump of ideas - they should apply to car camping even easier than canoe packing. A couple pretty easy gems for a camp stove are the pita pizzas, quesadillas, and the Zatarains jambalaya or dirty rice (or home-made; i was going for simplicity for packing).
  • Summer sausage
  • Lunch meat (first two days)
  • Cheese snacks
  • Granola bars, etc.
  • Pretzel bites
  • Trail mix (nuts and m&ms)
  • Beef Jerky
  • Mini cookies (chips ahoy, oreos, etc.)
  • Shredded cheese (for dinners) - mozzarella, mexican blend, cheddar
  • Pancakes / syrup (plastic bottle - just add water)
  • Bread / bread rounds / english muffins
  • PB&J, etc. (jelly squeeze bottle)
  • Mac & Cheese (+ spam? Other packaged meat?)
    • Take prefab cheese sauce to remove need for milk
  • Pita pizza
  • Dry noodles and/or rice packets
  • Butter (squeeze margarine, etc.)
  • Chicken pouches (to add to spag or noodles or rice)
  • Tuna packets - flavored types - for away lunch(?)
  • Soup starter packets (add chicken, and maybe more rice, etc. to make a stew)
  • Chicken Helper and chicken pouches
  • Tortillas
  • Cooking oil
  • Salsa
  • Quesadillas (tortillas, package chicken, cheese, salsa - maybe onions and peppers)
  • Betty Crocker instant hash browns (just add margaring/butter)
  • Hot dogs or sausage (polish, kielbasa, etc.) - can freeze to keep longer
  • Packaged BBQ, beef tips, or other stuff (can freeze to keep longer)
  • Zatarains jambalaya mix + andouille sausage (+ maybe package chicken)
Pre-make and/or Freeze and carry:
  • Steaks
  • Burgers
  • Taco meat
  • Eggs, sausage, bacon, peppers and onions (either plain or on tortillas)
  • Hamburger meat with onions and peppers (combine with Zatarains dirty rice or spaghetti sauce)
  • Smoked meats (or something like that if you wish to pre-prepare)
Very nice... lots of good ideas here!
 

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We call them foil meals. Take meat (cooked), potatoes, veggies whatever you want. Throw a spoon of butter and wrap the whole thing in foil. Then when you're ready you can throw it on the fire or camp stove to warm it up. Since you're basically doing all the prep at home and just reheating it on the trail there are a lot of possibilities.
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Keep things simple. Leave in the morning, be home by the evening. If you get hungry...

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Becomes rather limiting where you can only drive far enough from home so you can come back to it by the evening... :)
 

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This for breakfast is pretty easy as just need a big old cast iron fry pan and can do it over a stove, fire pit, etc.

It also will keep you full until dinner.

We typically do a big breakfast, some sandwiches for lunch on the trail, and dinner depends if anyone broke and we're late to get back/setup camp.

 

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Engine burritos.....easy & cheap.
In the late 60s, my parents would road trip for weeks in a panel side station wagon all over the country. Every morning they would wrap hot dogs in foil and put them in the engine. That was lunch most days. I remember potatoes, cinnamon apples, and some sorta strips of beef too. i was 6...hot dogs were awesome.
 
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This for breakfast is pretty easy as just need a big old cast iron fry pan and can do it over a stove, fire pit, etc.

It also will keep you full until dinner.

We typically do a big breakfast, some sandwiches for lunch on the trail, and dinner depends if anyone broke and we're late to get back/setup camp.

Holly crap... I did not know about this. I am going to make this and eat it... and schedule my angiogram right after!!! :rock::rock::rock:
 
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In the late 60s, my parents would road trip for weeks in a panel side station wagon all over the country. Every morning they would wrap hot dogs in foil and put them in the engine. That was lunch most days. I remember potatoes, cinnamon apples, and some sorta strips of beef too. i was 6...hot dogs were awesome.
I am 56 and hot dogs are still awesome... tho I am no longer allowed to eat them :(
 

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Holly crap... I did not know about this. I am going to make this and eat it... and schedule my angiogram right after!!! :rock::rock::rock:
Yeah, not exactly a low fat dish. I leave off the crushed chips so we can call it low carb and cater to the keto guys in our group
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