Camp Eats

[ICEMAN]

Was sitting here thinking about how different my meal planning is during the year. Each hunt camp is treated differently. Turkey camp is quick light meals, not much time to spend in camp, with hitting the trial in the dark, returning midday for a nap, and then back out. Deer camp is the big "go all out" kinda meal planning with more guys at camp. Plan meals where other guys can toss in some help, or someone showing up mid week can help out...also the longest hunt, so planning is more important on this one. Bear camp is a light affair, not much cooking going on, mostly cold stuff with the heat and fire issues...Elk camp is a bit more involved with alot more time to cook as I hide from the rain in camp.

We usually eat "Shot or Caught" but sometimes add something store bought

DeerCamp typical meal plan is:
Dinner 1, "fend for yourself"as guys arrive at weird hours this night, sometimes an MRE or roadburger, sometimes a store bought lasagna, less fuss night since we are setting up camp...
Dinner 2, Seafood Extravganza, Fresh seafood chowder to start (this is my specialty and includes oyster/clam/shrimp/salmon/cream sherry/fresh potatoes/veggies and fresh cream...I make this in camp and it is to die for) Main course is Pan fried oysters and Razor clams, Yelloweye off the barbQ, fresh salad and garlic bread.
Dinner 3, Chicken Night.
Dinner 4, Taco Night, this is with pressure canned venison meat, sort of like a carne asada taco thingy, all the fixins...
Dinner 5 Grouse Night, shot around camp
Dinner 6 Ham n Yam night. Both canned. This is an easy one, both the canned Ham and the Yams can go home if you have enough left overs from previous meals.

Of course the menu gets all screwed up, when we have game down, it is time for me to cook up a deer heart horderve before the fresh liver dinner! I am getting hungry just thinking about it!!! 

By the way...I dont know what I did before I bought my Brinkman gas oven to bake in, or to just keep things hot...

[mossback91]

All I know is that I think I want to camp with you.

[actionshooter]

All I know is that I think I want to camp with you.

+2
 A little to much for us. I try to pre-make dinners st home and freeze them in frezzer zip-locs. Stews, chilli, pastas, When we get back to camp at night just grab one out of the cooler and throw it in boiling water. In the cooler they act like ice keeping everything cold and the best part................... no dishes to clean 
 If there is just a couple of us I do the same thing just smaller portions.
 
 If I'm backpacking its mountain house  yum-yum 

[Michelle_Nelson]

All I know is that I think I want to camp with you.

+3

[ICEMAN]

Ok, Ok, I understand. You are all a bunch of PB&J' rs...

Come on! You wait all year to go out and have a great hunt, why not "go big" on the meal planning too!?

[Michelle_Nelson]

Ok, Ok, I understand. You are all a bunch of PB&J' rs...

PB&J = 

[actionshooter]

Ok, Ok, I understand. You are all a bunch of PB&J' rs...

Come on! You wait all year to go out and have a great hunt, why not "go big" on the meal planning too!?

To tired, usually roll into camp well after dark and am asleep in a couple of hours 

[zackmioli]

mine is kinda similar to yours Iceman.

day 1: whatever you want
then it normally consists of venison burgers, venison chili, chicken night, lasagna night, another chicken night, stew night, maybe something else thrown in there but thats the regular stuff. and it goes in any order.

mmmmm cant wait for october.

[Snowman]

We do an elk hunt every year and go a few days early, always hated getting there the night before it opens. We eat like kings every meal. Mornings get up extra early cook up some flap jacks, eggs, sausage, bacon, cofee and toast. Lunches consist of sandwiches and snack stuff as there is no time to go back to camp. Dinners usaully consist of homemade chili, duck or goose breast cooked over open fire yum!! Spagheti, steaks or any venision left over, baked potateos, salmon. Eat better hunting than I do when at home and the wifes cooking. Getting hungry to go hunting so I can eat some good food. Nothing like cooking over a open flame or dutch oven.

[saylean]

Our camp eats real well generally. My dad is main cook....he plans out the meals for the time we are there...anywhere from pulled pork crockpot sandwiches, to ribs, to burgers, steaks, salads of all sorts, lasagna, fried tatters...gravy/biscuits, ...
Breakfasts are sometimes pick what ya get....a quick hand held pastry, apples, coffee...etc. Lunch is often eaten out in the field...so it is what you carry....
i eat better hunting than i do at home (at least when I go to camp and hunt).

[Skyvalhunter]

Krap you guys make me want to go hunting with you. This dehydrated food stuff I eat makes it seem like I am eating out of the garbage can!!

[Houndhunter]

Krap you guys make me want to go hunting with you. This dehydrated food stuff I eat makes it seem like I am eating out of the garbage can!!

no kidding, all i get usually is cup of noddles and granola

nah theres a few times when we have some good eats, but really after a day of hunting just about anything seems to taste 10x better

[shanevg]

For me, it all depends on the kind of hunting I do.  Most of the time I bear hunt, I'm just going in for my day off.  So I leave after work, take something along to cook over the fire by the car, and then head out first thing in the morning and hunt all day with lunch in my pack.  Where we deer hunt, we take our camp in about 4.5 miles beyond a gate the weekend before they close it.  So we have good food, but everything is pre-packaged so that it won't go bad before season.  For a long elk hunt where we camp near our vehicles, we eat good.  I've had steak, ribs, hamburgers, waffles, pancakes... the whole deal, that's great!

One of my best memories was first weekend in August last year, my buddy and I headed up after work for 2 nights of bear hunting.  We had to bike up a road about 2.5 miles from the car and then set up base camp.  We then climbed mountains and hiked up valleys from there.  We decided to take some good food.  We have a deer cart that we can attach to my bike, so we loaded it with a full size ice chest full of food to cook.  We had pop, elk steaks, hamburgers, stew (we call it Hunter Daniel Stew - named after my hunting partner) and desert to cook over the fire.  It was great.  We didn't get any shots at a bear (although we did see one and spook another one that we never got a look at) but it was really fun. 

Overall, I'm a big fan of eating good when you don't have to pack your food in too far.  It makes the whole trip more enjoyable.  The only bummer is when you're hunting in August, you tend to hunt 'til dark, and you don't start cooking until 9 p.m. or later.  I think that bear trip I talked about we went to bed at about 1:30 a.m. the first night, then got up before dark to start hunting.  We were dead!  It's really great in a November trip when you have a ton of time at camp at night to have some really good meals. 

[AL WORRELLS KID]

You can make these Stuffed Onion Bombs ahead of time, cooking over the Fire wrapped in Aluminum Foil or in a Dutch Oven.

2 pounds ground beef
1 cup bread crumbs
1 egg, beaten
1 cup milk
1/2 cup BBQ Sauce
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
3-4 Yellow Onions (med-large)
1 Package of Bacon
More BBQ Sauce

Directions
In a large bowl, combine the ground beef, crumbs, egg, milk, ˝ cup BBQ, onion, salt, pepper and garlic powder. Mix together with your hands until thoroughly combined.
Cut top and bottom off onion, cut in half and peel off skin. Then separate the onion into "layers". Use the larger outside layers.
Stuff your Meatloaf mix between two Onion Layers (essentially making an onion seal around a large meatball)
Wrap each "bomb" with 3 slices bacon and secure with toothpicks.
Bake in a Dutch Oven for approx 40 minutes or until internal temp 165.
Add BBQ sauce all over and bake an additional 5 minutes!
Doug