So this year at hunting camp Its my turn to make dinner for a few days.. seems like we always have chili! I am looking for some ideas or suggestions as to what everyone like for meals at their hunting camps!

Cream of mushroom soup, rice, and pork chops, all combined in a Dutch oven. Looks vile; tasty, though, and very little clean up.

Potatoes and onions cut up and fried with deer steaks or sirloin.
Chicken and dumplings is hard to beat too

Mountain house, great food

Pre-cook your meals, freeze them in vacuum seal bags. In the morning, pull that evening's meal out of the cooler and let thaw, when thawed place sealed bag into a pan of nearly boiling water and heat to desired temperature.

This method saves a lot of time, and you don't have a bunch of greasy pans and cooking utensils to clean after eating.

Freeze items separately; meat in one bag vegetables in another, and under-cook your food a little bit before you seal it in the bags; it will cook a little more when you reheat it.

Some of my main meals:
Kilbasa in BBQ sauce, mashed potatoes, sauerkraut
Ribeye steaks, corn
BBQ chicken, mixed vegetables
Teriyaki chicken, rice
Chili with little smokies added to it, corn

Here are a couple of my favorites:

Zaterains jambalaya rice and (canned) shrimp with cut up onions and green peppers.

Long grain rice, chicken chunks, peanuts, cut up onions and peppers. I use pre-cooked or canned chicken.

Both are easy one pot meals that take as long as it takes to cook the rice. The onions and peppers can be fresh or cut up and dehydrated.

This is what we do also.

Heck, I do this at home lol

Try cutting up kilbasa and frying it with a can (not full just what you need) sprite. Great tasting, try it at home sometime, quick, easy but more as
a little appetizer.

Try catching some fish, frog legs or a turtle and cooking with tin foil on a fire, might need a can of pork and beans.

What Waggler said...the meals were Great!

Waggler, great advice, that's what we used to do, fast and easy. Sausage and red beans and rice was good.

If you have electricity - crock pot stew

If you have electricity - crock pot stew

Sliced pork loin and buns with a few BBQ sauces heat it as you need it quick easy and meaty fills a guy up! A pan of lasagna precooked is good and good old beans a wieners.

Breakfast I like a good pork sausage to brown in a pan and then add hash browns and finish off with scrambled eggs on top that a favorite.

Look up "sparkling potatoes" on youtube it's made in a Dutch oven. My brother and I were camp cooks for many years, I figured if we had to eat it may as well be eat good. WE did all of our cooking either directly on the fire or with cast iron. We did a lot of kabobs on the fire, roasted corn, pot roast in a dutch oven, peach/apple crisp, biscuits, chicken fried steak, etc. Basically, anything you'd make at home.

Your from Jamestown, Day 1 Johnnys Hot Dogs Day 2 AJ's Fote Ave Hot Dogs Day 3 AJ'S Falconer Hots Dogs, no refrigeration needed. Day 4 Rolaids or Tums followed by Charmin double ply. Enjoy!!!!

Hahahaha yea that’s truth right there!! Don’t call em sliders for nothing

Buy a propane or electric smoker for the camp. Make bbq ribs, pork butt, smoked vennison, ABT's(atomic buffalo turds.)

We do what waggler said pre-make and freeze. Most of what we make we don't vacuum pack tho. I freeze in square plastic containers that will fit in to the pan to rewarm and or thaw and that way they stack in the cooler and replace the ice needed.

Some of our favorites:

Pre-Made

Ham and beans with corn bread muffins ( also frozen )
meat ball subs
spaghetti
stew
chili
beef and gravy over rice
chicken and noodles
bacon

made in camp

shrimp boil or foil packets the first night
tomato soup and grilled cheese
steak either grilled or chicken fried
fried spuds
biscuits and gravy
cinnamon rolls

I'm going to get a can cooker this year before camp for the shrimp boil and maybe do corned beef and cabbage or stuffed green peppers ( I can pre-make the filling). Bagged salads and instant potatoes that I doctor up are always in camp too. I do 90% of the cooking for our camp and with the pre-made dishes I can have dinner served in about half an hour takes about an hour for me to make some of the stuff in camp but they are favorites and worth the wait. Plus cooking gets me out of washing dishes or stoking the wood stove at night.

a pork loin and a 20 oz bottle of coke coated with lemon pepper seasoning till it falls apart.awesome pulled pork sammiches and not time consuming.what time should i be there for dinner?

We just jump in the truck and drive 10 minutes off the mountain, Nice Italian Restaurant, great pizza, prices very reasonable, Don't pay to cook. LOL.
And they have running water, soap and everything!

Spaghetti is big and easy
Pancakes any time any place
Potatoes mashed baked whipped
Meat fresh game-it’s spiced with the hunt

bottomless stew / perpetual stew / hunters stew

all the same thing

start with all the things you like in stew , you put it in a pot and let it simmer while in camp , then each time you return to camp you bring it up to a boil then serve when your done eating for the night add more of the things you like in stew , and let it simmer while you are in camp.

Sloppy joes extra sloppy! Taco meat with chips and cheese works too!

Now, not sure of your area you hunt but here if there is a creek 4 feet wide you could catch fish for your meals.

Man you all are making me hungry

Dad always only wanted to dirty 1 pan.
So, he'd cook the meat first....bacon or sausage or hamburger or whatever
remove meat but leave grease in pan
ADD sliced or diced potatoes and brown
While taters cook crumble/chop up meat
Once taters done add chopped meat and ADD several eggs....depending on how much meat and taters used....depending how many needing fed
Enough eggs to cover meat/taters well.
Lower heat and Flip/mix well and when nearly done
Add shredded cheese, cover with lid and remove from heat until cheese is melted.

The variety of meats and taters (sweet/red/Idaho) and cheeses can really vary what is eaten.

Dad would put corn on the cob around campfire edge at times...or foil wrapped broccoli or cabbage.

Traprjohn, what did your father call that meal?

Not hunting camp but tonight's supper in the camper at the MN conventon is Hawaiian chicken and sautéed garlic green beans.

Ideas
Chili, hearty stews, hamburger gravy or meatballs and potatoes, breakfast burritos, sloppy joes, taco bake (hotdish or caserole), beef or hamburger stroganoff...

Anything you can chop up and throw in a skillet , then jam in a flour tortilla .

Use plenty of cheese to weld all the ingredients together so they don't roll out

Easy peezy

Yep the one pan thing is the way to do it! LOL

Are we hunters or are we Martha Fricking Stewart?

Beanie weenie served cold in the can.
Vienna sausage.
Nabs.
Frosted brown sugar poptarts.

Can of Spam and a can of baked beans ..just heat them in the fire... 3-4 nights of that...you might not have any friends left...

it isn't about being a gourmet cook , but a good hearty hot meal is good for the body not hard to make and can be very inexpensive

99 cent 5pound sack of taters
99 cent 2 pounds of carrots
99 cent 3 pound sack of onions
scrounge in the freezer for meat if you dig deep enough your likely to find a few pounds of last years ground venison
a few spices you just grab some out of the cupboard at home. salt , pepper , bay leaves , garlic powder .

a few loaves of bread , make some sandwiches to take out for lunch and bread to have stew over , sop up the juices with more bread and the bowl is almost clean , a very little wash and it's done.

and you spend less money than your canned stuff and pop tarts. I don't know about you but I never ate a pop tart and said , oh that was good and am I ever full.

that said , we eat like kings , full turkey dinner , my mom makes up a big pan of Lasagna and sends it up frozen, but we have a regular kitchen with an oven and fridge in addition to the coolers on the porch.
I didn't even mention the tins of cookies wives and grand daughters send and the pies my cousins wife sends.

jars of pickled fish and crackers
I bring several pounds of cheese.


we do have a crock pot of stew that stays going lunch, breakfast or when ever your hungry it is there.


one year we had a new guy my dad invited , dad told him to pick up some shrimp and sauce didn't ask him to bring any other groceries, well he was very excited to be asked to come hunt he brought so many shrimp , we skipped dinner and just sat around drinking and eating shrimp I think we each ate a pound.

Hobo packs. You can make them ahead of trip or at camp.

Heavy duty tinfoil with hamburger balls, carrots, onions, potatoes, whatever else some margarine and S&P inside. Each one sized for an individual.

Lay them in the coals of your campfire then tear open eat right out of the foil. Easy and delicious.

Best camp meal Iv'e ever had is when my good friend who some of you might know - Reid Aiton comes out to trap and brings frozen blocks of picked crab meat from the CA coast. We eat crab sandwiches until we are about to grow claws.

ML

Deer liver and onions.

Fond memories from many years ago deer camps when my dad was still alive.

ML

Camping breakfast...…...lol

But nowadays we have it for dinner sometimes.

In German it's Farmers Breakfast....Bowenfruestik (sp)