What’s your favorites for hunting or trapping camp? I’m just getting things ready to head out in the next couple days, thinking it’s going to be lots of frozen pizza and hungry man’s. Didn’t plan ahead good enough to vacuum pack meals, I don’t mind cooking but hate the mess. Camp trailer oven might make decent pizza? What’s your favs!

wws

Anything you can chop up and cook on the Blackstone ....then shove in a tortilla....add cheese and hot sauce

Hot dogs are quick and easy

… camp close to the bar and grill lol

Ribeyes, chili, sausage patties and eggs, kilbasa and sour kraut....

Always eat good in camp or on a boat,,,,,,

Someone ban Ant Man for saying the H D word…….

Both sound good, I do have a camp Blackstone. Not sure I trust the local burger joint near my trapping area! It looks a bit sketchy

wws

Venison stew or bear stew. Freeze it in Ziplocs and it is easy to transport and heat up in a pot. Add a loaf of homemade bread with a thick layer of butter and you're in business.

I know, Nessie...bread should be Sourdough!

Moosetrot

This might not help since you dont have a lot of time to prep but the wife and I can a lot and they are super easy to prepare. Pea soup, whitetail stew, antelope chile, borscht, canned elk meat (on bread with cheese and pickles) are some favorites. I like smoked laker to with cream cheese on a bagel for lunch. We prep a dozen or so breakfast burritos with our chorizo. Wrap in tinfoil. Will take few brats or steaks and potatoes as well. All of this is in a pot or in a casty on the wood stove. Burritos just roll around on the stove in the foil.

… it beats some of my other meals lol

If you have electric, A crock pot will feed you very well, Do a pot roast:

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/260697/mississippi-pot-roast/

When you are tired if that, make french dip sandwiches from the leftovers, add a bit of water and beef a jus seasoning packet to taste.

when you are done with that add noodles and a beef or mushroom gravy packet or two and a bit of liquid for some excellent Beef and Noodles.

small red potatoes will cook just fine in a crockpot on high in a few hours.
these taters, and leftover beef roast will make awesome Hash in the morning, Hot skillet, oil, leftovers and a couple eggs and your set.

kinda set it and go hunt, it will be ready when you get back.

If the SPAM is getting hot, You should check your wiring. LOL

Some have told me i am a volt short……….
Used to cook that, chicken and roast in the tar pot in the old flat roofing days…..
thanks for the memories……

Make some hobos. In small chunks, cut some meat (or sausage), onions, bell pepper, mushrooms, taters what have you and put them in some good aluminum foil and wrap solidly. Keep them cool, and and they will be good for several days. Only put enough in the foil for one person; so make several of them; they will cook quicker. When eating time, throw them on the coals for about 20-30 min and meal is done.

If don't have time for that, then go with Savell's recommendation. Viennas and Spam are hard, hard, hard, to beat.

Depends on your camp setup. Used to be an army tent with just a gas burner. Now I've got a generator with a full stove, microwave, heck even bring up an instant pot and air fryer.


Also, as much as I love all that classic Deer Camp chow, we have steered away and typically just bring up normal food more like what I'd eat at home anymore.

Only took me 30 years to figure out gorging on pickled pigs feet, oysters, sardines, pickled bologna, pie, homeade cookies, hickory sticks, buckets of beer, greasy breakfasts, spicy peanuts and liver sausage then trying to sit stationarity in a deer blind for 12 hrs a day wasn't working for my guts.

I feel a lot better if I stick halfway close to my normal diet/routine, or at least work some standard low key stuff in . Less time in the outhouse, sitting with bubble guts or squatting in the woods mid day too.

Don't get me wrong, I still love and eat all the other good stuff, just in moderation.

Planning for this year right now. Short list for dinners so far include: homeade chicken pot pie, fried walleye, goulash, beef stew, ribeyes, spaghetti, fried chicken, smoked pork shoulder. We even work some salads in! Breakfasts usually eggs, oatmeal or pancakes. Lunch is a sandwich of some sort, couple apples, stack of fig newtons or homeade cookies and a piece of zucchini bread.

I will preface this with we hunt from a house my great great grandfather built , my cousin owns it now.

it has been deer camp for as long as there has been organized deer hunting in WI.

my aunt used to live there year round , she passed and my cousin took over the house and lives there part time.

Friday night is fried fish

Saturday night is typically Lasagna my mom makes up a big one and it just needs to go in the oven of course we have garlic bread and caser salad as well

Sunday we typically did a full thanksgiving turkey with the fixings

we used to get up and have a big breakfast and start drives at first light
with more sitting and wanting to be in stands well before light , now we do a big breakfast about 9:30-10
I have an uncle who comes with an won't carry a gun so he doesn't mind cooking and by 9 my dad is generally cold and ready to go in and help cook
uncle Bob is in his 80s and hunts about 50 yards from the house go out set , get cold , come in get warm , go back out


if we didn't have a house full, 11 this year and it was just me I would probably do perpetual pot

perpetual pot is a pot of stew just kept going , if you have power a crock pot works great , start it a few days before and the flavor builds
put your stew ingredients in and about 6-8 hours on high , then let it go to keep warm
when you eat enough out you add more to fill it up and get to 6 hours high , then just leave keep warm
always hot always ready to eat unless you just added ingredients but generally do that just after eating supper.

if you have a wood stove you keep going it can be kept in a big Dutch oven on that
or you can heat it back to a boil every time you are in camp and then let it simmer till you leave again after it boils.

you have one bowl , one spoon and maybe one serving spoon
that beer and coffee you could keep going a long time.
till you run out of beer any way.

if you do paper bowls and toss them in the fire you would have even less clean up

Typical camp breakfast-fried potatoes, eggs, bacon, or oatmeal, or eggs in a bag (crack eggs into ziplock bag, add omlette toppings like cheese, onion peppers, drop into pot of boiling water until cooked). Eggs in a bag is a no-mess meal. All the garbage goes in the ziplock bag when done. Biscuits and gravy is a good one too, with biscuits made in a dutch oven. For coffee, I use the Foldgers coffee tea-bags. Using the tea bags instead making a pot of coffee means I can have a pot of plain boiling water available for oatmeal or cleaning duties.

Dinners-hot dogs, steaks, and burgers are easy. Steaks usually get cooked directly on the campfire coals. Hobo burgers (burger, a large pat of butter, and veggies, all wrapped up in foil) is an easy one. Potatoes wrapped in foil with butter is delicious, and they go with everything. Lots of different baked desserts (cobblers, cakes, brownies, etc) get made in the dutch oven.

I prefer my camping meals to be simple and as mess-free as possible. For example-bacon and eggs is a good breakfast, but always makes a big greasy mess that can be a pain to clean up, especially if you're camping somewhere without a sink for washing dishes. Eggs in a bag requires no dishes, and the garbage can go right in the bag after. You don't even need to use your clean water, because the water doesn't come in direct contact with the food and gets boiled. I've made it with clear stream water plenty of times.

I am a fella who likes to be mobile and light. Same system for any overnight, be it kayaking, backpacking, hunting, etc.

I generally do freezer bag meals. Like the pre made store bought just add boiling water meals, but I make them myself. Generally Ramen or rice based, but some recipes are incredible.

A super light stove and titanium pot, and bags of dried food. Add water and wrap in a jacket for 15 mins. Eat, dispose of bag. No messing around cleaning anything, it's good, and fast.


Only difference is when winter camping either on snowshoe or snowmobile. I have my big titanium wood stove, and am carrying everything either by hand toboggan, or snowmobile so weight isn't an issue.

Then I bring anything I eat at home, frozen food, etc because you are living in a freezer. Eggs, bacon, chicken, etc.

I cook quite a bit in the crockpot and on the grill at my hunting camp. Lots of chili, stew and beans--and burgers for my boys.

Almost forgot-bannock bread, cooked on a cast iron skillet, is good too. Topped with jam it makes a good breakfast, topped with veggies and chunks of meat it makes a good dinner.