Travel meals?

[Chickenlips]

This is kind've a WV thing but I take about 6 bags of pepperoni rolls and sandwich stuff.  Too tired to cook.

[MS TurkeyHunter]

I feel like everything I do has already been mentioned. I'll eat sandwiches and wraps. I vary the type of fruit through out the season. A blackstone opens up various options. With some oil and paper towels the clean up is super easy in my opinion.

I want feedback on how everyone makes their coffee when sleeping out of the truck. I've had to go with iced coffee up to this point. I tried a cheap coffee maker but it was too much energy pull for the outlet in my truck. I looked into a jet boil but didn't wanna pay the money at the time.

Adding to what others have mentioned instant coffee is the way to go! Folders classic roast is my go to.


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[bigdrumnc]

I picked up the Stanley French press.  It works well, it's quick, affordable and makes decent coffee

[YoungGobbler]

Seems like I'm a rare breed... But even if I'm camping, I eat just the same as at home... I carry a two burner stove, so I can cook potato/carrots on one side and fry meat on the other side. I just carry a good cooler with ice for meat and potatoes and carrots can go on a cooler without ice and they'll preserve...

Morning is egg and toast and then both lunch/supper is meat/"veggies"...

[crow]

Keep it simple, go carnivore. Eat once or twice a day and your done.

Cooked meat lasts a week in a cooler. Hardboiled eggs, sardines, kipper snacks, canned deer meat, deer jerky and beef burger jerky, beef tallow, butter, salt and water.

Energy stays steady and good.

[paboxcall]

Do what I do, get Yoder drive you to a restaurant, then make him pay.

[KeeKee]

Ya'll are eating like kings haha. Conecuh sausage and eggs make a good quick meal. Can't go wrong with Turkey nuggets anytime. I always carry a couple strawberry uncrustables and a granola bar or 2 for a quick snack.

[shaman]

Re: coffee

Living out of the truck,  I generally opt for a Coleman stove and old-style percolator.  New stoves are expensive, but I've been picking up ones from garage sales for years.  My best was a 2-burner I picked from somebody's trash-- brand new in the box.


Add a nested cookware set and it's Bob-yur-Uncle.

[3seasons]

I always have aspirations to cook some good camp meals on my trips, but it never fails I'm always weighing out that extra hour of sleep or a big meal. Sleep wins every time.  For me its minimal meals until a bird is killed, whether it be mine or my buddy's, then its either a celebratory real cooked meal or a trip into town to a local restaurant that serves the local favorite whatever that may be. We've had some interesting meals in some amazing places because we chase this wonderful bird. LOL some trips we eat really good some not so much.

Until then its peanut butter, jelly, honey and banana on a tortilla or ham and turkey on a tortilla. At night if it's not one of those it will be a quick can of ravioli, tamales or beef soup(something that takes about 5min to cook and clean up after.

Celebratory meals if we cook at camp can range from beef steak, elk steak, fresh turkey, burgers, fajita meat, eggs, bacon etc. and whatever sides we have in our food box or find in the woods.  Noodles, potatoes, onions, preppers, Wild garlic and morel mushrooms pair so good with most anything.

I quit using ice a few years ago after going up in the northeast and paying $7-10 for a small bag, now I run two electric coolers, one I use to freeze all my meat and the other for water and groceries. Keeps everything dry and cold with no mess. If needed I can put a bag of ice in one, but I only do that for drinks.   

There never seems to be enough time in the day to do all you want to do, with all the self-induced added pressures of maximizing your vacation time away from work and getting to the next state as fast as possible the is a lot lost from the hunt.  I am very guilty of it and can't wait to be finished with this mess. Then the fun of getting a small group of friends together and just go make a camp somewhere and enjoy it. Then maybe some of those camp meals will be shared among friends and a campfire. 

[Fullfan]

Been traveling to hunt in SE Missouri for the past 34 years, and we tent camp. Long past are days of taking frozen meals in coolers for 2 weeks. Not we take two Honda eu2200 and a small freezer. Meals consist of Steak and shrimp, BBq Chicken from the grill, we smoke a pork loin, Lake Erie walleye, Spaghetti, stuffed chicken breasts, Ribs on the smoker, wings and this year we are talking a brisket. We haul what we need there in an enclosed 26" trailer. Our camp is no kid's game...

Everything stays in the freezer until the day before we eat it, run the generator every other day for several hours to run the freezer and charge the electronics.

[WV Flopper]

New grill assembled and ready to be placed in my truck! The little grill only last about three years.

 Also have a small, low profile butane single burner. It is very stable, much more so than the jet boils and similar.

 Only takes six minutes to cook a thick steak on the grill.

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[jdl80]

Also bustello instant coffee, and some sort of electrolyte/vitamin additive for my water.