mcseal2
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I'm going on a 2 man drop hunt for moose in Alaska in 2018. I'm sitting inside watching it rain, cooking dinner right now and got to thinking about the menu for that hunt. The outfitter provides the cooking gear including a 2 burner Coleman stove and skillet, pots, plates etc. We have a 100lb weight limit for our personal gear not including what the outfitter provides.
I'm planning to take a lot of Mountain House meals, enough to eat them for the entire trip if necessary. I figure they are light and having enough of them for the whole trip gives me extra in case weather extends our trip. I don't plan to eat only Mountain House the whole trip though. I've got my gear list pretty much done on an Excel program and it looks like my buddy and I will have about 10-15lbs of extra weight apiece to use on food each not including our Mountain House meals.
I've done trips where I was limiting weight as much as possible and I've done trips where weight wasn't an issue and I could pack a cooler of cold or frozen stuff. This one falls somewhere in the middle. I'm looking for ideas for hot meals, probably evening meals, that can break the monotony of freeze dried food for 10 days. My buddy that's going has issues he thinks is from the build-up of sodium eating to much freeze dried stuff for to many days also. Hopefully we will have fresh moose meat early in the trip to eat but I don't want to plan for that. I don't know that our weight restrictions and the logistics of getting things to the little town we fly out of in Alaska makes bringing a cooler of food that needs refrigerated the best option either.
There is a little grocery store in the town we fly out of we can get basics and some fresh/frozen food in. Probably shouldn't plan on anything to fancy from there but it sounds like we can fill in a few things that need refrigerated or frozen from there before leaving.
Anyone have some good hot meals they use that have ingredients that don't need to be kept in a cooler? Thanks for the help.
I'm planning to take a lot of Mountain House meals, enough to eat them for the entire trip if necessary. I figure they are light and having enough of them for the whole trip gives me extra in case weather extends our trip. I don't plan to eat only Mountain House the whole trip though. I've got my gear list pretty much done on an Excel program and it looks like my buddy and I will have about 10-15lbs of extra weight apiece to use on food each not including our Mountain House meals.
I've done trips where I was limiting weight as much as possible and I've done trips where weight wasn't an issue and I could pack a cooler of cold or frozen stuff. This one falls somewhere in the middle. I'm looking for ideas for hot meals, probably evening meals, that can break the monotony of freeze dried food for 10 days. My buddy that's going has issues he thinks is from the build-up of sodium eating to much freeze dried stuff for to many days also. Hopefully we will have fresh moose meat early in the trip to eat but I don't want to plan for that. I don't know that our weight restrictions and the logistics of getting things to the little town we fly out of in Alaska makes bringing a cooler of food that needs refrigerated the best option either.
There is a little grocery store in the town we fly out of we can get basics and some fresh/frozen food in. Probably shouldn't plan on anything to fancy from there but it sounds like we can fill in a few things that need refrigerated or frozen from there before leaving.
Anyone have some good hot meals they use that have ingredients that don't need to be kept in a cooler? Thanks for the help.