What to eat while truck camping

[Pbramble]

If I'm truck based, I usually have quite a spread. Camp kitchen, propane grill, and a cooler. I'm cooking whatever I want. Usually sausage and eggs for breakfast/brunch, skip the day meals, and brats or steaks for dinner. If an animal was taken, we're eating it. I also keep an assortment of seasonings and rubs, just in case. Way different than my typical living out of the pack for a few days.

 

[Augie]

If you are truck camping don't waste your time on freeze-dried meals. Keep a cooler full of ice and fill it with lunch meat, PB&J, fruit, or whatever you want. If you like to cook every night with a group of buddies (or by yourself) bring a camp chef style grill/griddle or small charcoal grill. That way you can cook up chicken, steak, fish, you name it.

 

[woods89]

I haven't done it a lot, but when I'm truck camping the Coleman 425 comes along and I eat well. I'd bring a cooler with steaks, chicken, etc and live it up!

 

[timberjack86]

We usually bring alot of groceries and just cook whatever but this year I'm looking into making stews and chili ahead of the trip and reheating it on the Coleman stove. Last year all that cooking took alot of the fun out of camping.

 

[HairyScandinavian]

Truck camping? I'm grilling Elk steaks or venison every evening and we're eating bacon and egg tacos every morning. It doesn't take much at all for a little grill. Potatoes don't need refrigeration, pastas or rice to go with them are easy breasy. I crack all the eggs in advance and put them in a huge shaker cup, just pour out and toss back in the cooler.

 

[Bee33]

Definitely beef stew and Jerky with white rice!

 

[Dmann]

Pre-make meals such as chicken noodle soup, spaghetti, stir fry, etc. and freeze them in vacuum bags. Boil them at camp to warm them up and you have a quick easy meal.

This works like a charm...

 

[Patriot2]

I get in after dark and want to be in bed ASAP so it's out of a can. Mornings I hit the trail early so it's two granola bars thrown my day pack and out the door. No time for meal prep or dishes. And having stayed in camp where a number of folks prepped lots of food and rary did dishes is just kinda gross.

 

[Misplacedinnebraska]

I like freezing homemade soups into repurposed plastic containers. The use them like ice in the cooler. Set them in warm water or leave them out in the morning to get them to thaw. Quit wholesome meal, but also works to keep things in the cooler cold without making a swampy mess as ice melts. I also freeze 20ounce bottles for ice. Good pals wife made a lasagna and froze it in a disposable foil pan. We heated it up on top of a wood stove and worked surprisingly well.

 

[Pony Soldier]

If we did anything well in camp it was eating. Years ago I learned to cook with a dutchoven. Pot roast, steaks. Chicken,Goulash, ribs - you name it. At breakfast you light a small campfire and after breakfast you load the dutch oven and put it in the coals. Some on the bottom and the rest on top. When you get home , you start a small fire and finish cooking dinner. By the time the horses are unsaddled and fed- you will be too. A cake takes 18 minutes. If you can dream it up - it's dinner.

Breakfasts - pancakes, french toast, fried potatoes, ham, bacon, sausage. There are lots of good choices. If you can't cook - bring your wife.

 

[Sccritterkiller]

This works like a charm...

This I just freeze all the meals before I leave and throw a frozen milk jug in the cooler and it will keep for a week. Fajitas meat, meat loaf, lasagna, sausage and pasta...your only limited by you imagination.

 

[Dshore]

Gastro Gnome meals are pretty good!

 

[BRTreedogs]

Doing some food prep.
Browned Elk burger with basic, salt, pepper, garlic.
Vacuum seal in 1 lb bags.
Can be used for the pasta dish or tacos.
Sauce in tin can so it doesn't break.
Pasta is fully cooked so I just heat it in a skillet quickly.

 

[BRTreedogs]

Paleo chili,
I use this recipe but only 1 lb burger, half can tomato paste.
Add bell pepper, carrots, sweet potato.
And I use these instead of regular diced tomatoes

 

[RS3579]

Great information!

 

[Clrems77]

For those of you who are fortunate enough to have a Trader Joes nearby, my wife and I found these to be easy, cheap and extremely tasty. They have various bags of fully cooked, previously frozen items such a teriyaki chicken, orange chicken, fried rice and many more. Each bag is enough to easily feed two adults and can be cooked in 5-10 minutes on a single burner Coleman propane stove. Cost is between $6-$8 a bag.

 

[dtrkyman]

I pre make all sorts of meals, but something about hiking,hunting that makes me crave Brats. Actually do not eat them any other time just truck camping.

I have also been buying the really thin pork chops, simply because they cook really quick!

 

[cs1]

I’ll start this by saying I’m not a foodie. Whatever I can wolf down usually works for me.
Enter my brother, who is a great cook and loves to do it. He brings a two burner Blackstone that has wheels and folds up so you can pull it like a roller suitcase (Lowe’s exclusive I believe) and will cook us all manner of stuff for dinner. Steaks, chicken fajitas, lots of veggies and variations. We always bring way too many tortillas, hotdogs, lunchmeat, cheese and peanut butter to make things interesting. With four to six of us in camp there are plenty of coolers to bring anything my brother has on our grocery list.
While he’s making dinner he’ll go ahead and make two Spam egg and cheese sandwiches for each of us for lunch the next day. I put the ziplock in my pocket and by about noon they’re warm enough to eat.
Years ago me and a different group of friends would do pack-in drop camps. It was all Spam, Wolf Brand No Beans, Dinti Moore, any type of canned meat we could buy; the camp would qualify for Superfund status once we were done with it.

 

[Sand Wrench]

Cinnamon raisin french toast. Buy a loaf of cinnamon raisin bread, milk, butter, eggs, cinnamon and nutmeg. Mix some milk and an egg in a small tupperware container, shake a little cinnamon and nutmeg in there, soak your bread slices and throw them in a pan with a little butter. Way easier than pancakes and just as tasty. Cleans up fast. Eating healthy is for the off season, live it up when you're on a huntin trip, life is short.

 

[pirogue]

Like already said. Eating good in the hood, if I’m by my truck. Backcountry a little different.