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Packing a hunting lunch.
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04/15/16 01:36 PM
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So, what would be y'all's choice for a mid-day repast if you're staying out all day hunting. What's a grab-and-go food that will handle banging around and being smooshed in a backpack?
Making a sandwich is a pain in the pre-dawn hours and the night before is for a cigar and a wee dram.
All suggestions appreciated.
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Re: Packing a hunting lunch.
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04/15/16 01:58 PM
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jshouse
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lunchables are easy, I also take the small pouches of apple sauce or other fruit. soup in a thermos on cold days.
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If I send my neighbors a text and ask them to give me feedback on my lawn and plant rye into a giant dong pattern, I'm probably going to get some less than positive feedback. Same goes here.
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Re: Packing a hunting lunch.
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04/15/16 02:02 PM
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I always carry a small ice chest with me with (1) ham/cheese sandwich, (1) PBJ sandwich, (1) chocolate milk, (2) waters, and (1) energy drink. In my backpack I always have an assortment of dried fruits/nuts, powdered donuts, and jerky. I also carry out an empty milk jug
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Re: Packing a hunting lunch.
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04/15/16 02:10 PM
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Re: Packing a hunting lunch.
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04/15/16 02:12 PM
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I have some tupperware type sandwich holds so the sandwich doesn't get flattened.. Usually a sandwich, snickers and some cheese and crackers.
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Re: Packing a hunting lunch.
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04/15/16 02:34 PM
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Sandwich taste better when it's in smashed and you're in the woods.
I don't think I have ever taken a lunch here while deer hunting, but do in Colorado when chasing Elk, or MD. I usually use sliced turkey with real mayo on wheat bread, it can get a bit smashed sometimes, but pack it on top and usually is ok. I will also have some kind of cookie, usually nutter butters and chips ahoy and peanut butter, or cheese crackers and a apple and orange.
Takes me 5 minutes to make my lunch each evening, no biggy.
BTW, real mayo (don't know about the girly miricle whip stuff) Has lemon and vinager in it, enough acid to kill any bacteria that wants to grow on the turkey for that short period of time, plus it is usually cool enough out.
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Re: Packing a hunting lunch.
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04/15/16 02:35 PM
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a link of dried venison sausage and a couple bottles of water ... simple
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Re: Packing a hunting lunch.
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04/15/16 03:10 PM
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I prefer to go into town and eat at a buffet.
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Re: Packing a hunting lunch.
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04/15/16 03:13 PM
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jetboil with ramen noodles, granola bar, bottles of water, hersheys bar, dried sausage, jerky, apple or orange
I eat a lot during the day
For it is not the quarry that we truly seek, but the adventure.
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Re: Packing a hunting lunch.
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04/15/16 03:27 PM
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PB&J on thick rectangular "real" whole wheat bread (is denser and holds up better than white bread or the imitation wheat bread) trail mix, jerky, protein bar and water.
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Re: Packing a hunting lunch.
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04/15/16 03:39 PM
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I just snack, in my pack I carry a dry spiced cereal mix of Cheerios, Wheat Chex, and Rice Chex with peanuts and cashews. No mess, easy to carry and no clean up. That and plenty of water and I am good to go until dinner time.
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Re: Packing a hunting lunch.
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04/15/16 03:39 PM
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And here I was thinking hunting was about bringing food and not take food with us. Havn't been elk hunting but for deer usually after hunting fried liver, kidneys and ofcourse backstraps are first things.
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Re: Packing a hunting lunch.
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04/15/16 03:49 PM
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jetboil with ramen noodles, granola bar, bottles of water, hersheys bar, dried sausage, jerky, apple or orange
I eat a lot during the day
good to see you accepting the greatness of the Ramen Noodle, I remember the day you cursed someone for that putting that filth in their bodies...its good aint it?
If I send my neighbors a text and ask them to give me feedback on my lawn and plant rye into a giant dong pattern, I'm probably going to get some less than positive feedback. Same goes here.
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Re: Packing a hunting lunch.
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04/15/16 04:19 PM
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Pop Tarts, Granola Bars, Whiskey.
Haven't had it in years but never spit any out. I am a sucker for happy endings and strapped cowboys.
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Re: Packing a hunting lunch.
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04/15/16 04:31 PM
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A can of sardines, some crackers in a Tupperware box, some squeeze packs of mustard, a bottle of water and a can of beer.
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Re: Packing a hunting lunch.
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04/15/16 04:49 PM
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jetboil with ramen noodles, granola bar, bottles of water, hersheys bar, dried sausage, jerky, apple or orange
I eat a lot during the day
good to see you accepting the greatness of the Ramen Noodle, I remember the day you cursed someone for that putting that filth in their bodies...its good aint it? Oh no, it is filth. It's horrible for you. But in a wilderness hunting type scenario weight and space take precedence over healthy eating I lived on mountain house meals for a week and I loved them up in the mountains. Ate one about 2 days after I got back to Texas and I about threw up it was so nasty. Hunger is a tricky thing
For it is not the quarry that we truly seek, but the adventure.
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Re: Packing a hunting lunch.
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04/15/16 04:56 PM
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Sandwich bag full of honey roasted penuts. And a can of snuff.
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Re: Packing a hunting lunch.
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04/15/16 05:07 PM
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Usually don't stay out all day. Out for about 5 hours in the am then return to camp for large meal of eggs,bacon and toast. Guess this would be brunch. Return to pasture around noon with snack and water.
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Re: Packing a hunting lunch.
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04/15/16 05:23 PM
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Dried sausage or jerky and cheese along with some crackers. Water is always with me. Made a meal out of trail mix and granola bars also in the past.
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Re: Packing a hunting lunch.
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04/15/16 05:30 PM
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Hard roll and a chunk of ring bologna Bam....
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Re: Packing a hunting lunch.
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04/15/16 05:42 PM
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You guys with the bread need to catch up. I take tortillas with whatever I have on hand to stuff in them, be it leftover deer sausage, lunch meat, cheese, scrambled eggs, refried beans, etc. (Some people call those tacos!) Summer sausage works too. Every now and then to remember the "good old days" I'll take the old reliable can or two of vienna sausages!
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Re: Packing a hunting lunch.
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04/15/16 07:10 PM
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vienna sausages
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Re: Packing a hunting lunch.
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04/15/16 07:39 PM
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Yeah, my FIL is old school sardines and Vienna sausages. We've come a long ways since then, even though canning is still a viable technology that can't be beat...on some things. Some things are best left in the past.
Thanks for all the ideas. Tortillas are brilliant; gonna have to try that. I have to give second place to "pop tarts, granola bars, and whiskey", but I'll save that for a "special occasion". I've done the tuna/cracker lunch kit thing. Like the Mountain House, if you try it at home you almost puke, but there's something about the fresh air.
...and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Gen. 1:28
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Re: Packing a hunting lunch.
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04/15/16 09:26 PM
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Jerky , chips, candy bars for me
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Re: Packing a hunting lunch.
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04/16/16 01:06 AM
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a link of dried venison sausage and a couple bottles of water ... simple Every time.
Just to make sure that it is done thoroughly, I go both ways.
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