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Voodoo003
Hey all. I'm doing a 3 day 2 night float and am looking for meal ideas......discuss.

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Pulled pork tacos. Make ahead of time in the slow cooker. Freeze it to help keep your beer cold. Cooks up easy in one pan, and needs no plates or silverware. Who doesn't love pork tacos?
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I have a few menus and ingredients needed, for:
a Mexican meal, pizzas on tortillas, dutch oven breakfast potatoes, french toast, lunches, possibly more if you would like.
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cheers,
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We just did a 3 night/4 day trip. Menu.....precooked chicken & rice on night #1, grilled brats on night #2, dutch oven pizza last night. Breakfasts were bagels & cream cheese, oatmeal, pancakes, mountain man eggs & cinnamon rolls in the dutch oven. DO brownies for dessert. Wraps with lunchmeat, chips, fruit, cookies for lunch.
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Voodoo003
Fantastic. I really need to learn the Dutch oven.

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Voodoo003 said:
Fantastic. I really need to learn the Dutch oven.

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Pretty much anything you cook in an oven at home can be adapted to the DO. Cobblers & brownies are good things to try first. A 12 inch anodized aluminum GSI DO is in my opinion the best all around size to get first. Then maybe add a 10 inch & 14 inch at some point depending on your usual group size. We mainly use 12s & 10s. Attached is a picture of the MM eggs & cinnamon rolls. have a great trip.
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Voodoo - yes the Dutchs are the way to go. To my shame I pooh-poohed the whole idea as being too complex and silly for my backpacking, less is more mentality. WRONG - once I started playing with a friend's DO on raft trips I was sold. Now I insist on packing it in my sea kayak much to hubby's disgust (until he tastes the food!). At first cooking with it was like voodoo but then I realized that they are very forgiving. Goat cheese and sun dried tomato pizza on a raft or kayak trip, scones from scratch in the morning - SOLD. One (or many) very happy camper(s). :D
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Voodoo - yes the Dutchs are the way to go. To my shame I pooh-poohed the whole idea as being too complex and silly for my backpacking, less is more mentality. WRONG - once I started playing with a friend's DO on raft trips I was sold. Now I insist on packing it in my sea kayak much to hubby's disgust (until he tastes the food!). At first cooking with it was like voodoo but then I realized that they are very forgiving. Goat cheese and sun dried tomato pizza on a raft or kayak trip, scones from scratch in the morning - SOLD. One (or many) very happy camper(s). :D
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Wow, you pack a DO in your sea kayak! Now that's hard core. I'm just getting into kayak touring (Necky Vector SOT), and working on downsizing from my rafting gear. Whole different mindset. More like a backpacker.

What do you buzzards do for lunches? We usually do tortilla wraps with lunch meat & cheese, chips, cookies, fruit. Sometimes chicken salad or tuna salad. I'd love to try something new. Any great ideas?????
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Andy H.
Prep ahead of time, use a seal a meal. When you get to camp, start a big pot of water boiling, then put the bags of food in it. after an hour or two, remove, open, serve. Don't spend your precious river time chopping onions.
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Pre-cook as much as you can.
Dinners: Fajitas, Tacos, Sloppy Joes, Spaghetti, DO chicken with mashed potatoes, salad
Breakfast: Sausage, Eggs, Pancakes, Breakfast Burritos, Mountain Man breakfast, Fruit, bagels, yogurt, oatmeal, French toast.

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I'm with Andy. I use a seal-a-meal, load the bag with some good juicy stuff, freeze it enough to do a dry seal, freeze it hard for a couple of days or weeks, and then throw it in a real cold yeti.

I do all my food in an assembly line over an hour or so. I did some tamales in early May, had them in the cooler for two weeks, got home with them still frozen, put them in the fridge for a week, finally microwaved them, and they were still good three weeks after I sealed them. The bags that you get at costco can be boiled. I use the water from boiling the bag for dish cleanup. The trash is a bag about the size of a ziplock.

I've also seal-a-mealed fresh stuff like spinach salads. Leaves get a little crushed but it keeps it all fresh and clean and hassle free.
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All good ideas. I'll eat pretty much anything - hot or cold. Many of my rafting friends are in the camp of complex meals - they enjoy the preparation (either before or during the trip). I only smile when they complain about all the stuff we need and how heavy it is. Before you decide on what food you want I suggest giving lots of thought to how much gear you want to bring. Getting along without a cooler makes things really easy from a logistics perspective. No big stove = no big propane tanks. No food prep = no big table. No messy pots/pans simplify clean up. If it was me - for a short trip I'd be into getting all my food into a dry box and using the river to keep my beer cold. All I need is a pot to boil water and some forks. But I'm lazy and frankly a beer sandwich, jerky and chips is all I need.
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