Thread: Easy bush meals

John I have seen what your kids eat while camping they seem to eat veges very well....what about salad things?? we find a couple of nice liquid sauces Maggi/continental etc are a good base for hot dinners poured over steak/chicken/etc with a few veges....brilliant...veges? there is always tin but they weigh fare bit...dried is the way to go but potatoes/pump/sweet pot keep very well...so only go peas/beans/carrot/corn


another one marinate your meat before you Cryovac it....CRYOVAC IS YOUR FRIEND.....I paid $79 off the Internet delivered to my door...........make a BIG pot of Bolognese sauce and pack it in several bags...kids love Spag Bog...

Salads...we carry lettuce/toms/beetroot/cheese and usually buy tubs eg pasta/coleslaw when we can and just fry up steak/chicken


One 0f our all time favourites is

Snags or mince.(to make a double batch)
tin of mixed veges (x2)
onions (x2)
garlic (x2)
cornflour/powdered potato (x2)
Curry powder

boil silly
serve with
rice/pasta/on toast/boiled pot & pump


YUM

will get back as I can think of more


Mrs ho har

It has only been 3 1/2 half since we have been there and you can get all the basics at all towns keeping in mine all bread is frozen and usually meat is pre cryovaced these days which is great...most of the camp spots will not be camp oven friendly as there is SOOO many people up that way you may find it very tight to camp and find no wood unless you carry it in yourself......I forgot to mention we have a Cobb cooker as we gave up the camp oven years ago because of the weight I have cooked bread/cakes/roast/pizza about anything you can do in an oven. A Cobb can do just as good job with the heat beads.


Mrs ho har

At weipa the supply's come only on Thursday's at Wollies...3 1/2 years ago that is...so by Saturday there was no bread left or nearly anything else for that matter.....so might pay to check if this is still the delivery day a plan accordingly


Mrs ho har

Originally Posted by Utemad

Figure out how many meals you are going to need and pack 4 slices of bread per meal. Pack another 4 slices per day for inbetweens. Then get some bbq chickens. How many chickens depends on how much chicken you like on each sandwich and whether or not you like stuffing.
Add your fizzy drink of choice for flavouring.

That's what I normally do anyway if by myself. Leaves more time for socialising or fixing things. BBQs etc are good if you can spare the time or if my wife comes.

Do you cut them up, or freeze them first, or just keep 'em in the bag?

Originally Posted by CraigE

The list is endless. But generally we have lots of BBQ's but vary what you cook (steak, amrinated chicken, various sausages, veal, schnitzels etc) but also prep some before leaving (eg spaghetti sauce - reheat and cook pasta, easy, Vietnamese curry which I am prepping today for Thomas River) etc. As said the vaccum bag idea is great and on our list to get. We also do camp ovens and these are easy. One of the best things you can get is a ring burner and a large camp oven, most items can be cooked in one from roasts to casseroles to spaghetti and even sweets. This allows most of this to be done even in fire bans.
We also like cheeses, antipasto or tapas plates for some variety.

I always thought that was the curry ?

Personally l would write up a menu plan for the trip your doing

Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner

Then look at ingredients for each meal required and pack them into a plastic bag and seal it with the menu for the meal ingredients in that bag.

Then pack the meal bags in reverse order so first meal is on top last meal is bottom, depending on meals and car space you can spread it into several boxes.

When your out you simply take the days meal bag out and use it, each bag can also contain any treats or sweets for the kids or even day activity material like coloouring pens and puzzles.

This way you never have excatly the same meal each day, your meals are in sync with your trip, you got no problems hunting for ingredients for meals and anyway can follow the menu to put the meal together.

Well thats is something sorta of how I do it sometimes.......

write down a meal plan then write all ingredients for said meal...

write a list of what you need and then make sure it is the pantry EG:

Creamy Chicken Fettuccine
Chicken
Tin Heinz cream of chicken condensed soup
onion
bacon
Cream (long life)
Worcestershire sauce


Fry chicken, onion & bacon
add soup, cream & sauce

mix through pasta wallah


So I carry in my pntry all the basics for many meals
tomato paste
long life cream
mixed herbs
garlic...you can buy cubes now like stock
tin tomatoes/soup
curry powder
sauces of many varieties
paprika..essential for Beef Strog/French onion steak
tin Capsicum
SR & plain flour
cornflour
250ml tin of lemonade........Lemonade scones

Mrs ho har

Whenever we have done trips its been mainly interstate so your not allwoed to carry across borders fresh fruit and veg, so in terms of meal planning we use dehydrated potatoe mash, beans and peas etc packets for veggies tinned carrots and so on.

So thats never been an issue for us