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Foods that travel well with no prep

Postby 2bits » Fri Dec 21, 2018 8:31 pm

What are some good camping foods that don't require a fridge and don't require heating up? Looking for more of a meal than a snack. I am camping in my pickup camper top so options are limited
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Re: Foods that travel well with no prep

Postby John61CT » Fri Dec 21, 2018 9:12 pm

Some good threads from van dwelling forum, sorry not clickable
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Re: Foods that travel well with no prep

Postby GPW » Sat Dec 22, 2018 5:47 am

P-nut butter and crackers !!!
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Re: Foods that travel well with no prep

Postby ae6black » Sun Dec 23, 2018 9:46 pm

I just take a good quality cooler and cook pretty much the same sort of things that I would at home. That not being the case, I'd just hit a Dollar General and much on snack food. the Dollar General option gets kind of old in a real big hurry. When I am camping I just sort of make time for cooking and cleanup

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Re: Foods that travel well with no prep

Postby Pmullen503 » Sun Dec 23, 2018 10:09 pm

MREs Meals ready to eat. Some even have heaters build in.

Can you bring a small stove to heat water? A cooler that at least lasts a couple days? Here's what we used to do for canoe camping where weight and space is important. Bring frozen stuff (no ice) for the first day or two in a soft cooler (Not really an option if you don't want to cook). The other thing was lots or dry noodle and rice dishes. You can get them at the supermarket so they are cheap and some are really pretty good (of course you need a small stove.) Oatmeal, etc for breakfast. Pancakes are an option if you can carry a pan. MREs are for foul weather days when you don't want to cook.

Other than that was snack type foods, nuts, raisins, dried fruit, and M&Ms (they don't melt.) Bread (unsliced) will usually keep at least a few days.
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Re: Foods that travel well with no prep

Postby S. Heisley » Tue Dec 25, 2018 3:24 pm

Not even hot water?
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Re: Foods that travel well with no prep

Postby KennethW » Tue Dec 25, 2018 3:38 pm

Tuna, spam, beans or SpaghettiOs? Tomatoes, carrots apples nuts
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Re: Foods that travel well with no prep

Postby GTS225 » Tue Dec 25, 2018 6:23 pm

I'm thinking a handful of 1-pound LP tanks and a single burner stove from Walmart would do this guy a world of good. Maybe a fold-up, 4x4 card table to complete the "galley".

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Re: Foods that travel well with no prep

Postby friz » Tue Dec 25, 2018 11:54 pm

Much to my wife's dismay, I like all kinds of canned fish.

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Re: Foods that travel well with no prep

Postby swoody126 » Wed Dec 26, 2018 7:40 am

KennethW wrote:Tuna, spam, beans or SpaghettiOs? Tomatoes, carrots apples nuts


add to these

vienna sausages, sardines, kippers, mustard, crackers, trail mix and individually packed serving sized olives, fruit, breakfast bars and snack packs of peanut butter crackers and cheese n crackers

spam and vienna sausages come in different flavours and meats for variety

i can live on the above variety for a week w/ the only fire required being for MY MORNING COFFEE done in the french press(not instant or that baggy stuff)

bottled water, crystal light & G-aid suit me just fine

btw, if you're a dry cereal person you can get BOXED MILK in single serving size @ many major grocery stores

https://theboatgalley.com/milk-with-no-refrigeration/

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Re: Foods that travel well with no prep

Postby S. Heisley » Wed Dec 26, 2018 8:47 pm

S. Heisley wrote:Not even hot water?


Okay, so, no answer is a "No" answer. I have trouble imagining not having a nice hot cup of black coffee in the morning; but, to each his own.

If you drink coffee, you can look around for ready-made coffees in individual cans or bottles and drink it at the ambient temperature. Or, just add some instant to some room temperature(?) water. (...been there, done that...not so nice.) Oh, and tea, 'sun tea', doesn't need hot water or even sun to become tea.

Toast your bread at home, before you leave on your trip and it will usually give it a little more stability to hold it together better when traveling and remove some of the moisture so that it is less likely to get moldy. I like to put each two toasted slices in a separate sandwich bag to further prevent crumbling or contamination such as mold.

For breakfast, slap a piece of that bread or toasted bread on a paper plate and swipe some peanut butter on it. Then, cover that with some apple sauce and eat the treat with a knife and fork.

For peanut butter, JIF makes individual servings in small plastic containers. Just peel the lid off to use.
For apple sauce, MOTTS makes a nice selection of individual servings in 1/2 cup plastic containers. Again, just peel the lid off to use. They make flavor mixes like cinnamon, berries, strawberry, and mango. They are all pretty good.

Other breakfast ideas (although they won't give you much protein) are granola bars or other breakfast bars or muffins or dry cereal.

For lunch, you can eat trail mix or fruit, such as apples, with either jerky or nuts or wipe peanut butter on apple slices.

Or, make yourself a sandwich with canned meat and mustard or mayonnaise. (You can get small jars of mayonnaise that will last several days without refrigeration....The vinegar in it protects it.)

I like to take a raw white potato, washed, and slice it and sprinkle it with salt and think that tastes pretty good. Raw potatoes should not be refrigerated.

For dinner, without a way to boil water, you're going to be limited to things similar to lunch (above) or cold canned meals described previously by others. If you're lucky enough to catch a fish or a rabbit, you could roast that over a fire; but, if you plan on that, Murphy's law may take over. :lol: If you have a fire, you can wrap potatoes or corn on the cob in aluminum foil and bury them in the hot coals to cook.

Clean carrots and celery sticks at home, before you leave, and store them, covered in water, in a closed top jar and they last 3 or 4 days that way. They are plants and react like a cut flower. A cut flower will last close to a week if the water is changed regularly. For dessert, open a can of peaches or pears or fruit cocktail and chow down on that. Or, packaged cookies, etc.

For now, that's what I can think of. I don't understand not taking anything to cook with, though. I took a camping trip to Washington state via Amtrak and was able to take a foot locker containing a tent, two sleeping bags, food, a one burner white gas stove with a small container of white gas for refills and we slept and ate very well.

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Re: Foods that travel well with no prep

Postby GTS225 » Thu Dec 27, 2018 7:36 am

Ya know, if we switch the thought process over to survival mode, the man does have heat available. The TV's engine makes heat quite well, as a byproduct of internal combustion. The right containers, and even soups could be placed on the intake for heating. Couldn't boil water, but could make it nicely warm. I wonder how long it would take to bake a potato that way?

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Re: Foods that travel well with no prep

Postby swoody126 » Thu Dec 27, 2018 8:17 am

GTS225 wrote:Ya know, if we switch the thought process over to survival mode, the man does have heat available. The TV's engine makes heat quite well, as a byproduct of internal combustion. The right containers, and even soups could be placed on the intake for heating. Couldn't boil water, but could make it nicely warm. I wonder how long it would take to bake a potato that way?

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there ARE cook books for cooking on the engine manifold

the method has been used by the military for a while...

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Re: Foods that travel well with no prep

Postby jandmz » Tue Jan 01, 2019 11:41 am

swoody126 wrote:
there ARE cook books for cooking on the engine manifold

the method has been used by the military for a while...

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"Manifold Destiny" is a pretty good one, but it has been out of print for years.
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Re: Foods that travel well with no prep

Postby Sparksalot » Tue Jan 01, 2019 11:44 am

jandmz wrote:
swoody126 wrote:
there ARE cook books for cooking on the engine manifold

the method has been used by the military for a while...

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"Manifold Destiny" is a pretty good one, but it has been out of print for years.


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