what do you guys like looking for some thing for breakfast and dinner

i have some chili dehydrating and i will make and take a piece of corn bread with for supper

chicken is dehydrated for the chicken alfredo for dinner

I will dehydrate some pears, apple, maybe a peach?

These days, pretty much the norm I guess.

I take Freeze dried because its light and easy to prepare. I like the breakfast bars for a fast breakfast as well as beef jerky for a fast lunch. I also like a small can of fruit or MRE fruit pouch for some added vitamin C and late night snack. You tend to not eat as much after humping a pack all day so light snack things come in handy. When really in a hurry and worn thin which comes more often the older you get, I still like a Snickers Bar. Its a fast high energy sugar buzz but also provides some protein that you can eat and keep on going on.

Now I'll gross you out. Years back before there were all these high tech camp foods, I often carried natures best natural container, the egg. You have time you can prepare it and doing things like adding some wild onions, nuts, or berries make a pretty interesting omelet. In a hurry, you could poke a hole in both ends and suck it down in one gulp.

Tj

I like to cook up some brats over the fire with some baked beans and chili mixed together. I always cook up extra brats and chop them up and scramble them in with eggs in the morning. It might not sound too good, but it is great. The first time I did it with my kids they thought it was the best eggs they had ever eaten.

im planning on a 7 day hike, so my food is all compact freeze dried variety, except the instant oatmeal. its a great breakfast, with tons of energy, real compact, tons of flavors, makes a good desert too.

jerky is good too, you can make a soup with it and taters.

granola bars, and oatmeal to go bars are also good.

Last time I went camping, I mostly survived on a trail-mixish mixture.

It had the following:

Roasted peanuts
Almonds
Pecans
Cashews
M&M candies
Walnuts

I supplimented this with a hot meal at night - either ramen or mac & cheese made with water and a small amount of margarine. I also took a few apples/oranges with me for something fresh.

For meat, I ate a package of foil-packed tuna at lunch or dinner, or some beef jerky carried in a resealable plastic ziploc bag.

On a three day camp - the majority of daylight hours being spent hiking and flyfishing - I ate a gallon-ziploc bag's worth of the trail mix stuff, along with the fruit. I simply snacked throughout the day on the trail mix - the M&M's gave it a sweetness whilest the roasted peanuts were a tad salty, so it wasn't just bland nuts. LOTS of protien in that mixture, not too much sugar so you didn't wind up wrecked on a sugar crash.

Kept me going all day like that. Don't know if I could tolerate 7 days of that being my primary nutrition source, but it is doable if you don't mind eating the same thing over and over and over and over and over...

That mixture has the added benefit of not needing any water or cooking - it's ready to eat as is. It also does not need any refridgeration. If you like dehydrated fruits, you could very easily add some rasins or dehydrated apples/bananas/citrus fruits to the mix. I'm not much for dehydrated fruits myself, so I kept it to nuts and M&M's.

I like foods that I dont necessarily need water or heat to eat while doing a solo camp. Dinner is cooked over a fire - fire is not just for cooking when I'm camping. I like camp fires. Something very relaxing about one.

Pretty good ideas in here.
I take the normal nuts and dried fruits but I also take pb&j along with trail bologna and cheese. Sometimes depending on the room in our packs we take those little cups of instant soup.
The thing I find funny is that if I had to have one of those cup o'soups for dinner tonight I would porbably pass on it and go without but after a day of hiking/hunting whatever they realy hit the spot with a pack of peanut butter cheese crackers.

Since this was bumped.

I'll mention one of the things I take is either snack fruits or MRE fruit pouches. I've found after a day of exercising and taking in so much water to replace what was lost, I don't eat much and don't really get hungry at all until just before time to hit the sack. A little fruit seems to hit the spot late at night around the campfire.

BTW, The guys who leave their tents so they can pack beer, don't have this problem.

Tj

bacon. plain and simple. nothing like busting out some bacon on one of the mornings and driving absolutely everyone within a mile nuts. heavy, impractical, perishable, and not particularly healthy, but when another group of backpackers is humping it out for an early morning and passes you, that timid, "is that...bacon?" is priceless.

ETA: don't forget a little butter, cinnamon, brown sugar and flour for some cinnamon rolls.

This post has been edited by jred83002: September 16th 2009 11:58 PM

i like a block of hard cheese(cheddar, Swiss, etc..) and summer sausage/pepperoni.

Mostly canned stuff. I know its heavy but it does not bother me. I like the small cans of mandarin oranges and usually throw in a couple of pouches of tuna and of course jerkey.