Meals on the Ice!!!

[cribbageboy]

Hey guys. Me and 3 of my buddies have a trip planned to Winnie in late February. I've been put in charge of meals, and I'm wondering if you guys have any good ideas.

All we will have at our disposal is a small cook stove. I need; 2 breakfasts, 2 lunches, and 2 dinners. Nothing too fancy here, just quick, easy, and filling.

I hope to have fish for dinner on the second night, but I hate saying that, because whenever a meal of fish is planned we get skunked. All ideas are welcome.

Thanks

[Sgt_NellieUSMC]

I would recommmend the obvious. bread and lunch meat are always a quick easy meal. canned soup that you can heat up over the stove as well. spagetti o's, you can also cook pizza rolls on a cookie sheet placed over the burners or chicken nuggets. bread and butter and cheese for grilled cheese sandwiches. eggs and bacon. just a few quick ideas. you gotta just think more basic. stuff that all you need to do is heat up. or there is always plan b...bring more booze, eat less. haha

[vman11]

Here are a few links I've gotten ideas from in the past.

http://www.hotspotoutdoors.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/2082551/1

http://www.hotspotoutdoors.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/2450314/Sleeper_shack_meals#Post2450314

[mr.z 1972]

Omlete in a bag for breakfest is simple and good. Check it out on u-tube if you haven't heard of these before. Just make sure to use the name brand zip shut freezer bags to avoid any plastic taste or breakage.

[Getanet]

The only time I've done something like this we had an oven too, so we had a lot more choices. But here are some ideas I can think of for things you can heat on a stove by either frying in a pan or cooking in a larger pot:

Breakfast - pancakes, boil in a baggie omelets, scrambled eggs, instant oatmeal

Lunch/Dinner - you can cook a lot of things ahead of time, freeze, and reheat in a pot - chili, pot roast, almost any type of soup.

Also, if you have access to a vacuum sealer, tons of things are great to reheat by boiling in the vacuum sealed bag. Almost any kind of pasta - spaghetti or lasagna, are great reheated this way.

Also, it's likely one of the 3 of you have a portable gas grill. If not, it's probably worth the $20 investment. Then you're talking anything from burgers, brats, chicken, steak, you name it.

[Acemac]

Camp Oven will make your choices much larger. this sits on top of the burner of your camp stove or sunflower. Makes a great roasted chicken!

[mr.z 1972]

Breakfest - something greasy

Lunch - Beer

Dinner - More lunch

[Big A]

I need; 2 breakfasts, 2 lunches, and 2 dinners. Nothing too fancy here, just quick, easy, and filling.

quick, easy, and filling... hmmm

Last I checked.. BEER covers all of those categories! Particulary a heavy beer such as Steel Reserve!

NOW THAT IS THE BREAKFAST OF ICE FISHING CHAMPIONS!

If they dont like it, toss'em a roll of summer sausage and let them knaw it till they are done whinin

[DeeJ]

Here's an easy route:

AM - Fried or scrambled eggs, bacon/sausage/ham, potatoes, bathroom

Lunch - (Hot) Sandwiches / Soup / Chili

PM - Burgers / Sloppy Joe's / Fried chicken

FWIW, I think you need beer at each meal on a weekender.

[cribbageboy]

Great input guys! The beer will be flowing, that's for sure!!! Maybe we should just leave the food at home. haha.

[Ryan_S]

+1 on getanet's suggestion that you can do anything if you have a vacuum sealer. The bags are heavy duty so they travel better in a cooler. They won't accidentally come open or leak and they don't give you a plastic taste when you boil the contents. When I make up a hotdish or stew for supper at home, I like to make extra and freeze it in a vacuum bag. Flatten it out so that it will pack into a cooler easier and thaw more quickly when it is time to heat it up.

[bikeoutback]

You can do lots just depends on work you want to put in

Breakfast: We like to do skillets cause it's easy in one large cast iron frying pan. Fry some patatoes and sausage. We've also thrown in potatoes and meat left over from previous nights dinner including brats and roast, meat is meat. Once potatoes and meat are cooked just break in eggs and keep stirring to scramble them right in the pan. Top with cheese, let melt and serve.

Breakfast burritos are easy also, just scrambled eggs and sausage in tortillas. Oatmeal is also quick and simple.

Lunch: Brats, hot dogs, sandwiches, EZ cheese and crackers. We usually don't each much for lunch simply due we usually eat breakfast late and over eat so snack till dinner.

Dinner: You can pretty much make anything. Ice fishing I like to put stock pot or dutch oven on with chili. Again brats are always good.

Not sure how big your small cook stove is, if your talking like a 2 burner camp stove or a single burner on a small propane canister backpacking type. The latter may limit you a bit more.

[NoWiser]

Sandwiches. Easy and fast so you can keep fishing. Usually I can't eat when I'm fishing, it is too distracting. I remember one trip when I did a Winnie-Red-Leech-Winnie marathon. Went 48 hours without a single bite of food. Just dipped some water out of the lake. Sure caught a lot of fish that trip!

[RJMOEN]

Red potatoes, slice them in half then slice into 1/4" half moons. Make a pouch of tinfoil, add salt, pepper, dried rosemary, and half stick of butter. 15 minutes and you have the best meal out there. caution butter can get a little messy...drips if you dont seal the t-foil. if you can find them the small packs of mini- sweet red, yell. and orange peppers sliced up in there makes it 5-star. I dont camp w-out it!

[herefish101]

Cut up potatoes, onions, and green peppers, then cut up some brauts or kilbasa, then fry the livin snot out of all of it, mmmmm mmmmmm good, oh throw in a dash of lowry's for a good salty kick. One pan, filling, and it goes perfect with the beer of your choice.

[mixxedbagg]

For either lunch or dinner, go EASY! Nobody likes to clean up dinner dishes. Bring this stuff:

Nonstick pan

Plenty of tortillas

Shredded cheese

Some kind of precooked meat like chicken breast chunks

Canned chiles or jalapenos

Sour cream

Taco sauce

Let each person throw what they want between 2 tortillas and toss the quesadilla in the nonstick pan for a couple of minutes on each side. Pull em out and slap on some sour cream and taco sauce. Tastes good and the only dish to do is the nonstick pan that you can probably just wipe out with a paper towel.

[Kyhl]

Nonstick pan

I have found good nonstick pans at Goodwill. Have a wok shaped pan with a glass lid and a 12 inch sauce pan that go in my camping kits.

You don't have to worry about scratching the nonstick surface when they only cost $5. Most likely they will come pre-scratched.