Pre-cooking/freezing food before heading bush

[Drewboyaus]

We are still trying to find an acceptable non glass wine 'glass'. Not all plastics are equal.

Hey Cuppa,
Next time you're down in Melbourne, check out one of the Paddy Pallin stores. They have great collapsible wine glasses. It's the only place I've seen them. I keep a couple in the truck.
I'm out at the moment but I'll put up a pic a bit later once I get home..
BTW, I only ever take beer cans. I hate having glass with me, it's a PITA.


Tip tip tip......tap tap tap....

[threedogs]

X 2 with Nisshead invest in a decent cryovac machine, then you can prepare meals in portions , or precook and freeze , or dehyrdrate in mealsize portions.
Not a fan of dehydrating meals as you need water to re hydrate ,water is life in the desert. Freezing Cryovac is the go IMO
@ Cuppa Melamine is hard to break

[the evil twin]

Hiya Rosco

Mrs Evil and I stopped taking frozen stuff about a year or more back.
Work out your cryovac machine and you probably will as well (at least for your tucker, you may have to experiment with salting bait or whatever or switch to soft plastics).
If you need to, you can freeze the cryovac so you can still take bait but that kinda defeats the purpose of the cryovac IMHO

Doesn't 'solve' the pre-cooked scenario but we are happy enough not to have to thaw anything pre-cooked or fresh and just do a quick cook up.
When we cryovac the tucker prior to the trip we pop some marinade in with the meat and when it's time to cook it is yuuuuummmmmmmeeeeeeeeeeeee.

Pre-cooked we usually can't be bothered doing ourseleves.
We cheat and pop a few meals in from this mob http://happycampergourmet.com.au/.
Not cheap but then again not that expensive really when you work it out and they taste pretty darn good too.
Biggest advantage is the 18 month shelf life so no biggee if you don't use them.
The Shanks and the Cattlemans stew are my fav... you can throw some noodles or extra veg or whatever in the boiling water as well

[threedogs]

I've had a "DreamPot" for maybe 5 years, never used it yet.
Im told I can do roast at home and it'll cook on the way to Murray
I know they work, they cook a treat just CBB, Must admit we have wasted
a lot of food over the years.

[TheLocksmith]

We cook most stuff but Cryovac all sauces like Spag Bol, etc.

Saves the Mrs lots of cutting, cooking and cleaning.

I hate having to wait till she finishes all the above before I get my foot massage.

Don't worry already started to run for them hills

[rex]

Pre cooking is the go other wise the deamin drink catches up and always ends up with bikkys and dip well at my camp any way

[taslucas]

My mates have made their own jerky to take bushwalking. You can make your own flavour and it tastes great. Chew it as you walk (for bushwalking) or Throw it in a stew and it puffs back up for a hearty meal.

Also, my dad does a lot of bushwalking and he dehydrates his own food. He's tried everything from fruit to soup and it all comes out tasting really nice. He makes a soup or stew or curry etc and dehydrates it so its light and lasts a long time.
You can pick up a dehydrator pretty cheap and they are very versatile.

[oncedisturbed]

Yup just ordered a dehydrator for just shy of $50 inc delivery, just wAiting for it to come in so i can start my own jerky etc


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[macca]

We have a sunbeam vac packer and have used it for stews while away. As suggested before lay them on top of each other when freezing they pack solid, don't rub, and stay frozen for quite a while.
One thing we did start doing was to double seal each end, move it 5mm and seal it again, after having a couple of blowouts we didn't want that again.
The bags are not that strong and we have had them rub a hole on the basket in the fridge.
We haven't done it but double bagging might fix that.
Great Idea that work, and after a long day a quick meal is fantastic.

[BigRAWesty]

We have the same and may have got a bit overkill as ours still had a little air around big things like a leg of pig, but chops and things it pulled in good..
Might try heating the bags a little next time, see if it aids in the wrapping..

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