Pre-Cooked Meals for Base Camp

[chiefgobbler]

How many of you prepare and freeze meals for base camp? This is pasta sauce with last year's venison processed into Italian Sausage. Once cooked and placed in heavy duty zip lock bags it is laid flat in the freezer. The meals are then placed in a Yeti with dry ice and thawed for cooking as needed. Normally they will last for a week and it is easy to find more dry ice in most locations out west. After a long day of hunting heat up the sauce, cook the pasta ( I used to add the pasta before freezing but the noodles get vey mushy when reheating) and you have a relatively easy meal ready in a very short time.

I made a venison stew last night. Leave the pieces (potatoes, carrots, celery, etc.) a little larger and they reheat very well.

 

[wa-hunter]

looks great! we do it sometimes and seal the meal in vacuum bags so you can just throw them in boiling water to reheat and eat it right from bag. don't have to do dishes that way.

 

[shootbrownelk]

I do Jambalaya, Chili and Chicken/rice soup ahead of time, and freeze like ChiefGobbler, in a big zip lock bag laid flat. Lasts a week, or until some fresh inner loin shows up. This year it should be Moose or Deer.

 

[RICMIC]

What's base camp?

 

[Apparition]

We had chilli, fajitas, steaks x2, burgers everything we take is ready to eat in 15 minutes. Start the stove/grill when we get back to camp, by the time we are changed and opening a beer the food is done.

 

[go_deep]

I do the same, I do put the noodles in I just under cook them then when you warm up the meal they finish cooking.
My favorite is 1# hamburger, 2 cups uncooked noodles, 16 ounces crushed tomatoes, cook the burger with 1 whole onion and 1 whole pepper, then mix in tomatoes and noodles, and freeze.

 

[missjordan]

Recently I've been smoking whole pork shoulders and making pulled pork sandwiches. They are about 17lbs and feed a group of 4 for multiple days. And they taste great!