I hunt in the eastern US where short distances often allow half day hunts. Then I go inside for a real meal. I like to change clothes and eat hot soup or stew. Then I shower and go back to hunting clothes to stay as scent free as possible. When I stay out all day it's protien bars and hot water to stay scent free. Yum. With any luck that night it's fried onions, bacon and venison liver.

Depends on where I'm hunting. In the "outback" the temp can get up over the 45degree (C) mark, another locations can see the weather change from warm, sunny, 20(C)+ to 6" of snow, temp -10 (c) in the space of a few hours.

We don't take 'snacks', we take food - in both locations, we pack lots of bread, hungarian salami or sardines, cheese, fruit and LOTS of water - plus lots of chocky snacks!

By the way, what are 'grits' - is that what we call polenta - ie cornmeal? I reckon that would make a great addition!

rugeruser
Polenta, it is an Northern Italian word that means:
sort of thick porridge made with maize flour, water and salt.
It was a cheap food in the past, to eat with meat or cheese, butter etc.
In Northern Italy is preferred "hard", in Southern Italy is preferred near to "liquid and soft.
Polenta can be eaten hot/warm immediately after it has been taken from the fire, or cold with some oil salt and pepper, or fried or grilled.

Does cornmeal enter in some of this definitions? And grits?

ahh, i love polenta. that and risotto, parmegianno reggianno, and nice cured ham , oh that is good.

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By the way, what are 'grits' - is that what we call polenta - ie cornmeal? I reckon that would make a great addition!

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its good to have it simple. when we eat in the cabin for lunch, its normally slices of bread, fried sausage or meatcackes, fried potatoes and eggs. but i like lefse with or tortilla with some thin sliced venison ,and salad on . hopefully iwill get enough cash someday to visit africa and see how their hunting lunches is . plus they have aklso fine wine .

Dark bread and pastrami or roast beef sandwiches with chili or some sort of heavy stew.

Summer sausage, hard salami, jerky, boiled eggs, crackers, German mustard, cheeses, dried fruit.

For dinner lots of steak, eggs, tortillas, and fresh tomatos, with potatos and onions cooked with Lowerys salt in aluminum foil on the open fire.

And maybe a fresh brook trout or mountain grouse if we can catch one.

D99,

You guys have the best cured meats and summer sausage in Europe...and beer too and cheese and bread!!

I just had a pulled pork sandwich and baked beans...that would work in the woods too. Hmmmmm..... think I'll have another and take a nap.

I don't have the luxury of going to camp for lunch where I deer hunt, so it's surplus store MREs for me. Pack it in, crap it out....3 days later.

We do a Jause. I learned this in Austria and it is nothing more than a selection of hams, salamis, and other cured and smoked meats, with cheeses on rye bread with butter and a good mustard. With it we eat fresh apples, pears, and tomatoes along with different pickled vegetables. In my pack I like to carry a chocolate bar (Lindt with hazelnuts and raisins or Milka of the same flavor), a granola bar, a stick of Landjaeger sausage, teriyaki jerky, dried tropical fruits, and water. I will pack a sandwhich if I am planning on hiking all day.

cured meat and, ham , sausage are alway good as huntfood, keep it simple and good.

I like meatloaf sandwiches while I am on the deer stand. A couple of them with some good spicy brown mustard, a couple Hershey candy bars and a Thermos of Hot Chocolate go a long way towards keeping me on the stand when its too damn cold to be there.

For November Deer hunting, I like Ham & Cheese withda little mustard and Mayo.

Coffee and maybe a small can or Diet Pepsi.

I never leave my deerstand at that time of day (have shot too mant deer scared up by those who do). But I pack in homemade jerky, trail mix with fruit and nuts, high enery sanos like peanut butter and cheese and hot tomato soup.
Camp food varies by who'se cooking: ranging from steak, stoganoff, cabbage rolls (pre made)and pork chops, etc. Nothing fancy, we camp in a wall tent complete with wood stove for heat and a cook tent; even though it's only 30 miles from home.

Spam, pure and simple, and the original, not the ones with the mechanically separated chicken.

The more I thought about this the more I think my answer is "I don't care". What I looked forward to was just the chance to relax and take in what was around me at each meal. I was in Zimbabwe (Matetsie 2) in July. We got up about 6:00am and while eating breakfast you could hear the lions calling to each other in the darkness.

By 7:00 we were out trying to find buffalo tracks. At about 9:30 we stopped and I discovered that I was the only one that had eaten breakfast. The PH, trackers, and game scout had waited. At 9:30 they unpacked a nice brunch of whatever leftovers were from the previous night made into sandwiches or snacks, plus something sweet. They would lay out folding chairs and we would sit for fifteen minutes and talk about elephant hunting, buffalo, or simply tracking.

Around noon we would return to camp for lunch if we weren't on buffalo spoor. We were back out hunting by 2:30pm most days. At dark-thirty we were back at camp around the fire listening to baboons and/or hyena. In many cases for dinner they would serve something I had shot.

It wasn't so much what we ate for lunch as just the fact that I was eating lunch in Africa.

normally have mustgoes when hunting

If hunting from the cabin (5 miles from home) will have a slow cooker of Venison chilie on and makings for sandwiches in the frig. also big jar of dill pickles and pickled eggs. If just day hunting from home ham and cheese sandwiches, hot tea and sweets.

I usually take some canned oily fish like tuna or sardines and some fresh bread sealed up in a plastic baggy and make up sandwiches when I get to the lunch stop.

I always throw in a piece of fruit or two and maybe a museli bar for quick energy if I feel I'm starting to go flat.

I also take at least 2 litres of water in my daypack and maybe a can of cold beer wrapped up tightly in a towel.
It's amazing how long a cold brewski will stay chilled if wrapped up properly, 3 or 4 hours quite easily.
And there's NOTHING that compares to being out in the scrub on a hot day a pulling a cold can from your pack and Pssshht!!.....oh yeah.....sit back and take in the view.

When hunting in the bush I throw a few Pilot Bread crackers, a hefty slab of hard salami or a can of sardines, a few slices of Tillamook cheddar cheese, and some dried fruit in a bread bag for lunch.......Hard candy too. Water, tea or Tang for the beverage.