Anyone Else Pre-Cook ?

Great ideas. Thanks for sharing.

We always do! Nice to just heat and eat when we are on the road!

Before I went Full-Time I pre-cooked all my meals for the trip and froze them in small containers. Stew a chicken with carrots and potatoes. Pull the vegtables out and freeze and then pull off all the chicken off the bones and freeze in small amounts and you can add that to just about anything.

Now while full timing I take one day a week and set the entire day aside to make a big pot of slow cooked chicken soup, some sort of ground beef or pot roast type of stew and a big pot of rice. Put it in containers and freeze it.

I find by keeping my freezer full of individual home cooked meals, that when I am tempted to eat out at fast food places I actually find it easier to pop one of my home cooked meals in the micro to warm up. Which in turn helps me eat healthier.:C

bshpilot wrote:
Wondering if anyone else precooks food for camping trips....

for long race weekends trips I'll pre-cook bacon & breakfast sausage (at home) and then use our FoodSaver to vacuum pack it in "daily" portions....then i just open one pack (per day) and warm it on the grill or in the microwave.

takes up less room, and its a lot mess / grease to deal with at "camp"

You bet. When we go horse camping my wife will pre-cook late afternoon meals (chili, taco soup, etc...) that she can pop in the crock pot and it's ready when we get back to camp. She can take a shower after the ride and we can eat and relax all evening without sweating over an oven or grill. It's also handy as we never know when there may be a pot luck where several people pool their food. When we camp we really just eat about 2 meals a day and snack in between so we don't normally pre-cook breakfast. We sleep in and slowly get up and I feed and water the horses while the wife cooks our breakfast and afterwards we ride for several hours.