A few years ago I would have found it very helpful to see what other kayakers where packing for 2 week solo trips. I hope this is helpful to some even if it’s just to use one or two recipes.
All of my food is packed into 2 large dry bags, one bag has all my non nonperishables meals packed tightly in order ( last meal on the bottom first on top), the other bag is used for all perishables (vegetables, meat, cheese buns etc.) and ingredients I use daily (powdered milk, peanut butter and bannock mix). I also have a small dry bag I use for condiments like soy sauce, salt and pepper instant coffee packs etc.
My cooking kit consists of one 6 inch pot and lid that doubles for a plate, an inch 8 inch cast iron frying pan, and a small plastic bowl, therefore I sometimes have to plan carefully as to what order I cook the different parts of a meal.
Day 1
- Breakfast: Cinnamon rolls, orange, starbucks instant coffee.
- Lunch: Muffin, apple, cliff bar.
- Dinner: Chicken, baby potatoes, red pepper, onions, garlic.
( sauté chicken in olive oil add boiled potatoes, red pepper, onions and garlic in frying pan add pepper and salt to taste)
Day 2
- Breakfast: Muffin, orange, starbucks instant coffee.
- Lunch: Bagel with chorizo dry sausage & jalapeno cheese, cliff bar.
- Dinner: 2 smokes, 2 buns, jalapeno cheese, mustard, relish, onion.
- Desert: Mars bar.
Day 3
- Breakfast: Bagel with peanut butter, orange, starbucks instant coffee.
- Lunch: Bagel with cold meat & cheese, cliff bar.
- Dinner: Spaghetti, small can (213 ml) of Primo pizza sauce , dry chorizo sausage, onion, red pepper, garlic, parmesan cheese. (sauté chorizo, onion, pepper and garlic in pan add spaghetti sauce then add to cooked spaghetti, grate parmesan on top)
Day 4
- Breakfast: 5 minute oats, raisins, powdered milk, brown sugar, Starbucks instant coffee.
- Lunch: Small can spicy Thai tuna, half box Triscuit crackers, cliff bar, apple.
- Dinner: Black bean burritos. Flour tortillas, freeze dried black beans, jalapeno cheese, salsa, rice.
( I use San Miguel Salsa in a 200 gm. foil pouch, its enough for 2 meals, save some for tomorrows breakfast)
- Desert: Half package of chocolate pudding, 1 cup of powdered milk.
(I use a 500 ml wide mouth bottle to mix my milk by shacking it add the pudding mix after the milk is mixed)
Day 5
- Breakfast: Powdered eggs, onions, bacon, flower tortillas, monterey jack cheese, salsa starbucks instant coffee.
(fry a whole package of Maple leaf ready crisp bacon save some bacon for your lunch, next sauté chopped onion add powdered egg mix, then place on tortillas, add monterey jack cheese and the leftover salsa from last nights dinner)
- Lunch: Cheese and bacon quesadillas , cliff bar.
(I prepare this in the morning, wrap cheese and bacon in a tortillas and fry in a pan)
- Dinner: ½ pack Knorr Tomato Vegetable soup mix, 1 cup rice, chili powder, dry chorizo, onion, garlic and cheese. (sauté dry chorizo slices with chopped onion and garlic , cook rice, then mix about ½ package of soup mix to 1 cup of water, add chili powder and bring to a boil add the rice,chorizo and onion, grate jalapino cheese on top)
Day 6
- Breakfast: 5 minute oats, raisins, milk, brown sugar starbucks instant coffee.
- Lunch: Pepperoni stick, ¾ cup trail mix, cliff bar.
- Dinner: Corned beef hash. Potato, corned beef, onions, ketchup packs.
- (wrap potato in tin foil and bake in the fire. Sauté diced potato with diced onion, add small can or foil pack of corned beef.
Desert: Freeze dried from MEC "Alpineaire three berry crumble" ( save half for tomorrows lunch)
Day 7
- Breakfast: Granola, milk starbucks instant coffee.
- Lunch: Leftover berry crumble, ¾ cup trail mix, cliff bar.
- Dinner: Cold canned salmon, instant mash potato’s.
Day 8
- Breakfast: 5 minute oats, raisins, milk, brown sugar starbucks instant coffee.
- Lunch: Pepperoni, ¾ cup trail mix, cliff bar.
- Dinner: Black bean burritos. hand made Tortillas , black beans, monterey jack cheese, salsa, rice.
(mix Meseca instant corn masa flour with water and press into tortillas. I use a press made out of two 6x6x ¼ inch pieces of plywood with two holes drilled on one side of them, tie string through the holes so that the press now has a hinge, lined both sides of the press with a plastic bag. I place the press on a flat rock or log and press down with my knee to press Tortillas flat. Make extras for tomorrows breakfast and lunch)
Desert: ½ package of instant chocolate pudding, 1 cup milk.
Day 9
- Breakfast: Tortillas, powdered eggs, bacon, monterey jack cheese, salsa starbucks instant coffee.
- Lunch: Cheese and bacon quesadillas. Tortillas, monterey jack cheese, bacon, salsa, cliff bar.
- Dinner: Pesto sauce mix, olive oil, pasta, parmesan cheese.
(prepare rotini pasta, add Mayacamas pesto sauce mix, olive oil and grated Parmean cheese)
day 10
- Breakfast: Pancakes with freeze dried strawberry’s, maple syrup, starbucks instant coffee.
( Mix Aunt Jemima complete pancake mix with water and freeze dried strawberries, and cook enough pancakes for breakfast and lunch. I like spread coconut oil on top instead of butter and add maple syrup)
- Lunch: Pancakes with peanut butter, cliff bar.
- Dinner: Corned beef hash. Potato, onion, corned beef, ketchup packs.
- Desert: Mars bar.
Day 11
- Breakfast: Granola, milk, starbucks instant coffee.
- Lunch: Spicy Thai tuna, Triscuit crackers, cliff bar.
- Dinner: Freeze dried dinner from MEC.
- Desert: Chocolate pudding, 1 cup powdered milk.
Day 12
- Breakfast: 5 minute oats, raisins, milk, brown sugar, starbucks instant coffee.
- Lunch: Beef jerky, ¾ cup trail mix cliff bar.
- Dinner: Cold can of salmon, instant mash potato’s.
- Desert: Chocolate pudding, 1 cup milk.
Day 13
- Breakfast: Granola, milk, starbucks instant coffee.
- Lunch: Pepperoni, ¾ cup trail mix cliff bar.
- Dinner: Blue dragon curry kit, canned chicken, rice
( prepare kit with canned chicken and rice)
Day 14
- Breakfast: 5 minute oats, raisins, milk, brown sugar, starbucks instant coffee.
- Lunch: Beef jerky, ¾ cup trail mix, cliff bar.
- Dinner: Freeze dried dinner from MEC.
- Desert: Mars bar.
Bannock Recipe: Combine 7 ½ cups all purpose flower, 3 tablespoons baking powder and 1 teaspoon salt. This makes 5 servings that I place in pre-measured portions.
Prepare by placing the mixture into a bowl and cutting in 2 to 3 tablespoons of coconut oil with a fork, (if you would like to add some berries or raisins add them now) mix one cup of milk and add it to the mixture until you get the right consistency (not to wet) to form into a flat disk and place it into a greased pan. Prop the pan up on a rock facing the fire with hot coals under the pan, rotate the bannock a quarter turn in the pan every 2 to 3 minutes until golden brown.
All of my food is packed into 2 large dry bags, one bag has all my non nonperishables meals packed tightly in order ( last meal on the bottom first on top), the other bag is used for all perishables (vegetables, meat, cheese buns etc.) and ingredients I use daily (powdered milk, peanut butter and bannock mix). I also have a small dry bag I use for condiments like soy sauce, salt and pepper instant coffee packs etc.
My cooking kit consists of one 6 inch pot and lid that doubles for a plate, an inch 8 inch cast iron frying pan, and a small plastic bowl, therefore I sometimes have to plan carefully as to what order I cook the different parts of a meal.
Day 1
- Breakfast: Cinnamon rolls, orange, starbucks instant coffee.
- Lunch: Muffin, apple, cliff bar.
- Dinner: Chicken, baby potatoes, red pepper, onions, garlic.
( sauté chicken in olive oil add boiled potatoes, red pepper, onions and garlic in frying pan add pepper and salt to taste)
Day 2
- Breakfast: Muffin, orange, starbucks instant coffee.
- Lunch: Bagel with chorizo dry sausage & jalapeno cheese, cliff bar.
- Dinner: 2 smokes, 2 buns, jalapeno cheese, mustard, relish, onion.
- Desert: Mars bar.
Day 3
- Breakfast: Bagel with peanut butter, orange, starbucks instant coffee.
- Lunch: Bagel with cold meat & cheese, cliff bar.
- Dinner: Spaghetti, small can (213 ml) of Primo pizza sauce , dry chorizo sausage, onion, red pepper, garlic, parmesan cheese. (sauté chorizo, onion, pepper and garlic in pan add spaghetti sauce then add to cooked spaghetti, grate parmesan on top)
Day 4
- Breakfast: 5 minute oats, raisins, powdered milk, brown sugar, Starbucks instant coffee.
- Lunch: Small can spicy Thai tuna, half box Triscuit crackers, cliff bar, apple.
- Dinner: Black bean burritos. Flour tortillas, freeze dried black beans, jalapeno cheese, salsa, rice.
( I use San Miguel Salsa in a 200 gm. foil pouch, its enough for 2 meals, save some for tomorrows breakfast)
- Desert: Half package of chocolate pudding, 1 cup of powdered milk.
(I use a 500 ml wide mouth bottle to mix my milk by shacking it add the pudding mix after the milk is mixed)
Day 5
- Breakfast: Powdered eggs, onions, bacon, flower tortillas, monterey jack cheese, salsa starbucks instant coffee.
(fry a whole package of Maple leaf ready crisp bacon save some bacon for your lunch, next sauté chopped onion add powdered egg mix, then place on tortillas, add monterey jack cheese and the leftover salsa from last nights dinner)
- Lunch: Cheese and bacon quesadillas , cliff bar.
(I prepare this in the morning, wrap cheese and bacon in a tortillas and fry in a pan)
- Dinner: ½ pack Knorr Tomato Vegetable soup mix, 1 cup rice, chili powder, dry chorizo, onion, garlic and cheese. (sauté dry chorizo slices with chopped onion and garlic , cook rice, then mix about ½ package of soup mix to 1 cup of water, add chili powder and bring to a boil add the rice,chorizo and onion, grate jalapino cheese on top)
Day 6
- Breakfast: 5 minute oats, raisins, milk, brown sugar starbucks instant coffee.
- Lunch: Pepperoni stick, ¾ cup trail mix, cliff bar.
- Dinner: Corned beef hash. Potato, corned beef, onions, ketchup packs.
- (wrap potato in tin foil and bake in the fire. Sauté diced potato with diced onion, add small can or foil pack of corned beef.
Desert: Freeze dried from MEC "Alpineaire three berry crumble" ( save half for tomorrows lunch)
Day 7
- Breakfast: Granola, milk starbucks instant coffee.
- Lunch: Leftover berry crumble, ¾ cup trail mix, cliff bar.
- Dinner: Cold canned salmon, instant mash potato’s.
Day 8
- Breakfast: 5 minute oats, raisins, milk, brown sugar starbucks instant coffee.
- Lunch: Pepperoni, ¾ cup trail mix, cliff bar.
- Dinner: Black bean burritos. hand made Tortillas , black beans, monterey jack cheese, salsa, rice.
(mix Meseca instant corn masa flour with water and press into tortillas. I use a press made out of two 6x6x ¼ inch pieces of plywood with two holes drilled on one side of them, tie string through the holes so that the press now has a hinge, lined both sides of the press with a plastic bag. I place the press on a flat rock or log and press down with my knee to press Tortillas flat. Make extras for tomorrows breakfast and lunch)
Desert: ½ package of instant chocolate pudding, 1 cup milk.
Day 9
- Breakfast: Tortillas, powdered eggs, bacon, monterey jack cheese, salsa starbucks instant coffee.
- Lunch: Cheese and bacon quesadillas. Tortillas, monterey jack cheese, bacon, salsa, cliff bar.
- Dinner: Pesto sauce mix, olive oil, pasta, parmesan cheese.
(prepare rotini pasta, add Mayacamas pesto sauce mix, olive oil and grated Parmean cheese)
day 10
- Breakfast: Pancakes with freeze dried strawberry’s, maple syrup, starbucks instant coffee.
( Mix Aunt Jemima complete pancake mix with water and freeze dried strawberries, and cook enough pancakes for breakfast and lunch. I like spread coconut oil on top instead of butter and add maple syrup)
- Lunch: Pancakes with peanut butter, cliff bar.
- Dinner: Corned beef hash. Potato, onion, corned beef, ketchup packs.
- Desert: Mars bar.
Day 11
- Breakfast: Granola, milk, starbucks instant coffee.
- Lunch: Spicy Thai tuna, Triscuit crackers, cliff bar.
- Dinner: Freeze dried dinner from MEC.
- Desert: Chocolate pudding, 1 cup powdered milk.
Day 12
- Breakfast: 5 minute oats, raisins, milk, brown sugar, starbucks instant coffee.
- Lunch: Beef jerky, ¾ cup trail mix cliff bar.
- Dinner: Cold can of salmon, instant mash potato’s.
- Desert: Chocolate pudding, 1 cup milk.
Day 13
- Breakfast: Granola, milk, starbucks instant coffee.
- Lunch: Pepperoni, ¾ cup trail mix cliff bar.
- Dinner: Blue dragon curry kit, canned chicken, rice
( prepare kit with canned chicken and rice)
Day 14
- Breakfast: 5 minute oats, raisins, milk, brown sugar, starbucks instant coffee.
- Lunch: Beef jerky, ¾ cup trail mix, cliff bar.
- Dinner: Freeze dried dinner from MEC.
- Desert: Mars bar.
Bannock Recipe: Combine 7 ½ cups all purpose flower, 3 tablespoons baking powder and 1 teaspoon salt. This makes 5 servings that I place in pre-measured portions.
Prepare by placing the mixture into a bowl and cutting in 2 to 3 tablespoons of coconut oil with a fork, (if you would like to add some berries or raisins add them now) mix one cup of milk and add it to the mixture until you get the right consistency (not to wet) to form into a flat disk and place it into a greased pan. Prop the pan up on a rock facing the fire with hot coals under the pan, rotate the bannock a quarter turn in the pan every 2 to 3 minutes until golden brown.
