Looking for everyone’s favorite easy meals while fishing and camping to maximize time poling/casting. Also, cheapest spots in the Keys for quick grab deli sandos, breakfast tacos, anything low budget..
Spending 6 weeks camping / Airbnb and fly fishing all over upper and middle keys from my 16’ action craft.
Cold pizza and beer is my go-to for a day or two, but we’ll need some variety past that.
Non perishables, purchased-cooked (like Publix fried chicken), cooking in bulk for easy leftovers, or utilizing free mango snappers are all priorities.
Can't help on your Keys quest, but this thread is making me super nostalgic about Publix. A well-stocked, clean, easy-to-navigate store full of helpful employees just isn't the New Orleans way. But we do have gas station po'boys!
Those were on the advance menu during a recent trip to the Glades. The only problem was forgetting to buy burger meat at Publix in Naples. We substituted fried trout.
Here’s a couple ideas if you’re going to camp a few days the hit the Airbnb a few days rotation.
Smoke a pork butt and a couple chickens before you go and freeze in portion sized ziplocks. That should get you through a camping rotation or two. Then at the Airbnb make up/freeze foil dinners as suggested. You might get lucky and get an Abnb with a charcoal grill you could smoke another butt on an off day. If you wind up with a gas grill you can do up chickens easily enough.
You can also make up/freeze breakfast and lunch burritos at the Abnb.
Dont be afraid of campfire cooking. Take a grill grate and you have the perfect opportunity for steaks, burgers, hotdogs/brats. Pretty limitless actually. If it fits your schedule.
I use the Seal-A-Meal to vacuum seal up chili, rice, spaghetti sauce, etc. Serves a dual purpose on camping trips--helps keep other food items cold in the cooler and provides easy-to-heat meals.
Trading Post in Islamorada has some awesome food; chicken salad is amazing. But it's super expensive. Publix is my vote. There's one on upper Matecumbe now.
Cook up some taters. The same ingredients for eggs salad will make a decent tater salad on the go. Cubed taters in a ziplock. Squeeze packets and knead in the bag. Diced celery and onions too.
I bought a small, portable gas grill when I was working and camping for an entire summer. You know the type, they pack up about 18" long, propane cylinder fits inside with the turner and tongs. I cooked supper on it every night. Steaks, chicken, burgers, fish, brats. It was way better than restaurant food, and way more relaxing!
@Jason La Forest sounds like an awesome trip. You need to document your exploits so we can see how it's going and what your catching. I wish I did something like this when I was young but there where no Publix back then. Now I think camping is staying in a Holiday Inn Express
Lots of really great info/ideas on here. I do a fair amount of backcountry/outdoor cooking for work, and I'll say this: just like in a restaurant kitchen, prep work is key. Plan a menu and snacks, then do all the cooking/mixing/marinating/portioning/freezing you can before your trip. Even just removing excess packaging (boxes that contain a bag, bagged stuff that can be put into a smaller ziploc) will make your life easier. Also: a vacuum sealer is a game changer for all of the above, plus it keeps things from leaking or getting waterlogged in your cooler. You'll find it's useful for non-food outdoor stuff too; I like to vacuum seal tools, spares, and emergency items that I'm unlikely to need. It stays absolutely dry and compressed and is easy to organize.
You know when I'm on a Tarpon trip I get thoughs big Frito variety packs that have a bunch of packs of chips inside. Also Laura bars and Kind bars. This is for on water snacks. After fishing each day you'll need a meal
My wife snagged me a Jetboil cooking system for Christmas. Publix sub is the only cold meal I plan to ever eat again on the skiff. Can now make just about whatever hot meal you can think of in about 90 seconds just need water and a spoon.
Take some Tuna packets & bag of Burrito or Taco Shells. We ate those daily for lunch during week long canoe / camping trip thru Canadian Boundary Waters (Quentico). Easy to store & pack.
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All kinds of superstitions, some have known origins, some not.
1. Bananas were thought to be bad luck because of banana spiders. Spiders would be in a shipment of bananas and their bite was considered deadly, so early mariners wouldn't take a shipment of bananas.
2. Bananas float. Floating bananas were considered a sign of shipwreck, thus bad luck.
3. Bananas ripen quickly. Boats hauling bananas rarely carried other fruits because the gasses given off by bananas caused other fruits to ripen prematurely and spoil. Bad luck
4. Since bananas ripened so quickly, boats had to move fast with no stopping. Fast with no stopping meant no fishing for the sailors. Bad mojo
Lol that's crazy, learn something new every day. Was wondering what the big deal was, but I guess if you don't even know about it, it would never be a problem until someone points it out then you get paranoid. Now I won't be able to have a banana on my skiff
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