Alex

Your meals sound quite pleasant.

I'm a bit of a barbarian as a lot of my hunts early on and over the years have been in hotter climates. Not the lovely cool Victorian mountains or green pastures of Tassie.

So more packet and canned foods. Hunted hog deer once and didn't even think to take fresh meat unlike everyone else! As it would usually spoil at home if hunting for several days. Engels make life a lot more pleasant.

Usually I'm up and will have a breakfast of some simple foods such as mueslie bars, honey biscuits, ANZAC biscuits etc. Alternatively something like a ham and cheese sandwich perhaps toasted. Plus a small choc milk carton, fruit juice, maybe tea or coffee quickly heated and made.

Most often hunting all day, so lunch is carried. Similar to breakfast, maybe if carrying the extra weight, can of stew heated on a hexamine burner. Maybe a ham and cheese sandwich instead. Plus always carry some extras, jerky, food bars, etc as emergency supplies if one gets lost.

Dinner is the main meal, with preferably, now we have Engel fridges, a steak, or sausages, plus vegetables or rice. If no fresh food, a packet of curry and rice, a can of stew etc. I'm a big liker of a curry in the evening, and the boil in the pack ones are quite edible and little work. Desert, maybe some chocolate. Good coffee to finish.

If returning to camp for lunch, lunch is often a cooked breakfast of bacon, eggs, baked beans or spaghetti, bread or toast etc, plus tea or coffee.

I like good brewed coffee. But I have also taken a strong liking to chai, made with condensed milk, no sugar and no fresh milk. This has the closest flavour to what the Indians gave us when there. Very rich and quite sweet.

Sometimes, will take the afternoon off to cook a decent evening meal, and use the camp oven. Haven't used it in a long time, but it needs to get pulled out more often again. We used to make a camp oven meal of feral goat, potatoes, carrots etc just like you describe, leaving in cooking in the coals and returning to a great meal in the evening on dark.

Goes well with a nice bottle of wine.

A good port or fortified is nice on a cold evening, as is a brandy/cognac.