lunch on the OT

[outdoors girl]

Hi there, I'm doing the OT in january as my first walk through. Normally we have a base camp and a car with an esky full of food for our hikes, so i was wondering of anyone could tell me their favourite lunches on the track? breaky and dinner is easy with all the freeze dried meals and porridges, snacks are a given but am a little stumped on what to take for lunch on the go. Any advice would me greatly appreciated.

[tasadam]

Hi there!
Welcome to the forum.
I have moved this topic to the "Bush tucker" section of the forum, where you will find a number of topics covering food and lunches.
You could try a search like (hang on I stuffed the link, will try again and edit this fixed)
search.php?st=0&sk=t&sd=d&sr=posts&keywords=lunch&fid%5B%5D=16
Interesting I think I found a bug.
Copy that whole line to the browserClick that link - what it does is goes to the Bush Tucker page (link above) and search within this area of the forum for the word "lunch".

You could watch out for this being released too.

Enjoy the forum!
Adam.

[Nuts]

Flat bread is good, some ideas art here:

viewtopic.php?f=16&t=2747&p=31782&hilit=lunch+what#p31782

[rowan]

I suggest 'Nana Divers mini meals" you can get them at Coles in the muesli bar section. They are easy to eat and filling.

[Charlievee]

Hi outdoors girl - when I did the OT a few years back I used peanut butter and jam (together, I'm from Canada !) and some of the nice nasty Kraft processed cheese in the block. The fats and salt were what I found I was craving most ; the carbs I got from my scroggin and cuppas. The cheese didn't have to be refrigerated ; it was cool enough on our walk. You keep it in the foil and wrap the lot in a "chux" towel or similar. You spread it on pita/flatbread/tortillas etc... I liked pumpernickel myself. Hope this helps. Regards, Charlie.

[johnat]

Hi there, I'm doing the OT in january as my first walk through. Normally we have a base camp and a car with an esky full of food for our hikes, so i was wondering of anyone could tell me their favourite lunches on the track? breaky and dinner is easy with all the freeze dried meals and porridges, snacks are a given but am a little stumped on what to take for lunch on the go. Any advice would me greatly appreciated.

We took oats for breakky, soaked them overnight in a half litre screwtop jar and cooked them in the morning.
Lunches were dehyd soups (made from dehyd veges we'd dried ourselves) and rehydrated during the morning in the same screwtop jar as we walked. We' had 4 people, and the jar full was exactly right, filled the jar with boiling water after b'fast and cook it up at lunchtime.
Dinners were also dehyd stuff we did ourselves (risotto, lamb stew, Bolognaise with pasta) Cooked a meal, put a serve for 4 into the dehydrator and let it run. Then vac packed the result.
john

[rogo]

Any combination of tuna sachets, tortillas, cuppa soups, jerky, cheese triangles, savoury bics like vita wheat, I also take a bit of lettuce in one of those high tech vege bags. First day or two hard boiled eggs. Finish with a cuppa and maybe dried fruit if I feel like it.

If I can find it I also take salami which has been dried naturally and can be kept out of the fridge. I have seen a bad case of upset tummy with those sealed packets of salami eaten a few days after they really should have been eaten.

Lunch for me is really just a longer sit down than normal with a hot beverage. I tend to snack at most stops anyway.

Ro

[melot]

We took really simple lunches - the luxury of a piece of fresh fruit and slices of cold pizza the first day and after that we had a tube of vegemite, triangles of processed cheese or sachets of tuna on crackers (we like coles Rock Salt Vita Bites as they didn't crumble in our packs). If its raining we often don't stop for lunch and just munch on muesli bars or scroggin as we walk and then warm up & dry out when we reach camp/hut. Thats when hot cup-a-soups are great. The best warming lunch I remember was a kind of toasted sandwich made with salami and a slice of processed cheese and a sachet of tomato paste enclosed in a pita bread and toasted on the trangia ... served with tomato cup-a-soup as the rain drizzled steadily outside our hut ... mmmm!
On the other hand we usually also take a couple of sachets of iced tea or gatorade in a zip-lock bag for really hot days when our energy is sapped. I keep several days lunches packaged together (because a packet of crackers will last us several days & they seem to survive better in their original packaging, plus it allows us to chose what we feel like eating for lunch as the day rolls round) I also dehydrate slices of fruit and homemade fruit rollups and include 2 or 3 varieties in each package of lunches. Buy your salami in a stick rather than slices and it will keep much better, particularly kept deep in your pack where it will be well insulated.
Hope you really enjoy your Overland Track experience. Wish I was back there now!