Best packaged & canned meats according to redditors

I hike about 300 miles a season.

My standard dinner since going keto: freeze dried eggs, some fully cooked shelf stable bacon, some hard cheese, and some low carb tortillas or wraps (even though they tend to be heavy). Throw in some olive oil or mayo and you have a ton of calories for not a lot of weight. Breakfast and lunch are usually just coffee with some coconut oil, low carb bars, a moderate amount of almonds, summer sausage, or cheese sticks.

Freeze dried meats are good as well, but they can be expensive. The foil packs of chicken and tuna will work, but they don't have a great calorie-to-weight ratio.

I would be careful going overboard with the nuts. Overdoing it on nuts can give you the trots, and that's no fun while hiking.

[24-Pack of SPAM Singles] (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FIZW00/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_0Ua2Ab431YT75) <$17 on Amazon

Not exactly...

No. You’ve posted this before on other subs, you open with one of the worst turntables on the market, give it a bullshit review with no rubric/criteria, AND it includes [links to Amazon](SPAM Jalapeno Luncheon Meat Can, 12 Ounce https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071DWD8QZ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_2I9dBbRJ0GT47).

I found this on the USA Amazon - I'm from the UK so I can't order it sadly :( http://www.amazon.com/Cans-full-Yoders-Canned-Bacon/dp/B0039LDMV6/ref=pd_sim_gro_3/191-7513993-0643524?ie=UTF8&refRID=1K0YP7TESW8Z09D23GG6 Yeuch!

No ice or fridge required.

Bacon

Salmon

Pork

Chicken

Shrimp

Ground Beef

Beef

Turkey

Rice

Whole milk

Eggs require you knowing someone who raises chickens. Store bought eggs can't be left at room temp, but unwashed fresh eggs last weeks at room temp. Usually cost $3 a dozen. I live in a major city and can find them.

Sharp cheeses don't require to be kept cold.

Vegetables obviously are perfectly fine at ambient temp.

I get the weirdest looks when all my campmates are eating lousy hot dogs and I'm having taco night with mexican rice and refried beans for dinner. Pancakes and bacon is my go-to breakfast as it's good and filling for a long day of adventures. All you need is "just add water" pancake mix.

I'm going camping this weekend I actually need to start meal planning.

Breakfast: instant coffee and poptarts, once I read the calorie count (200 kcal per pastry, so 400 kcal per pack) I knew that they were the breakfast for me and that we shouldn't be feeding these to kids.

Lunch - meat sticks and cheese, various variations sometimes a roll of summer sausage, blocks of cheese, I quit trying to eat tortillas due to my moustache not cooperating.

Dinner - Instant refried beans and minute rice, I seriously ate this almost every night. The beans come in a foil pouch so I would pour half into a ziplock for another night, boil the water with the rice in it, pour/spoon it into the pouch. Same the pouch for the next night, and these pouches are good for packing out used TP. For variety add taco bell sauce packets, bits of cheese, individual spam packets. Minute rice can be found anywhere. These are my favorite beans, but the price looks like it is going up, they can also be found at Safeway. A couple of stores had another brand of instant refried beans that worked OK too.

Snacks - I would pack pouches of dill pickle sunflower seeds, both for the salt and to break up monotony. I ate alot of granola bars, usually when taking a break and felt like I was running out of steam. I found the cheaper granola bars were my favorite, but when I found cliff bars for $1/bar I would usually buy them even though I was getting tired of them (did you know some of them have caffeine in them!).

Edit: Yellowfin tuna in oil pouches rule! Either I would make extra rice at night to eat for lunch the next day with the tuna or mix it in with the beans and rice. Good fat/calories and the oil doesn't freeze when you are in the mountains like the tuna in water does.

I don't remember how I came across it, but you can buy Canned Pork Brains on amazon. Little 5 oz. can, but look at the nutrition information - over a thousand percent of your daily value of cholesterol!

Unless you order spam.

Add some oven roasted turkey spam and you've got a feast fit for a pilgrim.

I tried to listen to that airplane/ocean album, but I never got into it. Everyone kept short-stroking it like it's the best thing since single serving spam packets. Am I missing something?

P.S. Those spam things are depressingly real.

What do you mean, expensive??? You get a 12 oz. solid hunk of meat (product), for only $2.23/can (less than $2.98/lb.) and eligible for free Super Saver shipping.

The brand appears to be Celebrity: http://www.canned-bacon.com/

Also...

https://www.amazon.com/Cans-full-Yoders-Canned-Bacon/dp/B0039LDMV6

https://preparednessmama.com/canned-bacon/

You can buy cooked ground beef, in a can. I've never been brave enough to try it. Keystone Meats All Natural Canned Beef, Ground, 14 Ounce gets about 3.5/5 stars on Amazon.com.

[try this] (http://www.amazon.com/SPAM-Classic-12-Ounce-Cans-Pack/dp/B001EQ5NHE/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1412624715&sr=8-2&keywords=spam)

I wonder if "bacon" meant salt pork rather than the smoked bacon we are familiar with. I remember reading about the dust bowl era. They would salt up a side of pork, toss it in a barrel and take it on the road. Commercial bacon processed today would be rotting without refrigeration. Except for this stuff:

http://www.amazon.com/Cans-full-Yoders-Canned-Bacon/dp/B0039LDMV6

It's just killing me now because when it first came out, we bought it for less than $10 per can! Unlike most canned meat, it's actually very good. It's good even if you don't heat it. It's fully cooked (but not actually smoked) high in sodium and still has a fair amount of fat. I think fat might be important since fats don't normally store well.

Soups and stews, gumbo and jambalaya are great one pot meals.

Bear Creek makes good starters that you can add to.

Knorr sides are also good starters you can add to.

The key to camp cooking is prep work. You want to do as little processing of the food in the wild as you can. Pre chop, and measure your spices as much as you can. Hell pre cook it, so all you have to do is warm it up.

On the first day everything will be fresh. That is when you have a steak dinner or bacon for breakfast.

Day 2 you will eat things that have defrosted (you froze and chilled everything before putting it in the cooler, right?) Chopped up and cooked chicken, pre cooked hamburger crumbles.

After all the fresh stuff is gone you go to shelf stable meats like chicken in a pouch, beef in a pouch, caned tuna. For more good camping meats check out this thread

I love fresh fruit, but camping is hard on them. You could bring pre made fruit salad for the first few days. I like fruit pouches. Most are apple based but you can find some that are mango/pineapple or berry mix. They will be with the apple sauce, chilled case in the fresh fruit section, or the baby food section.

Breakfast: Oatmeal or home fries (pre boiled chopped potatoes, veggies, breakfast meat)

Lunch should be packable on the go food. Jerkey, bebel cheese, carb of choice (tortilla, pita, bagel) fruit pouch, protein bar.

One of my favorite quick dinners is Bangers and mash:

2 Aidells sausage per person. They are pre cooked. Get a couple of different flavors for aded fun. I slice them in half then put them in a baggie with enough for each meal. Heat on the skillet.

1/3 of a cup per person fancy potato flakes all you have to do is boil the water.

edit:spelling

Not even a little bit...pig brains are a food in and of themselves. Spam is mostly pork shoulder.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(food)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_as_food

https://www.amazon.com/Rose-Pork-Brains-Gravy-Ounce/dp/B00FHIAIIE

Brains are extraordinarily high in cholesterol but if you're curious you could always order them off Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/Rose-Pork-Brains-Gravy-Ounce/dp/B00FHIAIIE

Or Walmart

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Rose-Pork-Brains-in-Milk-Gravy/190858704

Also: Spam and eggs on the trail is just about the most heavenly start to a day of heavy hiking.

http://www.amazon.com/Rose-Pork-Brains-Gravy-Ounce/dp/B00FHIAIIE

Better stock up, everyone

Here's something for that burger: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0039LDMV6/ref=aw_1st_sims_4?pi=SY115

Dad was a depression era kid raised by a sharecropper. To escape poverty and contribute to the war effort, he joined the Navy in WWII and went to college after he got home to become a petroleum engineer. That meant we grew up eating potted meat, vienna sausage, and SPAM.

Dude, you can get them in cans at the grocery store or have them conveniently delivered to your door. I've always heard of people scrambling them with eggs and eating it with biscuits and gravy but whatever floats your boat I guess.

http://www.amazon.com/SPAM-Bacon-12-Ounce-Cans-Pack/dp/B001EQ5NLU

Your mind has just been blown, Foodit.

> Those who make peaceful revolution impossible

... make stacking spam and canned pineapple for the big luau a solid idea.

Stack that shit deep, brother.

edit: Ran across the Spam Sampler

Nah, it couldn't be ...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0039LDMV6?pc_redir=1395694178&robot_redir=1

Dak ham

http://www.amazon.com/Spam-Hot-Spicy-SPAM/dp/B00HZ492I0/ref=sr_1_5?s=grocery&ie=UTF8&qid=1408077571&sr=1-5&keywords=hormel+spam

Here are a few examples:
Chicken: http://www.amazon.com/Kirkland-Signature-chicken-premium-12-5-ounce/dp/B004YPJKBC/ref=sr_1_1?s=grocery&ie=UTF8&qid=undefined&sr=1-1&keywords=canned+chicken

Tuna: http://www.amazon.com/Bumble-Bee-Chunk-Light-Water/dp/B001UP2188/ref=sr_1_3?s=grocery&ie=UTF8&qid=undefined&sr=1-3&keywords=canned+tuna

Beef: http://www.amazon.com/Keystone-Meats-Natural-Ground-Ounce/dp/B00B59QBBW/ref=sr_1_4?s=grocery&ie=UTF8&qid=1408394790&sr=1-4&keywords=canned+beef

Ham: http://www.amazon.com/Premium-Ham-16oz-Can-Pack/dp/B0078PRWQA/ref=sr_1_1?s=grocery&ie=UTF8&qid=1408394862&sr=1-1&keywords=canned+ham

Trail staples like peanut butter, Nutella, trail mix, hard candies/chocolates will all keep really well without refrigeration. Things like Spam Singles and tuna singles are really shelf stable and versatile. Instant oatmeal is also an easy breakfast and pretty negligible in terms of weight, especially since all you need is some hot water. I like taking instant polenta for the same reason - fills you up, takes 3 minutes to cook and is great with some salami or cheese mixed in.

There's also a supermarket chain in Iceland called Bonus and there are quite a few of them around the place. They have a huge selection of things like salami and hard cheeses which were staples of what I carried while I was there (spent 3.5 weeks hiking/camping the whole country basically). Tortillas are light and easy to pack and would definitely last you a week.

You don't have to go that far just for some SPAM...

You can just buy it online on Amazon here. Usually the local grocery store or something will sell the cans as well though.

$2.64 evidently.

Product Link

https://www.amazon.com/Spam-25-Less-Sodium-Pack/dp/B005SA7WNU/ref=sr_1_1_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1538362733&sr=8-1&keywords=spam+8+pack

http://www.amazon.com/SPAM-Single-Classic-2-5-Ounce-Pouches/dp/B000FIZW00

Beef it up

Fighting spam with spam? Mmmm Spam...

https://www.amazon.com/Rose-Pork-Brains-Sampler-Ounce/dp/B00GP2ZDZO/ref=sr_1_3_s_it?s=grocery&ie=UTF8&qid=1486071581&sr=1-3&keywords=brains

Holy cholesterol!

A few burners recommended me to get these so I'll be sure to stock up! Some delicious curry / stew at Burning Man would be great!

I'm personally excited about bringing a case of Yoders Bacon. It'll be legendary.

They are very cheap on Amazon

Yeah, the chicken is kind of hard to find, I usually just order it on amazon, but it's kind of expensive. http://www.amazon.com/Valley-Fresh-Premium-Chicken-7-Ounce/dp/B000V1LXU4

Typically I dehydrate most meals so 12 of these go a long way.

They have real canned bacon on amazon. Ready to eat also.

http://www.amazon.com/Cans-full-Yoders-Canned-Bacon/dp/B0039LDMV6

Damn good prize. But I doubt anyone will guess it.

For a few dollars more, perhaps a reddit shirt

or you could settle for SPAM with Bacon

Yoders tastes the same and is pretty much the same.

http://www.amazon.com/Cans-full-Yoders-Canned-Bacon/dp/B0039LDMV6

I've got the porkopocalypse covered for in my [preparations] (https://www.amazon.com/Cans-full-Yoders-Canned-Bacon/dp/B0039LDMV6)

This is good stuff too: https://www.amazon.com/Kirkland-Signature-Roast-Beef-pack/dp/B005YQ3WSM/ref=asc_df_B005YQ3WSM/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=344058161253&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=17454585101874265868&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9008466&hvtargid=pla-728219132064&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=66686194942&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=344058161253&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=17454585101874265868&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9008466&hvtargid=pla-728219132064

Came across this one no thanks Rose Pork Brains with Milk Gravy 5 Ounce Cans (4 Cans Per Pack) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FHIAIIE/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_JwZ1BbMB81P54

I feel a sudden urge to go buy a couple cans of pork brains.