Yup......I failed to mention those. There is tuna and a limited selection of other canned fish and other meats, such as vienna sausage, canned chicken, some beef. Freeze dried beef, jerky, etc. I carry a dry food tub on the boat, and I think it has a can of Hormel Chili in it right now. I've wondered about dragging along a chunk of country cured ham. Then there is the packaged mixes like the Lipton stuff. Red beans and rice, etc. One downside to a lot of those is dealing with the packaging. Do that often enough and you can start accumulating a good size pile of trash to drag around. I was along on a scout trip to Philmont, so lived out of a backpack for 10 days, not to mention all the other backpacking we did before and after. They (Philmont) and we used a lot of freeze dried stuff (so you don't have to carry the weight of the water on your back). They worked, but you would tire of that pretty quick. Those pemican bars were filling to say the least, but also known to cause gastric distress in some. When we weren't backpacking, the motto of the adults was to eat better on a campout than we did at home, or there wasn't much reason to go on a campout. So we would serve KC strips, baked potatoes, salads, cobblers, etc. I've tended to carry that philosophy over to boating (I don't have to carry it on my back), so I'm known to eat like that on the boat most of the time. But that means that cooler goes too. Trying to find some middle ground here.
Hi Howard,
For starters:
cans of tuna fish (or the new pouches which I think are even smaller in quantity than are the cans)
canned spaghetti / or similar product
try a camping out fitters such as EMI, or Cabela's and see what sort of provisions they have that don't require refrigeration. The hunters / fishermen / backpackers all have the same problems.
Connie