Food for the Trip

I am at work right now but my mind is on the 150 things I still have to do for the trip. We may have been talking about this trip since Christmas but most things get done the week before we launch and never any sooner. I'll admit it, I am a procrasinator, always have been, always will be. Still when it comes time for the canoe trip I am more together than usual. I will talk about one of the many things I must do before launch day.

Tomorrow I have to go buy food for the six people going down the river this year. After a few year of havin people bring certain things it became apparent that having one person buy all the food was more sensible, this way nothing was forgotten. Being that Crazy Joe and I are always on the trip and that I have a membership to Sam's Club I became elected to be the food buyer. I love having the responsibility of buying the food.

So just to give you an idea of what we bring food wise, here is a list of what we bring ever year, amount varying on how many people go:

• 1 sm tub margarine


• 1 block butter (for ragin cajun taters)


• 3 lb pk cheese slices (for cheeseburgers and eggs)


• 1 pk shredded cheese (new addition, ragin cajun taters)


• 1med sz cooking oil (not really sure what for)


• 2 eighteen ct eggs (breakfast)


• 4 lbs bacon (breakfast, day 2,it's a Marthaler thing, can't have too much bacon)


• 4 pk sausages (breakfast, day 3)


• 3 phk hotdogs (supper night 1)


• 2 pk brauts (supper night 1)


• 4 Big cans baked beans (supper nights 1 & 2,thank God I sleep alone in my tent)


• 4 loaves of bread (breakfast and supper nights 1 & 2, no hotdog/hamburger buns this year)


• 1 gal milk (down sized form 1 1/2)


• 2 gal of OJ (good in am to replace what alcohol took out)


• 4 lbs hamburger (supper night 2)


• 5 lbs taters (supper night 3, ragin cajun taters)


• 3 pk of hashbrowns (breakfast, new addition)


• 4 Big cans mushrooms (breakfast and ragin cajun taters)


• 4 rolls paper towels


• 2 cloves garlic


• 1 bottle each ketchup, mustard, relish


• 1 jar miracle whip

There are a few things I don't pickup such as the steaks and spices. I leave that to Crazy Joe. he is the chef along with the General. For the most part as you can see we stick to the basics for camping, hotdogs, brauts and burgers. Yet one night is dedicated to a meal of steak (chicken breast in the case of the Mule, a story we will tell another time) and Crazy Joe's Ragin' Cajun taters cooked over a bed of coals. We have had corn on the cob or some other type of vegetable but the steaks and taters are always there. The steak meal is always at the Muldoons campsite and it is a tradition we hope to keep going on as long as we are capable of making the trip down the river.

Well I have to get back to work, but making lists in my head of what to do when I get home.

See next post for how it all started and how far the supplies have come.