🍳 Off-Roading Breakfast Recipes: Share Your Best Morning Meals! 🌄

[smlobx]

OP great topic!

What we eat depends on what kind of trip we’re on. On our last big trip circumnavigating the Sahara Desert in Algeria and Tunisia our breakfast would usually consist of protein powder dissolved in our coffee, French bagets with some sort of either butter or marmalade as that was what was available locally.

In the US if it’s just my wife and myself we keep it simple. Just some coffee and a protein bar. This allows us to enjoy the morning serenity before we continue on our trip.

If we’re camping with my son, his wife and our granddaughter breakfast becomes more of a production in which case it will be either eggs and bacon or blueberry pancakes (her favorite).

I hope the OP starts one for lunch and then dinner too!

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[Zachanadandy]

Definitely depends on the type of trip. Coffee is always 1st. If we are nomadic and trying to get an early start it's probably a muffin and a protein drink. If we are camped at 1 location for days it's probably camp omelets as described previously in this thread with eggs in a ziploc for minimal cleanup. If we are camped on our desert property then the Blackstone will probably have bacon, hashbrowns, and eggs going.

 

[Blade1668]

Nice! We never did anything fancy… We just did Hot Pockets wrapped in foil stuffed somewhere on that 4.0L. Oh the memories…..

Foil oven bag, handful of rice, mushroom soup and a chicken thigh and some water. Roll seal, place with that side up drive a few hours. Check

 

[Blade1668]

That’s a pretty clever setup! A microwave can definitely make a hot meal quick and easy. But here’s my question—when you're out on an adventure, do you really have the space and enough power to make it work? It sounds great, but I’m curious how you manage the power situation on the go!

At some truck stops there is a 12v "lunchbox" cookers that plug in but you have to cycle it on and off to not burn the food. It uses disposable aluminum pans or a reusable one. I keep in my XJ, MJ and Wrangler for road trips. Handy for frugal road trips going diving and not fast food places.

 

[Blade1668]

I've heated plenty of meals on the defrost vent on a humvee. Or on the roof in the Iraq or Kuwait sun. Heats up plenty fast, sometimes too fast.

This reminded me of some of days in Iraq back in 03 setting at a relay site. I had picked up a few cans of spam before heading out to relay site. A few said that's stuff is disgusting, some days later I've fixed coffee and cooking it up on my Coleman single burner. Then everyone decided to have some. MRE's everyday for weeks on end gets old. The trick for fuel is get a kerosene fuel line for it and use fuel from humvee fuel drain valve. Since it's supposed to be checked regularly for maintenance anyway.

The GSI Expersso maker, cup and stove are world travelers, Iraq, Kuwait, Germany, Austria, Italy, Bosnia, Croatia, a few I've forgot and many states.
Back to the thread, on breakfast instant oatmeal or trail mix for faster startups with coffee. But coffee and having a ritual to start a day can be what keeps you on an even keel.

 

[Jteakus]

Spam and scrambled eggs is a fine meal.

 

[3Wliners]

Boudin and scrambled eggs or bacon and eggs plus high octane coffee.

That sounds like the perfect outdoor breakfast to kick off a day of adventure! Boudin and eggs or bacon and eggs with some strong coffee? Hard to beat that combo! If I happened to be around, I'd probably be right there with a bowl in hand!

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