Lisa and I are planning on going to the boat tomorrow and staying there until Tuesday evening. We'll day sail and return back to the marina in the evenings. We might anchor out if the winds will calm down some.

We only have an ice chest and a 2 burner camp stove. We don't do breakfast. What would you take that is easy to fix?

Spam is out of the question Lisa would drown me if I put one can of Spam on the boat.

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Food isn't necessary...Live off of love! I'll let you know if I think of something good. My first mate is quite the chef, and I can BBQ all day long! I hope the winds are good this weekend...we're going to the boat after work tomorrow. Maybe we'll cook our first meal on our boat. You guys have fun!

BTW, did you get your outboard working like it's supposed to?

Ralph

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Yep live off love. That would work. Lisa is also an excellent chef only its my job to do the cooking on the boat. I don't cook anything but BBQ. Might be hard to put the pit on the boat. I did learn to boil water with out burning the pan.

I think the motor is running fine now. We're going to mount the bimini tomorrow and run the motor for a while just to make sure.

Have a safe trip down.

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The forecast I looked at shows the winds dropping off tomorrow. I hope you get some nice sailing in. Lisa's in trouble though. It seems your cooking skills are about the same as mine...good luck with that!

Check out that engine well. I doubt you want another adventure like the last one!

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Looks like the winds are to be 10 to 15 out of the SSE and that means a long motor before we can raise a sail. Sure don't need another adventure with the motor like the last time. Think I drag the dinghy along just in case.

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How about some Top Raman and add canned chicken with some mixed vegies (boiled/steamed). Bread ,canned Tuna, Mayo etc. Fresh fruit lots if it. A few eggs and Tortillas with canned chicken/ cheese (Burritos). Oatmeal (breakfast) canned milk, Honey. Cookies, chips, crackers.
That will help for a few days. Maybe you can get some ideas from that.
Most meats will last a couple of days if kept in a good ice chest and shade. Hot Dogs/Hamburgers Etc.
Don't forget P-Butter/Jelly. Most of this does not need to be cooled for just a couple of days

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cook up a nice stew then freeze it in a ziploc bag before you go. then all you need to do is boil some water and put the zip loc in the water. scrambled eggs cook up the same way. Pasta is another good dinner that you can cook on one burner. steaks with sauteed carrots and shallots. (not wuite a bbq but easy) Oh BTW when you have the dead presidents by a BBq for the pushpit. It will make life easier.

Thanks for the suggestions guy. I think I've got it figured out for a couple of days.

Breakfast
French toast and juice
Oatmeal and juice
Omelet and juice

Lunch
Tuna fish salad sandwich and chips
Salmon salad sandwich and chips
Summer sausage, cheese and Ritz

Dinner
Spaghetti and light salad French bread
Bratwurst instant mash potatoes corn and salad.
Sweet Sue chicken and dumplings.

Drinks
Water
Pepsi
Big Red Juice
Sorry no wine or beer

Snacks
Don't know the name but Lisa buys the package stuff that has nuts and cereal in it. All different kinds of flavors.

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Oh My GOD!!!

Sweet Sue Chicken!!!

I have to tell a little story. I hope it doesn't ruin the meal on the last day, but here goes:

My wife and I eat pretty well, which is why I didn't pipe in here. We cook up some pretty complicated and gourmet meals on the boat and use only the best ingredients from local farms or Whole Foods. Food is something we take very seriously, both for pleasure and for fun. It's one of the top two most important things to us in life.

Our 3 day menu would go like this (and this is all a preface to the story - all meals are made from scratch):

Breakfast:

*Home made, whole wheat blueberry muffins (with possible cinnamon topping if we're feeling extravagant).
*Whole wheat pancakes with local Maine syrup.
*Homemade whole wheat plain donuts and assorted fruit.

Lunch (we eat something we call Dunch at about 2pm):

*Very authentic fajita burritos with local chicken, local produce (in season), specialty cumin, chilli powder, garlic, and cayenne pepper. Brown rice and avocado in the wrap with cheddar cheese.
*Homemade, whole wheat broccoli pizza (just made a couple of these yesterday), making all dough from scratch and rolling it out. NY style of course! And we use the extra dough at the end to make garlic knots. Wife worked at a pizzaria in high school and picked up the secrets.
*BBQ swordfish kebabs on the grill in wife's special marinade. Made with local maine Yukon gold potatoes, local produce, etc... Or venison burgers on the grill with homemade whole wheat rolls.

Dinner

None.

Snacks

*Pudding, chocolate chip cookies, brownies or something, made from scratch as well. We use white flour for most desserts because whole wheat brownies kind of suck! ha ha

Ok, so with that kind of food preferences in mind, I can tell the story.

We took delivery of our old 45' Hirsh in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. None of the systems worked. The batteries barely held a charge, the refrigerator couldn't keep anything cold (no insulation in the icebox and an old Alder Barbour that was undersized). We had no running water and neither head worked. Yikes... the boat sucked. We relieved ourselves overboard.

So... during the 1200 NM trip home from Wisconsin, we were getting very weak with malnutrition from eating all the garbage food. We couldn't find any "good food" where we were (traveling through places like Detroit and Saginaw and Mackinack and all manner of places). We found nothing but little "local shops" that had a few bits of food. Or... if we found a grocery store it was from the 1950's and carried all processed, unhealthful foods.

I became desperate and deluded looking for real food. I was going NUTS.

And that's when I saw her... my first glimpse of Sweet Sue!

The can was pretty big! It had a beautiful picture of a chicken worthy of a Thanksgiving dinner on the can. She looked like a vision from heaven!

Surely, between the couple rotten potatoes, canned peas and a Sweet Sue, I could prepare the next best thing to a Thanksgiving dinner! YUM!

So I saved up my Sweet Sue for a time when I was feeling like I needed a good dinner. I opened wine, looked forward to this meal like you can't even imagine.

I got the can open, anticipating a nice little cornish game hen type of thing to slide out... but it didn't.

No game hen. It was a mushy SALTY little bird that looked something like a cross between a dead pigeon and a dead rat. It slid out into my baking dish and started to collapse. The brownish-colored bones were breaking out from the meat and it basically collapsed into a pile of bird goo.

During the meal, I took a few bites, only to find more brown bones, a nasty, rubbery texture and SALT SALT and more SALT. It was probably the most disgusting thing I've ever had to eat. I felt completely ripped off and bummed out that I bought my Sweet Sue.

We still joke about Sweet Sue to this date. It's not available in the East Coast (thank GOD) and I've never seen one since.

(Sorry Grime... it's was one hell of an experience for us.... had to be told) Hope it doesn't ruin the meal on day 3!

Nice story, Sully. Funny too...reminded me of an old episode of MASH, where Charles and Margaret share a canned Cornish game hen and get food poisoning.

Grime, we're gonna need bigger boats to cook like Sully! Those cats must have a nice galley!

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