OK. We didn't eat like this every day, but it usually wasn't a whole lot fewer things. This was the Thanksgiving Day menu at Onset-D where there was a cook, and a driller that used to own a bakery. On the road we ate things like oatmeal for breakfast, instant soups and/or sandwiches for lunch, and your basic cooked meat and vegetables meal for dinner. A lot of hot chocolate, candy bars, gorp, and granola bars were also consumed. You could stuff a lot of those kinds of things in your pockets and carry them with you during the day. When on the move between work areas we sometimes had dehydrated meals at the end of the day just to minimize the hassles of fixing a whole meal. They weren't too bad.
OK. It didn't always look like the picture above when we ate, either. This was all of us sitting around at Onset-D after our Thanksgiving Day feast.
Above is Don demonstrating the proper deep field camp eating technique. A few times the weather was nice enough to sit outside and eat at the end of the day. The rest of the time we all crammed into one tent, but still sat as Don is demonstrating.
Some afternoons were quite pleasant.
A cardboard box with the frozen food was usually buried outside the main tent to act as a freezer. We had over 200 kilograms of frozen vegetables, meats, fish, and poultry at the start of the project. We never ran out of enough food to eat.
OK. We didn't cook like this every day, either. This was one dinner at Onset-D where we barbequed some steaks.
Our cooking stoves at the camps away from Onset-D were two Coleman camp stoves just like the ones you can buy at the store. Above we were cooking snow. This is what the stoves did most of the time. Ten guys go through a lot of water in a day.
2018-03-05