Menu Selection
Custom-Packed Deluxe Meals
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At Cliff Wold’s, we know great food is a key ingredient to a satisfying canoe trip. We combine top quality freeze dry meats, fruits and vegetables with our special gravies and sauces to make the finest, tastiest meals you will find on the canoe trails.
- Download: Pre-Canoe Trip Check Sheet and Menu Selection Form (PDF)
How the Food is Packaged and Packed...
The food is measured out and packaged in our spotlessly clean food packing rooms by our trained, experienced staff, just for a group’s particular size. All fresh foods are flash frozen to keep them fresh until you are ready to leave for the canoe trails.
All food is packed by the meal and by the day to make it convenient for you to easily find all the ingredients for a particular meal. Each meal has a check-off list for contents and each food package has cooking directions on how to prepare the food item. Plus, each meal package contains a cooking hints sheet telling how to find wood, start the fire, and hints on preparing the meals. And each meal packet where you are to cook contains a “cleaning packet” containing: matches to start your fire, a small bar of soap to wash your hands and soap-up the outside of all cooking kettles, soap powder for washing dishes, and a steel wool cleaning pad for the “hard to get off” soot and food particles. You will find this not only useful, but handy.
How to Select Your Canoe Trail Menu...
Please Note: The "Pre-Canoe Trip Check Sheet and Menu Selection Form” should be sent or called into us so that we receive it at least 1 week before the group is to arrive ready for their trip. We like to have all food and equipment packed and ready to go when the group arrives ready for the trip.
The “Pre-Canoe Trip Check Sheet and Menu Selection Form” gives us the final count should the numbers change from the original reservation numbers. At the top of the form, we ask the leaders to place the exact number they will be bringing. If the group comes up short of the number of people placed on this form, there is a $15 per person per day charge for each person the group is short. This charge is to cover the extra food which we cannot remove easily from the packs. The group leader selects 3 meals for each day of the group’s trip. For example, on a 6-day trip, select 18 meals – 6 breakfasts, 6 lunches, and 6 dinners.
Selecting your Breakfasts...
When being outfitted by Cliff Wold’s you have a wide selection of meals. For example, if you want “Blueberry Pancakes & Bacon” twice on the Canoe Trails, place the mornings you wish it served in the space to the left of the breakfast. If you prefer fresh eggs to freeze dry eggs, place the mornings on the Canoe Trip you want these served. (Because of breakage, a second breakfast of fresh eggs should not be selected later than the third day on the Canoe Trails.) We pack 2½ eggs per person per serving to cover any breakage. Just be careful how you handle the food pack containing eggs. Our “Scrambled Eggs with Bacon Bits” contain freeze dry eggs and imitation bacon bits. All of our bacon is extra smoked for long life out on the Canoe Trails. Depending on the weather, it will last up to ten or twelve days. Our sausage links breakfast should be eaten the first morning on the Canoe Trails and no later than the second morning. All fresh meats are flash frozen after being packaged, and they are kept frozen until you leave on your trip. We pack eggs in protective containers. Also, for any morning you prefer orange flavored juice with vitamin C added, place the number of mornings in the blank space provided.
Selecting your Lunches...
Again, you have a wide selection of lunches such as you have for the breakfast and dinners. Our cheeses include sliced Swiss Cheese with the “Ham & Cheese” lunch, sliced American Cheese with the “Cheese Sandwich”, and mozzarella sticks with the “Cheese Chunk” lunches. For our “Lunch Meat & Cheese” lunch, we provide a sliced luncheon meat such as bologna and sliced Swiss or American cheese. For our “Sausage Sandwich” lunches, we provide thuringer sausage. For our “Sausage Chunks” lunch, we provide sausage sticks. Do no short change the “Peanut Butter & Jelly” sandwiches. Believe us! They taste good out on the Canoe Trails. Our luncheon desserts are select candy bars – Snickers, Milky Way, M&M’s, and other top selling brands.
Selecting your Dinners...
Our fresh chicken is boneless breast of chicken, our steak is rib-eye which is all boneless. The average serving of all our fresh meats is six ounces. On selecting the size of steaks – a couple of people may want 10 oz. steaks instead of 6 oz., place the number of people who wants 10 oz. steaks to the right of “10 oz. Rib-Eye Steak” and we will pack 10 oz. steaks for that many and 6 oz. for the rest. All other dinner meals except the ground beef, ham, and polish sausage dinners contain freeze dry meats which, when reconstituted with water, average out to be the equivalent of three to four ounces of fresh meat. Our dinner desserts are dried fruits which can be eaten as they are, plus, a variety of cookies, and some puddings.
For all groups a staples bag will be packed containing seasonings, extra punch, coffee, tea, sugar, shortening, etc. Plus the following for your evening snacks, if desired: Banana Nut Bread mix, Brownie mix, and/or Popcorn. And for frying those fish, we pack an ample supply of fish mix if desired.
* Recommended for the first day only. ** Recommended for the first or second day only.
Your Choice of Eight Custom-Packed Deluxe Breakfasts:
* Fresh Eggs & Sausage Links, toast, jelly, margarine, coffee, tea, and/or hot chocolate
Fresh Eggs & Bacon, hashbrowns, toast, jelly, coffee, tea, and/or hot chocolate
Oatmeal & Apple Sauce with milk, sugar, coffee, tea, and/or hot chocolate
Pancakes & Bacon, maple flavored syrup, coffee, tea, and/or hot chocolate
Scrambled Eggs with Baco Bits, hashbrowns, coffee, tea, and/or hot chocolate
Granola & Fruit with milk, coffee, tea, and/or hot chocolate
Blueberry Pancakes & Bacon, maple flavored syrup, coffee, tea, and/or hot chocolate
French Toast & Bacon, maple flavored syrup, coffee, tea, and/or hot chocolate
Your Choice of Eight Easy to Prepare Custom-Packed Deluxe Quick Lunches:
** Ham & Cheese Sandwiches, peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, fruit flavored beverage, coffee, tea, dessert
** Lunch Meat & Cheese Sandwiches, peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, fruit flavored beverage, coffee, tea, dessert
Cheese Sandwiches, peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, fruit flavored beverage, coffee, tea, dessert
Sausage Sandwiches, peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, fruit flavored beverage, coffee, tea, dessert
Cheese Chunks, peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, fruit flavored beverage, coffee, tea, dessert
Sausage Chunks, peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, fruit flavored beverage, coffee, tea, dessert
Cream of Chicken Soup, peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, fruit flavored beverage, coffee, tea, dessert
Beef Jerky & Trail Mix, peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, fruit flavored beverage, coffee, tea, dessert.
Your Choice of Twelve Custom-Packed Deluxe Dinners:
* Fresh Fried Chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, vegetables, coffee, tea, fruit flavored beverage, dessert
* Rib-Eye Steak, coffee, tea, fruit flavored beverage, dessert
* Ground Beef, hashbrowns, vegetable, coffee, tea, fruit flavored beverage, dessert
** Ham Dinner
, mashed potatoes, vegetable, coffee, tea, fruit flavored beverage, dessert
** Polish Sausage
, vegetable, coffee, tea, fruit flavored beverage, dessert
Beef & Gravy over mashed potatoes, vegetable, coffee, tea, fruit flavored beverage, dessert
Chicken & Rice, vegetable, coffee, tea, fruit flavored beverage, dessert
Meat Stroganoff, vegetable, coffee, tea, fruit flavored beverage, dessert
Meat & Spaghetti, vegetable, coffee, tea, fruit flavored beverage, dessert
Beef Stew, coffee, tea, fruit flavored beverage, dessert
Chicken a la King with noodles, coffee, tea, fruit flavored beverage, dessert
Macaroni & Cheese, vegetable, coffee, tea, fruit flavored beverage, dessert