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Food and drink in the woods?

Kempire

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I'm always super reluctant taking anything to eat or drink (sans water) due to trying to minimize scent when bowhunting. By the end of a day in a stand I'm fixing to fall over from hunger and there are points where I'd trade my bow for a cup of coffee. Just curious what everyone else does for food and drink while hunting or is everyone as paranoid as I am?
 

bowhunter1023

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If you think a deer will smell a PB&J sammich and get spooked, you might be paranoid! rotflmao

I always have a Cliff bar and/or jerky in my pack, along with water on all hunts and coffee on morning hunts. When I sit all day, I'll take a thermos of hot soup if it's cold, or a sammich and sides. Man's gotta eat if he's going to be at his best.
 

giles

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Yup, PB&J some granola bars of some sort, those PB&cheese crackers and water. Usually a smart water because the bottle doesn’t crinkle and I can refill it until I misplace it. Early season I sometimes carry a small bag of baby carrots.
 

Mike

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The best lunch I had during gun season last year was a thermos full of Italian wedding soup.
 
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MK111

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Coffee, meat or PB sandwich, no spicy spread, apples, water, breakfast bars with nuts. Just depends how long I'm out but I do a lot of all day sets in my tower. Plus at lunch time when it's slow I go to the turnip-radish-rutabaga patch and get fresh produce.
If your scared of bad breath from eating just stop breathing. LOL
 
We almost always have food and drink, even for an evening hunt. It is vitally essential to take food and drink when doing an all day hunt especially in cold weather. Your body needs the calories to keep you warm. It also helps break the day up a little.
 

rsmith

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Gotta ask. Does anyone else make their PB&J on one slice of bread so it's more like finger food? (4 or 5 will fit in a baggie)

Shot my doe last year just after I finished chewing my peanut butter and banana sandwich. Hahah I also use 1 slice of bread and fold it over. I have to because I got a huge beard and mustache so if I don’t I end up getting it all over it. For snacks I bring about 4 single bread slice peanut butter and banana sandwiches, a cliff bar, and a blender bottle with 20oz of skim milk and a scoop of chocolate protein to help keep me fueled. That’s just for one am or pm hunt [emoji23]

Also I put all my stuff in zip lock bags with the slider on them to make it quiet.
 
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Quantum673

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Gotta ask. Does anyone else make their PB&J on one slice of bread so it's more like finger food? (4 or 5 will fit in a baggie)
I do. That way I can just grab one out at a time. I also take granola bars or crackers out of their wrapper. I use freezer bags instead of sandwich bags to put things in. They are thicker plastic and do not make as much noise when opening.
 

Jamie

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Deer fear the odor of human beings. they don't even know what coffee, candy, cigarettes, chewing tobacco, pizza or any other thing you may need to get through the day smells like. A few years ago on an all dayer in a tree stand I ate a sammich and some trail mix for lunch, drank some coffee. later in the afternoon just before I would expect deer to be moving again I ate an apple. A week or so prior a scrape appeared not 20 yards from that stand. When I got done eating the apple, just for the hell of it, I tossed the apple core as close to that scrape as I could. it landed within a foot or so. About two hours later a respectable 2 1/2 year old 4X4 slipped in and went right to that scrape. He spotted that apple core and immediately grabbed it up and ate it, no hesitation at all! I nearly busted out laughing out loud. He went on to hammer that scrape and then on his merry way looking for love. wind was cleverly in my favor so all he smelled was an apple core that I had touched, and it did not cause him to take pause for a nanosecond. food is not a problem from a scent control standpoint, imo. I'm more concerned getting busted moving around in the stand while I eat than a deer smelling my lunch.
 
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MK111

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Back in the old days my friends were scared of anything that smelled. Even took pee bottles along to use and now we pee in scrapes. Just goes to show if you ask and pay attention we may learn new things to use and do.
 

Kempire

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Man I'm glad I made this post. I love being out in the woods to begin with, but hunting is about to get way more enjoyable.