Cliff Wold’s Custom Packed Deluxe Meals

To access our online Menu Selection Form, click here.

At Cliff Wold’s, we know great food is a key ingredient to a satisfying canoe trip. The meals are our own in-house recipes – you won’t find these anywhere else!  

We combine top quality freeze dried meats (no artificial preservatives, no artificial flavors or colors and gluten free!) and freeze dried vegetables with our special homemade gravies and sauces to make the finest, tastiest meals you will find on the canoe trails.

Our freeze dried food is extremely lightweight and retains most of the nutritional quality, taste, shape and size compared to air dried foods.  

How the Food is Packaged and Packed

Our trained staff prepares, measures and packages each meal specifically for your group’s particular size.  All fresh foods are flash frozen to keep them fresh until you are ready to leave for the canoe trails.

The food is packed by the meal and by the day to make it convenient for you to easily find all the ingredients for each meal.  Every meal package has a check-off list of contents and each individual food package has cooking directions on how to prepare the food item. 

A “ditty bag” is packed for each group and contains odds and ends for each meal, including paper towels, a cleaning kit, salt & pepper, coffee, tea, sugar, creamer, etc.  Plus, if desired, fish mix and any evening snacks (Chocolate Chip Muffin mix, Brownie mix, and/or Popcorn). 

How to Select Your Canoe Trail Menu

Please Note: Your Menu Selection Form should be completed at least 2 weeks before your arrival date to ensure all of your food and equipment are packed and ready to go when you arrive.

This form gives us the final count should the group size change from the original reservation. If the group comes up short of the number of people placed on this form, there is a $25 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. Our trips begin with lunch on the first day and end after breakfast on the last day, which covers the travel schedule for most groups.  A 6-day trip, for example, will contain 15 meals – 5 breakfasts, 5 lunches and 5 dinners. If you plan to stay out later on the last day, an extra lunch can be packed for a nominal fee.

Selecting your Breakfasts

Cliff Wold’s provides a wide selection of hearty breakfast options.  We pack 2 ½ eggs per person, per serving, to cover for any potential breakage.  The “Scrambled Eggs with Bacon Bits” contain freeze dried eggs.  Our bacon is extra smoked for long life out on the Canoe Trails.  Our syrup is a homemade dry recipe which cooks down when added to boiling water.  

Optional beverages include: Ely’s own Gene Hick’s Gourmet coffee, decaf coffee, Lipton Tea, orange breakfast drink and our own Cliff Wold’s Hot Chocolate mix!

Your Choice of 9 Custom Packed Deluxe Breakfasts:

  • Fresh Eggs & Sausage Links, toast, jelly, butter, coffee, tea, and/or hot chocolate
  • Fresh Eggs & Bacon, hashbrowns, toast, jelly, butter, coffee, tea, and/or hot chocolate
  • Maple & Brown Sugar Oatmeal and Dried Fruit with milk, sugar, coffee, tea, and/or hot chocolate
  • Pancakes & Bacon, maple flavored syrup, coffee, tea, and/or hot chocolate
  • Scrambled Eggs with Bacon Bits, hashbrowns, coffee, tea, and/or hot chocolate
  • Breakfast Skillet, hashbrowns, coffee, tea, and/or hot chocolate
  • Crapola! Cranberry Apple Granola & Dried 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

Selecting your Lunches

Just like our breakfast options, you have a large selection lunch choices!  Swiss Cheese is used in the “Ham and Cheese”.  American Cheese is used in both the “Lunch Meat and Cheese” and “Cheese Sandwiches”.   Our “Sausage Sandwiches” is summer sausage.  The summer sausage, beef sticks and beef jerky are all purchased locally here in Ely. 

Our lunch desserts are select full size candy bars – Snickers, Milky Way, M&M’s, and other top selling brands.  Do not short change the “Peanut Butter & Jelly” sandwiches included in every lunch.   Optional with every lunch is fruit flavored beverage. 

Your Choice of 7 Easy to Prepare Custom Packed Deluxe Quick Lunches:

  • Ham & Cheese Sandwiches, peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, fruit flavored beverage, dessert
  • Lunch Meat & Cheese Sandwiches, peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, fruit flavored beverage, dessert
  • Cheese Sandwiches, peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, fruit flavored beverage, dessert
  • Sausage Sandwiches, peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, fruit flavored beverage, dessert
  • Cheese Sticks, peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, fruit flavored beverage, dessert
  • Beef Sticks, peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, fruit flavored beverage, dessert
  • Beef Jerky & Trail Mix, peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, fruit flavored beverage, dessert.

Selecting your Dinners

We have 5 fresh dinner options for your 1st and/or 2nd dinners and 9 freeze dried options for the remainder of your trip.   

Our fresh chicken is a boneless chicken breast, and our sirloin steak is all boneless. Other fresh options include the ground beef patty, ham dinner or polish sausage. The average serving of all our fresh meats is 6 ounces.  

Our other dinner options (except Macaroni & Cheese) contain freeze dried meat, when reconstituted with water, average out to be the equivalent of 3-4 ounces of meat.  Each dinner contains a dessert, which is an assortment of cookies, granola bars or dried fruit.  

Optional dinner beverages include: Ely’s own Gene Hick’s Gourmet coffee, decaf coffee, Lipton Tea, and fruit flavored beverage. 

Your Choice of 14 Custom Packed Deluxe Dinners:

  • Chicken Breast, mashed potatoes, gravy, vegetables, coffee, tea, fruit flavored beverage, dessert
  • Sirloin Steak, hash browns, coffee, tea, fruit flavored beverage, dessert
  • Ground Beef Patty, hash browns, vegetable, coffee, tea, fruit flavored beverage, dessert
  • Ham Dinner, mashed potatoes, vegetable, coffee, tea, fruit flavored beverage, dessert
  • Polish Sausage, mashed potatoes, 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
  • Beef Stroganoff, vegetable, coffee, tea, fruit flavored beverage, dessert
  • Dirty Rice with Ground Beef, vegetable, coffee, tea, fruit flavored beverage, dessert
  • Chicken Alfredo, vegetable, coffee, tea, fruit flavored beverage, dessert
  • Spaghetti & Meat Sauce, vegetable, coffee, tea, fruit flavored beverage, dessert
  • Chicken Noodle Soup, coffee, tea, fruit flavored beverage, dessert
  • Beef Stew, coffee, tea, fruit flavored beverage, dessert
  • Macaroni & Cheese, vegetable, coffee, tea, fruit flavored beverage, dessert