Harvest Meals

[MBgrower]

Never stop here to eat, food on the go, sandwich and bottled water. No alcohol allowed here when operating machinery. I agree on the comment about eating too much, after all, U are sitting on your ass for 16 hrs a day, need to watch the food intake. Not much time to get a jog in during harvest.

[SASKFARMER3]

I still have our dinner delivered by my two parents. Mom loves to cook and dad comes out to see how its going. He doesn't run a machine any more.

Dinner is main meal and for supper we have sandwiches dropped off in late afternoon by them to put in the fridges and are eaten on go. Usually with strait cut we are done by 8 or 9. So if someone is really hungry they eat when all get back to main yard.

Fridges are full with drinks etc and storage compartments have what ever the driver likes to snack on from peanuts hotrods bars what ever they ask for when we make the costco run before harvest. Each morning the driver goes to the farm house and takes what he thinks he would like to snack on all day.

Then on weekends its delivered from town, Chicken, pizza, Chinese food etc.

[jamesb]

Back in the day meals in the field was a big deal but we moved away from stopping years ago and went to Tupperware plates dropped at the combines and trucks and just ate on the go. However in the past year and this year I have more teenagers working in the picture and we stop for a bit until university and high school starts up. As the quarterback I need to make sure everybody is ok and on the same page. A 15-20 stop doesn't hurt either. Beef stew, roast pork with fresh made apple sauce, fried chicken and roast beef are great. The odd pizza from town is ok too. Homemade burgers can be eaten on the go in Sept.

[makar]

i refuse to eat in the field, i dont stop till i am done or broke down, eat at home, often in the a m, but that is me. Cant stand people driving over swaths to bring lunch 2.5 seconds faster.

[Jay-mo]

I usually pack enough food for all day. Sandwiches, fruit, nuts, fresh veggies and a can of Monster. A can of Monster around noon keeps me from getting the early afternoon nods....lol
Then eat when I get home later.
Last year, I think we had a total of 3 good harvesting days, so stopping to eat just doesn't make sense.
If a hot meal does get brought to the field then we will eat in shifts, with someone keeping combine's, cart and trucks rolling.

[foragefarmer]

Sk3

" still have our dinner delivered by my two parents."

Doesn't your wife get involved with meals? That would be the day my wife would sit around and make my mother do all the cooking? Even when my wife operates the combine my sister in-law does all the cooking!

[Oliver88]

You are just a jealous birdbrain!

Those two trolls are for sure.

[farmaholic]

Come on guys....I'm sure SK3's parents want to be involved in the capacity they're able to be.....its a bloody obsession/addiction for some. I'm thinking if they didn't want to they wouldn't, or be expected to. For some old people its their way of feeling useful and contributing. Maybe SF3's bride has a professional career....and I don't think they live where they farm.

[sumdumguy]

Often when meals are brought out at supper time, the poor sucker bringing out the food gets roped into taxiing or running for a truck or sent to fuel something up. That's how we like it - 3 generations involved and happy to see each others' smiling faces😁

[Ache4Acres]

Our best harvest meals are anything homemade And even better if it's warm! We have been blessed with beautiful on farm meals usually complete with dessert!

[biglentil]

If we had a harvest meal cook off sorry boyz you would all lose badly. My mother makes the best homemade cabbage rolls you've ever had complete with sour cabbage, lots of garlic, heavy beef, garden tomato sauce. Beetniks that melt in your mouth. Baba pinched pan fried saukraut and bacon perogies with onions, Sourcreme. Meatloaf that melts in your mouth with delicious garden vegetables. Margarine and low fat not on your life. You couldn't find the quality of meals we get in a restaurant anywhere thats no lie.

[SASKFARMER3]

To all the trolls if you don't know by now my wife has a great job in the city.
I have always said its a family farm and yes at almost 90 and mid 80s they enjoy the farm.