[pct-l] Scott's diet

[Steel-Eye]

Good evening, Josh,

I've used bean powder for quite a while.  Dried beans of your choice can be
soaked and cooked at home, but it takes quite a while to get them really
thick and ready to dry.  You could follow any recipe for refried beans.  I
take a shortcut:  I buy a #10 can (1 gallon, 7 lbs.) of refried beans from
Costco for $3.  The refried bean paste is spread on the solid sheets of a
food dryer and thoroughly dried.  After drying I give it a ride in the food
processor to make it into fine powder.  In my last batch, the 7 lbs. of
refried beans yielded 26 ounces of very dry powder.  I put ¼ cup of powder
in a snack-size Ziploc bag for one 170-Calorie serving.  I got 18 servings
from the batch.

I like to mix seasoning into the beans paste before I dry it, but it could
also be added after it's dried.  Mostly I use that packaged taco-mix powder.
The bean powder is very dry, and if it is kept sealed it should last for a
very long time, far longer than what a hiker needs.

When it's time to eat I pour some water in the Ziploc, seal it up, then
kneed it around a bit.  It doesn't take very long to reconstitute -- just
minutes.  I tried to reconstitute with oil rather than water to increase the
Calorie content but I was unsuccessful.  Sometimes I mix some dehydrated
cheese powder in with the bean powder for a change.

To eat the reconstituted paste I just bite a hole in the lower corner of the
Ziploc and squeeze it out like toothpaste.  That way I have nothing to clean
up, not even a spreading knife.

Enjoy,

Steel-Eye

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joshua Barraza" <jbarraza at gmail.com>
To: <pct-l at backcountry.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 7:34 PM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Scott's diet


> How does one prepare these beans?
> How long do they last that way?
>
> Thanks
> Josh
>
>
>
>
> On 6/19/08, kcristler <kerouc at verizon.net> wrote:
>>            There may be some confusion on the beans
>> scott eats. They are no doubt precooked and dehydrated
>> beans, which are then reconstituted. Reconstituting an uncooked, dried
>> bean
>> would take forever, and then some.
>> \                      Kerry
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Darren" <talhog at yahoo.com>
>> To: <Pct-l at backcountry.net>
>> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 1:01 PM
>> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Scott's diet
>>
>>
>> interesting to read that he packs dried beans and soaks them. I was
>> thinking
>> of doing that.
>> I was also thinking of sprouting on the trail for fresh greens. I could
>> soak
>> the seeds at camp then
>> maybe rig up something on the top of my pack for sprouting while I hike.
>> Sounds crazy but has
>> anyone tried that?
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: "acu4harmony at aol.com" <acu4harmony at aol.com>
>> To: pct-l at backcountry.net
>> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 12:48:50 PM
>> Subject: [pct-l] Scott's diet
>>
>> I noticed interest in Scott's diet and since I have watched him over the
>> years packing and preparing I thought I would share his diet.?
>> He starts the day off with a shake which he puts in?a green supplement
>> that
>> has all the greens you need for the day plus he adds?spirilla and a
>> natural
>> protien powder and soy?milk powder & water of coarse.? I did the shakes
>> last
>> summer and loved them.? They give you lots of energy.? Scott made his own
>> bars this summer and he did a great job.? They are so yummy.? He likes to
>> snack all day and doesn't really stop for?breaks.? So he brings lots of
>> easy
>> food to snack on like dried fruit,?pretzals, nuts, tofu jerky, rice
>> cakes?and nori roll snacks that we get at the health food store.??For
>> dinner
>> he eats dehydrated black beans that he spices up and?starts soaking about
>> 3
>> hours before dinner and adds olive oil and chips.? He always packs
>> cookies
>> or choclate for dessert.? He does carry honey, salt and emergancy
>> drinks.??
>> Most all the food he packs is organic.?I chose to cook last summer.? I
>> can't
>> stomach the beans.? I do know that Joe has picked up his diet and
>>  eats a lot of the sam
>> e things and notices a huge differance in his over all energy.
>> Michelle?????
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