[pct-l] Scott's diet

Fri Jun 20 20:04:53 CDT 2008

IMHO one of the big aspects that you no-cook folks overlook is the mental
aspect of hot food.  There is a real ritualistic pleasure I derive from
cooking a hot meal at the end of the day (even if it is just ramen and a
lipton side...) even if it has been 90 degrees all day.  One also deprives
oneself of the ability to whip up a little hot tea/coffee/hot chocolate
which in my experience can be a great warm-up when its rainy out or you're
feeling blue.  A big factor for me is just the morale boost from putting
down somthing hot.  I can tell you that in Washington after a cold, hard,
rainy day I want nothing more than something warm before I hit the sack.
The idea of eating a bag full of cold pea and cheese powders (especially at
a wet 40 degrees) just sounds dreadful to me (no offense intended, Steel-Eye
and others).  Just a little .02 on a Saturday morning.

YITOOD,

Easy

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Steel-Eye <chelin at teleport.com> wrote:

> Good morning,
>
> As an addendum to my comments below about bean powder, the exact same
> process can be used to make "pea powder".
>
> Just open a can of condensed split pea soup and dry it in lieu of the
> refried beans.
>
> Steel-Eye
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steel-Eye" <chelin at teleport.com>
> To: "Joshua Barraza" <jbarraza at gmail.com>; <pct-l at backcountry.net>
> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 10:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Scott's diet
>
>
> 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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