[pct-l] MREs?

[David Thibault]

I do the same sometimes and like the variety.  I have just started seeing
Freeze Dried Spices showing up at the local stores here.  While I haven't
tried them yet I wish they had been around last year as I am sure I would
have packed a bunch of them to help liven up meals.

My favorite was just to add mixed dried veggies to just about anything
(bought at the bulk section at home).  Sometime extra spices would liven
things up too.

Another favorite was to take some bisquick with powdered milk (Nido) and add
that to a soup/Stew (like Bear Creek or Mrs Grass)  - Nothing like hot
dumplings to fill that hike hunger.  Mix with water in a ziplock and squeeze
into the soup/stew after it boils.  Cook longer or let it rest in a cozzy.
Very satisfying.

Day-Late



>   Stephen Wrote:
>

I like to pack a lot of bulk stuff for my meals.  Cereal mixes, dried milk,
> dried fruits, brown sugar all in baggies so I can make what I feel like, and
> a lot less packaging along the way.  For lunches same thing, and dinner or
> supper meals I have a bag of pasta, quinoa elbows, rice, dried beans, and
> stuff like that, a couple bags of dried veggies, or freeze dried for
> longevity, a spice flavor soup base and olive oil bag that contains garlic
> and or garlic salt, soup base, red pepper, perhaps some basil, chili powder
> and so forth.  For main meals this seems to work pretty good for stuff four
> days or longer, and I eat good.  Last couple years I've been eating
> breakfast a little farther along into the day about ten in the morning and
> then having two smaller lunches of peanut butter or whatever to keep me
> going into the afternoon.  And a lot of snacks, anything I can fit and
> carry.  A guy's got to eat, but this approach has been working for me for a
> long time and up to ten plus d
>  ays' of food.
>