[pct-l] Who eats what on the trail??

[dicentra]

Oooh! A food question. Yay! lol.

There is a TON of things you can do with grocery store finds (I have an entire 
book based on that). You do have to look and figure out what ingredients are 
available to work with.  Also (if possible) try more than one grocery store. 
I've learned where to find specific ingredients in my area by shopping around. 
Good stuff at the dollar stores too.


There are NO RULES. 
Take a box of mac n cheese for example. There is nothing that says you can't mix 
the cheese powder with your rice or cous cous and the noodles with a packet of 
pesto sauce mix. Or the pesto sauce mix in your mashed potatoes... 


If you do want to go the dehydrator route, make sure the one you buy has an 
adjustable temperature and a fan. I'm working on a series of recipes that go 
from the crock pot to the dehydrator... blamo! 12 meals, almost instantly! 
Canned things like chili dry very easily too. Make your own instant rice (or 
quinoa or millet...) or instant pasta by cooking and dehydrating it. You can 
either do entire meals put together or dry individual ingredients. Just don't 
dry somthing like peaches and onions together because the flavors will transfer. 
Onion-flavored peaches? Blech!

There is a small handful of things that go in my food bag on EVERY trip - dark 
chocolate, dried mangos, coffee, olive oil, parmesan cheese and salt & pepper. I 
simply cannot eat Mountainhouse, which is partially how I got started developing 
recipes in the first place.
 
I hope that helps. I'm happy to ramble on more... lol.

~Dicentra

http://www.onepanwonders.com ~ Backcountry Cooking at its Finest
http://www.freewebs.com/dicentra

 




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From: greg mushial <gmushial at gmdr.com>
To: pct-l at backcountry.net
Sent: Wed, September 8, 2010 11:05:21 AM
Subject: [pct-l] Who eats what on the trail??

This question starts with the following comment:

> For good food you may want to make your own and dehydrate it. Read Linda 
> Yaffe's book "backpacking gourmet" on trail food recipies.
> use a good dehydrator like the Excaliber (check Graig's list). Use a 
> Vacuum sealing system. You will be amazed how good the food is and you 
> control what is in it.

On the trail, I've been eating mostly finger foods, cliffbars and Mountain 
House dehydrated, bought in #10 cans...  but I must admit, they are getting 
"old", ie, eating has become something one does, not looks forward to. My 
question is: how many people are making their own trail foods (dehydrated, 
and/or, vacuum sealed)? And are there creations of your own that you'd kill 
for..  maybe too strong a word...  that if you didn't have along, the trip 
would be diminished (this also seems like an opportunity to add variety to a 
long walk)? What type of meals are people putting together (I'm thinking 
mostly dinners here)? In trail journals one sees lots of peanutbutter and 
tortillas...  I'm not sure that's any better than MH fd Spaghetti (though it 
does save cooking)...
many thanks - TheDuck 

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