[pct-l] Who eats what on the trail??
David Thibault
dthibaul07 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 9 22:18:17 CDT 2010
Before you vaccum pack them add a paper towel around the inside of the
vacuum bag. This will stop (mostly) the sharp food from puncturing the
bags.
Also, I highly recommend Dicentra's book. She has tons of recipes that you
can make at home that do not require a dehydrator. I do both dehydrated and
just throw together ingredients (alla Decentra's book) and find both work
really well.
I try not to pre buy things such as bars or boxed items like mac and cheese
as these are always available and easy to get sick of.
I can't eat Freeze Dried stuff more than a day or two without being sick of
it - the meals I make myself are much better.
Also check out the book "Lip Smackin Backpacking" for ideas. Your Library
may have it.
Some of my favorites:
Seafood stew:
1/2 c instant mashed potatoes
1/2 c milk powder
1 tbs butter buds
1 tsp Old Bay Seasoning
a dash Celery Seed
1 or 2 3 oz pouches of seafood (crab, shrimp, oysters, etc)
Boil 2 C water. Add everything. let sit in pot cozy 10-20 minutes.
Tortilinni w/ pesto:
Dryed Tortilini
Dry Pesto Mix
Pine Nuts
Olive Oil
For Breakfast try:
Dicentra's Golden Bugler http://www.onepanwonders.com/breakfasts.htm
No need to cook this just mix in ziplock and let sit in pack for 30-45
minutes as you hike then stop and enjoy.
Nice crunchy flavor.
Day-Late
>
> When you vacuum pack dehydrated meals, bits of the food are likely to
> puncture the bag. I weighed my dehydrated meals into zip lock bags, then
> vacuum packed the zip lock and contents. The idea was to rehydrate the
> meals in the zip lock. I discovered before I left that nearly every zip
> lock bag had pin holes in it and would not hold water. My only solution
> at that time was to toss in an extra empty zip lock for each day on the
> trail so that each punctured zip lock could be put into a new zip lock
> before adding water. This was a workable, but less than optimum solution
> to the problem.
>
>
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