[pct-l] Non-Vegan Diet

[Bighummel@aol.com]

I especially enjoy good beef jerky when I hike and have considered making it 
a more significant part of my diet.  I am not a gourmet cook and like to keep 
my menus very simple.  I have been searching for the taste and texture of 
some homemade jerky that a friend's mother made many years ago.  I haven't 
found it in the commercial jerky yet and so I'm planning to start making my 
own.  To this end I came across a list of 25 beef jerky recipes at:

<< http://www.alanofdale.com/BeefJerky/default.htm >>  

Jerky is an excellent lightweight, compact source of protein and a little 
fat.  It is, in my limited research, the best ratio of high protein to low 
fat in foods.

My next menu is shaping up in my mind as follows:

Beef jerky,
A wild and wide composition gorp (varied dried fruit, varied nuts, 
M&Ms/Reese's Pieces, etc.).
French bread,
peanut butter,
coffee.

The only thing that I have to cook is warming water for coffee in the 
morning.  This will enable me to carry an ultralite alcohol stove and very 
little alcohol.  

Note: in order to avoid boredom the quality of all of the food items must be 
exceptional. 

Now, to attack the rest of my pack weight .  .  .  

Damn, I never thought that I would sell out to the ultraliters but sitting 
around home with no escape to the wilderness has set my bored mind to working 
and, well,   . . .   I don't want to hear any sh*t from you, Monte, you 
already sold out long ago!

Best regards,

Greg "Strider" Hummel
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