[pct-l] Cookless Soak-N-Eat Foods

[jeffmoorehead1 at cox.net (Jeff Moorehead)]

Any chance your wife might be willing to part with the (successful) 
recipes??


> If you are willing to dehydrate your own food, you could make your own 
> tasty, nutritious meals that you could hydrate without cooking. My wife 
> did that for the Kennedy Meadows to Lake Tahoe section with success. 
> However, she did find some meals that didn't hydrate well in cold water 
> and others that she no longer liked after several days. I believe this 
> would also work from Campo to Kennedy Meadows without problem.
>
> I also met a hiker who did the whole trail without any cooking nor 
> dehydrated foods - mainly nuts and vitamins.
>
> However, I would not suggest going without a stove the whole way. When it 
> gets cold, you really need something hot. By the time you reach Oregon and 
> Washington, the weather will often turn quite cold and damp. And, I think 
> you have more variety options with cooking.
>
> But, with each trail town within 3 to 7 days of each other, I suspect that 
> going stoveless could work - if your other equipment will protect you if 
> it turns cold and wet. Each to their own.
>
> Marshall Karon
> Portland, OR
> m.karon@comcast.net
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Bluce Ree" <bluceree_superstar@yahoo.com>
>> To: "Deems" <losthiker@sisqtel.net>; "pct" 
>> <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 12:06 PM
>> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Instant coffee tastes awful?? Cowboy Coffee
>>
>>
>>> I was wondering if anyone had luck with soaking foods
>>> ie beans, rice instead of cooking them. I'd like to
>>> ditch my stove for this hike. Any ideas?
>>>
>>> aloha, Bluce
>>
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