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Other than the freezed dried, expensive packets. What do you like to eat while backpacking?
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I would bring one can of chicken meat and add that to a pot of ramen along with some freeze dried peas (peas do very well with freeze drying) and a bit of thyme or sage. That was always the best meal of the trip.
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Surely Muir had something to say about food to take on a trip into the woods.
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"I rolled up some bread and tea in a pair of blankets with some sugar and a tin cup and set off."
http://www.climatecrossroad.net/john_muir_exhibit/life/john_muir_menu_j_parker_huber.html
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I use toasted rolled oats available at TJs. They require 3-5 minutes of cooking. Totally different than any of the "just add hot water" slop which I can't eat either.
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Toasted oatmeal with milk, sugar, and butter in the morning with a cup of hot chocolate
Vienna Sausage with mayo and Del Scorcho sauce, rye crisps with humus and mayo at lunch
6oz tuna packet with mayo and Del Scorcho sauce for dinner
Nut/fruit bars, M&M peanut, corn nuts, tea,
Ramen three meals a day for five days. Tobasco, jerkey, and catsup added
Pancakes with butter and real maple syrup.
Real scrambled eggs with butter in a flour tortilla
Canned string beans carried by another
Quesadillas with chicken added
Dried potatoes in packets various flavors
Fig Newtons
Jerkey
Cheetos, Fritos, etc.
Foster's Bitter
Guiness Draft
Other stuff too.
Bushmills once and only once. What a painful trip that was.
Body fat
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They dry the cow first?
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Regarding milk, I was very disappointed to learn that "Milkman" (stuff in the orange box) dried milk is no longer made, something about too expensive to re-tool the production facility.
For "butter" one can subsitute butter flavored Crisco. Seems to last forever.
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The dry milk packets I use make tasty milk. No lumps and no dry milk taste. We had Carnation dry milk in the house all my life and we drank only skim milk from the bottle most of the time. The packets I use remind me of the bottled skim. Not bad.
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I carry about one stick of butter in a wide mouth 4oz nalgene bottle. The butter stays good. For milk I have little dry milk packets that make 8 oz at a time. The milk and butter help with the sauce a great deal. The milk is also refreshing to drink plain when mixed with cold water.
Some of the pasta sides don't ask for mike and butter or oil, just water.
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It appears that he rarely ate from the land. He talked of bringing flour, or home-made sun-baked flour-and-water "bread" along with some tea on his outings. He would stop sometimes at lumber camps (!) to get a bite to eat! He often just sort of fasted in his travels, eating when he could. He used to complain that bread was a limiting factor for his travels. Lakes weren't stocked with fish when he spent his time in the Sierra, so he couldn't fish, although he was known to have eaten trout when staying at a Yosemite hotel in his later years.
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This was a good day. We had come over from Saddlebag Lake and had done Summit Pass and Virginia Pass. Dale had snuck in the Guiness, chips, and salsa. Nice treat at the end of a hard day.
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I don't mind he packet oatmeals, but I also bring along some dried blueberries to mix with them. I also prepackage some granola and dried milk in small bags, then just add some water. pita bread or tortillas and humus are a lunch staple, along with jerky. Of course the very most important item is my flask of quality sipping whiskey.
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that extra e is to slow you down.
The extra e is usually means it's not Scotch.
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Had 3 Twinkies and 2 Cupcakes on this trip. One for each Pass. (Chiquito, Fernandez, Post, Red, Merced).
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He was alone and when he's not don't even look at the pastries. Stale peanuts in the shell, M&Ms, jerky, water, noodles, OK, but not the Ding Dongs or fruit pies.
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He has a five pound padlock on his two pound bear can.
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At least I think that is what the sixth grade teacher told me.
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I looked some over. The kabob one smacks of an elaborately written peanut butter and jelly sandwich recipe, the type you would have to write in order to teach a nomad in the steppes of Tien Shan via mail how to make a PBJ. I guess Hostess knows their audience.
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When I was a kid, we used to go day packing as a family, each child carrying a little canvas knapsack. Inside each sack was a little gem: a can of Fanta l'aranciata, an Italian version of Orange Soda, except that it was made with REAL orange juice (there would be pulp at the bottom of the can). Mother would wrap each can in cloth and foil, hoping to keep it cold (it never worked) We all got used to drinking them warm, and I STILL crave orange soda when I hike or pack.
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When I was a kid, we used to go day packing as a family, each child carrying a little canvas knapsack. Inside each sack was a little gem: a can of Fanta l'aranciata, an Italian version of Orange Soda, except that it was made with REAL orange juice (there would be pulp at the bottom of the can). Mother would wrap each can in cloth and foil, hoping to keep it cold (it never worked) We all got used to drinking them warm, and I STILL crave orange soda when I hike or pack.
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Try Orangina
I get it at Trader Joes
Sounds kinda like what your describing
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When I was growing up.(ok, not there yet!)
Mom would buy us "Jolly Good" soda. My favorite was Orange.
Jolly Good Soda - It's Real Good
Before the days of "soda is a substitute for water and milk" ... soda was a real treat.
So with much fondness I think of those days at the cottage in summer.
Whenever I guy grape or orange soda the wifie just rolls her eyes...
"you don't REALLY like that do you!?!?"
"um, yes I do... and I like Spaghettios too! (ok... not so much)"
But I do bring Chef-boy-r-dee Ravioli backpacking sometimes too..
no stove required... eat it right out o the can...
Not sure it meets the food requirement either though.
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hah! We werent the only ones who ate the canned ravioli COLD!!
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Anyone remember Bubble Up? Nasty tasting stuff, but I remember it as far back as the mid-80s.
It was better in its early days.Quote
Pepsi used to distribute it, but I don't think they actually made it.
It was was distributed by Coca-Cola before they came up with Sprite.
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Ever wonder where all the thermonuclear waste goes? It's in those things to give them infinite shelf life!
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(I've actually done a lab experiment where we tested for short half-life of alpha irradiation)
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(I've actually done a lab experiment where we tested for short half-life of alpha irradiation)
Radioactives aren't the problem. The reason it works is because the gamma rays (or electrons) ionize molecules in the bacteria. But some molecules in the food also become ionized and this can cause bad flavors to develop.
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While we are on the subject of processed food, it is always worth a few groans to review the FDA allowable contaminants in foods (insects, rodent hairs, etc)
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/dalbook.html
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Mike,
The FDA might define stainless steel as roughage. Good for the digestive track and all that.
Jim
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What's wrong with thousand year old eggs? I actually enjoy them with the proper sauce and company.
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Lagavulin or Laphroaig?
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