[pct-l] cheese

[Steel-Eye]

Good morning, Marion,

I'm with you in liking string cheese; the stuff is great.  I don't usually
put it in resupply boxes, but I try to walk away from every trail town with
a bunch of it.  I've had it last several weeks in the pack, but usually only
if I overlook a piece somehow.  Otherwise I eat all in the first few days
because I can't keep my hands off of it.  After several days in the heat it
does gets softer, and it swells up a bit, but I eat it anyway.

I also use other varieties of individually-wrapped cheese which are probably
better in terms of high oil content and low weight ... meaning less moisture
... but string cheese is my all-time favorite.

Steel-Eye

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marion Davison" <mardav at charter.net>
To: "PCT List" <pct-l at mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 9:29 PM
Subject: [pct-l] cheese


> My favorite trail cheese has not been mentioned.  Mozarella Sting cheese
> that is shrink wrapped in one ounce sticks.  It is dirt cheap at Costco.
> I have put it in resupply boxes and let it sit unrefrigerated for as
> much as a month.  All that happens is it becomes more sharp and
> delicious in flavor.  I have never had any get moldy or had any ill
> effects from eating the stuff thats been out of the fridge for a month.
>  And since each ounce is wrapped, and you eat it as soon as you open
> it, that eliminates the contamination-from-the-hands problem.  It is
> great stuffed in a pita, stripped and laid across bread, or melted over
> dinner.
> MMM good
> Marion
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