[pct-l] Hot food therapy
Ned Tibbits
ned at mountaineducation.com
Sat Jun 21 00:25:30 CDT 2008
Will,
At the end of my day, I so look forward to the pleasures of the camp:
the routine of selecting just the right place to crash, getting water,
pitching the tent, and settling in to cook great food I've been
looking forward to all day while resting in my sleeping bag
knowing that the swarming mosquitoes outside can't
disturb my joy. I look over the maps for the next day and try to
imagine what excitement will be given to me tomorrow.
A hot meal brings me peace and calms my body.
Long live camping!
Thanks Colin!
Mtnned
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Will Hiltz" <will.hiltz at gmail.com>
To: "Steel-Eye" <chelin at teleport.com>
Cc: <pct-l at backcountry.net>
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Scott's diet
IMHO one of the big aspects that you no-cook folks overlook is the mental
aspect of hot food. There is a real ritualistic pleasure I derive from
cooking a hot meal at the end of the day (even if it is just ramen and a
lipton side...) even if it has been 90 degrees all day. One also deprives
oneself of the ability to whip up a little hot tea/coffee/hot chocolate
which in my experience can be a great warm-up when its rainy out or you're
feeling blue. A big factor for me is just the morale boost from putting
down somthing hot. I can tell you that in Washington after a cold, hard,
rainy day I want nothing more than something warm before I hit the sack.
The idea of eating a bag full of cold pea and cheese powders (especially at
a wet 40 degrees) just sounds dreadful to me (no offense intended, Steel-Eye
and others). Just a little .02 on a Saturday morning.
YITOOD,
Easy
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Steel-Eye <chelin at teleport.com> wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> As an addendum to my comments below about bean powder, the exact same
> process can be used to make "pea powder".
>
> Just open a can of condensed split pea soup and dry it in lieu of the
> refried beans.
>
> Steel-Eye
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steel-Eye" <chelin at teleport.com>
> To: "Joshua Barraza" <jbarraza at gmail.com>; <pct-l at backcountry.net>
> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 10:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Scott's diet
>
>
> Good evening, Josh,
>
> I've used bean powder for quite a while. Dried beans of your choice can
> be
> soaked and cooked at home, but it takes quite a while to get them really
> thick and ready to dry. You could follow any recipe for refried beans. I
> take a shortcut: I buy a #10 can (1 gallon, 7 lbs.) of refried beans from
> Costco for $3. The refried bean paste is spread on the solid sheets of a
> food dryer and thoroughly dried. After drying I give it a ride in the
> food
> processor to make it into fine powder. In my last batch, the 7 lbs. of
> refried beans yielded 26 ounces of very dry powder. I put ¼ cup of powder
> in a snack-size Ziploc bag for one 170-Calorie serving. I got 18 servings
> from the batch.
>
> I like to mix seasoning into the beans paste before I dry it, but it could
> also be added after it's dried. Mostly I use that packaged taco-mix
> powder.
> The bean powder is very dry, and if it is kept sealed it should last for a
> very long time, far longer than what a hiker needs.
>
> When it's time to eat I pour some water in the Ziploc, seal it up, then
> kneed it around a bit. It doesn't take very long to reconstitute -- just
> minutes. I tried to reconstitute with oil rather than water to increase
> the
> Calorie content but I was unsuccessful. Sometimes I mix some dehydrated
> cheese powder in with the bean powder for a change.
>
> To eat the reconstituted paste I just bite a hole in the lower corner of
> the
> Ziploc and squeeze it out like toothpaste. That way I have nothing to
> clean
> up, not even a spreading knife.
>
> Enjoy,
>
> Steel-Eye
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joshua Barraza" <jbarraza at gmail.com>
> To: <pct-l at backcountry.net>
> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 7:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Scott's diet
>
>
> > How does one prepare these beans?
> > How long do they last that way?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Josh
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 6/19/08, kcristler <kerouc at verizon.net> wrote:
> >> There may be some confusion on the beans
> >> scott eats. They are no doubt precooked and dehydrated
> >> beans, which are then reconstituted. Reconstituting an uncooked, dried
> >> bean
> >> would take forever, and then some.
> >> \ Kerry
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Darren" <talhog at yahoo.com>
> >> To: <Pct-l at backcountry.net>
> >> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 1:01 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Scott's diet
> >>
> >>
> >> interesting to read that he packs dried beans and soaks them. I was
> >> thinking
> >> of doing that.
> >> I was also thinking of sprouting on the trail for fresh greens. I could
> >> soak
> >> the seeds at camp then
> >> maybe rig up something on the top of my pack for sprouting while I
> >> hike.
> >> Sounds crazy but has
> >> anyone tried that?
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message ----
> >> From: "acu4harmony at aol.com" <acu4harmony at aol.com>
> >> To: pct-l at backcountry.net
> >> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 12:48:50 PM
> >> Subject: [pct-l] Scott's diet
> >>
> >> I noticed interest in Scott's diet and since I have watched him over
> >> the
> >> years packing and preparing I thought I would share his diet.?
> >> He starts the day off with a shake which he puts in?a green supplement
> >> that
> >> has all the greens you need for the day plus he adds?spirilla and a
> >> natural
> >> protien powder and soy?milk powder & water of coarse.? I did the shakes
> >> last
> >> summer and loved them.? They give you lots of energy.? Scott made his
> own
> >> bars this summer and he did a great job.? They are so yummy.? He likes
> to
> >> snack all day and doesn't really stop for?breaks.? So he brings lots of
> >> easy
> >> food to snack on like dried fruit,?pretzals, nuts, tofu jerky, rice
> >> cakes?and nori roll snacks that we get at the health food store.??For
> >> dinner
> >> he eats dehydrated black beans that he spices up and?starts soaking
> about
> >> 3
> >> hours before dinner and adds olive oil and chips.? He always packs
> >> cookies
> >> or choclate for dessert.? He does carry honey, salt and emergancy
> >> drinks.??
> >> Most all the food he packs is organic.?I chose to cook last summer.? I
> >> can't
> >> stomach the beans.? I do know that Joe has picked up his diet and
> >> eats a lot of the sam
> >> e things and notices a huge differance in his over all energy.
> >> Michelle?????
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