[pct-l] Food issues

[dicentra]

That's funny... Sarah is the one who gave me that tip!! We swap food ideas on the trail all the time. She's one of my best recipe testers aka Madame Moochie.

I recently got a vacuume sealer (V-day present - how romantic) and have been playing with it... I'll experiment more.
 
~Dicentra


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--- On Mon, 2/23/09, Stephen <reddirt2 at earthlink.net> wrote:



> W.r.t. vacuum sealing meals or other food, I did this too, and like
> Scott my experience was that for meals the contained sharp pasta or
> the like, I was more comfortable (confident) pouring my boiling water
> into an unused quart ziplock bag rather than using the vacuum bag,
> despite the fact that these are indeed useable for boiling water.
> Related, pasta etc decreased the odds that I would receive the food
> still vacuum sealed; per suggestion from Sarbar I think
> (www.freezerbagcooking.com) I lined the vacuum bag for these meals
> with paper towel.     I vacuum sealed a few other things too, dried
> fruit, for example.  And my wife sometimes included some vacuum sealed
> chocolate chip cookies, which was very nice.
> 
> If I were doing it again, however, I wouldn't bother with the vacuum
> sealer. It was kind of fun and interesting, and I ate most of the
> meals, but there are easier solutions unless you have particular
> dietary constraints/desires.
> Well, I should add as a caveat that now that I own a vacuum sealer and
> have some experience with it, I might "bother" for a few trail stops
> where the store options are particularly limited, but knowing what I
> know now I wouldn't buy a vacuum sealer just for backpacking trips.
> 
> 
> Brian Lewis / Gadget '08
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