[pct-l] Fw: Re: Non-Cooked Food - Share Your Recipes!

Wed Feb 9 15:05:18 CST 2011

Someone suggested putting a paper towel between the bag and the food. There
are obvious downsides here. You can't see what in the bag, but this can be
resolved by labeling. You are stuck with a bunch of paper towels. Perhaps
use them as TP? Will it add weight? If you use it as TP, the paper towels
become dual purpose items. That saves weight!

I've had the same experience as you. I will vacuum seal the bags, but a
couple days later, the vacuum is lost. Even my bags of blueberries lose
their vacuum packaging. I'm not sure I'm going to even bother anymore. I'll
just stick stuff in ziplocks. At least I can sometimes use those bags in the
field. The vacuum bags simply become trash.

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 1:37 PM, linsey <mowoggirl at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I use a sealer all the time, but rarely in vacuum sealer mode.  Since I
> like to send resupply boxes, I feel like I can send myself all my favorite
> stuff:  refills of 100% natural Burt Bee's sunscreen, unscented hand
> sanitizer, just the right amount of oilive--I seal tons of stuff like this
> without vacuum.  However everything I've tried to "vacuum seal" ended up
> with holes in the packaging eventually just from normal jostling...somehow
> many foodstuffs seem to have sharp corners when vacuum sealed and it just
> doesn't hold up for me.
>
> --- On Tue, 2/8/11, John Casterline <tnx4asking at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: John Casterline <tnx4asking at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Fw: Re: Non-Cooked Food - Share Your Recipes!
> To: "linsey" <mowoggirl at yahoo.com>
> Date: Tuesday, February 8, 2011, 6:40 PM
>
> Have u tried vacuum sealing ?
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 9:00 PM, linsey <mowoggirl at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> --- On Tue, 2/8/11, linsey <mowoggirl at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: linsey <mowoggirl at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [pct-l]  Non-Cooked Food - Share Your Recipes!
> To: "giniajim" <jplynch at crosslink.net>
>
> Date: Tuesday, February 8, 2011, 5:58 PM
>
> They keep fine for a couple/few weeks, at home I keep them frozen then they
> go into a resupply box and do fine thru the mail and then some.  Recently I
> ate some that had been sitting out thawed for about four months, part of
> that time in the fridge, and they tasted somewhat stale but didn't make me
> sick.  I've also eaten them after being frozen over a year and they were
> okay but not as good as say 6 months frozen or fresh...
>
>
> --- On Tue, 2/8/11, giniajim <jplynch at crosslink.net> wrote:
>
> From: giniajim <jplynch at crosslink.net>
> Subject: Re: [pct-l]  Non-Cooked Food - Share Your Recipes!
>
> To: "linsey" <mowoggirl at yahoo.com>, pct-l at backcountry.net,
> pacificcresttrail2011 at gmail.com, pcronshaw at cox.net
>
> Date:
>  Tuesday, February 8, 2011, 5:45 PM
>
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>
>
> How do these keep, especially during hot weather
> hiking?
>
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From:
>  linsey
>
>  To: pct-l at backcountry.net ; pacificcresttrail2011 at gmail.com
>
>  ; pcronshaw at cox.net
>  Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 8:39
>  PM
>  Subject: [pct-l] Non-Cooked Food - Share
>  Your Recipes!
>
> These homemade bars obviously need to be made in advance, but
>
>  once on the trail they are no-cook.  I've made nearly 1000 of them and
>  haven't gotten sick of them yet.  When hiking I eat five a day.
>
>
> Cereal Bars: my recipe is an evolution of the High Energy Cereal Bar
>
>  recipe from "A Fork in the Trail" by Laurie March although enough changes
> in
>  quantities, technique, and ingredients have been made that I feel okay
> about
>  passing out this recipe.
>
> 1/4 cup honey
>
> 1/4 cup brown sugar
> 1/4+
>  raw unsalted peanut or almond butter
> 2 1/2 cups healthy cereal such as
>  Trader Joe's All Bran or any by Heritage Farms: crushed if flaked. Look
> for
>  cereals with the fewest ingredients.
>
> 1/2 cup chopped dried fruit of
>  choice
> 1/2 cup chopped nuts or seeds
> 1/3 cup unsweetened carob
>  chips
> 1/2 teaspoon salt
>
> Lightly oil an eight inch square
>  pan.
>
> Combine cereal, chopped dried fruit, chopped nuts, unsweetened
>
>  carob chips, and salt--set aside.
>
> In a large pot over medium low heat,
>  combine honey and brown sugar and stir until it just bubbles. (Too long or
> too
>  much heat results in a brittle bar.)
>
> Remove from heat and stir in nut
>
>  butter, quickly.
>
> Add cereal/dry ingredients and mix thoroughly until
>  chips are melted and incorporated. I use a wooden spatula for this
> vigorous
>  stirring.
>
> Press firmly into oiled pan, finishing with the oiled bottom
>
>  of a mixing cup to really flatten the bars uniformly.
>
> Chill briefly (15
>  minutes in the freezer), turn out onto cutting board and let come to room
>  temperature before cutting into 10 bars.
>
> Wrap individual bars in 6 inch
>
>  square unbleached waxed tissue, the kind the bakery's use to grab
>  cookies--available at restaurant supply stores. Encase in freezer bag and
>  store in the freezer until needed for hiking and/or resupply boxes.
>
>
>
>
> Some of my favorite combinations are blueberries or sour cherries
>  with almonds and almond butter, Heritage Farms Mesa Sunrise cereal or
> other
>  corn based flakes with peanut butter and walnuts and cranberries.
> Sunflower
>
>  seeds because they're so inexpensive. The important thing is to mix it
>  up.
>
> I've used chocolate chips instead of carob, but vastly prefer
>  carob: it is high fiber but spendy. Actually many different chips would
> work
>
>  but some contain hydrogenated fat.
>
> Incidentally, the spent waxed
>  tissue makes excellent TP (carry out, don't bury) or emergency
> firestarter.
>  White bleached waxed tissue tends to stick to the bars (but is more
> absorbent
>
>  as TP), brown unbleached tissue works
>  better.
>
>
>
>
>
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