[pct-l] Dinner Food - A system...

Sat Feb 18 04:18:01 CST 2017

There is an ready made instant curry lentil soup by Nile Spice or Taste Adventure. It can be eaten by adding either hot or cold water. I never get tired of it. You can buy it in bulk section at health food stores or on line. Instant soups make a great base for dinner soup or stew. I add organic dried vegetables,nuts,buckwheat noodles if I'm cooking. For most of PCT and all of CDT the first times,I just mixed it with cold water. By the time I had my tent set up and gear organized it was food. Even worked for lunch. 
Marmot

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> On Feb 17, 2017, at 11:13 PM, "logboy at airmail.cc" <logboy at airmail.cc> wrote:
> 
> Do you have any recipes? That curried lentil sounds good :)
> 
> Logan
> 
>> On 2017-02-12 14:58, Jeffrey Olson wrote:
>> I sent this out 10 years or so ago, and post it periodically.
>> My favorite dinners are a compilation of cheap, healthy components.
>> There are four basic levels.
>> The first level is the base; pasta, instant rice, cous cous, polenta
>> (grits) or potato flakes, my favorite.  4 oz for the first couple weeks,
>> 6 oz for the rest of the hike.
>> The second level is a dehydrated soup; split pea, black bean (with extra
>> salt) or my favorite, curried lentil.  2 oz for the first couple weeks,
>> and 3-4 oz for the rest of the hike.
>> The third level is the "binder."  I never knew about binders until I got
>> disgusted with prepackaged freeze dried food - mostly price.  The binder
>> is the ingredient that ties everything else together.  Rice and black
>> bean soup mix gets old real fast.
>> The binder I favor is parmesian cheese - Kraft or some other generic
>> version. The stuff lasts forever and has good fat content.  For the
>> first two weeks - 2oz, and 3-4 oz for the rest of the hike.  You can
>> carry oil or margarine, fake and tubbed, but I've found that good old
>> Kraft Parmesian makes me smack my lips as I wolf down dinner.  I usually
>> include an ounce of 4% dehydrated (Nido) milk as another binder.
>> The fourth level is where you get creative, and can use the dehydrator.
>> Anything goes.  An oddity I like is to include dehydrated blueberries,
>> an ounce or two, in a dinner once in a while.  Vegetables, etc.
>> Whatever the imagination can concoct.  If you use potato flakes, include
>> fake margarine and about three ounces per person of soy baco bits.
>> That's a lot of baco bits, believe me...  They are salty and absolutely
>> wonderful.  Potato flakes makes the greatest volume per weight, but
>> there are some issues with the hypoglycemic spike some people might have
>> to consider.
>> I package dinners at home.Use a quart freezer bag
>> to put everything in.  Secure with a small strip of duct tape or
>> newspaper rubber band.
>> I make dinners so they take about 16 to 20 oz of water, less for thicker
>> stew, more water for more souplike.  Boil the water and pour it into the
>> freezer bag.  Let it sit, as you stir, and eat when ready.  I carry an 18 OZ
>> capacity titanium pot and a 1 oz burner.  The lighter, aluminum foil windscreen
>> small size canister and the burner all fit in the pot.  Pretty small and light.
>> You can vary your dinners so you don't have the same dinner but twice a
>> month.  I found I preferred more curried lentil dinners and fewer black
>> beans.  I really liked potato dinners once a week.  They make a LOT of
>> food for the weight, and taste so, so, good with the margarine and baco
>> bits. I'm a little suspect about the potato dinner's nutrition, hence
>> they are a treat - once a week.
>> This stuff is all bought in bulk.  The idea of shopping as you go has
>> its fans, but I don't like leaving the trail, and I know what I will eat
>> on the trail.  Mac and cheese it ain't...  In 2005 My package disappeared from
>> the Big Lake Religious camp and I had to hitch into Sisters for a
>> resupply at the store at the edge of town.  $50 for five days.  I
>> figured that I was spending about $4 a day (2005) if I ate nothing but bulk
>> food.  My folks live in the bay area and shipping the food was not that
>> expensive.  I so appreciated my next food drop at Timberline Lodge...
>> The store bought stuff just wasn't the same.  Where were the baggies?
>> When I added the mealpack bars, or power bars, or any of the "someone
>> else does the work" foods, the cost easily doubled.  That said, I'm a
>> convert to the 4oz bars you can buy for $1.30 or so with shipping -
>> http://mealpack.com/.  You get 440 calories for not much more than a
>> buck!!!  You have to buy a minimum of 50 bars, but that's not a big deal.
>> Jeff
>> Laramie, WY
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