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Book recommendation: The Well Fed Backpacker
I need to spend some time on Frugal Squirrel's thread. Haven't been there yet.
Since Shooter mentioned do-it-yerselfing, it reminded me of my favorite do-it-yerself backpacking cookbook: The Well Fed Backpacker.
It's truly excellent. I've used it for about a decade and a half to make all my backpacking food. WAY cheaper & WAY better than any of that freeze dried cardboard crap, and you can make virtually any recipe in the book from off the shelf grocery items. You prepackage all the recipes in baggies at home, measured out, then just dump them in the boiling water at camp. Easy, delicious. (Well, again, nothing I'd necessarily fix at home, but on the trail, let alone a bugout, they'd be great.
One of my fav recipes is called Cheesy BacoSpuds: basically potato flakes, butter buds, some onion flakes, powdered milk, and parmesian cheese...a couple of other things I can't remember now. Mix into a single baggie.
In camp, just add to boiling water, let sit for 2 minutes, and bingo, big quick hearty dinner.
We always make up three of them for a 5 day trip. One for the first night at the end of 5 miles of switchbacks when we're to tired to cook anything else and just want a heap of calories. One for the last night when we just want to get out an eat burgers (it's fast), and one for the end of a rainy day, when everything is soaking wet, and we just want to eat and crawl in the bag.
Nem
I'll sheepishly confess to having a can or two in my camp box. I won't touch the stuff at home, but in the camp, after a few day of camp food, it actually becomes more ... interesting.kevin387 said:Nobody has mentioned of the most important staples of any food storage program..................................spam!
I need to spend some time on Frugal Squirrel's thread. Haven't been there yet.
Since Shooter mentioned do-it-yerselfing, it reminded me of my favorite do-it-yerself backpacking cookbook: The Well Fed Backpacker.
It's truly excellent. I've used it for about a decade and a half to make all my backpacking food. WAY cheaper & WAY better than any of that freeze dried cardboard crap, and you can make virtually any recipe in the book from off the shelf grocery items. You prepackage all the recipes in baggies at home, measured out, then just dump them in the boiling water at camp. Easy, delicious. (Well, again, nothing I'd necessarily fix at home, but on the trail, let alone a bugout, they'd be great.
One of my fav recipes is called Cheesy BacoSpuds: basically potato flakes, butter buds, some onion flakes, powdered milk, and parmesian cheese...a couple of other things I can't remember now. Mix into a single baggie.
In camp, just add to boiling water, let sit for 2 minutes, and bingo, big quick hearty dinner.
We always make up three of them for a 5 day trip. One for the first night at the end of 5 miles of switchbacks when we're to tired to cook anything else and just want a heap of calories. One for the last night when we just want to get out an eat burgers (it's fast), and one for the end of a rainy day, when everything is soaking wet, and we just want to eat and crawl in the bag.
Nem