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Alright, I want quietmike's Edge Pro, so I'll add another one or two recipes that are trail proven for me.
Many grocery stores sell bulk foods which can be a great way to sample small amounts of foods to try on the trail. One of my favorite trail foods are dehydrated veggies and fruits, especially the ones from JustTomatoes. I don't know what they do to them but they taste better than what I dehydrate at home. Here's a link to their website: http://www.justtomatoes.com/ You can find these at REI and some other places too. Despite their name they make tomatoes, corn, peas, bell peppers, carrots, blueberries, apples, bananas, cherries, etc.
These weigh little and can be added to everything to help maintain health on longer treks. When I was mountain guiding I could be gone for a couple of months surviving on dehydrated meals and dehydrated vegetables and fruits became extremely important to maintain my health. Vitamins in pill form are important, but not enough.
Here's an easy and very heart healthy breakfast: bring a big bag of instant oatmeal, powdered creamer and a variety of dehydrated fruits and nuts. This gives you a bunch of healthy breakfasts with some variety. I like the powdered creamer (you can get flavored kinds also, with French Vanilla being my favorite for oatmeal, because it doesn't hide the fruit too much), to make fruit and cream oatmeal. You can also add food you forage while camping. I've found and added blackberries, strawberries, huckleberries, gooseberries, crabapples, lingonberries, mango, starfruit, coconut, limes, bananas, lychees, sweet potatoes, hazelnuts, peanuts and wild mints. I will also sometimes add a packet of cocoa to make chocolate oatmeal, just for something different. I also once found crystalized honey and maple syrup in a health food store that I used up while on an expedition, but haven't found it since. These were great in oatmeal with pecans or almonds.
You can also add flax seed, wheat germ, goji berries, etc. to help make the oatmeal even more nutritious while adding interesting flavor and texture.
Many grocery stores sell bulk foods which can be a great way to sample small amounts of foods to try on the trail. One of my favorite trail foods are dehydrated veggies and fruits, especially the ones from JustTomatoes. I don't know what they do to them but they taste better than what I dehydrate at home. Here's a link to their website: http://www.justtomatoes.com/ You can find these at REI and some other places too. Despite their name they make tomatoes, corn, peas, bell peppers, carrots, blueberries, apples, bananas, cherries, etc.
These weigh little and can be added to everything to help maintain health on longer treks. When I was mountain guiding I could be gone for a couple of months surviving on dehydrated meals and dehydrated vegetables and fruits became extremely important to maintain my health. Vitamins in pill form are important, but not enough.
Here's an easy and very heart healthy breakfast: bring a big bag of instant oatmeal, powdered creamer and a variety of dehydrated fruits and nuts. This gives you a bunch of healthy breakfasts with some variety. I like the powdered creamer (you can get flavored kinds also, with French Vanilla being my favorite for oatmeal, because it doesn't hide the fruit too much), to make fruit and cream oatmeal. You can also add food you forage while camping. I've found and added blackberries, strawberries, huckleberries, gooseberries, crabapples, lingonberries, mango, starfruit, coconut, limes, bananas, lychees, sweet potatoes, hazelnuts, peanuts and wild mints. I will also sometimes add a packet of cocoa to make chocolate oatmeal, just for something different. I also once found crystalized honey and maple syrup in a health food store that I used up while on an expedition, but haven't found it since. These were great in oatmeal with pecans or almonds.
You can also add flax seed, wheat germ, goji berries, etc. to help make the oatmeal even more nutritious while adding interesting flavor and texture.
Here's one I used a lot in the Army.
Take a ramen packet, preferably one of the Thai or Korean kinds you can get in Asian food markets that actually taste good. Cook with frozen (this works when climbing in sub-zero temps, but is also fine for the first night of camping before your food thaws-just wrap the frozen foods in your clothing and sleeping bag to keep it insulated) or dehydrated veggies (I prefer peas, corn and carrots) and dehydrated or canned meat and flavor with the spices or hot sauce of your choice and you have a complete and lightweight meal that only requires one pot. Easy and delicious.
At fast food Asian places you can get packets of soy sauce, hot mustard, sweet and sour sauce, individually wrapped fortune cookies, etc. and these can be great supplements to throw in your pack.
If you go to Backpackinglight.com they sell little dropper bottles and pill bottles that you can bring small amounts of food in to keep things light and organized. In these I've brought along hot chili oil, garlic oil, soy sauce, fish sauce, sesame oil, hot sauce, oyster sauce, garlic paste, etc. And at any drug store you can find little ziploc-type bags for pills that work great for spices and other small things like toasted sesame seeds, garlic powder, garlic salt, garlic pepper (I like garlic), etc.
Take a ramen packet, preferably one of the Thai or Korean kinds you can get in Asian food markets that actually taste good. Cook with frozen (this works when climbing in sub-zero temps, but is also fine for the first night of camping before your food thaws-just wrap the frozen foods in your clothing and sleeping bag to keep it insulated) or dehydrated veggies (I prefer peas, corn and carrots) and dehydrated or canned meat and flavor with the spices or hot sauce of your choice and you have a complete and lightweight meal that only requires one pot. Easy and delicious.
At fast food Asian places you can get packets of soy sauce, hot mustard, sweet and sour sauce, individually wrapped fortune cookies, etc. and these can be great supplements to throw in your pack.
If you go to Backpackinglight.com they sell little dropper bottles and pill bottles that you can bring small amounts of food in to keep things light and organized. In these I've brought along hot chili oil, garlic oil, soy sauce, fish sauce, sesame oil, hot sauce, oyster sauce, garlic paste, etc. And at any drug store you can find little ziploc-type bags for pills that work great for spices and other small things like toasted sesame seeds, garlic powder, garlic salt, garlic pepper (I like garlic), etc.
Thai Pancakes (WARNING, not for the health conscious): not actually a Thai food, but one that was made when soldiers would take their R&R in Thailand during the Vietnam war. Always a favorite of my clients when I was mountain guiding and I would save this for a week or so into a trip because the fruits would still be okay then and most of the fresh fruits and veggies are already used up, so this is a nice treat.
You will need oil or ghee (clarified butter, which keeps very well on the trail), bannock or pancake mix, honey, and key limes. You can also add nuts, such as pecans or almonds to add more flavor.
Make pancake mix using bannock or an actual pancake mix such as Krusteaz or Grizzly. Put some canola oil into your pan or ghee (clarified butter) and pour in the pancake mix until it covers the entire bottom of the pan and is about 1/2" thick (when I was in Thailand you usually got one pancake and it was the size of a large dinner plate). Take a banana and slice it length wise into thin strips and press the banana strips into the pancake before it starts to harden so that it disappears into the pancake mix. Cook as usual and add more ghee so that it's basically fried in butter for flavor and crispiness (remember that when climbing at altitude you need as much fat as possible to keep your calorie count up and early in my climbing career I used to eat frozen sticks of butter as a compact source of calories, so this may not be the healthiest meal for an overnighter). Drizzle with honey and squeeze one or two key limes over it for flavor, and add nuts if you like.
These are my all-time favorite pancakes and I make them at home for the family on occassion, when I'm feeling decadent. If you make it over to Thailand and have to spend any time in that rat hole called Bangkok (Thailand is an amazing and beautiful country once you get away from that cesspool they call their capital), try staying at the Atlanta Hotel and have their Thai pancakes...you won't be sorry. The Atlanta is an old run down hotel in a crappy part of Bangkok where you have to resist beating the crap out of all of the creepy American and European sex tourists (I was nearly arrested for kicking the crap out of some pedophiles-I'm a father of 3 girls), but the hotel has lots of charm, the prices are right, the place is clean and comfy and the food is amazing.
You will need oil or ghee (clarified butter, which keeps very well on the trail), bannock or pancake mix, honey, and key limes. You can also add nuts, such as pecans or almonds to add more flavor.
Make pancake mix using bannock or an actual pancake mix such as Krusteaz or Grizzly. Put some canola oil into your pan or ghee (clarified butter) and pour in the pancake mix until it covers the entire bottom of the pan and is about 1/2" thick (when I was in Thailand you usually got one pancake and it was the size of a large dinner plate). Take a banana and slice it length wise into thin strips and press the banana strips into the pancake before it starts to harden so that it disappears into the pancake mix. Cook as usual and add more ghee so that it's basically fried in butter for flavor and crispiness (remember that when climbing at altitude you need as much fat as possible to keep your calorie count up and early in my climbing career I used to eat frozen sticks of butter as a compact source of calories, so this may not be the healthiest meal for an overnighter). Drizzle with honey and squeeze one or two key limes over it for flavor, and add nuts if you like.
These are my all-time favorite pancakes and I make them at home for the family on occassion, when I'm feeling decadent. If you make it over to Thailand and have to spend any time in that rat hole called Bangkok (Thailand is an amazing and beautiful country once you get away from that cesspool they call their capital), try staying at the Atlanta Hotel and have their Thai pancakes...you won't be sorry. The Atlanta is an old run down hotel in a crappy part of Bangkok where you have to resist beating the crap out of all of the creepy American and European sex tourists (I was nearly arrested for kicking the crap out of some pedophiles-I'm a father of 3 girls), but the hotel has lots of charm, the prices are right, the place is clean and comfy and the food is amazing.
Alright here's another one if you have or find eggs:
Take a freezer ziploc bag and add whatever you like in an omelet: pre-cooked bacon, onions, green onions, garlic, cheese, whatever (freeze dried veggies work well for this, just hydrate them before hand). Add 2-3 eggs, zip up the bag and mix well. Throw in a pot of boiling water and cook until done (10-15 minutes). Open the bag and your omelet will slide right onto your plate or you can eat out of the bag so there are no dishes to do, except your spork (or cut yourself a pair of chopsticks). Done and done.
Eggs are obviously hard to keep intact when camping and even those little plastic camping egg holders don't do well for backpacking. You can buy liquid eggs in a carton and they are safe to freeze.
Take a freezer ziploc bag and add whatever you like in an omelet: pre-cooked bacon, onions, green onions, garlic, cheese, whatever (freeze dried veggies work well for this, just hydrate them before hand). Add 2-3 eggs, zip up the bag and mix well. Throw in a pot of boiling water and cook until done (10-15 minutes). Open the bag and your omelet will slide right onto your plate or you can eat out of the bag so there are no dishes to do, except your spork (or cut yourself a pair of chopsticks). Done and done.
Eggs are obviously hard to keep intact when camping and even those little plastic camping egg holders don't do well for backpacking. You can buy liquid eggs in a carton and they are safe to freeze.
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Fried Grits
Make some grits (about 3 or 4 cups cooked)
Chop or grind up 1 can of regular spam
Grate 8 oz of sharp cheddar cheese
Salt and pepper to taste
Mix every thing to gether until chesse is melted , then put in a narrow rectangular pan and chill then slice and fry in bacon grease
This is food from my youth.
Make some grits (about 3 or 4 cups cooked)
Chop or grind up 1 can of regular spam
Grate 8 oz of sharp cheddar cheese
Salt and pepper to taste
Mix every thing to gether until chesse is melted , then put in a narrow rectangular pan and chill then slice and fry in bacon grease
This is food from my youth.