[at-l] Hiking food you love to hate...

[wb4pan@mindspring.com (Chase Davidson)]

oh,

I missed a good one. Mashed potatoes, w/cheese, w/gravey, w/garlic and butter mmmm

lets eat brakast

chase

Chase Davidson wrote:
> 
> yo,
> 
>         In the last 30 years I have went through a lot of hiker food. A lot of it has made the cycle and come back into use again, maybe more than once. Here are some of my favorites now. I often eat a hot breakfast and hot dinner in cold weather. I do not typically care for traditional foods. I would rather have left over cold pizza than eggs any day. So I eat the same foods for breakfast as I do for dinner.
>         Usually I will choose something that can be prepared quicker for breakfast and spend more time for dinner. Of course the proximity of water helps make the choice too. You do not want to make sticky mac-n-cheese unless you have plenty of wash water or do you?
>         I hate to wash dishes so whenever I can I do my cooking in a ziplock bag. Mac-n-cheese in a ziplock, no pot to clean :-) Grits are just little hard pieces of dried glue I think. Well they do stick to everything, especially your ribs. They work great in cheap ziplock bags. Most of your instant rice, grits, ramin, or them salty Lipton dinners can be cooked in ziplock baggies. Jello / instant puddings work great in baggies too!
>         I recently made myself a pot cozy, 1.2 oz. I saw how well Chainsaw's worked when we hiked together last year. I used an old blue pad, and some Locktight 454 glue I had on hand. Later I found that silicone glue sticks to this pad very well. If silicone will hold it will be much better since it remains flexible.
>         Ziplock or baggie cooking works great in the cozy. I have done a few experiments using my dried mixed vegetables and corn elbow noodles, seasoning and my dried roast beef. What I have found that works best is to add the veggies to the cold water, bring to a boil, add the corn noodles, meat and seasoning (if you are making something thick like spaghetti sauce you may want to add that powder after everything has cooked) let boil again. Pour all that into a quart baggie. Now, I use a 1/2 gallon
> stand up ziplock as a liner, I put the quart baggie inside that, zip em up and put them in my cozy. In about 25 min its ready. Meanwhile my cook pot is free to say heat another beverage or whatever.
> 
> Ok so I have ate my mixed dried veggies at least once a day for a month and did not get tired of them. I never tried em everyday for 6 months though. But veggies are a staple of mine. Also I really like corn noodles instead of the standard white flour enriched noodles.
> 
> Mix and match any or all of the following
> 
> veggies
> corn noodles
> stove top stuffing
> ramin noodles
> ground up roast beef (dried) to add to meals, reconstitute and flavor for sandwiches
> taco flavored TVP for burritos
> dried pintoes for burritos, chili beans etc.
> gravy packages
> spaghetti packages with tomato powder included
> bagels
> rice
> peanut butter and jelly
> cheese
> snickers
> mixed nuts
> jerky
> corn bread
> fruit cake
> various cans of meat chicken, ham (usually for the first day out)
> grits (bacon, ham or cheese flavored)
> Lipton's occasionally
> hamburger helper cheese burger macaroni(often replace the noodles with corn noodles)
> Freetoes corn chips
> oatmeal cookies
> fig Newton's
> Mountain House FD meals (nice for an extra lightweight back up meal)
> tuna in the foil pack
> summer sausage
> raw carrots
> corn nuts
> 
> well I got to go I am hungry and sleepy, that's all I can think of now.
> 
> chase
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