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Posted in Food Finds, Trail Cooking, Vegan, Vegetarian on Feb 2nd, 2012
While this isn’t a shelf stable food, for first day out or dayhiking, Sabra Single Serving Hummus Packs are perfect for tucking in. I picked up the Roasted Red Pepper for trying out: It is two sealed packs inside – one is the hummus, the other is crunch pretzel chips: The kit weighs 4.56 ounces [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Trail Cooking on Jan 9th, 2012
Trader Joe’s has slowly been adding more varieties of freeze dried fruit and berries – they already have carried blueberries, bananas, strawberries, pineapple chips, mango and more – new is raspberries and seedless red grapes: Each resealable bag is 1.2 ounces and around $4. A good deal overall for a quality product. They are both [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Trail Cooking on Dec 22nd, 2011
Being a Washington State native I grew up on Liberty Orchard’s Aplets and Cotlets – and their extensive candy collection. I love the mix of gummy candy and chopped nuts. Yum! This week we had samples of a newer line, The Orchard Bar, show up for review. Imagine if I had my favorite fruit and [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Trail Cooking on Dec 19th, 2011
Prunes, er, I mean dried plums, don’t usually rank up there as exciting outdoor food but the new packages of of Sunsweet® Plum Amazins™ Diced Dried Plums caught my eyes: Dried plums tend to be really sticky/messy so I don’t carry them often (especially in summer when they start sweating and get even more sticky) [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Trail Cooking on Dec 4th, 2011
I happen to be a longtime fan of Lunabars (and as always noted – guys you can eat them. You won’t be any less manly.) So I was pretty excited to see this in my post office box yesterday morning: Yum! A Chocolate Peppermint Stick bar and ooh….a matching all natural lipbalm. Lets just say [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Trail Cooking on Nov 29th, 2011
Another option is out in grocery stores for those who love broth sticks (I know we do!). If you haven’t seen broth sticks, think of it as very concentrated broth in a small pouch. Unlike bouillon powder it has a deep and rich flavor, with each stick making 8 ounces of broth. I am a [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Trail Cooking, Vegetarian on Nov 5th, 2011
Back in early 2009 I had written about a new product I came across at the yearly VegFest in Seattle, an almond butter by Barney Butter. Earlier this week I was in Whole Foods and saw packets of almond butter that I didn’t recognize but the name was nagging at me. Well, it was the [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Trail Cooking on Oct 29th, 2011
We received a care package recently from Wholesome Sweeteners of various individual serving packages, but what really caught my attention were the agave nectar ones! Included was organic blue agave, organic raw blue agave and organic blue agave flavored with maple. (Costco by the way carries the regular agave by them in squeeze bottles). Each [...]
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