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Posted in Food Finds, Trail Cooking on Sep 3rd, 2010
In our lunch yesterday was a pack of Mesquite Smoked Sausage from PackItGourmet. We enjoyed it as an appetizer before lunch, Ford doing the slicing up: A pleasant chewy texture and a mild flavor. No greasy aftertaste either. This is great snacking sausage, diced up it would be great added to a pasta or rice [...]
Posted in Food Finds, One Pot Meals, Other, Trail Cooking, Vegan, Vegetarian on Sep 1st, 2010
Today’s lunch was Outdoor Herbivore’s Basil Walnut Penne: The vegan friendly meal is a powerhouse: Cal: 870 Fat: 28g Sodium: 465g Carbs: 95g Protein: 35g – it boasts whole wheat pasta and plenty of chunky walnuts. Easy to make and ready to eat in under 15 minutes. I have found for best results with the [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Trail Cooking on Aug 30th, 2010
Recently Laughing Cow cheese brought out 3 new flavors of their already awesome shelf stable cheese. If you follow our recipes you know I have had a long love affair with them – Chicken Salsa Wraps and Cheesy Bacon Onion Mashers are two examples. The wedges are fantastic – they carry well, spreadable, melt quickly [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Trail Cooking on Aug 26th, 2010
Another easy to grab snack for your pack from your local Starbucks is Sahale Snacks Pomegranate Cashews. As with the other nuts in their line expect neither an overly sweet nor salty nut. The flavor of the pomegranates is a light flavor. The only downside is we found the cashews to be soft in texture. [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Trail Cooking on Aug 25th, 2010
On the way to the trailhead this past weekend I was looking for a snack to throw in the packs and came across Country Choice Organic’s soft baked cookies, of which I picked up the Oatmeal Chocolate Chip flavor: The convenience is having individually wrapped cookies that stay fresh, well worth any extra cost and [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Trail Cooking on Aug 24th, 2010
A Crystal Light drink mix not full of artificial dyes? Yes indeed! Crystal Light Pure Fitness mix has started recently started showing up on the shelves in the drink mix aisles of grocery stores. It can be hard to find but is well worth the effort. The taste is different than was expected – I [...]
Posted in Food Finds, One Pot Meals, Other, Trail Cooking on Aug 23rd, 2010
Check the recipe out for Lazy Gingerbread Cookies over at Trailcooking! The idea for this recipe came to me recently after I had a 1 pound bag o’ organic dried eggs show up. And….a pound of eggs is quite a bit! Adding a couple other ingredients: Pan frying till browned: Is it a cookie? A [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Trail Cooking, hiking on Aug 23rd, 2010
New to Packitgourmet’s meal lineup is an Apple Waldorf Salad. It contains an inner bag of the dry veggies and fruit, a bag of currants, mayo packet and blue cheese dressing packet: Incredibly easy to prepare: Add the dry items to the outer mixing bag (reserve the smaller bag for garbage), top with currants, then [...]
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