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Posted in Freezer Bag Cooking, Insulated mug method, One Pot Meals, Trail Cooking, Vegetarian on Dec 31st, 2011
In the December 2011 issue of Women’s Health Magazine, there is an excellent article on oatmeal. Besides having some great recipes – savory oats for breakfast? Yum! Lets just say that oats, maple syrup and bacon are my kind of thing….but I digress, back to my original train of thought and it is on the [...]
Posted in Food Finds, One Pot Meals, Trail Cooking, Vegetarian on Feb 28th, 2011
I’d say that the biggest complained about food item for the outdoors is dried eggs. Not that this is a new issue – folks have been complaining for decades about how they suck. Modern trail cookbooks rarely call for eggs or tell you to pack fresh ones in, but if you start reading up the [...]
Posted in Food Finds, One Pot Meals, Trail Cooking on Feb 18th, 2011
Do you love pancakes? Sweet Potatoes? Having both together in an easy to use package? I know I do! I came across Bruce’s Complete Sweet Potato Mix in a 6-ounce package at Cost Plus World Market on a recent trip and after checking the ingredients I was happy to see I could eat them (no [...]
Posted in Food Finds, One Pot Meals, Other, Trail Cooking on Dec 19th, 2010
Showing up of late in outdoors stores is a line from Enertia TrailFoods branded under Coleman. Expect to find these at chains such as Cabela’s rather than say REI. The meals are a combination of classic Enertia meals re-branded under the Coleman name with new meals featured as well. Pancakes are a favorite of mine [...]
Posted in Food Finds, No Cook Recipes, Trail Cooking, Vegetarian on Mar 18th, 2010
Yogurt powder is a pretty cool product – we have used it many times, often in smoothies. If you buy large packages of the powder from Frontier Foods it comes with directions on how to make “instant” yogurt. You will need yogurt powder and Guar Gum. Bob’s Red Mill is a great choice brand-wise and [...]
Posted in One Pot Meals, Other, Trail Cooking on Mar 9th, 2010
Out in this months new Wa Trails Magazine (March/April 2010) is two new recipes, on page 35. Hiker’s Primavera Pasta Cran-Mac Caramel Bars ~Sarah
Posted in Food Finds, One Pot Meals, Trail Cooking on Feb 21st, 2010
My brother was down visiting so he offered to help out on a test run of PackitGourmet’s Diner Deluxe Scrambled Eggs. We had opted to try out the sausage version. The meal came with the egg mix, bag of Toastees, 2 oil packets, 2 salsa packets and prep kit (I always get the prep kit [...]
Posted in Food Finds, One Pot Meals, Trail Cooking on Dec 28th, 2009
New to the market in recent weeks is PackitGourmet’s TexMex Breakfast Taco (or as I would call it…breakfast burritos!). We sampled the sausage version: It contains in the bag the egg/meat/veggie mix, 2 packets of oil and 2 packets of salsa. There is 4 choices for the salsa from mild to hot and red or [...]
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