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Posted in Food Finds, No Cook Recipes, Trail Cooking on Apr 10th, 2011
We tried out Packitgourmet’s no-cook Picnic Potato Salad: Potato mix (with seasoning). 4 packets relish and 4 packets mayo: I followed the no cook directions, adding cool water along with the relish and mayo and then letting it sit for a good 20 minutes. You can also speed up the preparation by using warm (not [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Other, Trail Cooking on Nov 1st, 2010
Awhile back I had picked up some packets of Sunbutter sunflower spread from Packitgourmet but had forgotten about them. On yesterday’s hike I noticed one in my food bag and thought about it: I had a cinnamon raisin bagel in my pack as well and the thought of it for lunch sounded good. A quick [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Freezer Bag Cooking, No Cook Recipes, Trail Cooking, Vegetarian on Sep 3rd, 2010
For lunch yesterday Kirk, Ford and I sampled PackItGourmet’s Southwest Black Beans and Corn Salad. Photo © Kirk Kirkconnell. In the bag is the veggies, tortilla chips, dressing packet, oil and vinegar packets: Photo © Kirk Kirkconnell. The meal offers a couple ways to prepare it – first is a cold prep where you add [...]
Posted in Food Finds, hiking, Trail Cooking 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 [...]
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, Other, Trail Cooking on Jan 18th, 2010
My readers know what a long time fan of steam baking I am. It is simple, the results always taste good and more so, it is soft, moist and tender – especially in baked goods. I have used a couple of PackitGourmet’s steam baked goodie mixes with always good results so I was not disappointed [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Trail Cooking on Sep 1st, 2009
PackItGourmet, our go-to online shop for all the cool and hard to find food items we use in our recipes, is having an end of summer sale on everything in the store. Take that and buy enough to qualify for free shipping and life is good! The deal is 15% off from 9/1 to 9/10/2009 [...]
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