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Thisismatthew

08/18/2015 01:31PM

I am doing a base camp this trip so I decided I can carry some extra luxuries in the food bag since I will not be moving every day. I want to make a pasta dish, but the sauce I like is in a glass jar. It says refrigerate once opened, but I am thinking I should be fine if I immediately transfer it from the glass jar to a vacuum sealed bag. I suppose I could also then freeze, but it would be thawed I imagine by night 2 when we would be eating the pasta.

Any thoughts or solutions?

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jwartman59

08/18/2015 02:11PM

The sauce should be fine for a couple of days. The acid from the tomato acts as a preservative ( correct me if I am wrong). You could also make your own sauce with fresh vegetables, having it simmer over a warm fire makes the campsite smell wonderful.

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jwartman59

08/18/2015 02:11PM

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mirth

08/18/2015 02:53PM

You could dehydrate it, but I think that your plan is fine.

When a man is part of his canoe, he is part of all that canoes have ever known. - Sigurd F. Olson, "The Singing Wilderness"

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thebotanyguy

08/18/2015 03:12PM

It may be worth doing a little exploration in the grocery stores. There are some brands of sauce that are now packaged in plastic jars.

"Said one of these men, long past seventy years of age: 'I could carry, paddle, walk and sing with any man I ever saw. I have been twenty-four years a canoe man, and forty-one years in service; no portage was ever too long for me. Fifty songs could I sing. I have saved the lives of ten voyageurs. Have had twelve wives and six running dogs. I spent all my money in pleasure. Were I young again, I should spend my life the same way over. There is no life so happy as a voyageur's life!'"

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Goby

08/18/2015 04:54PM

I plan on making mini trail pizzas and my plan is to take store bought pizza sauce and vacuum seal it as well. I'm guessing it should be ok.

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minnesotamatt

08/18/2015 06:38PM

Nice thanks all. If i get sick I will find you... all of you :)

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brux

08/18/2015 06:46PM

quote mirth: "You could dehydrate it, but I think that your plan is fine."

+1 it rehydrates beautifully and quickly.

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OldFingers57

08/18/2015 07:39PM

quote Goby: "I plan on making mini trail pizzas and my plan is to take store bought pizza sauce and vacuum seal it as well. I'm guessing it should be ok."

They have it at the grocery stores in plastic squeeze bottles or in a 3 pack of plastic packets.

"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday.” ~A.A. Milne

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mirth

08/19/2015 09:47AM

Seek out the boboli sauce pouches in the 3 pack. Each pouch is good for 2-3 pizzas depending on how much sauce you want.

When a man is part of his canoe, he is part of all that canoes have ever known. - Sigurd F. Olson, "The Singing Wilderness"

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OBX2Kayak

08/19/2015 03:47PM

quote mirth: "You could dehydrate it, but I think that your plan is fine."

quote brux: "+1 it rehydrates beautifully and quickly."

+2 I like dehydrated marinara sauce. Easy to carry, light and no dishes to wash.

"I go because it irons out the wrinkles in my soul" -- Sigurd Olson

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Swampturtle

08/20/2015 08:46AM

Most jarred sauce/marinara has preservatives. Your idea is fine, If I had a similar camping plan, I might do the same. I have an old vacuum sealer without all the fancy features, so I tend to freeze the sauce into a stackable shape before vacuum sealing.

It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop. -Confucius

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