Boundary Waters Quetico Forum :: BWCA Food and Recipes :: Food you don't need dishes for?
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boonie |
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housty9 |
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hooky |
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OBX2Kayak |
quote boonie: "There are many, many meals you can make and rehydrate in baggies, i.e. freezer bag cooking. I never use dishes - just a spoon, mug for coffee, cozy to put the baggie in to keep food warm while it rehydrates, and a pot to boil water. I mostly eat cold cereal for breakfast these days - muesli or granola. I eat ProBars for lunch, nuts for snacks. I just rehydrate meals in a baggie for dinner. The only thing I ever need to clean is the spoon and a quick rinse of the mug. Besides a minute or two to heat water, there is no prep other than waiting 10-15 minutes for it to rehydrate. Dinners range from beef stew, chili, lentils, and beans to various curries and pasta dishes, but there is a very broad range of meals that can be made or purchased to prepare this way. It also requires very little fuel to boil water vs. cooking things for 10-15 minutes. There are also summer sausages, cheese, jerky, nut butters, flatbreads, granola bars, etc. " +1 FBC is my preferred method of cooking. |
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housty9 |
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boonie |
It's been a while since I've really looked for other options, but the problem was most bars that cost half as much only about half as many calories. I can usually find them for sale for about $2 a bar (~380 cal.). Clif bars would probably be your other best option in a ready-made bar. I think they have 225 - 240 (?) cal. and it's been quite a while since I bought one, but maybe ~$1 ? Otherwise, you might just eat candy bars or gorp, or possibly find a recipe to make your own. |
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ducks |
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boonie |
quote GoSpursGo: "I believe hes talking about these - I havent tried all of the ProBar Meal varieties, but I like this one so far " Yeah, I usually have to buy them online and those are a couple of them. Here's a link to the ProBar website, ducks. I think I've tried all of them (10-12?) and they are all OK for me, but I like the PB/chocolate chip, chocolate coconut, koka moka, wholeberry, almond crunch the best. You might want to get a variety pack first to try them all and go from there. They are definitely moister than Clif bars to start with, but I haven't had any great problem with melting other than a little with the chocolate on a really warm day, but nothing unmanageable at all. I usually carry my day's lunch (ProBar) and snacks (nuts/dried fruit) in my pocket to eat during the day. The snack bag is 3 ounces of nuts and 1 ounce of dried fruit, so the ProBar/nuts combo is about 1,000 calories. |
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housty9 |
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FOG51 |
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IceColdGold |
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hooky |
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hooky |
quote buz: "Tortilla shells are a great made to eat plate. Personally, i love them with peanut buter and honey for lunch or bfast. So many ways to use them." Along those lines, pita bread is excellent too. I make pita pizza pockets. Tear the pita in half and stuff the smaller of two inside the larger one. String cheese will keep for an entire trip and it goes on the bottom of the pita pocket. In a freezer bag, rehydrate sauce that was originally simmered with lots of onion, garlic and mushrooms and put it into the pita along with pepperoni. Chow down and toss the sauce bag into the gallon ziploc "trash bag". |
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ducks |
For lunches I snack on a few things throughout the afternoon... tuna pouch and eat it out of the pouch, beef jerky, freeze dried fruit, trail mix. I always have a couple of clif bars in my pdf pocket so I can grab a snack while paddling when needed. For suppers I do the dump boiled water in a bag meals. I like Camp Chow. I've seen enough people suggest probars that I plan on giving those a try. |
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boonie |
There are different kinds of ProBars; when I talk about the ProBars, I mean the Meal replacement bars. I like them because they have about 380 calories per bar vs. half that for the average food bar. The normal bars just aren't enough calories and I'm not a big eater. They also have good texture, flavor, and moistness. |
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boonie |
I forgot to mention that ProBars are about 3 ounces net weight, so they have good caloric density (calories per ounce). |
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ducks |
The full size clif bars are 260 calories and I think 2.6 oz I think. Something a little more substantial would be nice and I'd also like to have a little variety. Do the probars have a problem w/ melting if it's hot? I can even keep a cliff bar in my pants pocket on a hot summer day. |
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luft |
Some foods I like for FBC trips: Breakfast: Pro Bars (can be heavy) but great for a quick breakfast on travel days Hot Grapenuts with dried fruit, nuts, powdered Nido (kind of bulky) Instant Oatmeal (lighter and less bulky than the above two items) Lunch: (I usually traveling so I do snack foods on travel days and more messy foil pouch meats and crackers on basecamp days) Nuts Dried fruits GORP mixes Lara or Kind bars Dried salami type meats Cheese Foil pouch chicken, tuna, salmon on crackers (this is heavy and bulky so I limit the number of this type of meal. Peanut MMs Dinners: Commercial or home dried meals repacked into quart freezer bags just prior to trip. The heaviest items end up being the meat, cheese, foil pouches, power type bars and dried fruits. I carry round crackers in a repurposed Pringles container. I used to use a plastic tennis ball container but like the flat bottom of the Pringles container better. |
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quark2222 |
They also have chicken dishes, other beef ones, pasta, etc. You can get them at most grocery stores. I may have seen them at Menard's too. Tomster |
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Northwoodsman |
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buz |
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