Need New Food

[Black_Fly]

I’m starting to sort through gear and freeze dried provisions for a mid-May trip and feel like I need to shake things up for my lunches and snacks. Anyone have a secret munchable food item that doesn’t weigh a ton? I’m in a rut with gorp, jerky and powdered peanut butter. Thanks.

 

[Cookannapurna]

I’m big into homemade jerky (never gets old), I also make a variety of dehydrated fruit, and homemade fruit rolls. If weight isn’t the biggest issue, apples and mandarins.

 

[Rubbaboo]

Dehydrated strawberries are a favourite. They are kind of like taking a pinch of dip, you can suck on them for a while or chew them like gum and then to top it off for further enjoyment you get to pick the seeds out of your teeth. Rhubarb leather is also great!

 

[Gamma1214]

Dehydrated pineapple & cranberries are both awesome.

 

[VA paddler]

For lunch on the float, in the boat, no time to stop, I’ll vote for mandarins & jerky. And those packets of 6 or 8 cracker sandwiches with the fake peanut butter between them. And granola bars. But if you’ve time on your hands and a cooler, there’s nothing wrong with putting out a full deli spread, either.

 

[dutchlennart]

How lobg are you away?
What temps?
Solo or group paddle
Portaging lot/some but nasty/ none.

Are ij my mind whenni think about my food. And the rest of my gear.

New recepy for lunch/ breakfast
250 gr chickpea flour.
a TEaspoon ginger, turmeric , garlic.
2 tablespoons of koriander or mint or dunnno what is growing next to the river.

Bit of water mix to thin dough ,
Bake pancakestyle

Finish
Depending on your traveling style. I could be good

 

[Gamma1214]

New recepy for lunch/ breakfast
250 gr chickpea flour.
a TEaspoon ginger, turmeric , garlic.
2 tablespoons of koriander or mint or dunnno what is growing next to the river.

Bit of water mix to thin dough ,
Bake pancakestyle

Sorry, some here are old enough to remember and smile.

 

[Black_Fly]

I’m going with my dog. He’s not good for carrying stuff, but great at cleaning up and disposing of mistakes. I’m going with 100% freeze dried dinner meals to allow me to portage more, so weight matters. I am looking at more dried fruits. Took dried mangos last year and they were great, until they got old. Maybe a variety is in order. I looked at some yesterday and they seemed overly dry, tough. Foil chicken seems plausible, so I’m thinking burritos? Years ago, they had foil ground beef, but it seems to have disappeared. I miss my mule.

 

[scoutergriz]

one of my go- to's are dried sausage, there's enough variety out there to go a month without repeating the same flavour, for some real variety hit an Italian deli, they literally have dozens of them from pate consistency to actual chunks of meat, a favourite is sweet capicola or mild pepperoni, but there's smoked kielbasa, various pepperonis, salamis, capicolas, and dozens of others...

 

[PortageW/Cerberus]

Besides gorp and bars, I/we tend to bring an assortment of dried fruit (Trader Joe's!) like mango, chile-spiced pineapple, cherries, mandarin orange slices, etc.

We also always bring a very dry salami and some parmesan cheese, both of which will easily last a couple of weeks, and if it was not hot I'd do longer without worrying. Some years we've brought biltong instead of salami, and that was good too.

Finally, the secret weapon to mix up the lunch menu....shore lunch. Walleye, Pike, Lake Trout...worth a two-hour mid-day timeout to get a fire going and eat like kings. Then an afternoon coffee and finish the day's paddling.

 

[ppine]

Smoke some trout or walleye.
Dry cheese like Gruyere
Tin of fish, like herring or smoked oysters
Crackers
Dried fruit

 

[gadabyte]

if you like hummus, it dehydrates well, and rehydrates with cold water in just a few minutes. very light, very easy.

 

[kahel]

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[Tryin']

Hahaha, @Black_Fly definitely needs to make this his signature....

 

[Occidental]

I you take along a wide mouth thermos you open a lot of opportunities for dehydrated or freeze dried meals. Fill the thermos at breakfast time and lunch is rehydrated and ready to eat in a couple hours but stays hot all day, or partially fill with hot water and put the food in 30 minutes before lunch for things that tend to 'overcook' like pastas and noodles. I know weight is a factor, my wide mouth thermos weighs about 14 oz, but you can use it every day. Backpacking chef has a lot of info on backcountry thermos 'cooking'.

 

[PaddlingPika]

You don't necessarily need a thermos to have good re-hydrated lunches. My sister-in-law made some delicious lunches from recipes in a backpacking cookbook. They were packed by individual servings in zip-lock freezer bags. At breakfast time one would add water to the bag to start re-hydration and by lunchtime they would be ready to eat. I never get organized enough ahead of time to do the pre-trip preparation for that kind of lunch though.

 

[recped]

15 posts and not a single mention of chocolate? Dark chocolate of course....

Feeling lethargic after the first 5 minutes of paddling? eat a few squares of chocolate. Want to power through the last 5km to your next campsite? eat the rest of the bar, combine with hot tea (with sugar) from your Thermos and off you go.......

 

[yknpdlr]

I’m big into homemade jerky (never gets old), I also make a variety of dehydrated fruit, and homemade fruit rolls. If weight isn’t the biggest issue, apples and mandarins.

There are tons of recipes for jerky, depending on what flavor enhancer you may like. Watch out for salt content if that is important to you (I use low sodium soy sauce if soy is in the recipe). I also have made a lot of fruit rolls using various kinds of pureed fruit. l ike to soak banana slices in pineapple (and a smll amount of lemon) juice first. Sliced apples (I use a 12 segment chunk slicer) get treated with lemon juice and a bit of brown sugar first. Be sure to spray oil (e.g. Pam) on your drying racks first with most sliced fruit so it will not sick. Note that most commercial 'fruit roll ups" are mainly made with applesauce as an inexpensive extender. The featured fruit is there for a bit of flavor only. I've done that too, and the applesauce helps to keep leathers pliable. Be sure not to over dry or you will have dry crunchy chips instead of fruit leather. Thinly sliced sweet plain watermelon (choose a sweet tasting one) dehydrates like candy. Other melons work well too with a lemon pre-treatment. I even dehydrate dill pickle chips for a different (salty) taste explosion. See if a friend can tell what it is.

You may be surprised to learn that the lowly raw cabbage dehydrates and rehydrates back to crispiness very well. I have made many batches of dehydrated Backpacker’s cole slaw for myself and my guide student classes. Google "Backpacker’s cole slaw" for the recipe and https://dehydratingwaybeyondjerky.blogspot.com.

For a better tasting one single dry package, dehydrate along with balsamic vinegar from the recipe here:"https://www.food.com/recipe/backpackers-coleslaw-390081