[GET] Backpack Gourmet: Good Hot Grub You Can Make at Home, Dehydrate, and Pack on the Trail [pdf]

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Backpack Gourmet: Good Hot Grub You Can Make at Home, Dehydrate, and Pack for Quick, Easy, and Healthy Eating on the Trail

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- Over 160 recipes for soups, stews, pasta, casseroles, and breakfast and snack ideas
- Potato Soup Parmesan, Seafood Stew, Sweet and Sour Noodles, Spicy Chicken
- Tips on drying food in a dehydrator or oven




Meals on the trail can be as delicious and varied as meals prepared at home.
You can create meals to suit your tastes or diet--vegetarian, low fat,
Asian, Italian. Meals prepared and dehydrated at home are compact and
lightweight, perfect for the backpacker, and safer than packing
perishable foods. The author shows how to prepare the meals so that they
will travel well and will be easy to reconstitute in camp. The easy
step-by-step instructions detail how to cook and dry lightweight,
satisfying meals at home and then prepare them easily in camp--truly
complete, instant meals.

Yaffe, a librarian, camper, and author of High Trails Cookery, offers
more than 150 recipes for hikers seeking an alternative to the
expensive, often boring, freeze-dried prepared meals that are sold in
stores. Most of them are for dishes that are completely cooked at home
and dried in an electric dehydrator (or an oven), then simply
rehydrated with boiling water, requiring no further cooking at the
campsite. There are also trail snacks and other no-cook recipes, as
well as cookies, muffins, and other baked goods. Some of the recipes
are vegetarian, while others offer vegetarian (or vegan) options.

"This is the book I have been waiting for. I love to cook, I love to eat,
and I love to backpack, and this book lets me enjoy all three.
Previously, I was one of those backpackers who ate mac-n-cheese and
Lipton noodles over and over and over. It was really boring, and I
wasn't getting enough protein in my diet. Getting ready for our epic 4
month hike on the PCT this summer, I wanted to try food dehydrating, but
I also needed a recipe book. After lots of online research I ordered
this book and "Trail Food" by Alan Kesselheim. Kesselheim and Yaffe have
completely different approaches, and I find Yaffe's approach far more
user-friendly. You DO NOT want to mess with drying each food item
separately and then trying to assemble them in the backcountry. You are
tired, you are hungry. You do not want to spend lots of time messing
with ten different little baggies and jars of spices and oils. Leave all
of that at home. Yaffe's approach is simple and elegant, and I'm quite
honestly shocked that more people don't do it this way: You make your
soup, stew, pasta dish or casserole in the comfort of your home. The key
is that you must keep the chunks of vegetables, etc. very small. You
then spread the dish in thin layers on your dehydrator trays and let the
dehydrator do all of the work. Just this weekend, we went backpacking
and ran the true field test: rehydrating all of the foods that I had
previously dehydrated. The results were impressive. Breakfast
casseroles, delicious spaghetti for dinner, tuna and bruschetta spreads
at lunch, and none of it had that preservative-laden flavor that
store-bought foods are cursed with. The only two comments I would make
where Yaffe didn't get it quite right are that I can't fit the whole
dish into the dehydrator (if you only have four trays like I do), so we
usually end up eating some of it for dinner (not a bad thing). The
second thing is that her recommended drying times seem a bit too short.
I've had to add an extra hour or two to many of the recipes, but again,
this is not a big deal as I dry most of this stuff overnight anyway. If
you are looking for a lightweight backpacking meal solution, you cannot
live without this book!"

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[rainmaker]

Thanks, this is so cool! The army MRE meals mostly taste like crap (at least the ones I've come across) and they're not exactly cheap either. By preparing the meals on our own, we'll be able to tweak them to our palate and be much more appetizing, not to mention probably a lot cheaper too!

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(03-31-2014 01:52 PM)rainmaker Wrote:  Thanks, this is so cool! The army MRE meals mostly taste like crap (at least the ones I've come across) and they're not exactly cheap either. By preparing the meals on our own, we'll be able to tweak them to our palate and be much more appetizing, not to mention probably a lot cheaper too!

It's a hell of a lot cheaper and also better for you. Who the hell knows what kind of crap they put in MRE's.

Just be careful with meats and make sure you trim out all the fat or it will go rancid. Other than that it's simple and you can basically dehydrate anything you want.

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+Rep added - Thank you very much for your share!