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Barking Sasquatch
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PostFri Jul 15, 2011 4:14 pm 
If greens help make Popeye strong, they must be good for helping us up the trail, right? Here's an easy and delicious way to pack greens on the trail for a satisfying snack. Best of all, you don't need a dehyrdrator, just the oven in your kitchen! Depending on how you pack, these could get smushed to bits, but then you would have healthy kale crumbs to toss into one of those fabulous dinner recipes made with instant taters that dicentra has been sharing...I skip the brown sugar step. Enjoy! http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/patrick-and-gina-neely/kale-chips-recipe/index.html How else do people like to bring veggies on the trail?

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PostFri Jul 15, 2011 4:17 pm 
Carrots dehydrate pretty well. Cabbage is quite durable. Green beans also dry pretty well.

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PostFri Jul 15, 2011 5:09 pm 
Coincidentally, this last week a friend brought some kale "chips" to share with us. They tasted pretty good (sort of like really thin potato chips except which dissolve almost instantly in your mouth), but I think you'd need to eat a LOT to be very satisfied with this.

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PostFri Jul 15, 2011 5:14 pm 
Lots of greens are already there: bracken fern, cattails, berries, dandelions, maple twigs, sugary tree bark, mushrooms, salal, etc. I like to bring the dehydrated veggies and fruits.

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PostFri Jul 15, 2011 5:28 pm 
@onemoremile: Nice ideas, but unfortunately all those greens are only found at low elevations. I fry, then dry, broccoli spears. I fry in coconut oil because I imagine it goes rancid slower than most oils. Also carrots, but that's not a "green".

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PostFri Jul 15, 2011 7:07 pm 
I munch wood sorrel. AJ

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PostFri Jul 15, 2011 10:29 pm 
Barking Sasquatch wrote:
How else do people like to bring veggies on the trail?
If anything some cabbage. Keeps long. Dress (at serving time) with a little sesame oil and vinegar, soy sauce, sugar, hot pepper.

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PostSat Jul 16, 2011 8:03 am 
Cabbage is your friend if you want fresh greens on the trail. It holds up great in the pack. Bell peppers also hold up really well. The pure pleasure of crunching into a fresh pepper after 4 days on the trail makes it totally worth the weight.

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PostSat Jul 16, 2011 9:50 am 
I take a wide variety of vegetables with me - you can dry nearly anything in the produce dept. up.gif

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PostWed Aug 10, 2011 8:51 pm 
Conrad wrote:
@onemoremile: Nice ideas, but unfortunately all those greens are only found at low elevations.
One more green for onemoremiles list that satisfies higher elevations and avoids prepping and packing altogether: glacier lilies, yum! First green to pop up as snow melts usually. And first time I've ever popped into the food forum! Taste I've found varies with context (soil minerals, etc.). Young shoots most tasty; fresh, sweet and somewhat bitter (for that medicinal flourish!).

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PostSun Aug 21, 2011 9:31 am 
I pureed a heap of broccoli - stems, flowers- then dried it. The whole shebang turned into a paste - like material. It dried nice n' crispy and I pulverized it to a nice green powder.

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PostSun Aug 21, 2011 10:57 am 
So then what is your plan with it? Just add to whatever?

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