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sarbar Living The Dream
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sarbar
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Mon Jul 25, 2011 7:14 pm
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Exactly! Real food indeed
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forest gnome Forest nut...
Joined: 24 Apr 2003 Posts: 3518 | TRs | Pics Location: north cascades!! |
welcome to the world of real-food slugman, if your food don't get here by friday I will share some dotties chix...and dumplings...
don't forget the 4pk. of hawaii dinner rolls!....oh and I will be bringing the frying pan so hopefully fishing....
oh I will split one dinner of enertia chowder and fresh fish with you!!! so plan on that for one dinner!!
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Man-inna-hillz Member
Joined: 25 Aug 2005 Posts: 286 | TRs | Pics Location: Berkeley, CA |
Just clicked and confirmed the following to fuel my Alpine Lakes High Traverse in August:
Zydeco Red Beans and Rice
Dottie's Chicken and Dumplings
Big Easy Gumbo (with Kountry Boys pork and beef/jalapeno sausage add-on)
Austintacious Chicken Tortilla Soup
Also got two two person entrees:
Bangers and Mash
Shepherd's pie
(probably save those two for the Shinumo-Tapeats loop in the Grand Canyon next spring, when I'll have the trusty stomach of Jonas to aid and abet)
Thanks for the tip, folks. I will return with a full review. I'm a foodie pretentious camping gourmand and and tend to make ludicrously elaborate meals that involve several rounds of browning and cooking, but I decided that enough is enough for this trip; just hot water this time.
Pity they don't have flavored syrups: looks like I could make some pretty sweet snowcones up at Tanks.
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Slugman It’s a Slugfest!
Joined: 27 Mar 2003 Posts: 16874 | TRs | Pics
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Slugman
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Tue Jul 26, 2011 11:40 am
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I can say this for 100% certain: you will love the tortilla soup. Just bring some extra chips as one serving of the soup is only 210 calories. It seems more filling because it's a soup, but hikers still need the calories. Tortilla chips are already "dehydrated" more or less, so there's no weight penalty for bringing them.
One thing you will notice is how the ingredients tend to be kept separate in little packages within the package. This allows you to remove things you don't like, such as I would take out the extra hot sauce from the tortilla soup, as it was hot enough for me already (I'm a bit of a spice wimp, not completely though, but somewhat.) You can also dump some of the ingredients together and save some packaging weight. What they do to store food for months and keep it fresh really isn't needed when you are going to eat it in a day or so.
PS: the website says to not store the sausage meals more than 3 to 6 months. You may want to eat the bangers and mash sooner than next spring, or maybe store the sausage component in the freezer?
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HitTheTrail Member
Joined: 30 Oct 2007 Posts: 5452 | TRs | Pics Location: 509 |
If you must eat freeze dried food try getting a pouch of MH dried peas and mixing in a container of Dr. McDougall's split pea soup. Carnivores' might want to add some cut-up bits of beef jerky. It can be pre-mixed in the MH pouch before leaving and makes a filling and rather healthy meal
Split pea soup
Dried peas
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sarbar Living The Dream
Joined: 28 Jan 2002 Posts: 8055 | TRs | Pics Location: Freeland, Wa |
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sarbar
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Wed Jul 27, 2011 10:52 am
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The Dr. McDougall line is very, very good The bigger noodle cups they make are excellent. Most of the soups are tasty served over rice as well to stretch them, plenty of broth becomes a sauce! And very reasonable sodium levels. You can find them at QFC stores.
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Slugman It’s a Slugfest!
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Wed Jul 27, 2011 2:15 pm
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QFC, eh? I also liked the nutrition info on the Dr. McDougall's.
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Backpacker Joe Blind Hiker
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 23956 | TRs | Pics Location: Cle Elum |
Ive never tried PG. I like MH food. The single serving jobbers work well for me.
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sarbar Living The Dream
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sarbar
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Wed Jul 27, 2011 2:29 pm
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Yeah the Dr. McDougall stuff was created for people with heart failure and similar. So the sodium stats are very impressive and it often contains beans and whatnot that are good for your cholesterol as well
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HitTheTrail Member
Joined: 30 Oct 2007 Posts: 5452 | TRs | Pics Location: 509 |
For my split pea concoction above: the MH peas call for adding a cup and half of water and then draining the excess off after it sits and cooks. When you pre-add the soup the amount of water is just right with no draining.
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Backpacker Joe Blind Hiker
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 23956 | TRs | Pics Location: Cle Elum |
Ill have to try some of that.
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HitTheTrail Member
Joined: 30 Oct 2007 Posts: 5452 | TRs | Pics Location: 509 |
You can also do the same thing with MH cut green beans and Dr. McDougall's bean soup. The MH green beans have zero sodium. That one I tried at home but not on the trail yet. It wasn't bad.
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Allison Feckless Swooner
Joined: 17 Dec 2001 Posts: 12287 | TRs | Pics Location: putting on my Nikes before the comet comes |
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Wed Jul 27, 2011 4:55 pm
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Trader Joe does FD green beans as well.
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Slugman It’s a Slugfest!
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Thu Jul 28, 2011 4:35 pm
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My Packitgourmet order, placed Sunday July 24th at 5 pm Texas time, is already in Portland, Oregon. Not bad for free shipping (on orders of $150 or more).
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sarbar Living The Dream
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sarbar
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Thu Jul 28, 2011 4:38 pm
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Hmmm....maybe it will show up in time?
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