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Learn to COOK - 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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Manufacturer: Stackpole Books
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Binding: Paperback
Brand: Stackpole Books
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.578
EAN: 9780811726344
Feature: BOOK, BACKPACK GOURMET,
ISBN: 0811726347
Label: Stackpole Books
Manufacturer: Stackpole Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 147
Publication Date: 2003-01
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Studio: Stackpole Books
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BOOK, BACKPACK GOURMET,
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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. Includes over 160 recipes for soups, stews, pasta, casseroles, and breakfast and snack ideas as well as tips on drying food in a dehydrator or oven.
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Summary: Not for everyone
Comment: This book is okay if you want to spend several days prepping food before you go on a trip that was planned 'way in advance.
If you're the type who only goes off when you get a chance, which might be three weekends in a row, then nowhere for 2 months because of work or other commitments, the recipes in the front of the book are not too time-intensive, but the cook-and-dehydrate recipes you can pretty much forget about unless you have a large dehydrator and don't mind pulling an all-nighter just before a trip.
I did not care for the author's views on campfires. True, not all places allow them, but not everyone makes a mess and if one is that adamant about polluting the environment, then don't take a stove either--go raw food on a trip.
Recipes aren't too bad but, if you backpack a lot, and have other friends who do, it would be much less expensive both in time and money to go in with your friends to buy the basic plain dehydrated or freeze-dried foods (not necessarily the meals) in bulk, and go from there.
Check out from the library first.
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Summary: A great place to start
Comment: This is a great book for backpackers looking to save $$$ on freeze dried foods. I consider it a starting point as after you make a few of these recipes, you realize that you can dehydrate anything you cook at home and turn it into a backpacking meal. I often found myself adjusting the recipie seasonings to suit my personal taste. The breakfast eggs weren't a big hit, but the dips/spreads, jerky, pasta recipes, etc are quick, easy, nutritious and tasted great after a day of hiking.
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Summary: Useful, but not to my taste
Comment: This book will be a benefit to people enjoying long hikes deep into inconvenient territory. Beyond that, it is mostly useful only for the helpful hints and a few product reviews. I recommend finding this book at a library or paging through it at a bookstore to make sure it is really what you're looking for before buying.
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Summary: Survive the back woods or thrird World
Comment: Well who'd ever think I, a middled aged man married to a wonderful wife and cook,would be cooking for 4 in the third world, anything other than PB&J's.
They all laughed at me as I stashed vac-packed meals into 4 seperate ditty bags, I would just smile and say I wanted to be prepared.
As we went off the main road and up into the mountain villages, by the third day thier tune started to change.
Wonderful quick meals Breakfasts(eggs and sausage) soups for lunch, lasanga and stews for dinner and even bisguits. breakfast squares, granola bars, and carrot soup were the big hits with the ladies but I think they just enjoyed not having to cook.
The meals are power packed and full of protien very nutritional. easy to find or grow ingredients.The portions were plentiful, usually we would share in the villages.
Now from grill master at home to the trail chef cooking lasnqna in the bush in less than 5 minutes they want me to cook these meals at home .
I Highly recommend this book to all who travel and camp where there are no stores. Cooking meals 1st then dehyrating them not only saved lots of weight in the backpack, but allows you to spice them up to your liking before you dehydrate, so meals are a delight not the same old, same old, very important on 3-4 week trips.
(A good cook always tastes the food before giving to the critics)
These Nutritional meals keep your body healthy and full of energy to work or play the next day. yet allow you to pack away plenty in a small space. also you can prepare them and stash them in the freezer months before.
Not a bad Idea to have on hand in a disaster kit stored in a sealed bucket with a couple of cases of water in the cool basement either.
Don't forget the water filter and small pot to cook & eat out of.
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Summary: Eatin' Good On the Trail
Comment: Your hiking trips no longer have to be full of boring meals in a can. Now you can cook great meals at home ahead of time and rehydrate them on the trail.
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