Add water camp food

I have built a car camping stuff collection designed to always be in my
truck and allow me to decide to 'stay the night' if I drive a ways to a
fishing hole and don't want to drive home .... the fishing to driving ratio
greatly improves by fishing another day before the long drive back.

I don't expect to always make the decision in advance and prepare for the
night's camping. It's been years since I tried and freeze dried
backpacking foods, but my memory of them is unpleasant.

So,

anybody got any good ideas for "add water" or "open a can" foods to throw in
this kit? ..... something that doesn't taste like cardboard, prefered

Larry L wrote:
anybody got any good ideas for "add water" or "open a can" foods to
throw in
this kit? ..... something that doesn't taste like cardboard,
prefered

Can wise Hormel Chili (no beans), Dinty Moore Beef Stew, and of
course......Chef Boy Ar Dee Ravioli g

Larry L wrote:
I have built a car camping stuff collection designed to always be in my
truck and allow me to decide to 'stay the night' if I drive a ways to a
fishing hole and don't want to drive home .... the fishing to driving ratio
greatly improves by fishing another day before the long drive back.

I don't expect to always make the decision in advance and prepare for the
night's camping. It's been years since I tried and freeze dried
backpacking foods, but my memory of them is unpleasant.

So,

anybody got any good ideas for "add water" or "open a can" foods to throw in
this kit? ..... something that doesn't taste like cardboard, prefered

We really like these for car camping.

http://www.tastybite.com/

They definitely do not taste like cardboard.

--
Ken Fortenberry

"Larry L" wrote in message
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anybody got any good ideas for "add water" or "open a can" foods to throw
in this kit? ..... something that doesn't taste like cardboard,
prefered

Top Roman...

JT
P.S. With Tony Chachere's Original Creole Seasoning added, it could be an
every day lunch!
http://www.tonychachere.com/store/seasoning-blends.html

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 17:17:32 GMT, "Larry L"
wrote:

anybody got any good ideas for "add water" or "open a can" foods to throw in
this kit? ..... something that doesn't taste like cardboard, prefered

These freeze dried foods are pretty good:
http://www.richmoor.com/products/NaturalHigh-1.html
I also keep cans of Campbell's Chunky Soups in my trailer.
--
Charlie...
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"Larry L" wrote in message
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I have built a car camping stuff collection designed to always be in my
truck and allow me to decide to 'stay the night' if I drive a ways to a
fishing hole and don't want to drive home .... the fishing to driving
ratio
greatly improves by fishing another day before the long drive back.

I don't expect to always make the decision in advance and prepare for the
night's camping. It's been years since I tried and freeze dried
backpacking foods, but my memory of them is unpleasant.

So,

anybody got any good ideas for "add water" or "open a can" foods to throw
in
this kit? ..... something that doesn't taste like cardboard, prefered


I do a ton of backpacking, and I've found that the Mountain House brand of
freeze-dried ain't too bad. There are some really horrible ones (beef
patties -- ugh!) and some really good ones (chicken polynesian, beef
stroganoff). The downside to MH is cost -- they're about 5-6 bucks each
depending on which you buy.

Other foods to consider -- foil packed tuna, chcken, and if you can find it,
ground beef. Those lipton noodles and sauce things are pretty good, and have
a shelf life measured in millenia. Noodles thing plus a pouch of chicken
equals a pretty tasty meal. Also, a Ziploc full of pasta (spag or linguini
works best (no breakage or crushing)) and one of those little Knorr pasta
sauce mixes makes for a great meal -- a little more work, but worth it.

For ultimate add-water convenience, hard to beat mountain house.

Get (or make) an alcohol burning stove, and keep a bottle of HEET (the
yellow bottle, not the red) in the car with a cheap, thin aluminum cook pot.
The methanol in HEET has a decent heat output and will boil or heat a fair
amount of water in about five minutes, depending on stove. Added bonus --
the alcohol is not explosive or anything like that, so no worries if a
sealed bottle is in the car.

I don't expect to always make the decision in advance and prepare for the
night's camping. It's been years since I tried and freeze dried
backpacking foods, but my memory of them is unpleasant.

Larry,
My old stand-by delicacies:
M&M Peanuts
Fig Newtons
Coke
Budweiser &/or bourbon (or Danl type Pilsners)
Guy
"Thanks Lord, some days are just plain worth getting up for".
(Thinking ahead to the Deschutes & Madison)

Larry L wrote:
So,

anybody got any good ideas for "add water" or "open a can" foods to throw in
this kit? ..... something that doesn't taste like cardboard, prefered

Ditto the recommendation for Mountain House dehyd food. The last
backpacking trip I took, all of us brought Mountain House(not pre
planned that way). Don't buy the eggs! Note, get the 2 serving size
bags. The one serving size is about enough to fill up a 5 year old.
There are packages of real oriental noodles, not Ramen or Cup O Noodles,
but the stuff with asian writing on them, that are very tasty. Just add
boiling water. There's canned chicken salad for making samiches. Tuna in
a foil package. Pre-cooked rice packages(some taste terrible so you'll
need to experiment). Many quick & easy noodle a soap dishes. A stroll
through the grocery store will have you set.

brians

anybody got any good ideas for "add water" or "open a can" foods to throw
in this kit? ..... something that doesn't taste like cardboard,
prefered

Gotta swear by the new MRE's (Meals Ready to Eat). Some of them are
awesome. I keep a couple in my truck for just those situations.

--
Frank Reid
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"Larry L" wrote in message
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anybody got any good ideas for "add water" or "open a can" foods to throw
in this kit? ..... something that doesn't taste like cardboard,
prefered
I'll second the recommendations for Mountain House. Beef Stroganoff is good,
Lasagna is good, beef stew is good.

I even fed some of it to Jeffie and Wolfgang. They didn't expire, and seemed
to think it was pretty good. Of course it's all relative. Wolfgang had been
trying to feed olives to Miller. And for some reason neither of them liked
my Power Bars. They just don't have very well-developed sensibilities as far
as food is concerned . . .

Bob