Westwood, I hope no one was a smoker!

Mac + Cheese

I hate with a passion M+C, but I usually take a box as emergancy food, hoping/planning that I'll not need it.

2 food stories;

A few years ago I got carries away and bought some freezed dried camping "food", including a couple deserts. I can't remember exactly which nore but maybe lemon pudding and a berry cobbler.  Both ended up tasting very bad and very runny. I think after a few bites we duluted it with a bunch of water and tossed it.

And many years ago, at the end of a 1 week/6 person canoe/fishing trip, all we had left was a few lbs of runny cheese and noodles (maybe Mac+Cheese) and maybe a few other things. Anyway, we put everything in a large pot and cooked it all up. When it was hot/warm we could dish it up, but when it cooled on our plates it was a very thick, stiff, gooy lump. It was probably 75% cheese. I don't remember what we did with it.

Dan

In one of my first trips in Quetico in the early 70's, our fearless leader packed the Coleman fuel next to the pancake mix.  I think everyone knows where this is going.  The morning we had pancakes everyone noticed that the pancakes tasted really strange and after eating the pancakes, everyone was burping gas.  I personally had what felt like heartburn for a couple of days.  In hindsight never pack Coleman fuel anywhere near your food.

Did you mean if you could find some family, or find some powdered eggs.

TTC is correct. Never confuse the two. FD is NOT powdered.
I got mine from a restaurant supply company.

Thanks for the information, I will test the powdered on the family this weekend, if I can find some.

Freeze dried eggs are the Devil's Spawn, meant to induce vomiting, while powdered eggs can be rehabilitated like OS says.

Powdered eggs are uncooked (until you do it to them.)

old_salt
Is there a quality differance between freeze dried eggs and powdered eggs.  The ones I tried had good sized chunks of scrambled eggs.  Are powdered eggs precooked and then ground or raw and dried then ground?

I realize I'm in the minority with my opinion, but PROPERLY MADE, with powdered milk, and bacon, ham, onions, peppers, mushrooms, and any other omelet fixins you may like, powdered eggs make great omelets.

free tip: put all ingrediants, mixes, use slightly less water than called for, etc into a nalgene bottle and SHAKE WELL. All the 'bits' help to dissolve all of the powders. Just pour into a hot skillet on indirect heat. 8) 8) 8)

Powered eggs !!! The worst.
Have used a Nalgene bottle to carry fresh eggs many times.

butthead

i don't know how people feel about egg beaters but there way better than any freeze dried or powdered egg.
i froze my cartons before the trip and kept froze in cooler until put-in.
  i put in zip lock bag and buried in pack for insulation.
  when they thawed out i emptied cartons into a naglene bottle and wrapped bottle with a cotton dish towel that i had soaked in water.
i kept out of sun, under the seat or between pack and bottom of canoe.
the evaporation kept the eggs good and with a little diced onion they made a nice omlette.
of course i go in late may for walleye opener and the water is still cold.
if you had a small soft-sided cooler and did the evaporation thing i think they would last a long time??
i've also read on the Canadian canoing web site about cracking the whole eggs gently into a quart naglene bottle and "pouring" off what you need.
haven't tried that but if you can keep them cool then the worst you would have is "scrambled" eggs.
hope this is of some help??