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First year backpacking, I packed a whole jar of PB, and 1 of Jelly in those damn things. Most of it ended up smeared all over the food bag
IF you need your P&B fix, I'd just bring the small plastic jars and save yourself the misery

Shoud have added this. Each bag I prepare has a "recipe" in it. The recipe contains what is in the bag and how to assemble the parts. Rice is pretty easy for folks to recognize, but pancake flour and instant potatoes might be confused.

Folks on this site encouraged and coached me on preparing my own dried meals. Cuts both salt and sugar. Well worth the effort in my book.

Tim

Solotripper:

Fie on you! I only start fires with wet wood!

Tim

Snow_Dog wrote on Nov 11^th, 2009 at 1:10am:

... and of course, if you are going to write your recipe ON the ziploc bag (rather than use the cardboard "insert"), make sure you use permanent marker.

BTW:  Its helpful to write on the bag BEFORE you fill it!

dd

That was a lot of food wasn't it. Was there any fish breading?

I've noticed I need a lot less food in August than I would in May. Was there a date or time of year mentioned?

For most of the 20+ years I've been making the trip, we do not fry fish. We sprinkle a modest amount of lemon pepper on fillets, then grill the fillets over the fire, holding the fish in a backyard hamburger grill. Saves on oil, saves of batter mix. And makes, in my opinion, better fish.

Tim

No, I've never taken one of the stick-resistant grills. I'm thinking I'll take a can of spray for the grill next year, though I would add some to the weight I'm eliminating by not taking batter mix. But sticking has not been all that great a problem. There's some sticking, no doubt, but we scrape the fish off with a spatula and don't lose very much. Lake trout are oily enough that sticking does not seem to be much trouble. And cook slow... it's a secret that no body knows.

In one of the Gourmet magazine cookbooks there is a recipe for beer braised bass which I made many years ago (think I'll go look it up) which we liked a great deal. But not so well I'm willing to lug beer intot he bush. 

Tim

Fish Pizza, Fish burritos, fish stew/stew, thai noodle fish, Poached Laker, fish spag., cream cheese herb scrabbled eggs w/ laker, and on rare occasion pan fried.

Tuna is a break from fish?

I go the opposite way.  I've never, ever brought tuna on a canoe trip.  Some smoked ham or salami diced in mac and cheese is a welcome break from fish for me.

Spam is in my inbox every day.  That's part of what I'm trying to escape up there. 

Tuna's good...it just doesn't belong in my food pack.  Gotta leave the stores stocked with it for prouboy.

I have had success on this a couple of ways. 

You can put them in a ziploc first, but don't seal it up.  That gives you an extra layer of padding against the sharp points. 

Lately, I have had success by skipping the ziploc layer and just not vacuuming quite as much air out before sealing.  I let the vacuum part of the process run just until the stuff compacts down fairly good but before it starts putting a lot of pressure on the bag.  Then I switch it over to the seal function.  You get 80-90% as much compression as usual but just enough "give" in the bag so that the pointy edges aren't straining against the plastic.

Yep one could

ProudBoy

The expert on whether Tuna is a fish is, of course, Jessica Simpson, not Homer.  I can't recall if Jesica ever decided if Chicken of the Sea was a chicken or a fish.

As far as buying food for a camping trip.  Everything I need can be found at Cub Food.  Some food has to be repacked in zip lock bags, but otherwise Cub has everything I need.

Westwood

db wrote on Feb 26^th, 2010 at 6:15am:


Pick n Save

I've found the best thing to prevent wholes in packaging is packing tape. I don't vacum seal, I just use ziplocks, but when I have poky stuff like spagetti noodles I gubber on the packing tape and it holds up to pretty much anything. The only time I ever had any problems was last Memorial weekend on a trip up the Vermillion River. I took a larger group of no experience kids and ended up (it's a long story) going backward over a 3 or 4 foot drop with me and a kid who had never been in a canoe before that day. We stayed upright over the drop but the kid freaked in the whitewater below. We went over and everything went for a float ride. The foodpack was floating for a good half hour before we got another canoe over the portage to go get it and while I tended to the kid (he got a little banged up but was ok). Anyway, even after floating down the river the only problem we had was that water somehow got into the noodles and instead of noodles we ate a giant chunk of pasta for supper that night. Never did find the stove.

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Would love to get that recipe, sounds good!

Thanks! I should have looked there.....       And quote properly lol