Food For Thought

Let’s say I had to be ready to step into the wilderness in one month and I was going to start on Springer Mountain…this would mean downgrading my future fancy feast delicacies to B-grade trail grub. This would require that I dehydrate jerky, fruit leathers and veggie chips, stat. I will have to buy grains like rice and oatmeal in bulk as well as trail mix components.

Below is the food list I configured:

1. Breakfast
1. Oatmeal
2. Pamela’s Pancake mix
2. Snacks
1. Nut and Raisin Gorp
2. Veggie Gorp
3. Lunch
1. Jerky
2. Cheese
3. Fruit Leather
4. Dinner
1. Ramen
2. Rice
3. Beans
4. Instant Potatoes
5. Dessert
1. Hot Coca
2. M&Ms
3. Fruit Leather
6. Seasoning
1. Cinnamon
2. Mrs. Dash
3. Brown Sugar
4. Vanilla

Given the list of goods, I created a trail menu:

Breakfast

Savory Breakfast

1. Pancake mix
2. Instant potato
3. Dehydrated veggies
4. Jerky bits
5. Mrs. Dash

Sweet Breakfast

1. Pancake mix
2. Fruit leather
3. brown sugar
4. vanilla
5. cinnamon

Oatmeal with dried fruit

Snacks

Savory Snacks

            Veggie Gorp- dried onions, carrots, tomatoes and potatoes

Sweet Snacks

            Rasins, dried fruit, almonds, m&ms

Lunch

1. Jerky
2. Cheese
3. Fruit Leather
4. Veggie chips
5. Bagel Chips

Dinner

Stir Fry

1. Jerky
2. dehydrated veggies
3. Rice

Potato Casserole

1. Instant potatoes
2. cheese
3. Jerky bits

Pasta

1. Ramen
2. Dehydrated veggies
3. Jerky bits

Rice and Beans

1. Rice
2. Beans
3. Veggies
4. jerky bits