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Healthy Foods and Snacks for Camping
« on: August 16, 2006, 08:01:25 PM » by naewood

My husband and I are getting ready for a big hunting trip. We are packing in 20 miles on horseback. We will have 2 horses packed with gear and food. Does anyone have easy meal/food ideas that I could use? This was our menu last year for the 7 days we were gone. Morning 1/2 cliff bar each, coffee, Afternoon trailmix & Elk jerky, Dinner we shared a freezed dried meal that we added water too. This gave us each one cup of dinner. Then we had flavored jelly beans for dessert! Boy those jelly beans were tremendously good after about the 3rd day!

So far our plans are about the same for this year. I can't really pack up the whole kitchen and cook while in camp. We are limited to weight and we will have to hang whatever food we bring up in a tree to keep it bear proof! If anyone has any ideas, I would love to hear them. We are going for 10 days this year! We have less than a month before we leave.

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Re: Healthy Foods and Snacks for Camping
« Reply #1 on: August 16, 2006, 09:55:12 PM » by ALittleMore

Camping!!! Yay!

Well, there's always the classic roasted hotdogs and marshmallows. If you can take a portable camping stove or build a fire, you can roast away. They make coolers so small they could pass as lunchboxes, that should be great for keeping hotdogs in (and maybe even ketchup/mustard packets. Tongue

) You can make all kinds of granola varieties – this will be good for health, too, to get a variety of grains on your trip. Corn tortillas are a good idea, they don't take up near as much room as bread, don't get mashed in the hustle and bustle, and don't mold as quickly as bread or flour tortillas. You can fill them with jerkey and pack some salsa in your chilled lunch box. Oh, and Pita bread. And vacuum-packaged tuna to put inside your pita bread. Fruit cups (the kind in disposable plastic containers at Wal Mart) are yummy, light weight, and don’t take up much room (especially if taken out of the cardboard carrier.) Hard cheeses such as Parmesan are a good idea. Raisins, sun dried tomatoes, nuts, peanut butter (I love peanut butter), those dried sausage things you put on crackers at Christmastime.

I hope some of those ideas help!

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Re: Healthy Foods and Snacks for Camping
« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2006, 11:11:41 AM » by healthybratt

How about a pan and a fishing pole? Grin

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Re: Healthy Foods and Snacks for Camping
« Reply #3 on: August 17, 2006, 11:37:57 AM » by naewood

Thanks for the responses. I like the tortilla or pita bread idea.

Healthybratt, the fishing pole is already packed! I just dont like fish much! My hubby does so he can eat all he wants! I wasn't raised eating fish and have never acquired that fishy taste! Maybe if I am starving it would be better. hmmmmmm! Thanks

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Re: Healthy Foods and Snacks for Camping
« Reply #4 on: August 17, 2006, 12:08:34 PM » by Gabriel Anast

Plain old wheat berries. When I did a lot of hiking, I would always pack a bag of wheat berries. They will fit anywhere, you can chew them all day long and not get that hungry, and they are actually pretty good tasting. Also, since you have to work on them, there is alway saliva in your mouth and your mouth doesn't get as dry.

Not sure about two weeks... but I also used to crack a bunch of eggs and scramble them and pour them into a plastic (16oz) Coke bottle. I'd throw the bottle in a stream at night (if there was one) and pour some eggs out for breakfast the next morning.

Then there is this great cookbook that you should get if you can find it (I am pretty sure its out of print). It is called the "Jungle Camp Cookbook" and was published by Wycliffe Bible Translators for their missionaries. There is this 7 ingredient mix in that book, and about a million recipes for making everything from pancakes to sandwich bread to biscuits to pie crust... with this special mix. I forget what it is called, and I forget what is in it... and I don't even have my copy of the Jungle Camp Cookbook handy... Roll Eyes

But if I can go get it in the next few days, I'll get you the basic mix.

--gabe

PS: surely someone else on this forum has a copy of the Jungle Camp Cookbook?

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Re: Healthy Foods and Snacks for Camping
« Reply #5 on: August 17, 2006, 12:24:39 PM » by naewood

Gabe,
Thanks for those great tips. I really like the egg one. I am mainly concerned with morning and lunch, as we have the freeze dried meals for dinner. The thing is, we won't be just up there camping and lazing around. It will be getting up before dawn to get to where we want to hunt for the day and then coming back around dinner time. So those two meals will need to be on the go. Are the wheat berries what some people grind for wheat flour or put in bread? So you just chew on them? I really don't want to have to get up extra early to cook breakfast. If I were staying in camp all day, I would definetly do that for hubby. But I am his hunting partner so we both work together and do as much as we can that way. Thanks again.
Renae

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Re: Healthy Foods and Snacks for Camping
« Reply #6 on: August 17, 2006, 12:43:29 PM » by SarahK

Quote from: Gabriel Anast on August 17, 2006, 12:08:34 PM

I would recommend hulled oats the same way. Softer to chew and offer a different flavor after a long time of wheat.

Sarah K

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Re: Healthy Foods and Snacks for Camping
« Reply #7 on: August 17, 2006, 07:11:53 PM » by diaperswyper

We're planning on going camping next wknd. and i need some healthy snack ideas. We're just getting ready to go off the MC fast this wknd. and i don't want to ruin it next wknd. I'd like to make trail mix, any good recipes, tried and true? Of course fruit and veggies, granola bars and popcorn, any other's?

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Re: Healthy Foods and Snacks for Camping
« Reply #8 on: August 18, 2006, 06:23:24 AM » by Pennie

.--gabe

PS: surely someone else on this forum has a copy of the Jungle Camp Cookbook?

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Oh, my mom DOES have one of those. Unfortunately it is in the jungle. Tongue

(Brazil)We used to use it all the time though.

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Re: Healthy Foods and Snacks for Camping
« Reply #9 on: August 18, 2006, 06:25:48 AM » by Pennie

Quote from: diaperswyper on August 17, 2006, 07:11:53 PM

There are some good recipes under the goody thread. I know I for one put cookeis on there. I think carob cookies are what I put over there. I am sure there are other healthy goody snacks there too.

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Re: Healthy Foods and Snacks for Camping
« Reply #10 on: September 08, 2007, 09:41:34 PM » by jenny4wen

Quote from: Gabriel Anast on August 17, 2006, 12:08:34 PM

Then there is this great cookbook that you should get if you can find it (I am pretty sure its out of print). It is called the "Jungle Camp Cookbook" and was published by Wycliffe Bible Translators for their missionaries. There is this 7 ingredient mix in that book, and about a million recipes for making everything from pancakes to sandwich bread to biscuits to pie crust... with this special mix. I forget what it is called, and I forget what is in it... and I don't even have my copy of the Jungle Camp Cookbook handy... Roll Eyes

But if I can go get it in the next few days, I'll get you the basic mix.

--gabe

PS: surely someone else on this forum has a copy of the Jungle Camp Cookbook?

Just found out from diligent searching that the Jungle Camp Cookbook that is out of print is running about $75 if you can find it. There is a revised version, and it is available for about $14. It's called the Wycliffe International Cookbook, and here is the site I found it at. I'm not real sure if it has this recipe you are talking about in it, but it looks like it has some great recipes.

https://www.wycliffe.org/WebShop/ProductDescription.aspx

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Re: Healthy Foods and Snacks for Camping
« Reply #11 on: September 09, 2007, 02:32:23 PM » by SC

Quote from: Gabriel Anast on August 17, 2006, 12:08:34 PM

But if I can go get it in the next few days, I'll get you the basic mix.

I found this on line. Is it what you were talking about?
http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~leal/bill/sourdough.htm

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Sourdough

These sourdough recipes are all from the Jungle Camp Cookbook, an out-of-print cookbook published in the mid-1970's to help Americans make the adjustment to primitive living conditions. All the recipes are designed to be simple, and we still use the cookbook regularly in our decidedly non-primitive living situation in the US. We especially like the sourdough recipes, and have kept a starter going for several years now.
Tips on using a sourdough starter

It's traditional to keep only a small starter ... a couple of tablespoons or so. Sourdough recipes will often direct you to mix up a quantity of starter, milk, flour the night before so it's ready the next day. Now as it turns out, the mixture is the same as the starter, once the yeast has permeated it; there's just more of it. So since I'm not that good at planning ahead, I've learned to keep a larger quantity of starter on hand. That way, all I need to do is pull it out and use the starter directly when the occasion calls for it. Here's how it works.

First, get a starter going (directions below). Then, when you make something, pour out the entire starter into the mixing bowl and use that for the recipe. Don't wash the starter container; it should have traces of the starter still in the container. To reconstitute the starter, add two cups of milk to the starter container along with two cups of flour and mix together (some lumps are ok so long as everything is moist). Let it sit in a warm (not hot) place until it's full of bubbles (about 8 hours or so).

If you use the starter at least every week you can keep it in the fridge. Otherwise you can freeze it. If you do freeze it, you can defrost it by setting it out overnight, or you can defrost it in warm (not hot) water or in the microwave oven. If you defrost it in the microwave, it will tend to cook some of the starter, making it stiff and sticky; you should discard this.
Getting a starter going

All you really need is milk and flour and some patience, though commercial yeast speeds things up.
Sourdough Starter #1

Put 2 cups milk in a non-metal container. Allow to stand at room temperature for 24 hours. Stir in 2 cups flour. Cover container with cheesecloth. Leave in a warm place (around 80° F is optimal) for 2-5 days. If you put it outdoors you'll speed the process up by exposing the starter to wild yeast cells present in the air. If the starter starts to dry out, stir in enough tepid water to bring it back to the original consistency. Once it has a good sour aroma and is full of bubbles it is ready to use.

Sourdough Starter #2

Put 2 cups warm (not hot) milk in a non-metal container and dissolve a tablespoon of dry yeast. Add 2 cups flour. Cover the container loosely and let stand in a warm place until bubbly.

Sourdough Recipes
Sourdough Waffles

These are a family favorite. It's important to have a deep waffle iron; a Belgium waffle iron works well. Shallow ones tend to produce wimpy waffles.

Pour the entire starter into a large bowl. Separate 2 eggs. Add the egg yolks, 2 tablespoons oil (olive or salad oil), ½ teaspoon salt and ½ to 1 teaspoon soda. Vary the amount of soda according to the sourness of the starter. Sourdough items should not taste sour when eaten. Whip the egg whites until stiff and fold into the batter. Cooking time per waffle will depend on the iron you use, but generally they will take a little longer than regular waffles.

To make a larger amount you'll have to plan ahead. At least 8 hours before you intend to cook, pour the starter into a large bowl and add equal amounts of milk and flour to get the quantity you need. Cover loosely. Adjust the recipe accordingly.

Variations: Use half the starter and mix with 1 cup milk and 1 cup of another flour, such as buckwheat flour or corn meal. You can also add bacon bits or cheese to the batter. For pancakes, follow the waffle recipe but eliminate the oil.

Sourdough English Muffins

Another family favorite, especially with our daughter Jenny.

Pour the entire starter into a large bowl. Mix together ½ cup flour, ¾ tablespoon salt, ½ to 1 teaspoon soda, and mix well. Stir into starter. Add enough flour to make the dough stiff but not too stiff. Turn the dough out onto a floured board and knead. Add flour as necessary until the dough is no longer sticky. Handle the dough lightly and don't over-knead it.

Roll out ¾ inch thick and cut with cutter. Put on a cookie sheet sprinkled with corn meal. Sprinkle corn meal on top as well. Cover and set aside in a warm place to rise, about 45 minutes. Fry on a griddle, turning until until brown on both sides. Split and toast. You can toast them in a toaster, toaster oven, or right on the griddle itself.

Sourdough Biscuits

These are easy and make a nice accompaniment to any meal.

Prepare the dough as for English Muffins, but add 1 teaspoon of baking powder. Knead, roll out, and cut. You can begin baking immediately, but for best results, let rise in a warm place 1-2 hours first. Bake at 375° for about 30 minutes, or until golden brown.

Variations: Add cheese or bacon. Add spices, such as Italian herbs. Brush with butter or oil before baking.

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Re: Healthy Foods and Snacks for Camping
« Reply #12 on: September 09, 2007, 02:44:55 PM » by naturalgirl

I know that this isn't a food item, but you might want to remember to also bring a large men's hankerchief for your horse trip. In the cool, it keeps you warm when wrapped around your neck, and when dipped into water it keeps you cool when the sun is beating down. I've traveled up to 18 miles/day with one of these and wouldn't want to go without one. Just a thought-- Take it or leave it Wink

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Re: Healthy Foods and Snacks for Camping
« Reply #13 on: September 09, 2007, 04:44:22 PM » by SarahK

I have found that #4 cone shaped coffee filters are great trail mix cups for camping with kids. They come 40 in a pack & take up about a 4" x 6" x 1" space in your gear. They hold about a cup of trail mix or other dry foods. I will be putting a pack of these in the van for snacks on the road, too.

Sarah K

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Re: Healthy Foods and Snacks for Camping
« Reply #14 on: March 28, 2008, 05:35:28 PM » by SarahK

Spring camping trips are coming up! Any new ideas? Recipes?

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Re: Healthy Foods and Snacks for Camping
« Reply #15 on: March 28, 2008, 05:48:22 PM » by Kitty

Quote from: SarahK on March 28, 2008, 05:35:28 PM

Spring camping trips are coming up! Any new ideas? Recipes?

Hmmm....pack your snow shoes for hike...hot cocoa...gloves and hats....s'mores would be good at this temperature...soups in a Thermos...and recipes w/ cayenne...

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You are SO adventurous!

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