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Subject:Re: Long-term Camping Food
From:Jere Hawn
Date:Fri, 12 Apr 2002 10:31:00 -0700

Last night on Leno he mentioned that the Army had developed a sandwich that
will stay good for 3 years...  think of the possibilities... you could store
sandwiches with the spare tire.

Jere

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
Of Aristotle Sagan
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 10:27 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Long-term Camping Food

Dried beans
Dried Peas
Bullion
Rice
Packaged Pilaf
dried salted fish
dried sausage
pasta
olive oil
onions and garlic
herbs
cup of soup (oodles of noodles)
water based pancake batter
eggs (kept cool)
evaporated milk
dried chiles (hot or not)
TVP (textured vegetable protein)
bisquick
lemons/limes
corn tortilla chips
canned salsa and hot peppers
gin
vodka
beer
tonic water

get a food dehydrator and expand your world.

I could live a couple of weeks with the above list.

tim in san jose (veteran of a couple of week long burning mans)
p.s. tortilla bread does not hold for very long. It gets stale or moldy.

 >
>I hope I don't start another veggie war with this...
>
>What foods do you use for long-term camping?  Something that requires
>minimum refrigeration yet is reasonably healthy?
>
>Obviously I can't keep meet just cool for a week and still expect it not to
>kill me.  Donuts are out of the question.  Milk does not keep for long.
>
>Beef jerky?
>Smoked fish?
>Tortilla bread?
>Cheese?

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