Thread: Wapiti Ballot, 9 days of food....

iPad, hip flask, maybe a solar powered foot spa?

Have you considered making your own dehydrated meals.
Dehydrators are cheep and easy to use.
I frequently dehydrate left over meals like soups, stews, curries and the like and they last for months.
The bonus is you get to eat food that you like the taste of

Originally Posted by BobGibson

Have you considered making your own dehydrated meals.
Dehydrators are cheep and easy to use.
I frequently dehydruate left over meals like soups, stews, curries and the like and they last for months.
The bonus is you get to eat food that you like the taste of

I have actually thought about giving it a go, do they re-hydrate well?

Originally Posted by MSL

iPad, hip flask, maybe a solar powered foot spa?

My ipad actually weighs about the same as a magazine but can hold tons of reading material and also has the great Maptoaster topos on it, my mrs has also managed to put a couple seasons of home and away on it I cant seem to get rid of (just ask anyone I have been hunting with before...... Late at night, all in our respective tents and that familiar theme song wafts quietly through the air... @sambnz : "Are you watching fucking home and away in there!?"..... Haha) I was actually thinking of taking a couple of beers in case we have something to celebrate but for power-to-weight factor the hipflask with some Johny Walker black wins hands down....

One option I used to do for longer trips was growing mung beans and adding the sprouts to the meals for something fresh from day 4 onwards. Weighs very little and can just go into space in top of pack from first days meals. I used to also take dehyd spud and vege then add salami for a meal. A loaf of bread was good for the first couple of days then switch to cabin bread (a big cracker). Could add cheese, salami, bean sprouts, vegemite, ....whatever else you want to the cabin bread

Some rehydrate better than others. Anything with large chunks of meat needs a while but mince is ok.
Dont bother dehydrating rice on its own. Better to buy pre cooked rice as it only takes a few minutes
I get frozen vegetables and put them in the dehydrator frozen and they come out ok.
Forgot to add that you really need to vacuum all dehydrated food .
I make up a full days provisions of individual bags then vacuum pack the lot.
That way I just grab the number of packs I need for the number of days.

Ryan, fresh or dehydrate fruit?

If water is no problem take dehydrated...

Originally Posted by craigc

Ryan, fresh or dehydrate fruit?

If water is no problem take dehydrated...

In the list of things that I weighed the two apples and three oranges were fresh, plus I had some dried fruit there that I thought would go good beefing up the oats sachets at breakfast time and also general snacking. I don't really like the weight of the fresh fruit but I really like the idea of a nice juicy orange or apple when the going has been tough, maybe I can do generations to come a favour and plant the seeds! haha

Originally Posted by gadgetman

One option I used to do for longer trips was growing mung beans and adding the sprouts to the meals for something fresh from day 4 onwards. Weighs very little and can just go into space in top of pack from first days meals. I used to also take dehyd spud and vege then add salami for a meal. A loaf of bread was good for the first couple of days then switch to cabin bread (a big cracker). Could add cheese, salami, bean sprouts, vegemite, ....whatever else you want to the cabin bread

Have been putting more thought into the list and I think Mung beans will be a goer, I had been thinking of something to give the wraps a bit of "freshness" and carting a lettuce around wasn't going to cut it.
Will also add cabin bread/crackers to eat with salami and cheese.