Here are a few thoughts on carrying food into the woods. Preparation, cooking, ideas, and thoughts; a little about bears and raccoons. So, how do you carry your meals, and how do you elevate your basic and boring food to cuisine?
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This is designed for use when you need to bug out or provide guidance if you are in the wilderness, alone, and in need of assistance, help, or rescue. It is also a great resource for those new to survival, camping, and backpacking. Read through it a couple of times, so when you need it, the information is there at the front of your mind.
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For the new hiker, packing for the thru-hike or section hike can be daunting. This is a fast read on the items that are needed (the essentials) and those considered extra (luxury items). We cover specifics of all items in your pack, where in your pack these items need to reside, and why.
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Camping and enjoying camping should be the same thing. However, when you start to camp, you may not know certain things to make the experience more enjoyable. This book reviews camping techniques, ideas, methods and puts into perspective the do’s and don’ts of camping and allows you to have a blast learning it. Nearly 100 pages of instruction and information, and chock full of cooking tips. Cooking in the home, at the campsite, and yes, even on the backpacking trail to help build your confidence. After all, you do need to eat, and eating well will always make a cloudy day a lot sunnier! Pick this up for yourself if you want to learn camping and cooking in the woods, or better yet, pick up one for you and one for a friend you want to bring along. Camping is always better when the experience is shared!
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Seriously, the hardest thing for someone to teach a new Scout when cooking is a stove, or the fire, or on charcoal for that matter is that there are a lot more levels of heat than OFF and MAX. Cooking over low or medium heat is better and safer for the meal in some respects than cooking on a blast furnace. It saves propane too! Plan for the extra time, you will be rewarded when you eat. Don’t get me wrong, there are times that a blazing hot surface is what is needed; the steak to get that perfect seer for example. So pick this up and bring it to your next troop meeting. Let the Scouts look it over and see if there is anything they would like to try out for the first time. You, AND THEY, will be surprised as to how easy and how good some of these recipes really are, especially in the woods!!
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This is designed to aid a new backpacker in creating a tasty menu on the trail. Foods should require no refrigeration, their weight needs to be minimal, and they should bring big flavor. This book is more of a guide for the new backpacker, it is not a recipe collection because we all eat different, like different things, and our budgets span a rather large range. Personal cooking, is, well, personal. There are things you can eat every day that others may not want once. But personal cooking in the woods, on a trail for a week, needs to be nutritious, tasty, unique, and easy. It also needs to have minimal cleanup. So, hike the trail with me to learn the skill - or formula - of personal backcountry cooking, and discover the creativity within yourself to be a five-star trail chef, at least in your own mind.
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