Speaking of food

 

 

To be able to get everything in the car for camping, and still have room for the dogs, we have to be careful how much stuff we bring.  To keep it manageable, we’re not doing any cooking at camp.  We can boil water in an electric teapot, but no stove, no pots and pans, and no dishes.  No big ice chest.  This is not wilderness camping.  Most days we’re out in the car at least once.  Morning coffee at camp.  A breakfast taco later.  Stop somewhere in the afternoon for an early dinner, or do a packaged camping meal back at camp.

 

So, let’s talk about packaged camping meals.  Bill and I used to carry freeze dried food on our backpacking trips.  Bill was creative with cooking things from lightweight ingredients and pretty much avoiding the prepared meals, because they weren’t all that good.  Judy found some modern-day freeze-dried meals that looked pretty good though, so we took along some to try.  They look like this.

 

Mountain House Adventure Meals.  One pouch, rehydrated, feeds two.  We ate them several nights.  They are surprisingly better than terrible!  Filling.  Satisfying.  We didn’t go to bed hungry.  No worries about buying them and not using them in time before they age-out either.  The sell-by dates are in the 2050s!