What to Eat on adventures?

This is a common question I get, "What should I eat on such-in-such adventures". My answer isn't very different if you were in the front country...Eat nutrient dense, tasty, versitile foods which are prepared by you to be consumed in a convenient way...

Sounds like a tall order, yet its easier than you think...here is what I did for this trip.

Jays adventure food:
-Lamb Cranberry spice Pemmican
-Lembas Bread (aka TTSB, "Throw that Sh*t inna Bread")
-Instant split pea soup
-Coconut spice trail mix
-Chocolate
-Coconut oil
-seasoning salt

This menu gives you lots of options for making food and snacking as desired. Usually I just want to snack light when I'm on the road, then make a good meal in the evening (usually soup). Each item has interchangeable uses and can be easily eaten without much prep (hot water).

You gotta be creative with these foods, yet you can combine them easily with fresh ingredients you find along the way.

Trail mix: Best just eaten straight as a snack, but goes great with fresh fruit, or as an addition to a porridge or granola. Can even be blended up to make a flavorful "milk".

Soup: the instant soup can be mixed thick and combined with more oil and salt to make a dip for carrots and zuchinni, or can be used to make a soup with the same ingredients. Or it can be a spread on rice crackers, or mixed with the pemmican and used as a stuffing for fire roasted winter squash. Or you can mix it with some grated veggies, meat or cooked grains to make some veggie-burgers to pan sear them.

Lembas Bread: is a whole meal to itself and is best just eaten straight with some water to rehydrate it in your stomach. Or you can add it to boiling water to make a breakfast porridge, or blend it to make a "Milk" to pour over broken up bread and trail mix with fresh fruit for a granola style meal. Or you can layer some of the pemmican between two pieces for a "Sandwich". I make the bread a bit sweet and spicy so I like to eat it with a few carrots and it tastes like carrot cake in my mouth.


Pemmican: This is just dried fruit, meat and fat...so it tastes great just by itself, but can be added to the soup mix for a hardy soup, spread on crackers/bread to make a sandwich, sprinkle it on salads, and stuff it into a fire roasted sweet potato for a rustic camp meal.

The only things that take some time in prep prior to your trip will be the "Lambas Bread" and the pemmican. Here is a few guidelines....

Pemmican:
-Marinate your thin cuts of meat then super dehydrate it around 140f for at least 8hours. Then grind it to a powder.
-Render some fat or use coconut (I used duck fat and coconut oil)
-then process them together with dried fruit, spices and sea salt
*its essential you keep anything with mositure out of the mix if you want it to last (it will last indeffinitly if you do it right and keep it dry.










Lembas Bread (aka TTSB):
This bread doesn't need to be fancy, just needs to hold together and taste good, so you can really put what ever you want in it...I do and it works! Remember you want a dense, flavorful and nutritious bread, so no leavening and avoid the wheat products and other fillers/flavors.
Here is some of the things I like to put in this bread: Molasses, coconut oil, butter, pureed dried fruit, left over wine or juice, pulp from vegetable juicing, spices, herbs, seaweed, eggs, nuts, fresh ginger, seeds, dried fruit, chocolate, super food powders, stevia, eggshell powder, coconut flour, malted barley flour, buckwheat flour, quinoa flour, sea salt, honey...what ever I got, toss it in that bread then make it taste good! Mine usually ends up tasting like a nutty ginger bread.
-Grind or mix dry ingredients first (I use my blender to make flours from grains or other items), then mix wet ingredients together, then combine the wet and dry to a heavy batter consistancy.
-Spread the batter out on cookie trays to an even 1"-1.5" then slow bake at 325f until it begins to crack on top.
-Allow to cool, cut into squares and re-bake 225f/dehydrate 150 for about 4hours to overnight. (they should be very dry, not crisp but hard on the outside and slightly moist inside...they will homogenize later and become softer)


Trail mix:
I prefer to mix my own, its cheaper and you get to flavor/blend it yourself.
I like:
Shredded coconut, dried fruit (cranberries/blueberries, currants), nuts/seeds (pumpkin seeds, sunflower, cashews, walnuts, etc...), spices (clove, cinnamon, ginger, sea salt, black pepper. Or do savory with more garlic powder, seasalt, smoked paprika, oregano, tomato powder, black pepper, etc...)

So many options for fast and healthy food on the go, if you really want the best time on your adventures, you should eat well. And avoid the garbage that you find at restaurants, cafes, fast food joints and quick marts. Your stomach with thank you....

Share with me some of your suggestions for healthy adventure food!

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