Archive for the ‘Food’ Category

I love popcorn. Currently I make it in a table top oil based electric popper. But if the grid was down… I could be in some serious trouble. So I sought someone who had successfully made popcorn on a camp cook stove and here are the results.

But this lead me to think of more camp stove ideas…

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Apparently olive oil is the perfect for a date night with your spouse. You can use it for shaving, food,  to remove makeup and even as a personal lubricant.

25 Alternative Uses for Olive Oil » Curbly | DIY Design Community « Keywords: olive_oil, olive, cleaning, money.

I’m not going to take any credit for anything other than paying attention to my RSS feeds and finding my way to this delicious treat. Let it be know to apples everywhere… you’re marked!

Diy Dried Apples | going home to roost.

Thanks to Chris over at Mountainize.com, for sharing this hack with us, you can now have fresh ground coffee in your EDC, BoB or on any camping trip. This could also be good for tiny house living as well. Chris uses a peppermill to grind coffee beans into a course blend.

I recently had the “pleasure” of working on a Sunday. And besides the fact that I was missing church, I expected this to be a half day. With that in mind I had not brought a lunch, or money to buy one. I know, I know, I know… “prepper did what”? Well in my defense I did have 4 cups of instant noodle lunch available to me. When I realized I wasn’t going to be able to leave when expected, I busted out the cup-o-salt… I mean cup-o-noodles. The salt is what I am on about. When I bought this mess in a cup I was not on a survivalist mindset at all. This garbage has 1190mg of sodium. As my co-worker Scott said, “that’ll shrivel your tongue!” He was almost spot on. I had water available to me. I probably consumed close to 60 oz that day as well. But it did not help.

The lesson to myself and to knowledge I want to share with others is to be very aware of the contents of your food. Whether the food is dehydrated or canned or prepared and frozen, the nutritional value or lack there of is very important. Even canned foods can have high sodium contents for the sake of preservation. In the case of beans you can easily rinse them with clean water to reduce the salt.

So this also opens the questions of, what are viable alternatives to prepared foods for such a situation. I usually have packets of instant oatmeal available in my desk drawer and my back pack. But the body needs more than oatmeal. How does one prepare food in advance that has a decent shelf life? I think the real lesson, is to keep food in your pack at the ready for the day when you are without. Perhaps foil pack chicken, instant rice and a low-sodium soup mix.

When was the last time you made coffee? And I mean really cooked coffee. With a percolator. About a week ago I decided to use my camp peculator to make some coffee. I used the stove top and not an open fire (yet). And about 20-30 mins later I had really hot coffee. In a no power situation, the ability to cook food will be very important. You’ll benefit greatly from learning in the kitchen now and transferring those skills to the camp setting later. Read the rest of this entry »

Well this isn’t exactly “poor” man’s soup. But it’s basic and easy. I actually had it for dinner tonight to try it out.

Ingredients

• 1/2 can green beans
• 1 can chicken breast meat
• 1 package of Ramen noodles

Cook noodles as per their directions, add chicken and beans and add the Ramen flavor packet last. It was simple, I added no other additional seasonings and it was fairly tasty. Not great, but not too bland. While I cooked this on my electric stove top, it’s an easy backpacking stove meal. I am thinking that the beans could also be prepackaged in a vacuum sealed pouch.