Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Making Corn Bark

Food has been my trip focus lately. I've been busy buying groceries and cooking recipes from a book to deydrate and splurging on a few prepackaged meals and specialty items. Meal planning for an expedition is about  more than just taking enough to be satiated at the end of a long day of paddling. I want tasty food that is easy to prepare and provides me the nutrition I need to get up the next morning ready to go again. I'm also hoping to have some variety, reduce waste, and food smells so we don't attract hungry bears.

My dehydrator has been running a lot. I made my favorite food first; dehydrated watermelon, and promptly ate it with my kids. Next up was pea soup and cream corn. Then I was on to curried chicken with raisins and currants, and ginger mango chicken with cashews. I  also made some chipolte sweet potatoes, several other meals, and yes more watermelon for the trip in May. I'm still holding out hope a bison falls in my freezer beore the end of hunting season so that I will have bison jerky to nibble on for this trip.

Most days we will not want to spend much energy on meal preparation so I have planed many meals to be rehydrate and eat. Food I buy at local stores will be cheese, dry sausages, avocados, carrots and apples. I'm really hoping to squirrel away one piece of fresh food for each of the first ten days out. There will always be seaweed available if we need fresh greens.

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