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01-04-2006, 11:29
I walked into a valley one day and it smelled good. It smelled fantastic! I found a hiker just outside a store who was frying up a pound of bacon. He poured all the fat into an uncut loaf of bread and proceeded to eat the whole thing. Sounds awful but sure smelled good.
Eating dehydrated food for several days makes me yearn for fat. I ate some of the bacon and got high on the fat ? After thatexperience I try to avoid eating strictly dehydrated food for several days in a row. Just piggy.
Streamweaver
01-04-2006, 11:48
I walked into a valley one day and it smelled good. It smelled fantastic! I found a hiker just outside a store who was frying up a pound of bacon. He poured all the fat into an uncut loaf of bread and proceeded to eat the whole thing. Sounds awful but sure smelled good.
Eating dehydrated food for several days makes me yearn for fat. I ate some of the bacon and got high on the fat ? After thatexperience I try to avoid eating strictly dehydrated food for several days in a row. Just piggy.
Adding olive oil,Margorine (or other type of vegy oil)to your dehydrated foods when cooking is a good way to replace some of the fat lost in the dehydrating process.
mmmmmm unexplained bacon.....
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Adding olive oil,Margorine (or other type of vegy oil)to your dehydrated foods when cooking is a good way to replace some of the fat lost in the dehydrating process.
Won't the oil or margarine stay on the outside of the dehydrated food thus making it quite greasy? This has been my experience. When I make jerky I sometimes have to blot fat deposits off the meat when it's drying.
Won't the oil or margarine stay on the outside of the dehydrated food thus making it quite greasy? This has been my experience. When I make jerky I sometimes have to blot fat deposits off the meat when it's drying. Not when rehydrating and cooking up the food. The heat incorprates the fat into the food. That is what they are refering to :)
Spirit Walker
01-04-2006, 12:32
On my first thruhike I had a period where I got really tired and grumpy. Three of us stopped at a little store and fried up a pound of bacon and a dozen eggs, which we sopped up with bread. I remember how much fat that pound of bacon produced. We buried most of it, but ate more than I would normally eat. That was one of the best meals of the trail. My energy came back and I was fine after that.
Another time there was a group of Scouts that fried up some Spam. It smelled so good! I went to the bathroom, came back and they had given some of it to the hikers who were there - but I was too late. I was SO disappointed.
I like carrying summer sausage/hard salami. Keeps forever, gives me some needed protein and fat.
QHShowoman
01-04-2006, 13:50
I read this thread and it made me crave a BLT for lunch. You guys owe me $3.95.
Hikes in Rain
01-04-2006, 13:50
Arteries need exercise, or they loose their resiliency, so:
Take that, you arteries!
My dad always says "you need hog lard in your diet, It keeps your blood lubricated ----- That way your blood can get through the tight spots" :)
Love the bacon
Sandy
Nightwalker
01-04-2006, 16:27
My dad always says "you need hog lard in your diet, It keeps your blood lubricated ----- That way your blood can get through the tight spots" :)
Love the bacon
Sandy
I may have to make that a sig line...
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Nightwalker
"you need hog lard in your diet, It keeps your blood lubricated ----- That way your blood can get through the tight spots."
mweinstone
01-04-2006, 23:33
i put a dolop of margerine in hot chocolate before sleep.mmmm a land of margerine. heres what i know,drink a qt of milk,eat a pint of ice cream,go to the ayce, drink a 6 and hit the trail. total time spent off trail if done just right....3hrs.burping beer dairy dinner burps on the first climb out of town...priceless.