How bout them Bee's? Anybody eat'in Honey?
How bout them Bee's? Anybody eat'in Honey?
Or Not....
Been using honey in place of sugar since the '70's. Then, I discovered how to make mead.......
Almost every day. Hard to take real honey on the trail. Honey packets are usually faux honey and any way I've tried to carry the real stuff has evolved into a sticky mess.
On my AT thru, my go-to lunch was flour tortillas with peanut butter and honey. A couple of those and I was good to go for the afternoon. I used a squeeze bottle of honey, but like 10-K it was a struggle to keep it not-sticky. My trick to avoid stickiness was to take off the lid, put a plastic bag over the opening, and then put the lid back on. That sealed in the honey in the bottle. It also meant I had to take off the lid and remove the plastic every time I wanted to use the honey, but that was better than getting my entire food bag covered in honey.
Don't take anything I say seriously... I certainly don't.
I don't really care for honey and I do have natural raw honey, because my father has a few hives and always gives me a few jars every year. I like it, but just don't go crazy over the stuff, probably why I don't have my own hives, despite being a fan of bees in general. I do have tons of bees year-around in my yard, because I allow weeds to grow and have learned which plants they like the best and what time of year they provide the pollinators with pollen/nectar.
I wonder if honey can be dried to a non sticky solid, or bought that way?
"It's fun to have fun, but you have to know how." ---Dr. Seuss
I've used the honey packs sort of like Gu, but much cheaper.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...FYFZFQMA3NM3K3
There we have it.
"It's fun to have fun, but you have to know how." ---Dr. Seuss
Nice find, Bill! That's potentially exciting.
http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/s...FZFafgodvD4AAg
Also this, though in each case you pay a lot of money for what's basically just sugar,
"It's fun to have fun, but you have to know how." ---Dr. Seuss
I like to make my own "energy" gels with honey, molasses, nut butter, etc. You can add True Orange, lemon, or lime to them to give them a unique flavor, or salt for extra sodium on the trail. Of course, I make mead, too Have a 5 gallon batch in my primary fermenter right now
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A local health food market sells honey in straws. Get a bunch of straws from your local burger joint (ask, don't just take), (the wider straws would be a better choice to use), heat seal one end with a heated pair of needle nose pliers, fill straw with honey from a squeeze bottle with a narrow tip, then heat seal the other end.
When ready to use, cut off one end of the straw and squeeze out the honey!
"To make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from." - T.S. Eliot
Growing up with allergies is was said to me by my allergist to eat local honey...always did for years from a farm down the road from my house, good stuff!
I do this too. Talked to my doctor about it and mentioned that I know it's an urban myth but the placebo effect seemed to help. He agreed with me and mentioned that his daughter does the same thing.
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To all that fret on how to bring honey onto a hiking trip...forget it, just eat any type sugar, i.e. table sugar, HFCS or honey, it's basically all the same, except agave -- that stuff is super sweet, but that would be a good thing on a hike.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifest...2a7_story.html
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2009/...-fructose-cor/