There was a recent post on Facebook on one of the packing pages talking about your back country menus. I love food and therefore I loved reading everyone’s comments, hacks and ideas. The thing that surprised me was how many packers said their back country menu was made up of Mountain House? You know freeze dried food… Now I have nothing against freeze dried food, I have probably consumed more than the average guy, and if you add my daughter Sydney into the equation, it would be safe to say we have tried about every flavor, by every company on the market. In fact to this day every Christmas we give each other a new flavor we have found through out the year just to try. Some good some not so good… This all stems from our younger more in shape years of backpacking mile after mile, where weight was a critical and a main issue… But now decades later, I own stock and plenty of them. These are the same animals that I feed morning and night when its -30 and snowing or 105 in the blistering sun. The least these massive hay eating animals can do in return for my labor of love of caring for them, is to pack a real, thick, fresh, succulent T-bone in for me!!! Let us not forget some potatoes that I can bake, a few canned adult beverages, and maybe even some ice for that night cap by the fire. I eat well in the back country lets make no mistake about that!!! I do pack a freeze dried meal in with me that is for an emergency only meal. And for the record I pack eggs, lots of eggs, in the shell, not pre-cracked in an old peanut butter jar. Why you ask? Well Chuck likes his eggs over easy and I like mine sunnyside up…why else!!!
No matter what you like to eat or what kind of cook you are just get out and enjoy your time on the trail with friends and family.
See you on the trail!
Andy
PS- Ready to upgrade from freeze dried, but not sure where to start with back country cooking? Register for our dutch oven class coming up in June! Click here for details.
