dehydrated foods

[rtbates]

http://www.waltonfeed.com/
Can remain useable for 25 years! Yet the cook beans still snap when bent!
Thought someone might be interested.

[miguel mascaros]

How about dehydrated water?????

[Mark Yashinsky]

but what do you add, hydrogen or oxygen to reconstitute?
For that matter, just carry both and produce power and potable water.

[rtbates]

How about dehydrated water?????

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There's a smart ass in every crowd!

[rtbates]

but what do you add, hydrogen or oxygen to reconstitute?
For that matter, just carry both and produce power and potable water.

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The little issue with 'storage'? What I liked was the fact that I can carry lots of 'potential' food stuff and just the right amount of water as I go. I can then replenish just the water. I will no longer have to find a food store constantly, Just a water supply. Which do you find is easier to access?? And you can always have otherwise hard to keep stuff, like butter, milk, cheese, etc.

[Joe Myerson]

Randy,

The Walton website has intrigued me for some time.

There's a potentially embarrassing reason why I haven't yet placed an order:

When Lynne and I were younger, we used to camp in the Southwest, sometimes at campgrounds and sometimes on wilderness trails. One year we decided to save space and weight by living on dehydrated food.

We got used to eating the stuff regularly, and we felt pretty healthy. However, our -- ahem -- methane production increased to an embarrassing degree. In fact, we nearly cleared out a convenience store in White Rock, New Mexico, when we stopped for some non-dehydrated supplies.

So, be warned . . .

--Joe

[John Ring]

Don't forget the military "Meals Ready to Eat," or "MRE's"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meal%2C_Ready-to-Eat

http://saratogatradingcompany.com/meals ... PAodXjpyxQ

Maybe not the same as fresh caught Mahi-Mahi on the grill, but they might do.

John

[Joe Mac Phee]

How about dehydrated water?????

When we run out of dehydrated water, we have been known to use "quick frozen hot water". Just heat and serve.

Joe Mac Phee

[rtbates]

Randy,

The Walton website has intrigued me for some time.

There's a potentially embarrassing reason why I haven't yet placed an order:

When Lynne and I were younger, we used to camp in the Southwest, sometimes at campgrounds and sometimes on wilderness trails. One year we decided to save space and weight by living on dehydrated food.

We got used to eating the stuff regularly, and we felt pretty healthy. However, our -- ahem -- methane production increased to an embarrassing degree. In fact, we nearly cleared out a convenience store in White Rock, New Mexico, when we stopped for some non-dehydrated supplies.

So, be warned . . .

--Joe

That's good to know. My first go will be a small trial so we'll see how it blows er goes. I wonder how you might harness that gas production??

[Jim Davis]

Another precautionary tale. Back in the late 60's I spent a lot of time eating freeze dried meals on extended camping/hunting trips. We learned that in addition to Joe's reported problem, they had other ways of providing extreme discomfort. Under the circumstances we solved most of these by grossly increasing our water intake and using a different food source for at least one meal out of three. Since fresh food was generally unavailable we used the famous "Canned Cuisine". Freeze dried food, as a steady diet can cork one up faster than a bottle of Kaopectate since they lack the grease to keep a western body regular.

I will add that these meals were the predecessor to "Mountain House" and well before the Meal Rejected by Ethiopians.

[barfwinkle]

the book "The Hungry Hikers Book of Good Eating" by Gretchen McHugh, is an excellent resource for dehydrating you own food. It even has plans for a home plan dehydrator.

I have had the dehydrator for fifteen years and used it extensively without any of the aforementioned ailments. You must remember to balance the meal with fresh stuff. BTW, Granny Smith apples dehydrated in this way are wonderful. Toss them in your mouth, chomp down, and wait about 2 seconds and you'll get a burst of tart flavor that is down right delicious.

fair winds