Meals in the tourism campaign is very important, it may depend on the success of the event. So today we'll show you what you need to do to camp the food was delicious, useful, versatile and easy.
First of all, this article will be of interest to those readers who go to independent walking or cycling tourist hiking and want to somehow diversify your diet. However, they are not ready to lay out a lot of money for a special factory concentrates, dry mixes, as well as not too lazy to do something with their hands.
The complexity of food in field conditions is due to several factors.
- Food should be of high quality, that is nutritious, useful, rich in vitamins. During the hike human body it is under extreme physical stress, so it is very important to fully compensate for the energy loss. Otherwise, a person very quickly begins to feel fatigue and deteriorating emotional state.
- Products must be light enough. You can, of course, head and share yourself arbitrarily a variety of dishes, but it is worth remembering that all the ingredients for them, you have to carry on their backs.
- It is necessary to ensure the safety of supplies. This is especially true of travel in the hot season, when some products can go bad in just a few hours.
- Meals should be varied. You agree that eating for a whole week or two exclusively cereals and sandwiches lot of joy does not deliver.
Choose the products that meet all of these conditions is not easy, but still possible. Especially if you put a little effort and take care of everything in advance. Here's what you can do during a training campaign to be able to cook your own delicious and healthy dishes.
Vegetables and fruits
Not all even experienced hikers pay enough attention to the vegetables. And absolutely nothing. From my own experience I can say that it makes a camp vegetables food healthy, tasty and varied. Once you add even a banal "Mivina" little onions, carrots and greens, and it turns into a nice home soup.
Of course, I did not call you to carry a bag of carrots, potatoes and onions. You just need to dry up the necessary amount of vegetables: they become almost weightless and will occupy five times less space. For example, the average cabbage after slicing, drying and packaging will in size and weight comparable to a tennis ball.
You will need finely chopped vegetables into pieces, slices or strips and then lay a thin layer on a baking sheet and send in the oven. During 6-10 hours it is necessary to maintain the temperature at about 40-60 ° C and ensure constant air circulation, which in modern electric oven has a special mode. If you use a conventional gas oven, you need to leave the door ajar. And do not forget to periodically stir the vegetables.
Cabbage, onions, carrots, peppers, beets perfectly tolerate drying and reduced in size by 3-5 times, while maintaining the taste and vitamins. In the campaign you just have to put a pinch of dried vegetables in hot water, and literally on your eyes they are engorged with water, swell and become almost indistinguishable from fresh.
Stew
Stew - an indispensable product in any tourist campaign. However, the proposed shopping options in recent years so deteriorated that buy them was simply impossible. Most often under the guise of canned meat we offer a hellish mix tails, hooves and internal organs of unknown animal, which has no right to call itself the proud name of "stew".
Only one way out - to prepare canned meat itself. I do this in an old pressure cooker, but it is possible to reproduce the same in modern multivarka. Depending on the existing system and your tastes recipe can vary significantly, so I think it makes no sense to give here a step by step guide: the Internet sufficiently detailed recipes. The main thing that you cooked pork, beef or chicken stew is definitely better, tastier and more natural than to sell in stores. And much cheaper.
Particular attention should be paid to the packaging of the finished product. It is clear that the campaign will not fit glass jars. Therefore, the packaging should be home stew in plastic containers with tight-fitting lids. Their volume must be small, as in the already opened can of food very quickly spoil in the heat. If the lid is sealed, your stew exactly live to the end of the campaign.
biscuits
If you go to the sparsely populated area, then sooner or later you run out of bread. It will be a great substitute for home-made biscuits. For their preparation, you will need to grind one pack of butter margarine or butter with the flour. Then add a little water or cream to a stiff dough. Roll out a thin layer and cut into squares. Bake in the oven until golden brown.
energy bars
energy bars - it is extremely convenient tourist food that will come to the rescue of those moments when there is little time or too lazy to cook. They are easy to make, take up little space and very, very tasty.
For their preparation you need especially dried fruits (prunes and dried apricots) and nuts and seeds (walnuts, almonds, peanuts, cashews, sesame seeds, and so on). Bar can contain any of the listed products in all possible combinations and proportions: do not be afraid to try different options. It is necessary to grind all the ingredients in your blender, then add to the mixture of oatmeal, condensed milk and mix well. The resulting pasty substance is spread on a baking sheet and sent to the oven for 20-30 minutes. As a result, it is dried and solidified. Then you need right on the pan cut the cake into bars about 100 grams of weight and pack.
inflammable mixture
That is the name we have given a nutritious mix of own production for its unusual properties. It consists of a very useful and rich vitamins products, so that makes up for great strength in moments of fatigue.
For the manufacture of this magical elixir of vitality you need prunes, apricots, walnuts, honey and lemon. All of this is ground in a blender and mix. The result is not very appetizing to look at brown sticky mass, which, however, has an excellent taste and is perfect for a snack.