Lunches for trips that do not need to cook + recipe homemade beef jerky

Brian Greene, of light grocery specialist Briangreen.net in his blog shares her experience and various interesting tricks that can be useful in any campaign. He uses every opportunity to get out into the mountains, or go to a small hike in the woods. And every time he thinks about how to optimize themselves and their equipment for hiking?

I went on a long hike only once in a lifetime. But even this time was enough for me to realize that the food is not only one of the most important elements, but also one of the heaviest. Optimization of this option will greatly facilitate your hike more because you not only have to carry a corned beef cans and packages with cereals, but also eliminates the need to carry cooking equipment - pots, grills, gas burner, knives and many other things (the list depends on zamorochennye caretaker).

In one of his posts Brian shares his list of camp food that does not need cooking. The only "but" proposed below snacking options, in my opinion - is that a set of fine food can come for a hike on one or two days. Longer on such a diet can only hold out the most persistent.

Breakfast

As a morning coffee Brian often uses instant Starbucks coffee. Typically such a coffee is dissolved in cold water is not worse than hot. Although I am not a fan of this type of coffee, but I can say that it helps to wake up perfectly, as it contains a large amount of caffeine (15%). And since not all cities have the opportunity to buy a coffee of this company, you can try another option. Only Carefully read the package, as some coffee drinks do not contain coffee (strange as it may sound, but it's true). If there is no time or desire to mess around with a bottle of coffee, you can eat roasted coffee beans in chocolate. This is delicious! Much more tasty than the soluble coffee with the cold water.

And a bottle of cold coffee as a main dish, you can choose your favorite dried fruit and specialty bars of oatmeal. As far as I remember, these can be bought in pharmacies or supermarkets.

Dinner

The lunch menu includes all of the same bars and dried fruit. Pleasant addition - almond paste, macadamia nuts, a bit of dark chocolate and homemade dried ham.

Dinner

As you can see, and dinner is no different variety. One day on this diet, you can hold out, a variety of menus different nuts and dried fruits, but two or three days - not sure. If you go for a day or two and you want to pass as much as possible, you will hardly be time for making a fire and cooking. And such an option power will give you the necessary energy and will save a lot of time. A good option for long trips can be just such alternation snacks with nutritious meals, which includes the preparation of porridges and soups. And it is much easier for you to backpack!

Recipe for homemade dried ham

I'm not sure if Brian used in his example of a special stove for cooking dried fruit, so I decided to look for these recipes and see how long and at what temperature is preparing a meat. As a result, I found a few options.

The most important thing - to choose the right meat. Well, if it is non-greasy steak. If it has fat, it is better to cut. Meat incision into thin strips and marinade is poured, and then sent in the refrigerator overnight.

Ingredients marinade: 1 cup soy sauce, 1 cup apple juice 1 cup pineapple juice, 1 tablespoon ground black pepper, 1 teaspoon paprika, 1 teaspoon garlic powder.

On the morning of the meat from the marinade goes, blotted with a napkin to remove excess liquid, and goes into the oven. But in this case, you have several options.

option №1. You can leave the oven door slightly ajar and the jerk meat at the lowest temperature at which capable your oven, 16-20 hours (the temperature should be 90 degrees Fahrenheit or 32 degrees Celsius).

Variant №2. You can set the oven at the lowest temperature and jerk meat 4:00.

I will try this recipe, not earlier than two weeks. If you get a delicious, do a separate post with pictures.