Food

New breakfast recipe: white wine and nectarine oatmeal

September 23, 2010

I like to start my drinking early in the morning. No I don’t. Actually, I hardly drink at all. But when Cat suggested adding a little wine to our breakfast, I was intrigued. We loved it! I’m definitely going to make this one again. Recipe: 2 cups of oatmeal, pre-mixed with sugar, cinnamon, salt, and [...]

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A quick shout out to Gatorade

August 26, 2010

Since I’ve been doing a number of evaluations of electrolyte replacement options, I thought I’d give a quick shout out to the all-time classic: Gatorade. Gatorade has been my mainstay since High School when my track coach introduced me to the mix and I began sprinkling the powder on bananas and bread to make sandwhiches. [...]

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Product Review: Cliff Shot Blocks

July 21, 2010

I’ve been a GU fan for a while now, but when my local grocery store stopped stocking them, I decided to look for other electrolyte replacement options. Enter Cliff Shot Blocks. Each packet consists of 6 100 calorie gummy squares. I tested out packets of these for two hikes and an Ultimate Frisbee tournament, and [...]

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Product review: Primal Strips vegan jerky

June 1, 2010

Now, I’m not a vegan. In fact, I consider myself a bit of a carnivore. So when Primal Strips sent me some meatless jerky, I was pretty skeptical. I have tasted enough chicken shaped soy products and soy sausages to be a little wary of vegan food. In fact, I’m wary of healthy food in [...]

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My new favorite recipe: Cheesy pizza pan biscuits

May 17, 2010

It’s official: I now have a favorite backpacking recipe and it’s cheesy pizza pan biscuits. As part of my ongoing quest to not eat solely mac n’ cheese, I’ve been expanding my diet with recipes from trailcooking.com. I’ve field tested this recipe four times. The first time, I cooked the biscuits on a pan that [...]

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Trying out some new recipes for backpacking trips

December 10, 2009

Despite my affinity for mac ‘n cheese, I am now determined to healthier meals and more variety when I backpack. To that end, I have been experimenting with recipes from a great website called Trail Cooking.This site is really helpful because they have a built in calculator so that you can adjust your ingredient measurements [...]

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Reunited and it feels so good

November 30, 2009

So we took a little time apart, and it’s been hard. We had been inseparable and it had just gotten to be too much. We needed space to do different things for a while. But now, finally, it’s time. Mac ‘n Cheese and I are back together again. True, I have complained about it in [...]

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Instant pudding: win

September 3, 2009

As some of you may know, getting enough calories on the trail is very important. I told someone recently that now food is more like firewood to me, and I don’t care about the taste very much. One way backpackers judge which foods to bring is by caloric density–the ratio of weight to calories. My [...]

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