Roll-Your-Own Trail Soups & Stews
Choose the ingredients to create your own one-pot meals based on your own tastes. Select one, or more, item from each category below. The ingredients for each meal can be packaged together in one bag for quick meal preparation.
Directions:
1. Select and assemble your ingredients from the grocery
store, camping outlet or food coop. Amounts of each ingredient
can be adjusted to suit individual preferences and appetites.
2. Determine the order of preparation based on the cooking times
of each ingredient. Items with similar cooking times and methods
may be dumped together in a plastic bag. Put the bulkiest or main
items in a large bag, and put the other items in smaller bags and
seal them. Place these smaller bags inside the large bag and seal
it.
3. Check the instructions for each component to be sure you
include any extra items such as butter, dry milk, etc. that are
needed.
4. Decide how much water you need to start with based on what is
needed for each ingredient.
5. Write instructions for each package in the meal down, based on
the items determined above. Include order of preparation, cooking
times, ingredients not included in the bags, etc.
6. Include the instructions for each package with the package.
Include the instructions for the whole meal with the large bag,
in addition to the instructions for that bag.
7. Lable each bag
These are some ideas for the ingredients that may be used.
Meat or substitutes:
Fresh, canned, smoked fish, jerky, hard salami and sausage, pepperoni, TVP (textured vegetable protein in beef, ham & chicken flavors), bacon or meat bar (compressed, precooked), freeze-dried
Pastas, grains, legumes & bases:
macaroni, noodles (egg, spinache, etc), Oriental noodles, spaghetti, dried potatoes (instant mashed, diced, shredded, sliced), dried beans, lentils, split peas, wheat/bulgar, rice, packaged mixes (Rice-a-roni, Hamburger Helper, Lipton, etc)
Dried vegetables:
Onions, carrots, celery, tomato and tomato powder, green and hot peppers, green beans, various vegetable flakes
Sauces: powdered form in foil packets.
Cheese sauce, sour cream sauce w/dried milk, Stroganoff, spaghetti, gravey mix, sweet and sour, soups
Seasonings:
Salt, black/white pepper, bouillon cubes/powder (beef, chicken, vegetable), marjoram, dill seed, summer savory, parsley, garlic fresh/dried/salt/powder, chives, basil, thyme, caraway seed, curry powder, commercial mixtures (Mrs. Dashes, etc.)
Additions:
Sunflower seeds, nuts, coconut, margarine, sesame seeds, wheat germ, roasted soybeans, bacon bits
Standard supermarket items not requiring a recipe. This is a
handy memory jogger when preparing menus.
Instant Oatmeal & Cream of Wheat Packets
Pop Tarts
Bagels and Cream Cheese
Omelettes
Scrambled eggs in a bag
Macaroni and Cheese
Crackers
Lunch Meats, Sausage
Instant soup mixes; packets
Use individually as is, or combine together for unique custom
mixtures. Add additional ingredients such as cheese, meats
(canned, dried, fresh), nuts, seeds, herbs and spices.
Peanut Butter
Cheese
Raisins
Fruit; dried, fresh
Hard cheese/cloth wrap soaked in vinegar
Rice-a-Roni
Packet Dinners
The best are the Lipton brand noodle and rice dinners, although
many other brands are availble. They require adding water, and
some need milk and/or butter added. May be fortified by adding
meat.
Uncle Ben's Rice mixes
Instant Mashed Potatoes
Instant Pudding
Kool-Aide