Other than Ford, you guys have some boring food choices and probably don't have too many strangers stopping by your camps at chow time (maybe by design). I like to enjoy some good food in my travels. I pre-cook most of my food at home and freeze them to help keep the cooler cold. I make stews, pasta sauces, marinated meats/fish etc. and take them out of the cooler the afternoon on the day to be eaten. Precooking reduces the amount of fuel required/time to prepare a hot meal. I use a coleman propane stove that has one burner and a grill-works perfect every time. I also freeze lunch meats, cheese, guacamole, tortillas, bacon, egg beaters, and anything else that extends the coolers efficiency. I used to use a percolator for coffee but takes too long, now I boil water and use a french press. Chop up some veggies and put into a gallon plastic bag with spices for a side dish that will last quite a while. I ate the freeze dried stuff for years backpacking and try to avoid it unless I have to-all tastes the same after 5-6 days. The new mini kegs that Heineken and others have on the market work awesome for a multi day trip. Some hard liquor of choice is good too. I enjoy the company of new people so nobody goes away hungry from my camp. I do this with minimal weight and maximum efficiency and spent several summers living out of the plane so fine tuned the program.

Now I know who's camp I'll be stopping by for sure!

Dave: Thank goodness there is another that enjoys something to eat rather than the figurative bread and water.! A Subway sandwich is what you take to a picnic.

On a side note, your hangar is an example of your taste. Now all you need is to put that pretty 185 on floats and come visit. I plan on having Steve do my annual again first of May.

dlhanst wrote:I pre-cook most of my food at home and freeze them to help keep the cooler cold. I make stews, pasta sauces, marinated meats/fish etc. and take them out of the cooler the afternoon on the day to be eaten.

Hmmm, and in an emergency , could be eaten cold. That'd be better than a bag of raw porkchops.

Benton 26jan09

Sorry for the double post-don't know how that happened.
Ford- if I could afford some amphibs I'd be on it in a heartbeat. I love water flying. In fact I'm going to Boulder City next weekend for some Albatross flying on Lake Mead. Hope all is well in Baja and I'll see you in the spring.

Neighbor Pete,
I always cook enough for an army as my girlfriend says so come on over. I wander around Northern Idaho summer thru fall.

I'll be sure to find you and that sweet sounding spread. You can count on it... can't wait for summer!

BEER...Good ole Red, White and Blue...

My Grandpa used to say there is a sandwich in every can!

Nane the date time and place, you may have company.
SLW

dlhanst wrote:Other than Ford, you guys have some boring food choices and probably don't have too many strangers stopping by your camps at chow time (maybe by design). I like to enjoy some good food in my travels. I pre-cook most of my food at home and freeze them to help keep the cooler cold. I make stews, pasta sauces, marinated meats/fish etc. and take them out of the cooler the afternoon on the day to be eaten. Precooking reduces the amount of fuel required/time to prepare a hot meal. I use a coleman propane stove that has one burner and a grill-works perfect every time. I also freeze lunch meats, cheese, guacamole, tortillas, bacon, egg beaters, and anything else that extends the coolers efficiency. I used to use a percolator for coffee but takes too long, now I boil water and use a french press. Chop up some veggies and put into a gallon plastic bag with spices for a side dish that will last quite a while. I ate the freeze dried stuff for years backpacking and try to avoid it unless I have to-all tastes the same after 5-6 days. The new mini kegs that Heineken and others have on the market work awesome for a multi day trip. Some hard liquor of choice is good too. I enjoy the company of new people so nobody goes away hungry from my camp. I do this with minimal weight and maximum efficiency and spent several summers living out of the plane so fine tuned the program.

I'll let you know next summer.

Other than Ford, you guys have some boring food choices and probably don't have too many strangers stopping by your camps at chow time (maybe by design).

No Shit! Hey, we are flying airplanes - the only other way into most of these places is foot, horseback or raft. Stop at the local market and 20 minutes later we are camped where it takes others days to reach. Rafters eat well but have to be really frugal in managing their coolers to last a week or more.

We (flyers) on the other hand have the advantage of flying in fresh food - daily if desired. Surely we can be creative and have great camp food to share with other BC users. The dried stuff is for back packing trips of more than a couple of days. Let's be honest, the dried stuff provides sustainable nutrition when extreme weight savings is important and you are so hungry that styrofoam tastes good.

Fresh food pre-prepared or camp made is the way to go and feeding those less fortunate sure helps promote GA in the backcountry. We have fed hikers, rafters, and FS people who were ecstatic at the opportunity and were very grateful for the offerings GA makes possible (not to mention other pilots just learning the ropes). Please do your part by creating a hospitable camp environment so you too can be an ambassador for those less fortunate (off soap box now). But in all honesty, in sharing our camp and food, we've received in return far more in friendships than we've spent over the years.

I like the Mountain House type meals too if I am trying to cut down on bulk and weight. In the 90's the revamped the MREs and they actually aren't bad. Like mentioned before though, they are high in calories and do have a tendancy to plug you up. They started putting the little heaters in them. Couple that with the new menu and they pretty good eating. But for the cost of one, I'd rather grab a Mt. House meal.

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http://www.adn.com/pilotbread/story/212132.html

Now I know the result of winter darkness in Alaska. I also stand by my previous statement of "eating like prisoners of war".

Many years ago, I attended a conference in Unalaska, AK. One of the features of that conference was that they invited many Native elders from the Aleutians to speak and interact with the attendees.

One of the speakers was a very old (I recall he was well into his 80s) Aleut gentleman from Nikolski. He spoke very little English, so one of the Russian Orthodox priests interpreted for him as he told stories.

One of his stories was about the arrival of pilot bread in Nikolski. He was a young child around 5 or 6 when the some of the first American sailors visited Nikolski, and those sailors brought Pilot Bread to the village. They gave pieces of pilot bread to the children.

On their next visit to Nikolski, the American sailors were amused to find all the uses the children had put the Pilot Bread to....some were using it as a scoop, to scoop sand in their sand box, some used it as a sort of frisbee, others had found all sorts of innovative uses for the stuff.

None of the children had even thought to eat the stuff.....the sailors apparently set them straight, and this old gent commented that the children were shocked that you could also eat this very valuable tool/toy....

It was much funnier to listen to Father Kreta interacting with this fellow, then addressing the audience.

Good stuff, especially with peanut butter, but I prefer extra crunchy.

Hey, Ford, once you've stared at that moose head in the soup, then take a big ladle of it, it sorta changes your perspective on food as a whole.....

MTV