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Supermarket backpacker

Harriett Barker

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Great source of information for Boy Scout Backpackers 4 out of 5 stars.
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I am a crew advisor with Boy Scouts of America and recommend all the people I pack with reed this book.I hope you can a way to get a new run of books printed ,as we a few new ones!!

The Lightweight Gourmet: Drying and Cooking Food for the Outdoor Life

Alan S. Kesselheim

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Here is a complete guide to drying your own food for the outdoor and nautical life, including instructions for building a dehydrator, all aspects of food preparation, packing for wilderness living, and a field-tested collection of recipes that emphasize fresh, healthful, economical, and delicious foods.

Outdoor Cooking: From Backyard to Backpack

Louise Dewald

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Chef in Your Backpack: Gourmet Cooking in the Great Outdoors

Nicole Bassett

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We all look forward to spring and summer, when the sun returns, the blooms bud, and we feel the urge to reacquaint ourselves with the great outdoors. But camping and hiking trips, whether day treks or week-long journeys, beg an age-old question: what to bring along to eat? Chef in Your Backpack proves that camping and hiking meals don't always have to be about stale sandwiches and bagged veggies. With a little ingenuity and know-how, and a bit of advance planning, you can be dining in high style around the campfire.

Nicole Bassett is an outdoors enthusiast who has been developing and preparing outdoor meal recipes for years. She believes in the notion that a great yet easy-to-make meal is not only more satisfying, but is more nutritious and energizing for your hikes and treks. She also offers great tips for keeping your food safe from spoilage and not-so-friendly creatures, as well as nifty ideas like using film canisters to store spices, and using your camping mug as a measuring cup.

Nicole offers a wide-range of meal ideas, from power breakfasts to soul-nurturing dinners, all of which can either be prepared in their entirety outdoors or with a -little preparation at home before you go.

With this Chef in Your Backpack, camping and hiking never tasted so good!

Nicole Bassett grew up in the wilds of northern British Columbia, Canada. After moving to Vancouver to attend school, she now lives in Toronto where, among other things, she is developing a television series based on Chef in Your Backpack.

Backpacker's Recipe Book: Inexpensive, Gourmet Cooking for the Backpacker

Steve Antell

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Beyond Gorp: Favorite Foods From Outdoor Experts

Yvonne Prater, Ruth Dyar Mendenhall, Kerry I. Smith

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Outdoor experts, celebrities, and industry leaders share their favorite trail recipes--and why they hold a special place in their heart. Some of these recipes are prized for their outdoor practicality and functionality, such as Lead Bread (a brick-like loaf that will keep indefinitely and survive even an air drop). But then there are gourmet offerings (Cashew-Ginger Chicken and Rice and Trail Tiramisu) and ideas on preparing wild foods (Cooked Stinging Nettles). This cookbook is as much about the people behind the recipes and their adventures--and misadventures--in the outdoors. Hear the story behind the titling of Angry Moose Scrambled Eggs. Learn why outdoor writer Tim Cahill needs Fat Cocoa to guarantee a warm night's sleep; understand the expedition fare philosophy of mountaineer Jim Whittaker; and why Celebration Cous Cous was special for writer-conservationists Laura and Guy Waterman. Each of these recipes has been tested by Mountaineers Books staff and friends.

The One-Burner Gourmet

Harriett Barker

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Canned Food Gourmet: The Pig-Campers Cookbook 1 out of 5 stars.
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Truth: couldn't find one single recipe worth copying before shipping the book back. Do you never really drift off into the wilderness beyond the point where your wide bottom is planted on the picnic table in plain view of your SUV? This is the book for you, and thanks. Wished I had not had to give this book the obligatory one star. On the other hand, it should work well to keep all readers out of the wilds and near the road. A blessing in disguise.

This one sets the standard for Backpacking Meal planners 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is the one reference book I've read and re-read. I played around with the receipts. It has established a pattern for meal planning which has resulted in making both backpacking, and canoe trips more enjoyable. If you can only afford one book consider this to be the best buy.

THE bible for outdoor cooking 5 out of 5 stars.
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I've had this book for several years. While preparing for an extended car camping trip, I pulled it out again and was once again amazed at the breadth of recipes. There are recipes, variations of recipes, ideas for recipes, tips, hints, "chef's secrets"--her wealth of ideas is practically awe-inspiring. It's a terrific book just for leafing through and getting ideas. At home, I strive for fresh ingredients and creative cooking; while camping, ease of preparation and ease of clean-up are my primary rules. There are recipes in this book that meet each of those situations, and more than a few that meet both. Sure, there are a few I'll never use (even while camping I can't quite bring myself to eat Spam), but overall there's no better resource. I've bought several other camping cookbooks recently, but this one retains its spot as my most treasured camping cookbook.

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"Offers some lip-smacking alternatives that will spice up anyone's outdoor menu." --Backcountry magazine

Cooking and camping on the desert: Driving and surviving in the desert,

Choral Pepper

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Backpacker's cookbook

Margaret Cross, Jean Fiske

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Great old 'Whole Earth Catalogue' era manual. Buy It. 5 out of 5 stars.
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`Backpacker's Cookbook' by Margaret Cross and Jean Fiske covers a remarkably complex subject for such a thin book. If you have never backpacked or cracked open the `Boy Scout Handbook' or Colin Fletcher's `The Complete Walker', you may have no notion of how difficult hiking and cooking can be. To be clear, this is not at all the same as tailgating, where you have no limit to how much you can carry, so you have practically no limits on the kind of food you can carry or the kind of dishes you can prepare.

There are three big differences between cooking at home and cooking while backpacking. First, you can use only what you can carry on your back in a pack and actually walk over uneven terrain at the same time. As a small, inexperienced Boy Scout, I was able to pack for an overnight hike with a scant 13 pounds; however, it is much more likely you will need upwards of 40 pounds of stuff for two or more days; especially if the weather is cold or wet or both. Second, walking 10 to 12 miles with forty (40) pounds of gear on your back means you will need to eat far more calories, and that means mostly fast calories, than you eat at home, even while going to work from 9 to 5 (assuming you don't walk or pedal to work). The classic high calorie hiking dish is `gorp' (good old raisins and peanuts) which may contain far more than just two ingredients (M&M's being the favorite add-in). Third, you realistically have less time to cook than normal, because you will be especially tired at the end of the day, and will have to spend time striking camp and packing up to start up at the beginning of the day.

This book covers those issues and more. This scenario is made even more complicated by the fact that in most hiking venues anywhere within 2 hours driving of civilization (Harriman Park northwest of New York City comes to mind), you will be discouraged by our wildlife guardians to not build fires using fuel you may find lying about. This means you need to add close to five pounds of gear for a camp stove and fuel. The best scenario here is that there are at least two people in the hiking party and they can split the stove and fuel between them. Things get REALLY dicey when you are hiking in an area with no ready supply of water. On the Appalachian Trail, for example, there are sources of clean water at every likely campsite. And, this is commonly water piped in from a friendly municipal water supply.

The other side of the coin is when you happen to be backpacking to a remote, but fecund fishing hole. This means not only do you have ample supplies of potable water, you have a practically inexhaustible supply of fresh, healthy protein. The only downside is that you have to tote your fishing gear in with you. But, my experience with `ultralight' fishing gear good for fish up to four pounds will not weigh much more than 2 or three pounds itself. While the shape may be awkward, fly fishing gear may be even lighter (but then, there are those waders!). The authors supply an entire chapter on cooking freshly caught fish.

One of the implications of these considerations is that you will need special equipment to cook on the trail. Fortunately, there is a great business in place for supplying an enormous range of specialized cookware. An excellent starting point is your trusty old local Boy Scout supplier. Not only is their gear made for effective camping, it is typically made for younger people, so lightness is a special characteristic of their equipment (I do suggest however, that you use your imagination. I recall some equipment such as the three piece eating set was made of fairly heavy stainless steel. For a short trip, heavy-duty plastic forks and spoons, two of each, may actually be lighter than the official Boy Scout issue.

One of the most amazing things about the book is the range of dishes the author believes one can actually make on the trail. To be sure, baking does require some highly specialized equipment (a reflector oven) and the questionable open fire, but it can be done, as long as you are especially careful about putting the fire out and assuring yourself that it is dead cold.

One other item which may never occur to a first time backpacker is the fact that all your gear and all your food has to survive in a tightly packed rucksack, and, you need to find all your stuff when you set up camp. This book continues the same traditional advice I learned in Boy Scouts, where everything is stored in its own clearly labeled muslin bag (at least muslin was the material of choice back in the day. I suspect there is a more high tech and lighter material available today, not to mention plastic zip top freezer bags.) This especially means that if you do plan some serious cooking on the trail, bag all the ingredients for each dish together. The good authors give us recipes with this very consideration in mind.

One last consideration is the fact that commercially prepared dehydrated (usually freeze-dried) trail preparations are relatively pricy. I'm surprised that the authors don't borrow some tips from the `Raw' cuisine folks on equipment to use at home to dehydrate food.

The novice hiker really needs this book, but they probably need Colin Fletcher's `The Complete Walker' even more, for sound paring down to the last ounce of weight advice on backpacking.

Packing up a Picnic (Acitvities for Kids)

Rick Walton, Jennifer Grillone

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A Survival Tool for Vacations 5 out of 5 stars.
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Part of the "Activities for Kids" series that includes Cooking on a Stick: Campfire Recipes for Kids; Cooking in a Can: More Campfire Recipes for Kids; Sleeping in a Sack: Camping Activities for Kids; Fishing in a Brook: Angling Activities for Kids; Wishing on a Star: Constellation Stories and Stargazing Activities; and Trekking on a Trail: Hiking Adventures for Kids, all of which are similarly kid-friendly and delightfully simple. Small trim size (6"x8") combined with bright graphics, easy to read text, and nine zingy chapters (Let's Picnic, Breakfast Picnic, Bicycle Picnic, Haunted Picnic, Snow Picnic, Surprise Picnic, Beach Picnic, Drive-In Picnic, Create Your Own Picnic) combine to make this one a hit. Kids should be encouraged to make picnics, a sort of recreational "running away" with friends, in my opinion. Each chapter has a few ideas for food (mostly traditional kid-stuff) and fun activities (again, traditional games that too often have fallen from tradition) that encourage kids to slow down their headlong rush into adult consumerhood and stop and be kids for a while. At risk of sounding like a retro old fogey, I must admit to loving this whole series because it encourages kids to be KIDS and do kid-stuff in mostly non-electric, non-media driven ways. The publisher's done a terrific job with this series which soon will include Riding on a Range: Western Activities for Kids; Haunting on a Halloween: Frightful Activities for Kids; and Putting on a Party: Adventure Parties for Kids. Highly recommended for parents, grandparents, Big Brothers/Sisters, mentors, and anyone with their hat turned around frontways.

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Pack a basket; we're going on a picnic! But picnics can be more than just a summertime event, and can definitely be more than the same old fried chicken and potato salad. Authors Rick Walton and Jennifer Adams present dozens of new ideas for picnics any time of year, with interesting new recipes and lots of fun games and activities to do while picnicking. Somehow, food tastes better when it's eaten outside. With Packing Up a Picnic, kids can grab their favorite foods, head to a park, spread out the blanket and chow down!