Mixed Veg dehydrated Packs?
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It depends on what your objective is…
I started with “Creek Stewart’s Pocket field Guide, Bug out bag recipe book, Do-it-yourself bug out meals for disaster survival” (2020). In my opinion, the goal with the book is to mix dehydrated ingredients with boiling water to create a quick or <10 min meal... But I have some doubt.
The basic ‘formula’ is adding four categories:
With Creek’s book, what’s interesting is there are only 25 ingredients, those of a particular mindset will crack the secret ‘code’. But practically: you could try to 'cheat' and pick the quicker cooking staple ingredients you can source locally... except like TeeDee, I too see something of a hole.
But then I circle back to the opening question: what is your objective.
If I'm stuck with the 'limitation' of dehydrated food... then I'd maybe lean more towards a complete dehydrated meal in a single sealed packet. Even floating towards the idea of a 700ml Thermos Food flask (or similar).
Sneaky off topic bonus:
https://thermos.com.sg/recipes/
Mini bonus, alternative simple recipes:
So rabbit hole number 1:
https://www.harmonyhousefoods.com
I will take some pity if you want to see the “samplers”
https://www.harmonyhousefoods.com/search?q=sampler&options[prefix]=last&type=product
And more pity with a the Index.
www.harmonyhousefoods.com
And here is my own list from about a year ago? (in case the website disappears in the far future.)
Personally I REALLY don't like the website.
Soup-Chili-Mix-Sampler (12 count)
Backpacking Kit (18 ZIP Pouches) - Note: Odd one out.
Soup & Chili Mix Sampler COMBO
Gourmet Soup & Chili Blend Sampler (12 ct)
BACKPACKING Soup & Chili Kit (18 ct)
TRAIL-READY Gourmet Soup & Chili Pack (18 ct)
BACKPACKING Soup & Chili Kit COMBO
Deluxe Soup Variety Pack (12 Bags /w cooker)
Value Soup Variety Pack (12 Bags)
I started with “Creek Stewart’s Pocket field Guide, Bug out bag recipe book, Do-it-yourself bug out meals for disaster survival” (2020). In my opinion, the goal with the book is to mix dehydrated ingredients with boiling water to create a quick or <10 min meal... But I have some doubt.
The basic ‘formula’ is adding four categories:
- Grains/Carbs. For fibre and secondary protein. In Creek's book there is a list of grains as the able of contents.
- Primary protein, often Textured Vegetable Protein (TVP). Jerky is also suggested as an alternative.
- Vegetables. Usually one or two.
- Stock. But seasoning, herbs, spices, sugar and maybe thickener or accompaniment is left to you!
With Creek’s book, what’s interesting is there are only 25 ingredients, those of a particular mindset will crack the secret ‘code’. But practically: you could try to 'cheat' and pick the quicker cooking staple ingredients you can source locally... except like TeeDee, I too see something of a hole.
But then I circle back to the opening question: what is your objective.
If I'm stuck with the 'limitation' of dehydrated food... then I'd maybe lean more towards a complete dehydrated meal in a single sealed packet. Even floating towards the idea of a 700ml Thermos Food flask (or similar).
Sneaky off topic bonus:
https://thermos.com.sg/recipes/
Mini bonus, alternative simple recipes:
So rabbit hole number 1:
https://www.harmonyhousefoods.com
I will take some pity if you want to see the “samplers”
https://www.harmonyhousefoods.com/search?q=sampler&options[prefix]=last&type=product
And more pity with a the Index.
Harmony House | Freeze Dried & Dehydrated Foods, Non-GMO | Category Index
Non-GMO, preservative free, delicious PREMIUM Dehydrated and Freeze-Dried fruits, vegetables, and beans by Harmony House Foods. Taste the difference!
www.harmonyhousefoods.com
And here is my own list from about a year ago? (in case the website disappears in the far future.)
Personally I REALLY don't like the website.
Soup-Chili-Mix-Sampler (12 count)
- Chickenish Soup Mix
- Beefish Stew Mix
- Split Pea Soup Mix
- Lentil Soup Mix
- Navy Bean Soup Mix
- Northern Bean Stew Mix
- Beefish Soup Mix with Mushrooms
- Black Bean Chili Mix
- Mixed Bean Chili Mix
- Italian Vegetable Soup Mix
- Corn Chowder Mix
- Vegetable Chili Mix
Backpacking Kit (18 ZIP Pouches) - Note: Odd one out.
- Carrots (2)
- Diced Potatoes (2)
- Green Peas (2)
- Tomato Dices
- Sweet Celery
- Cut Green Beans
- Sweet Corn
- Green Cabbage
- Mixed Red & Green Peppers
- Chopped Onions
- Black Beans
- Northern Beans
- Lentils
- Red Beans
- Pinto Beans
Soup & Chili Mix Sampler COMBO
- Chickenish Soup Mix
- Beefish Stew Mix
- Split Pea Soup Mix
- Lentil Soup Mix
- Navy Bean Soup Mix
- Northern Bean Stew Mix
- Beefish Soup Mix with Mushrooms
- Black Bean Chili Mix
- Mixed Bean Chili Mix
- Italian Vegetable Soup Mix
- Corn Chowder Mix
- Vegetable Chili Mix... PLUS
- CHICKENISH Seasoning
- BEEFISH Seasoning
- TOMATO PLUS Seasoning
- CHILI BOOST Seasoning
Gourmet Soup & Chili Blend Sampler (12 ct)
- Garden Veggie Chickenish Soup
- Hearty Texas Beefish Stew
- Super Savory Split Pea Soup
- Greek Lentil Soup with Quinoa
- Captain John's Navy Bean Soup
- Great Northern Bean Stew
- Beefish Quinoa with Mushrooms
- Unbelievable Black Bean Chili
- Southwest Style Mixed Bean Chili
- Mama Mia Italian Vegetable Soup
- Creamy Good Corn Chowder
- Verylicious Veggie Chili
BACKPACKING Soup & Chili Kit (18 ct)
- (2) Chickenish Soup Mix
- (2) Black Bean Chili Mix
- (2) Mixed Bean Chili Mix
- (2) Italian Vegetable Soup Mix
- (2) Corn Chowder Mix
- (2) Vegetable Chili Mix
- (1) Beefish Stew Mix
- (1) Split Pea Soup Mix
- (1) Lentil Soup Mix
- (1) Navy Bean Soup Mix
- (1) Northern Bean Stew Mix
- (1) Beefish Soup Mix with Mushrooms
TRAIL-READY Gourmet Soup & Chili Pack (18 ct)
- (2) Garden Veggie Chickenish Soup
- (2) Unbelievable Black Bean Chili
- (2) Southwest Style Mixed Bean Chili
- (2) Mama Mia Italian Vegetable Soup
- (2) Creamy Good Corn Chowder
- (2) Verylicious Veggie Gourmet Chili
- (1) Hearty Texas Beefish Stew
- (1) Super Savory Split Pea Soup
- (1) Greek Lentil Soup with Quinoa
- (1) Captain John's Navy Bean Soup
- (1) Great Northern Bean Stew
- (1) Beefish Quinoa with Mushrooms
BACKPACKING Soup & Chili Kit COMBO
- (2) Chickenish Soup Mix
- (2) Black Bean Chili Mix
- (2) Mixed Bean Chili Mix
- (2) Italian Vegetable Soup Mix
- (2) Corn Chowder Mix
- (2) Vegetable Chili Mix
- (1) Beefish Stew Mix
- (1) Split Pea Soup Mix
- (1) Lentil Soup Mix
- (1) Navy Bean Soup Mix
- (1) Northern Bean Stew Mix
- (1) Beefish Soup Mix with Mushrooms..... PLUS
- (1) CHICKENISH Seasoning
- (1) BEEFISH Seasoning
- (1) TOMATO PLUS Seasoning
- (1) CHILI BOOST Seasoning
Deluxe Soup Variety Pack (12 Bags /w cooker)
- Garden Veggie Chickenish Soup
- Creamy Good Corn Chowder
- Verylicious Veggie Chili
- Great Northern Bean Stew
- Hearty Texas Beefish Stew
- Super Savory Split Pea Soup
- Greek Lentil Soup with Quinoa
- Captain John's Navy Bean Soup
- Beefish Quinoa Soup with Mushrooms
- Southwest Style Mixed Bean Chili
- Unbelievable Black Bean Chili
- Mama Mia Italian Vegetable Soup
- PLUS Rival 2 Quart Crock Pot
Value Soup Variety Pack (12 Bags)
- Garden Veggie Chickenish Soup
- Creamy Good Corn Chowder
- Verylicious Veggie Chili
- Great Northern Bean Stew
- Hearty Texas Beefish Stew
- Super Savory Split Pea Soup
- Greek Lentil Soup with Quinoa
- Captain John's Navy Bean Soup
- Beefish Quinoa Soup with Mushrooms
- Southwest Style Mixed Bean Chili
- Unbelievable Black Bean Chili
- Mama Mia Italian Vegetable Soup
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Good question. Good point.
Really detailed response - thank you.
I guess I'm wanting to explore options for creating easy , inexpensive shelf stable meals that are essentially ready to go and as individually packaged and available to make the creation part easy.
The all in one created meals to me seem to be pricey and somewhat limited. Its one pack of stuff lacking any personal amendments.
I'm getting into ramen at the moment - and taking some inspiration from the various odd sods and assortments that are available to create more interesting meals for the occasional day out or walk. I'm not necessarily looking to create any sort of pantry based MRE's but just some fun and interesting ready to go food that can be stored ( ideally coming in their own little packets of veg and seasoning ) to pep up and add interest to some more basic staples.
I've also just acquired a load of flameless MRE style heat pouches and I quite like the idea of seeing just how far I can push the needle from basic staple camping food stuff to something a little more culinary exciting.
I admit when it gets to food I can turn into somewhat of a finnicky experimental dandy - but my response would be , why not?
Really detailed response - thank you.
I guess I'm wanting to explore options for creating easy , inexpensive shelf stable meals that are essentially ready to go and as individually packaged and available to make the creation part easy.
The all in one created meals to me seem to be pricey and somewhat limited. Its one pack of stuff lacking any personal amendments.
I'm getting into ramen at the moment - and taking some inspiration from the various odd sods and assortments that are available to create more interesting meals for the occasional day out or walk. I'm not necessarily looking to create any sort of pantry based MRE's but just some fun and interesting ready to go food that can be stored ( ideally coming in their own little packets of veg and seasoning ) to pep up and add interest to some more basic staples.
I've also just acquired a load of flameless MRE style heat pouches and I quite like the idea of seeing just how far I can push the needle from basic staple camping food stuff to something a little more culinary exciting.
I admit when it gets to food I can turn into somewhat of a finnicky experimental dandy - but my response would be , why not?
I guess essentially I'm interested in how 'well' we could create various lighweight , easy to construct , shelf stable 'meals' from what is easily available without paying through the nose.
As an example - Ramen with Peanut butter for me is an upgrade , so the little Peanut sachets from MOD rat packs actually are the correct size and get squirreled away for asian inspired constructions.
Well, dried veggies are a bit hit or miss for really quick additions to ramen.
I am very fond of seaweed, and dried seaweed redoes itself in a couple of minutes in hot stock....to most extents so do fine sliced sweetpeppers and tomatoes. Freeze dried tiny peas do, but bigger ones are not so good. Tiny bits of broccolli do, but potatoes, turnip, carrot, etc., hmmmm. Thin slices of syboes are good (sorry, had to think, Spring Onions in English) as are fine slices of mushroom. Cabbage can be tough, so it leek, seaweed's better.
What vegetables do you like though ?
Facing a bag of dried ones that I knew I wasn't going to manage to boil up for at least half an hour in soup, I whizzed them up into very fine pieces in the blender. Those cooked a lot more quickly.
I've just had a bag load of 'black fungus' delivered...jelly ears/wood ears/tree ears from a Chinese supermarket...UK Oriental Store.
www.WaNaHong.co.uk
They look good, haven't tried them yet, but the shop had a lot of varieties of dried veggies.
I am very fond of seaweed, and dried seaweed redoes itself in a couple of minutes in hot stock....to most extents so do fine sliced sweetpeppers and tomatoes. Freeze dried tiny peas do, but bigger ones are not so good. Tiny bits of broccolli do, but potatoes, turnip, carrot, etc., hmmmm. Thin slices of syboes are good (sorry, had to think, Spring Onions in English) as are fine slices of mushroom. Cabbage can be tough, so it leek, seaweed's better.
What vegetables do you like though ?
Facing a bag of dried ones that I knew I wasn't going to manage to boil up for at least half an hour in soup, I whizzed them up into very fine pieces in the blender. Those cooked a lot more quickly.
I've just had a bag load of 'black fungus' delivered...jelly ears/wood ears/tree ears from a Chinese supermarket...UK Oriental Store.
www.WaNaHong.co.uk
They look good, haven't tried them yet, but the shop had a lot of varieties of dried veggies.
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