no i dont precook the rice or pasta, dried foods plus water, boil when wanted.
I forgot to mention it changes depending on if i do a short mobile or a long mobile or a static stay, let me explain.
If i am doing a walking weekend say start at a on friday night after work and finish in b on sunday before coming home on the train i will normalu do a set batch of 5 meals per day, as its easier on my stomach to eat little and often rather than walking a massive fry up off, so say for breakie we want bacon and eggs, so that can be either two pieces of raw bacon vac packed or two precooked ones vac bagged. if you choice the premade route say a tin of spag bog with a treat of a couple of ravioli pieces thrown in for luck then vac packed if i want to keep walking but is hungrey i can just eat it cold and keep going, i have done several times but its a little hard to do and then keep from punturing dried porage oats in one section with a milk second section still with it.
jam was another failure i tried, whole jar of strawb jam maked up into vac packed tubes so i can use what i wanted in smaller pieces, ended up with the most stickyest rucksac pocket ever when i fell over onto it!
I ant to worried about food going off as i normal vac pack the perishables for the first two days, raw meats, buggers,bacon,sausages either one the own or with other food items after two days we then kick in with the either dried goods or dried goods wetted.on day three its normal for me to go on to quorn, yes i know everyone takes the micheal out of it but it dont go off and tastes ok when mixed in with sauses
a handfull of dried pasta shells with either half a can of tomato soup or pasta sause, extra garlic and herbs to kick it up a gear maybe a couple of ravioli shells as a treat or a meat ball (cooked) and this will easily last a week before either eating or cooking and eating.
beef stew and dumplings
tinned mixed veg or cook your own
frozen dumplings or make your own.
meat is either a tin of stewing meat or a fray bentos pie cut up ect
some crumbed oxo cube or the like etc etc etc when made up at home a few tins of this and that , i always throw tins of baked beans or handfull of dried runner beans or wheat/pearl barley as a bulker or rice if you want. this normaly ends up being a massive pile which is then split down into small portions to either freeze down or to go straight into the ruck sac to go out.
on a hot day most opened packets soon go off, but i find the vac sealed ones last a little longer some times even a day and a half two days for raw meats.
the main point is for me to break down tin cans into bags or to make meals ready to eat and or go, if i know water is not going to be a problem i will vac bag dried goods more than wet ones to keep the weights down,
i prefere boil in the bags because i do a brew at the same time as a meal. if i am cold i will then use the meal as a hot water bottle untill its cool enough to eat
I forgot to mention it changes depending on if i do a short mobile or a long mobile or a static stay, let me explain.
If i am doing a walking weekend say start at a on friday night after work and finish in b on sunday before coming home on the train i will normalu do a set batch of 5 meals per day, as its easier on my stomach to eat little and often rather than walking a massive fry up off, so say for breakie we want bacon and eggs, so that can be either two pieces of raw bacon vac packed or two precooked ones vac bagged. if you choice the premade route say a tin of spag bog with a treat of a couple of ravioli pieces thrown in for luck then vac packed if i want to keep walking but is hungrey i can just eat it cold and keep going, i have done several times but its a little hard to do and then keep from punturing dried porage oats in one section with a milk second section still with it.
jam was another failure i tried, whole jar of strawb jam maked up into vac packed tubes so i can use what i wanted in smaller pieces, ended up with the most stickyest rucksac pocket ever when i fell over onto it!
I ant to worried about food going off as i normal vac pack the perishables for the first two days, raw meats, buggers,bacon,sausages either one the own or with other food items after two days we then kick in with the either dried goods or dried goods wetted.on day three its normal for me to go on to quorn, yes i know everyone takes the micheal out of it but it dont go off and tastes ok when mixed in with sauses
a handfull of dried pasta shells with either half a can of tomato soup or pasta sause, extra garlic and herbs to kick it up a gear maybe a couple of ravioli shells as a treat or a meat ball (cooked) and this will easily last a week before either eating or cooking and eating.
beef stew and dumplings
tinned mixed veg or cook your own
frozen dumplings or make your own.
meat is either a tin of stewing meat or a fray bentos pie cut up ect
some crumbed oxo cube or the like etc etc etc when made up at home a few tins of this and that , i always throw tins of baked beans or handfull of dried runner beans or wheat/pearl barley as a bulker or rice if you want. this normaly ends up being a massive pile which is then split down into small portions to either freeze down or to go straight into the ruck sac to go out.
on a hot day most opened packets soon go off, but i find the vac sealed ones last a little longer some times even a day and a half two days for raw meats.
the main point is for me to break down tin cans into bags or to make meals ready to eat and or go, if i know water is not going to be a problem i will vac bag dried goods more than wet ones to keep the weights down,
i prefere boil in the bags because i do a brew at the same time as a meal. if i am cold i will then use the meal as a hot water bottle untill its cool enough to eat
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