Spring Canyon Adventure 2007 – Menu Notes
Synopsis: Detailed menu and notes on its successes and
failures.
General thoughts:
- A 2-quart pot is too small for three people.
- A lightweight coffee pot is great for boiling water and scooping to fill
water carrier, but its screen filter on the spout gets in the way.
- We had planned to eat dinner out before arriving at the trailhead, but
we were at the trailhead by the time dinner rolled around and had to rely on
leftover sandwiches, Dinty Moore stew purchased at a convenience store,
etc.
Quantities given are pre-cooked totals (i.e., not per-person).
| Dinners |
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Input |
Verdict |
| Day 1 |
- 3.5 oz vegetarian chili
- 8 oz cheese
- Some freeze-dried veggies (Just Veggies)
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| Day 2 |
- 1-1/3 lb rotini pasta
- 2/3 lb dried ground beef
- 1 jar dried spaghetti sauce
- 4 oz parmesan cheese
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- Taste good
- Quantity good
- Cooking water in 2-qt pot just right for reconstituting.
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| Day 3 |
- 2 boxes Annie’s macaroni and cheese
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- A little meager
- A little unexciting
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| Day 4 |
“Reid’s Famous Enchiladas”
- 1 c dry refried beans
- ~1 c brown instant rice
- 1 lb cheese
- 2 packets dry taco sauce mix
- A little dried ground beef
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- Fabulously yummy as always
- Quantity good
- Less cheese would have been fine
- Overflowed pot
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| Day 5 |
- 1 box Hamburger Helper
- Dried ground beef
- One 2-serving freeze-dried dinner (sweet-n-sour chicken)
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- Hamburger Helper was pretty meager
- HH not too tasty
- Freeze-dried pretty tasty
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| Day 6 |
- 1-1/3 lb rotini pasta
- 2 pk garlic-herb sauce
- Freeze-dried veggies
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| Day 7 |
- Spaghetti w/ meat sauce — see Day 2
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| Day 8 |
- 2 pk Zartrain’s beans and rice
- Cheese
- Summer sausage
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- Taste good
- Quantity good
- A little cheese and sausage tasty, but just a little would be fine.
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| Breakfasts |
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Input |
Verdict |
| Day 2 |
- 11 oz add-water pancake mix
- 1 pk freeze-dried rasberries
- ~1/4 cup powdered sugar
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- Taste good
- Too much sugar
- Otherwise, quantity good
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| Day 6 |
- 8 servings freeze-dried hash browns O’Brien
- Summer sausage bits
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- Too much
- Bland
- Didn’t brown well
- Needed bigger pan
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| 6× |
- 32 oz brown sugar
- 48 servings cream of wheat
- 24 oz raisins
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- 16 oz sugar would have been OK
- 36 servings cr. wht. OK
- 12 oz raisins OK
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| Lunches |
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Input |
Verdict |
| 8× |
- 4× 8 oz cream cheese
- 4× 5-6 oz salami, 48 oz summer sausage
- 10" tortillas, 2× per person per day
- 2 lb cheese
- Mustard
- Peanut butter, 1 small jar
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- 2× cr. ch. OK
- 48 oz total meat OK
- Tortillas OK
- 1 lb cheese OK
- Peanut butter: due presumably to the artificial emulsifers, cheap
mass-market peanut butter (Jif, etc.) works better than natural peanut
better in an outdoor setting.
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| Miscellaneous |
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Input |
Verdict |
| Gorp, per person |
- 24 oz peanuts
- 12 oz raisins
- 1 medium bag peanut butter M&M’s
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| Misc |
- 12 oz I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter liquid
- 1 small KLIM full-cream dried milk
- 86 oz white gas
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- 8 oz oil OK
- 3/4 milk OK
- Approx 40 oz fuel used, i.e. ~2oz per person per day
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