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Counting Calories and Camp Cooking

Anonymous Tue 21 May 2013 06:05:19 No.120009 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>120086

'Sup, /out/ I'm preparing a prospective trip into the Yosemite back country around Labor day ish and I was wondering what the best way to cram the maximum number of calories into the least weight possible.

Also, let's get a camp cooking general going.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 May 2013 06:29:55 No.120029 Report

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pemmican
peanut butter

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 May 2013 06:52:35 No.120038 Report

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Early explorers of Antarctica carried suet. Basically ground up nuts held together with bear fat.

I make my own meal bars out of a product called DGM or Deconsolidated Gluten Meal. You won't find it in a store but it is sold on the grain market as a bulking agent for cattle (is FDA approved for people too)

Outside of that peanut butter and other nut based products have a lot of calories in them. Fats that won't spoil are what you're looking for, when you want calorie dense foods. However I would suggest a more balance diet.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 May 2013 06:55:08 No.120039 Report

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You have a gas or alcohol stove?

Any large supermarket has a selection of dried soups.
They're cheap, lightweight and some of them are quite high in calories.
Look for ones that are bean or lentil based.
Include a bag or two of pasta and rice.
A roll of Summer Sausage.
Some type of hard cheese.

You can easily carry a weeks worth of this as long as you can replenish your water supplies.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 May 2013 07:03:58 No.120042 Report

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Dry salamis tend to have a very high energy/weight ratio. Peanut butter is even higher. A peanut butter and salami sandwich can keep you going for quite a while at the cost of being very strange.

Anything more calorically dense than peanut butter (~2500 cal/lb) is going to contain a lot of fat; you need to be careful with this, because you don't absorb or digest pure fat very well. (See: post-greasy food shits)

Good ol' wheat flour is, surprisingly, comparable to some sausages in terms of density, if you're up for backcountry bread making. Bread flour should be somewhat higher in protein than all-purpose.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 May 2013 07:12:19 No.120046 Report

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Peanut butter
Most nuts
Chocolate
Oats

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 May 2013 07:26:14 No.120048 Report

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flour, look up Bannock. as others have said, nuts, nut butters, cured meats, whey protein is good as an adjunct. lots of types of junk foods like frito chips, stuff like pasta has volume but dried is just as light and nutritious as flour . . . cheese, you can put grated dried cheese on almost anything and keeps well even in hot weather . . . dried fruit, stuff like dried pineapple or date are like, almost pure sugar

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 May 2013 08:25:18 No.120074 Report

Quoted By: >>120075 >>120106

What can I do with these? Something with rice or something? (Refried pinto beans)

>inb4 mexican food: I literally just want to bung something in a pot, I don't have loads of stuff

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 21 May 2013 08:26:30 No.120075 Report

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>>120074

Forgot to attach pic, deepest apologies

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 21 May 2013 08:48:50 No.120080 Report

Quoted By: >>120223

Any cast iron cooking lovers? Want to find alternative to havy dutch oven for inwoods.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 May 2013 09:07:20 No.120086 Report

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>>120009
CousCous, Bulgur, instantmashed potatoes, milk powder, spices, oil, and so on, we had a ultra light cooking thread lately. Also be aware that we have a shitload of car campers here, they have no idea what it means to carry food, fuel and full kit for a week over a long distance,

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OP Tue 21 May 2013 09:40:54 No.120095 Report

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>>120086

Yeah, there ain't no roads where I'm going. Anywho, dumping MRE cooking pics.

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OP Tue 21 May 2013 09:41:28 No.120097 Report

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>>120095

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OP Tue 21 May 2013 09:42:01 No.120098 Report

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>>120097

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OP Tue 21 May 2013 09:42:52 No.120099 Report

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>>120098

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OP Tue 21 May 2013 09:43:26 No.120100 Report

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>>120099

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OP Tue 21 May 2013 09:43:58 No.120101 Report

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>>120100

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OP Tue 21 May 2013 09:44:31 No.120102 Report

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>>120101

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OP Tue 21 May 2013 09:45:17 No.120103 Report

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>>120102

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OP Tue 21 May 2013 09:45:50 No.120104 Report

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>>120103

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 May 2013 10:02:11 No.120106 Report

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>>120074
get some flour tortillas, some precooked chicken pouches, rice and chili powder. Cook your rice, add chicken and spices, spread re-fried beans on tortillas, top with chicken/rice mixture. Fold, Eat

tortillas are also great for making other sandwiches as well. it packs small, and doesnt get smashed like bread would. I make PB &J with them. A jar of PB is always a must, but i dont take a full jar of jelly. just take some condiments from a fast food place that has packets of jelly. usually takes like 2 per sandwich, so much easier then taking a small jar and that shit is free. I do with with lots of condiments, salt and pepper too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 May 2013 10:09:10 No.120109 Report

Quoted By: >>120115 >>120120 >>120144

Hey OP, you could make some hardtack before going there and take it with you. It's lightweight, although it isn't the best meal ever.

Anybody got the recipe for it?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 May 2013 10:47:01 No.120115 Report

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>>120109

I fucking did but now I can't find the g-d thing.

Hardtack biscuits, smoked and cured salt pork, pemmican (not the shitty jerky), coffee, sugar, dried beans and chocolate.

You'll never appreciate fucking civilization as much as when you go home.

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OP Tue 21 May 2013 11:00:40 No.120120 Report

Quoted By: >>120121

>>120109

Sounds good!

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OP Tue 21 May 2013 11:01:16 No.120121 Report

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>>120120

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OP Tue 21 May 2013 11:01:48 No.120122 Report

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>>120121

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 May 2013 11:52:25 No.120144 Report

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>>120109
It's disgusting, but the recipe is very simple: take some water. Stir in a bit of salt and flour until there's so much flour in it that your arm hurts really bad, trying to stir it. Roll it bread-slice thick-ish. Cook it for 30 minutes at 375, flipping halfway. Store in vaccuum pack for maximum (decades-long) shelf-life.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 May 2013 12:32:43 No.120174 Report

Quoted By: >>120206

>>120144
>water, flour and salt
...That sounds more like a building material than a meal. How does it even help? That sounds devoid of any kind of nutrition other than carbs and... carbs. Why not use that dough to make perrogies or something, which can be filled with delicious meats and potatoes and cheese and stuff, and keep fairly well if you seal them well?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 21 May 2013 12:48:33 No.120184 Report

Quoted By: >>120186 >>120189 >>120195 >>120198 >>121249

Can I wear shorts and hiking boots when walking outdoors in the summer, or does it look stupid? I'm afraid to stand out, and I have to walk through the city to get to the forest.

>Pic related, it's a pic of boots and shorts that I found on a blog article titled "What not to wear during summer".

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 May 2013 12:55:10 No.120186 Report

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>>120184
Bitch this aint /fa/. Why the fuck do you care what people think?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 May 2013 12:59:24 No.120189 Report

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>>120184
I wear fairly loose hiking pants that can be bound below the knee (like knee breeches, dunno if that's the correct term in English), socks up to the knee and hiking boots. While walking through the city towards the mountain. I also have two trekking poles and a Lumbar pack. Nobody gives a shit. Heck, I wouldn't mind walking through the city to the mountain in hotpants.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 21 May 2013 13:18:09 No.120195 Report

Quoted By: >>120646

>>120184

The examples I find on google doesn't look bad. You need to stop reading retarded articles by bitches, cuz' they ain't nothin' but tricks.

Guy with 9 bikes

Guy with 9 bikes Tue 21 May 2013 13:29:11 No.120198 Report

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>>120184
>I'm afraid to stand out
Chances are that no one will notice. Unless you wear something like orange shorts and purple hiking boots (or you are a cute female), people will not check you out that well.
I kinda agree with not caring about what people think, but I can see not wanting to stand out too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 May 2013 14:09:26 No.120206 Report

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>>120174
It is more like a building material than a meal. It's a thick, completely dry cracker. The point of it is that it'll last years or even decades, if stored properly. Someone recently found some hard tack from the American Civil War--it was perfectly good after 150 years.

It's not meant to be eaten as a meal. It's carbs to add into anything else that you're eating for energy. The only time it counts as a meal is when you're a sailor from a couple centuries back, and everything else has spoiled.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 May 2013 14:39:46 No.120223 Report

Quoted By: >>120230

>>120080
the alternative is pots that are not made of cast iron. Anything made of cast iron is too heavy for backpacking and should really just be used for car camping or semi/permanent camps

I iz a fatass

I iz a fatass Tue 21 May 2013 14:46:27 No.120230 Report

Quoted By: >>120663

>>120223
As glorious as it is to cook on, I gotta agree. I can think of better uses of 10-15 lbs of backpack weight than a single dutch oven.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 May 2013 23:36:40 No.120646 Report

Quoted By: >>121226

>>120195

I'd go innawoods with that guy if you know what I mean.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 May 2013 00:00:57 No.120663 Report

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>>120230
Same. Though if I have the ability to take along a dutch oven (say by means of some other load bearing amenity such as a pack animal or a car), I'd also take along a decent skillet. Two pots can cook a better meal, I think.

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Anonymous Wed 22 May 2013 18:07:23 No.121226 Report

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>>120646

Wh... What DO you mean?

molot0v !CocKTAILBg

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molot0v !CocKTAILBg Wed 22 May 2013 18:37:11 No.121244 Report

Quoted By: >>121250

I just wanted to say that I brought a summer sausage on my solo trip and goddamn was it the most delicious fucking thing in the world when cut into slices and fried. Also, 21 ounces of sausage for $2.00, keeps for a long time too. God-tier camping food.

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Anonymous Wed 22 May 2013 18:44:33 No.121249 Report

Quoted By: >>121276

>>120184
I got two words for you: Convertible Pants.

http://tinyurl com/cabelaspants

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 22 May 2013 18:48:55 No.121250 Report

Quoted By: >>121258

>>121244
Huh, so you love putting sausage in and around your mouth, I would have never guessed.

molot0v !CocKTAILBg

molot0v !CocKTAILBg Wed 22 May 2013 19:02:29 No.121258 Report

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>>121250

Mostly in. I don't see what satisfaction I would get from having the sausage around my mouth.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 May 2013 19:35:22 No.121276 Report

Quoted By: >>121284

>>121249
I'm not a /fa/g , but even I think that is a horrible idea.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 May 2013 19:44:32 No.121284 Report

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>>121276
Yea what a terrible idea, saving weight of having both pants and shorts, being able to adapt to changing weather and foliage conditions. Horrible idea, whoever came up with it should be shot.

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