Recipes:
Unless otherwise noted, these amounts are all for two people!
Almanac
Snacks
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Dried mango: A TJ's bag = 170g and is enough for like four days.
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Trail mix: Plan on 260g per person per day. It's possible we'll want more on the third+ week of a trip, but that's a known-good baseline. (This is the 2024 revised value.)
Ingredients
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Dehydrated beans are supposedly 1:1 ratio (by volume) for rehydrating. A can of beans comes out to a little less than a cup of dried beans.
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Minute rice is also 1:1 by volume! You hit with boiling water, then let it sit for 5 minutes and then fluff it.
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Nido milk: 4:1.
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Instant oats are 2:1.
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Instant mashed taters are ~ 2:1? It's 1/2 cup water per ounce (by weight), so write down how much you're packing if you aren't using the original packaging.
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Red curry paste -- once dehydrated and ground into powder, its density is 2 grams per 1 teaspoon.
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Curries
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Jasmine or basmati rice --
- For indian curries, we dehydrate 1 cup of cooked rice per person per meal.
- That's roughly 50g dehydrated cooked rice per person.
- 3/4 cup water rehydrates the rice for both of us.
- The red curry uses a bit more, over 3/4 cup uncooked, and we handle the rehydration differently.
Packets
The narrow type of mealsaver bag is best for this, because it divides neatly into 3 (double-sealing on the vertical stripes so you get a cuttable air channel between packets). Freeze packets before trying to vacuum seal... but don't bother trying to get air out of the soy sauce bc it will never freeze.
- Ghee: 1.5 T per packet (one packet does two person-meals of a lentil dish). Hardens fast in freezer.
- Coconut oil: Probably also 1.5 T.
- Soy sauce: a commercial "packet" is about a teaspoon. (Sojourner noodles takes two "packets," so do 2+ tsp if making our own.)
- Toasted sesame oil: 1 T per packet. Hardens slowly to a stiff slush in freezer.
Dry/wet equivalencies
- 1 can white beans = ~1 cup dehydrated white beans (~80g)
- 1 can black beans = 7/8 cup dehydrated (~90g)
- 1 can chickpeas = ~3/4 cup dehydrated chickpeas (~90g)
- 1 1/2 cup frozen peas = ~1/3 cup dehydrated
- 1/2 cup frozen frozen peas = 1/9 cup dehydrated = 16/3 tsp (5.3 tsp so like 1T + 2tsp)
Ideas
Car food:
- coconut water
- salt and vinegar chips
Trail Food:
- chili lime cashews
- other savory nuts?
- ranch chickpeas
- trail mix
- mango
- bars
- energy chews
- chocolate
- peanut butter cups
Drinks
- instant coffee
- Best is to mix one TJ's or Korean doctored coffee with one black coffee in the big thermos, then move half the mixed coffee to the little thermos.
- hot cocoa
- apple cider
- tea
- powdered milk
- coconut oil
Lunch:
- flat bread
- peanut butter
- jelly
- nutella?
- mustard
- salami
- cheese