Hello everybody, welcome to CafferooCast. I am writing solo again. Frank is still in Utah and I figured today was a good day to talk about backcountry meal prep or what Frank and I use or what we prep or buy a little bit of combination of everything for our food we use in the wilderness.

We don't always prep every piece of food that we take. Sometimes it's a mixture of some stuff we prep and the dehydrator and we'll mix it stuff we bought. Sometimes we don't have time, we just take food that we've purchased and pretty much everywhere in between.

So what I'm going to do is go over some of the stuff that we buy, some of the meals from the companies out there that make freeze dried or dehydrated food, what we prefer, what we don't, as far as purchasing and then go into some of the different recipes, things like that of food we do prep.

I've kind of written a list down here so I don't see too many squirrels and bounce around. This is stuff we always take. There's many more options when I'm running down. Frank and I are pretty simple when it comes to this. You don't need a whole lot.

I know, but I will go over the tools or things that we have to prep the food so you kind of know what you're getting into. It's not actually that big of a purchase is but I'll go over that stuff too.

So the first thing I'll go over is food, different companies out there that make food for backpack hunting that actually tastes good and is relatively healthy.

One is humble foods. They are not out on the market yet. I was lucky enough to be involved in some of the prototype testing of the different meals. I will say that is by far and above the best food I've ever tasted as far as dehydrated food. They will be out pretty soon. It sounds like maybe this spring.

They had a very large variety to choose from. One of the things that's nice to have coconut oil packets in the meals that you open up and if you choose to do so you can put the coconut oil in the food as you're prepping it which gives you a higher fat content which is actually a good fat.

It does very well as far as calories per ounce. So humble foods definitely look out for them. They in my opinion anyway crush any other company out there and I've tried them all.

The off grid food company they make breakfast some different granola bars as well as beef jerky. That's another one that tastes great especially on the jerky and breakfast side. I actually have I'm eating their jerky right now and it is very very good.

Those are the two really don't mess I mean I've had mountain house. Heather's choice things like that. The Heather's choice not not a fan big fan of the company not a fan of the taste of the food.

Their macaron things are good or packer wounds or whatever they call them those are pretty good as far as their meals go.

I couldn't couldn't sign off on that for somebody to actually eat it because I just couldn't stomach it myself. I mean obviously I'll eat it because I'm when I'm hungry but not something I would buy.

They have one's meal of with salmon which is okay but not you know Brian he I think he eats that stuff and it's talked about it on the greedy moment but again for me it's it's just not not my cup of tea.

You know mountain house you can stomach a lot of that it's really unhealthy for you extremely high sodium content.

You know but I mean not only that like if you eat the macaroni or spaghetti or whatever the shit sticks to the spoon won't come off for five months like you got to get a SOS pad and some elbow grease to clean your spoon off probably not good for you that's not scientific that shit's probably stick into your intestines like a woolly mammoth so again humble foods off grid those the two that I would choose.

As far as like stuff that we buy at you know whatever King supers which is just a grocery store wall mart or whatever you know we'll we'll buy top ramen but we don't as much anymore by just top ramen I actually get a brown rice noodle that's like a top ramen it's just healthier and we'll take that quite a bit.

Really though the top ramen and Idaho and potatoes are about all we buy anymore minus bars and things like that but I'm not going to go into the bars as much this is actually what you can prep to save money what we do though if we have top ramen or or something like it is will dehydrate you know food to put in with the top ramen so you know if you take what's a good example.

Elk burger moose burger and dehydrate that with some vegetables and then you have just a bag of that in a Ziploc bag what I'll do is I'll just take the dehydrated meat and veggies and I'll just throw it in the top ramen when I boil it and it hydrates re hydrates all at the same time so I'm getting some veggies in I'm not a dietician so this is very red neck I'm getting some veggies in getting protein in sometimes I'm not going to get a diet.

I'll take an olive oil packet by these little single serve all oil packets to help with the fat content also helps you keep your regular and add that as well and so it's again it's kind of it's not there's not a lot of hope I mean we're not reinventing the wheel here we're just thinking ahead meaning is it that big of a deal to take a healthy top ramen and dehydrate some food ahead of time not really we dehydrate.

The veggies and protein you know two three four weeks ahead of time as long as as early as we think about it and we just do a ton and make this giant Ziploc bag of a mixture of the protein and the veggies and then when we head out we take that big bag put it in a little bag kind of will weigh it out so if we've got three nights that means we need three meals or three dinners those three dinners will take you know three of the health

the top ramen packets for example and then we'll take let's say four ounces per top ramen packet of the protein and the veggies multiply that by three pretty simple 12 ounces total not in weight but in actually a cup size if that makes any sense and we just distribute that up evenly again not done you know we're not making rocket appliances.

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