Lightweight food for expeditions

[rik_uk3]

You don't see mention of Textured Vegetable Protein much but to be honest its lightweight and takes on the flavour of what its cooked in so you can make an OK curry with it, or a spag bol. Not as good as fresh meat of course, but an option worth looking at. You can get a big bag of TVP in your local Holland & Barrett store.

[bushcraft-boy]

Swiss musili W/ powdered milk and sugar; mix with hot water and you have a lovely hot cereal start just like in the dehydrated ration pack's taste it and see you'll love it

regards,Jordan

[TinkyPete]

OK a few from me

At work I can get from the cookhouse some bags of Alara Super Swiss Muesli 50g bag I just add water in the morning tastes great.

or you can buy normal oats and adds what ever you like (the old army way of using drinking chocolate) or one of my fav's is to add drinking chocolate from rat pack (now flavoured and orange is the best, mint is not bad either) raisins, cherries and canned peel a real christmassy taste (rum/cointreau/tia maria/whisky optional but nice)

There's Coan stuff like original beef sausage (dried and seasoned) basically jerked sausage they do biltong and other jerky stuff too.

dried fruits such as pineapple, blueberries, strawberries, raisins, currants, cherries and even cranberries are nice snacks and go good in stuff and chocolate drops or mixed nuts for extras.

couscous is also light easy to prepare and a change from noddles or rice or pasta can be used hot or cold and easily takes flavours such as mint sauce to give it a zing and not to keep it boring. I also sometimes add pine nuts (slight roasted are best) and dried chilli flakes with other stuff to it too.

magic ingredients:

Lea & Perrins (accept no substitute)
Hot sauce
mustard powder ( Colemans the best and English type of course)
mixed herbs
chilli powder or flakes
curry powder (your favourite of course mines madras)
dried garlic
Salt & pepper
Heinz Ketchup (the new twisted mini bottles with different flavours are interesting)
stock cubes (I still like the oxo range)
coarse grained mustard (adds nice texture to noodles and stuff) ( I have a nice one flavoured with Macallan 10 year old single malt)

[Twodogs]

Good stuff Pete

[Magicman2]

If you go to Aldi and look through the dried nuts/fruit you will come across their own label (Snackrite) their range is 4 different mixtures of died seeds/nuts/fruit. Both of my children, the wife myself and even the German Shepard love them. They come in 150gm packets, the Value is between 2500kjl to 4000kjl depending on choice and the best bit the price, 99p a packet. I always take it when walking/backpacking.

[hanzo]

Parched corn was a light weight trail food for the American Indians.