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Try some Mountain House Spaghetti on your next backpacking trip
A good number of backpackers typically put a sandwich, some chips, a few candy bars and some water in their backpack when they are ready to go hiking. Your list of food may differ from this but all of these items are cold, no hot food. So why do you eat hot foods
Mountain House Spaghetti
every other day of your life but settle for ony cold foods when you go hiking. You don’t have to. Mountain House® freeze-dried backpacking and camping foods provide both great taste and super easy convenience. No Cooking or Preparation Needed. Simply add hot water (you can use cold water in a pinch), wait 5 to 8 minutes (to reconstitute)…and Eat. It’s that simple! For example, one of my favorite meals at home is spaghetti. You can get a package of Mountain House® freeze-dried Spaghetti with Meat that makes two Large 10 ounce Servings. A traditional blend of spaghetti pasta noodles in a zesty tomato sauce flavored with Italian-style herbs & spices, tender chunks of real beef, and cheese. Man-oh-man, my mouth is watering just writing this BLOG. So if you want some hot foods like Mountain House Spaghetti and you are tired of cold food, try the Mountain House® freeze-dried Spaghetti. You’ll love it.
One of the popular meals we serve at our family camp outs is “Taco in a Bag”. It’s easy to make, no mess and the kids love it. Adults love it too. If you don’t have a camping grill yet, I encourage you to check out the Primus AtleBBQ Prop Stove/Camping Grill and cook in style. This camping grill is inexpensive, reliable and you will enjoy cooking and grilling in the outdoors with the entire family or group of friends. A great, kid-friendly meal you can make outdoors with your camping grill is the “Taco in a bag”. Adults love Taco in a bag too. Listed below are the ingredients and directions.
Taco in a Bag
- 1 pound lean ground beef
- 1/4 cup chopped onion
- 1/4 cup chopped green bell pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon prepared yellow mustard
- 3/4 cup ketchup
- 3 teaspoons brown sugar
- 4 Bags of Frito’s
- 1 large bag of Shredded Cheese
- 2 cups Sour Cream
- 2 large tomatoes diced
- In a medium skillet over medium heat on your camping grill, brown the ground beef, onion, and green pepper; drain off liquids.
- Stir in the garlic powder, mustard, ketchup, and brown sugar; mix thoroughly. Reduce heat, and simmer for 30 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
- Pour 2 small scoops of the above mixture into a a Frito bag with the Frito’s.
- Add a scoop of diced tomatoes and a spoon full of sour cream to the bag of frito’s
- Sprinkle some grated cheese into the bag.
- Enjoy your Taco in a bag. Kids love it.
You may be in the best shape of your life and healthier than all your friends, but after a long day of hiking trails, bicycling, climbing hills and mountains, fishing, hunting or white water rafting, you’re going to be hungry. You need your camping food to be nutritious so it re-energizes you in minutes. Generally speaking, most adults need about 2 lbs of food each day. This brings us to Tip #7.
Tip #7 – Eat Well
When it comes to food, there’s a major difference between wilderness paddling and backpacking. You’re forced to go as light as 
possible when backpacking, which usually means freeze-dried chow. Mountain House and AlpineAire both make some great freeze-dried food dishes you can carry in your backpack including spaghetti, chicken ala king, lazagna, and chile. These are easy to make and don’t take long to prepare. Simply add water and eat the meall right out of the packet. Hot water is needed for hot meals. You should also consider bringing some trail mix for snacks or after lunch.
If you prefer real food, pack a stick of butter, some salt and pepper packets, a couple of potatoes, some frozen hot dogs, brats, chicken or pork chops in a freezer bag in the bottom of your back pack and make sure you bring some tin foil and matches. That’s all you really need to make a really great meal for you and friends. When it’s time to eat, simply slice up the potatoes and wrap them in tin foil with 1/2 stick of butter. Put the potatoes right in the middle of the camp fire for about 30 minutes. Wrap the meat in tin foil and put it right in the middle of the fire as well. Rotate the two tin foil packs a few times during the 30 minutes and Wa La. Great, nutritious, energizing food. Enjoy… and remember, “The Joy is in the Journey”.
If you have ever gone camping you have probably roasted marshmallows or hotdogs over an open campfire. And it’s likely you might have made SMORES which consist of a roasted marshmallow and a piece of a hershey chocolate bar sandwiched between two graham cracker wafters to form a deliciuosly guey, crunchy, chocolatey dessert that melts in your mouth and tastes heavenly. It tastes so good that you will want SoMORE. 
But it’s unlikely that you have ever made a “Care Bear in a Cloud”. Listed below are steps to make this tastey dessert so when you plan your next trip and buy your camping supplies, consider making a Care Bear in a Cloud and follow the steps below.
- Buy one bag of large white marshmallows
- Buy one box of chocolate flavored Teddy Grahams (each Teddy graham looks like a Teddy Bear/Care Bear
- Push one Teddy Graham into one marshmallow (the marshmallow is the cloud)
- Put the mashmallow onto a long stick.
- Put the stick over the campfire until the marshmallow begins to turn golden brown and melts around the Care Bear.
- Eat the “Care Bear in a Cloud” and enjoy
Kids love it. It’s easy and fun to make. Anyone can do it. It takes only a minute to finish. It’s less expensive than making Smores and it’s less messy. Try it out on your next camping trip.