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Meagher
Trad climber
Reno, NV
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Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 7, 2012 - 12:59am PT
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I am heading out on the road for a few months to climb this fall and am looking for the best options for food that is cheap, has a long shelf life, and doesn't need to be refrigerated. Any suggestions of what people eat when they're on the road, on the wall, or in the mountains would be appreciated. Thanks
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BooYah
Social climber
Ely, Nv
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Peanut butter on bagels.
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Meagher
Trad climber
Reno, NV
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 7, 2012 - 01:06am PT
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It depends on what's in the dumpster.
Well now that is obvious, like Top Ramen, and canned food.
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darkmagus
Mountain climber
San Diego, CA
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Salami and crackers
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Map out all the nabisco, frito-lay, Entenmanns, and canned good distributers. Visit their yards.
Eat well
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Dick Erb
climber
June Lake, CA
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Rice and dried beans are quite inexpensive, long lasting, and combine for complete protein.
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bullfrog
Trad climber
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where the heck did the gallo salami, with rind wrapped in paper go? Man that stuff used to last forever. Sorry friendo, cabbage and lard from here on out...
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scottish nob rot
Trad climber
scotland
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cheese and strawberry jam
or millitary ration packs
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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BITD for the Valley DBers, it was whatever food that was left on the trays in the cafeteria
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bullfrog
Trad climber
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"cheese and strawberry jam
or millitary ration packs"
All the Army kids seem to get addicted to Sriracha trying to choke that stuff down. That reminds me, anything is edible with the appropriate application of hot sauce. Sriracha is more garlicy than hot but I digress.
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scottish nob rot
Trad climber
scotland
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nah tabasco hot sauce, makes anything edible;
soup, dog food, milk shakes from mcdonalds, cereal.. you get the idea, blanket out the foul taste of what your eating with something so over powering its all you can taste
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bullfrog
Trad climber
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Tobasco overpowering? Not so much. Sriracha takes a bunch too. El Yucateco might start to approach "overpowering" if you dump it on.
Just an observation on the increased popularity of the rooster sauce, plus the general observation that hot sauce makes anything crappy better.
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ms55401
Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
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buy a dehydrator and dehydrate a lot of fruit. weeks of ramen and instant rice is going to punish your colon without fruit
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Trader Joes dumpster days are to die for.
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bullfrog
Trad climber
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Trader Joe's. sigh If only we had those back here. Won't though due to the blue laws... If you've got one, take advantage of it!
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
bouldering
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Whatever the local foodbank is foisting off.
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Don Paul
Big Wall climber
Colombia, South America
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Pancake mix.
Oatmeal.
Fig Newtons.
Vindaloo curry paste - put on pasta.
What does Trader Joes do, throw away food on certain days? I have to work on that.
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Kenygl
Trad climber
Salt Lake City
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Once bought a bag of rice and climbed for a week on it. Lost a little weight.
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Meagher
Trad climber
Reno, NV
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 7, 2012 - 10:07pm PT
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Awesome ideas guys! Thanks! Keep them coming!
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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pasta, canned tomatoes/veggies/fruit, meat in a pouch/can, peanut butter, nutella, potatos, road kill, etc.
Dive the dumpsters for soda/beer cans to extend your cash reserves. BITD this was a standard practice in Yosemite (never really felt comfortable snarfing in the cafeteria).
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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powdered milk.
goes in everything. including vodka. voila! dirtball white russian!
high quality protein.
you dont have to cook it. i lived on it for almost an entire year. well, powdered milk and likker.
plus hipster climbing literary reference. john favored a thick, tasty mixture as a good muscle-builder, nevermind what it tasted like
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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I like a can of peaches, drained, then mix in instant oatmeal. I never cook it.
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Capt.
climber
some eastside hovel
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What about fishing?Awesome in TM if you can catch.Just ask Harpole.
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Kenygl
Trad climber
Salt Lake City
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Climb in Chamonix. The best dumpster diving in climbing. All the greats did it.
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Some Random Guy
Trad climber
San Francisco
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pure lard, best bang for ur buck
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ms55401
Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
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salmon, broccoli, bourbon
any cheaper than that and life sucks
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Robb
Social climber
The other side of life
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Well, someone had to say it........
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gonzo chemist
climber
Fort Collins, CO
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Didn't Hidetaka Suzuki live on tofu and spinach? That dude cranked!
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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just drink your own urine, mixed with oatmeal and gallo salami
or get 24 krispy cream doughnuts, did a 3 day weekend on those and a few cases of guiness draught,
or buy 10 for 10 gummy beares at safeway and combine with 8 cans of red bull, you should make it thru winter with those meager rasions, of course you will look like a stick, but get numb to the pain,
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
bouldering
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Pretty-sure you can buy oats for horses in big burlap sacks from feed stores.
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looks easy from here
climber
Ben Lomond, CA
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Pasta + tomato paste + garlic + salami + sunflower seeds + veggies as available to taste.
AKA Pasta a la Simon (credit where credit is due).
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bullfrog
Trad climber
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salmon, broccoli, bourbon
any cheaper than that and life sucks
Cabbage, lard, vodka.
Use the right proportions and you will never be aware of what "sucking" is.
Even better if you throw in the occasional potato.
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Beautiful_Corn
Big Wall climber
Brooklyn Park, MD
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One of the magazines did an article about Dale Bard around eight years ago and said he once lived on nothing but brewer's yeast stirred into water for weeks.
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OR
Trad climber
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While in the Valley there is only one way to eat like a true dirtbag.....scarfing in the Lodge Cafeteria. I learned by watching some of the greats. Mr Way and Chongo.
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TwistedCrank
climber
Dingleberry Gulch, Ideeho
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Free food.
Weddings and funerals are pretty good for that.
Frat parties are OK but you get too drunk. Chips and dip gets old after a while too.
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Mark Force
Trad climber
Cave Creek, AZ
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Remember when you could get free sample bags of dog food from a factory outside of Modesto? Tasted some, couldn't get into it, but some guys were into it.
Picking meals off the conveyor belt at the Lodge cafeteria was always good eatin'
Then there was always dumpster diving for 5 cent cans til you had enough to buy potatoes, oats, rice, or beans. Bring a bag of whatever you had to whatever everybody else had and cook up a party at C4.
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BASE104
Social climber
An Oil Field
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I don't know if Dale Bard is still at Black Diamond, but hunt him down and speak to the master. He could live off of like 20 bucks per year.
I have never met his equal.
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Meagher
Trad climber
Reno, NV
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 8, 2012 - 08:43pm PT
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These are some awesome ideas. Never even considered hitting the trash cans, but I suppose that is the dirtbag way. Sales at the stores seems more up my alley though.
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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Broccoli and sprouts grown on sponges in your car.
Tried the freegan dumspter diving behind the supermarket thing for a while but it is hit and miss on the road. One day you'll get a bunch of veggies, the next day nothing but 30 jars of bad mayonnaise. You can't count on it to deliver.
One thing though, when you live on that free food diet for 6 months, your stomach flora changes. You can eat stuff with no ill effects that would have you shitting water for a week if you ate it straight off a normal diet. Eventually you become like a vulture and you can eat just about anything.
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Don Paul
Big Wall climber
Colombia, South America
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In Medellin there are people on the streets literally dying of hunger. You sometimes see people really chowing down at a trash can, on some old chicken they found, half eaten leftovers, mixed with other kinds of garbage. They look totally psyched to have scored. I guess if you are hungry you can get over a lot of these things. Even camping in the US changes your sense of hygiene, permanently. Go for it!
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Banquo
climber
Amerricka
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I can tell you guys never camp out with Clint. Little Debbie Cosmic Brownies and uncooked Ramen is about all I've ever seen him eat when away from the car. On the road, fast food dollar menu is the best calories/dollars. A few dollar cheeseburgers from Wendy's is more than enough food for anybody.
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bergbryce
Mountain climber
South Lake Tahoe, CA
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2nd for the Grocery Outlet.
I can get 3x the amount of groceries for $40 than I can at Safeway or Raley's. You never know what they are going to have on any given day too because their inventory fluctuates. I've found most of their stuff to be quality too.
I've found that bulk rice and beans aren't as cheap as they used to be unless you can go to Costco and get like a 30 lb bag. The bulk aisle at most grocery stores has gone yuppie and that stuff is expensive.
Corn meal mush is cheap, filling and can be eaten many ways. It's easier to make at home because you need to simmer it for like 30 minutes, but it's way good for breakfast lunch or dinner. Eat it like cream of wheat for breakfast with syrup, molasses, dried fruit, or just salt and it's filling. If you've got the means to refrigerate it, you can let it solidify and slice it up and fry it, way good.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Ultimate dirtbag foods
Anything that comes out of a dumpster
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ladyscarlett
Trad climber
SF Bay Area, California
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Aug 10, 2012 - 12:50am PT
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never really done the dirtbag thing, but I feel that when I go on the cheap, I have a few key things that keep me at less than $15/week.
Coffee, sweetner, creamer. Sometimes, if you get the flavored creamers, you can get the sugar, and the fat calories right next to the caffeine goodness.
Cheese, onion, cucumber sandwiches. Add meat when it's on sale.
Instant miso soup, soba noodles, an egg (hardboiled or just thrown in near the end), and whatever veggies can be scrounged.
fried spam, though salty as all hell, goes a long way for everything, including it's own grease to aid the frying process.
one awesome trick I've done at C4, is buy a yam, or other root veggie for cheap. This works for acorn squash too (10 cents/lb at Winco!). wrap it in foil and put it one of the inevitable fires that are left burning after people have gone to sleep. 20 min later, food, and you didn't even have to use propane...
Cheers
LS
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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Aug 10, 2012 - 01:16am PT
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No money so you gotta live like a bear.
Any grocery store dumpster. The food you find here is amazing. Eggs, dairy, cans with no labels, and really good produce, blemished packaged foods. I saved lots of money and ate well when I was living lean.
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susu
Trad climber
East Bay, CA
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Aug 10, 2012 - 01:17am PT
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Phylp, that sounds great - like peach cobbler... Yum
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Aug 11, 2012 - 07:19pm PT
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Susu, the funny thing is that when I'm at home, my typical breakfast is the same thing, but with fresh fruit in the summer and microwave defrosted frozen fruit in the winter. If I'm really hungry I add some chopped nuts. I just like the texture of the raw stuff better - chewy!
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rmuir
Social climber
From the Time Before the Rocks Cooled.
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Aug 11, 2012 - 10:07pm PT
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El Cap and two raw spuds.
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Kung Phu Panda
climber
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Aug 11, 2012 - 10:34pm PT
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Ramen with vegetables. You can put some ham or egg in it to pump up the protein
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susu
Trad climber
East Bay, CA
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Aug 12, 2012 - 11:51pm PT
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Phylp - I just tried it this weekend - used canned peaches and brown sugar flavored instant oatmeal - juicy and delicious. Definitely going to be a regular in the camping pantry from now on.
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Don Paul
Big Wall climber
Colombia, South America
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Aug 14, 2012 - 08:29pm PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
merced, california
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Aug 14, 2012 - 10:21pm PT
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I have to give thumb up to rice, as it it plentiful, easier than pie to cook (pie is not easy, I'm just sayin'), and lends itself to lots of quizzine (best not ask the ingredients).
I have experimented recently. I find the basic rice recipe, two cups water for one of rice, boil, then reduce till it's rice. About five minutes in from the reduction is time to add various comestibles.
Dried fruits, cut into bits--apricots, raisins, and the like.
It's filling, you betcha.
I like to cook a bunch of sausage bits in a dutch oven, mix in cooked rice with the sausage chunks, add olives, a can of enchilada sauce, mix it up and add what else you might choose (nuts, berries, worms, you're a dirtbag), then cover with sauced tortillas, and put it on the dutch oven coookitinthefire trip until it's irresistible. Feeds many. OK, it's tamale-sausage-olive pie. And it is pretty damn easy.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Aug 14, 2012 - 10:38pm PT
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The ultimate Camp 4 dirtbag breakfast
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crasic
climber
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Aug 14, 2012 - 10:46pm PT
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In soviet camping style
Buckwheat and canned meat.
Buckwheat is a god tier grain.
You can eat it for breakfast (milk and sugar + fruits)
You can eat for lunch.
You can eat it for dinner like you would rice.
Buckwheat, its whats for dinner.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Aug 14, 2012 - 11:15pm PT
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So, eh, here's one for our brethren in the Great White North, eh
Q: What do Newfies eat when economic times are hard?
A: Baloney sandwiches
Q: What do Newfies eat when economic times are good?
A: Baloney sandwiches with ketchup
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Ol' Skool
Trad climber
Oakhurst, CA
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Aug 15, 2012 - 12:33am PT
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Back in the eighties, Jonny Woodward was supposedly gonna do a year of econo-climbing on carrots and potatoes. Never heard if he pulled it off.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Aug 15, 2012 - 02:04pm PT
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Ultimate dirtbag silverware
(Substitute pins if on a wall)
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sibylle
Trad climber
On the road again!
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Aug 23, 2012 - 01:50pm PT
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Here's my recipe for home-made energy nuggets.
http://funclimbsaroundtheworld.com/?p=24
I made these for climbing long routes, as food to carry with you to eat on the climb. They're easy to make, and travel well.
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feesh
Boulder climber
Oakland, CA
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Aug 23, 2012 - 03:11pm PT
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Oatmeal, but packed with things like dried blueberries & bananas, sunflower seeds, cinnamon, etc. My friend had a dehydrator and made us so many amazing things for our last backpacking trip, for super cheap, too. Dried papayas & mangos FTW!
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EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
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Aug 23, 2012 - 04:18pm PT
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Chicken salad at the Awahnee with that rad cheese-beer soup as a starter.
Slater had it right, work hard at a highly compensated job six months, climb hard wherever he felt like six months.
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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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Aug 23, 2012 - 05:58pm PT
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Glad to be of NEW generation you dumpster raidin' rats!
nom nom nom nom no ramen on my plate nom nom nom nom
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looking sketchy there...
Social climber
Latitute 33
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Aug 23, 2012 - 06:37pm PT
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Once met a Swiss climber in Josh (many years ago) who largely subsisted on Monkey Chow...
Here is a guy who tried it and Blogged about it for one week. Pretty weak sauce if you ask me.http://www.angryman.ca/monkey.html
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bentelbow
climber
spud state
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Aug 23, 2012 - 06:38pm PT
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I heard of a story of a couple of kids heading to the valley with a 55 gal. drum of Purina monkey chow.They only lasted a few weeks
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Dr. X
Big Wall climber
X- Town
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Aug 28, 2012 - 08:41pm PT
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You guys.........sigh............your all light.
It's a game of calories. If yer buying the food, only two ways: box of donuts, or dinty moore chili. Both have the highest calorie to dollar value you can get in the ditch. Of course, food that belonga to someone else has the highest doller for calorie ratio.
It's the same recipe with booze....most volume of alcohol by percentage per dollar. Olde E wins every time. That's why it's popular with the brothers down on East 14th st. They ain't no fools!
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Ezra Ellis
Trad climber
WA, & NC & Idaho
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Aug 28, 2012 - 09:45pm PT
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Yvon Chouinard, the founder and owner of Patagonia, use to eat dented dog food, lots of protein, pretty good with the gravy on it....:)
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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Aug 28, 2012 - 09:52pm PT
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~kief~
Trad climber
state of Awakening
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Aug 28, 2012 - 10:08pm PT
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nutjob
Gym climber
Berkeley, CA
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Aug 28, 2012 - 10:31pm PT
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50 lb bag of rice and 50lb bag of lentils and a pressure cooker. That lasts a long time and is pretty cheap and doesn't have toxic crap like Ramen.
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ms55401
Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
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Aug 28, 2012 - 10:39pm PT
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is it really dirtbag to buy cheap, nutrient-poor garbage when you get colon cancer 20 years down the road?
eat more vegetables and fruits, and cut down on the processed shitt. drink water when you're hungry, and have broccoli when you're really hungry.
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corniss chopper
climber
breaking the speed of gravity
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Aug 28, 2012 - 11:16pm PT
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Don't knock Ramen. The concentrated broth will cure Giardia!
Untimate dirt bag food - if all you have is a dirty sleeping bag
and a campfire your best bet is a bag of flour.
Open the flour bag, make a depression in the flour, pour in a tablespoon of salted water, stir this puddle with a semi clean stick so you get a blob of wet dough stuck onto the stick, then prop it over the fire to bake. Repeat
as needed.
During bad weather this type of cooking makes time pass quickly.
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Don Paul
Big Wall climber
Colombia, South America
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Aug 28, 2012 - 11:28pm PT
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The canned peaches with uncooked oatmeal sounds like a recipe for me. Sounds like a big wall food, even.
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BASE104
Social climber
An Oil Field
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Aug 28, 2012 - 11:42pm PT
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Yep, Lentils rule. Get a big jar of cheapo chili powder and you're cooking with gas. You can make lentils taste like anything.
You will need to take a stool softener every other day, though.
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James
climber
My twin brother's laundry room
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Aug 29, 2012 - 12:50am PT
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climb a lot and than when your stomache growls, climb more. You'll eat anything.
"Hunger is the best of sauces," Edward Abbey
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TrundleBum
Trad climber
Las Vegas
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I just glanced...
Anyone mention "squishies' yet ?
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Don Paul
Big Wall climber
Colombia, South America
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No one has posted a recipe in a while. Lately I've been buying these packaged Indian curries, they cost 99 cents each at an Indian grocery store - there are 3-4 different brands, but you have to have an Indian community with a real Indian grocery store to find them. Pav Baji or Mattar Paneer are probably the most common although I like all Indian foods.
OK here's how to make it:
1. Grab a handful of rice and put it in a pot with water. Let it soak about 20 minutes. Real Indians actually wash their rice until the water comes off clear, but it needs to soak a while. This makes it cook much faster and saves you cooking gas.
2. Add enough water to the pot so that there is about 1/4 inch covering the rice. Take the curry pack and put it in the pot, cover, and bring to a boil. This should take 10 min at most.
3. Turn off the stove. After about 5 minutes it should be ready. Open the curry packet and pour it on the rice.
In Nepal, people eat this every single day for their main meal. They call it "dal bat." If you want to eat more just grab a bigger handful of rice. To me this seems like the ideal camping food, in terms of convenience, taste and price.
http://bigbasket.com/pd/265991/mtr-ready-to-eat-pav-bhaji-300-gm-pouch/
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nutjob
Gym climber
Berkeley, CA
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Luxury winter dirtbag food:
"Carbonara Bars" (my recent experiment)
12 oz. Turkey Bacon, chopped and cooked
1 stick of butter
1/4 cup olive oil
1/2 cup pine nuts
4 eggs
1 pound of dry pasta (in my case , 4-year old whole wheat spaghetti)
1/2 cup grated parmigiano reggiano (got the block in Italy last year, covered in blue patina now)
brown the bacon, melt in the butter and add oil. brown the pine nuts to taste. boil the pasta, strain, add to the mix. add 4 eggs, stirring constantly.
Dump the entire mix into a blender, until mashed into a putty. Spread out in pans, put in freezer until firmed up. Slice into portion-sized bars. Hot weather they become flaccid, but perfect for cold days.
I have video, but in a format I can't use right now. Will post up when I sort that out.
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nutjob
Gym climber
Berkeley, CA
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Mackerel was just used for fish bait where I grew up! mmmm... spinal column texture.
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Our Valley staple in the 70's was Top Ramen with a can of tuna mixed in. When we were in splurge mode we'd buy a package of Fig Newtons and a quart of Hoppy's Favorite chocolate milk.
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Gunkie
Trad climber
East Coast US
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kipper snacks
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weezy
climber
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Ugh, kipper snacks.
I get seriously violent when people bust those things out around me. No way do they make it into the haulbag. They get tossed the minute homey ain't looking. I don't need all my gear smelling like a Detroit hooker with a yeast infection.
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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Dirtbags aren't usually so prissy. Who cares what it smells like?
I lived on just Peanut butter once. It was pretty boring(dare I say Bland?);-)
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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I've posted this before, but bread,cheese, and smoked sausage in the backcountry. Add gel when you need a boost.
Rice and beans, and tuna salad (add lots of veggies) when car camping.
You'll eat for something like a couple of dollars a day and be full when you tuck in for the night.
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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Luxury & dirtbag really shouldn't be in the same sentence. That's happenstance & cannot be counted on.
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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to make Don Paul's prepackaged indian food recipe rule, add raisins and Peanuts, even better if you throw in some fresh veggies like cauliflower, broccoli
Peace
Karl
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Risk
Mountain climber
Olympia, WA
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Mar 28, 2013 - 01:22am PT
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20lb bag of potatoes for $2, some bacon ends, pinto beans, a gallon or two of Red Mountain, and the cheapest coffee. Sold $80/cord for hand-cut oak (ax and misery whip only) on the lower Kings River, winter 1977/78. Living under a big, smelly, canvas tarp in the cold valley fog. Had it pretty good, we thought. Freedom!
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hello_mr_copeland
Boulder climber
H-Town
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Mar 28, 2013 - 02:10am PT
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rice...ramen...rag weed...bread...not rocket science
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Wendy's still sets out their Saltine cracker packets to grab. Don't get greedy and over a few trips you'll have a backpack full and they'll be non-the-wiser.
Let us know!