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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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