Low carb camping

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skizi said:

My family wants to go on a 4 day camping trip. I want to be able to stay
low carb while doing this and do not want to make two types of meals each
day. Breakfast is easy because I can still do eggs but I am not sure what
to do about lunch and especially dinner. We have a 2 burner camp stove and
there will be a fire pit. I do not like jerky. We do not have a lot of
money so the ideas need to be relatively inexpensive. I am used to cooking
pasta and pre-packaged food while camping. Any ideas or suggestions would
be appreciated. I need to have a least a plan in my mind before I agree to
do this and I have to decide by next Saturday.

Canned tuna (or in an envelope), peanut or other nut butters. Some
folks eat other canned meats. Cheeses, coldcuts, with or without low
carb wraps.

I guess I don't see what the issue is; if you can keep eggs cool, you
can keep meat cool, too.

Susan

skizi said:

My family wants to go on a 4 day camping trip. I want to be able to stay
low carb while doing this and do not want to make two types of meals each
day. Breakfast is easy because I can still do eggs but I am not sure what
to do about lunch and especially dinner. We have a 2 burner camp stove and
there will be a fire pit. I do not like jerky. We do not have a lot of
money so the ideas need to be relatively inexpensive. I am used to cooking
pasta and pre-packaged food while camping. Any ideas or suggestions would
be appreciated. I need to have a least a plan in my mind before I agree to
do this and I have to decide by next Saturday.

Thanks for the help.

Shari :-)

Bring a BBQ. Problem solved.

TC

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skizi said:

My family wants to go on a 4 day camping trip. I want to be able to stay
low carb while doing this and do not want to make two types of meals each
day. Breakfast is easy because I can still do eggs but I am not sure what
to do about lunch and especially dinner. We have a 2 burner camp stove and
there will be a fire pit. I do not like jerky. We do not have a lot of
money so the ideas need to be relatively inexpensive. I am used to cooking
pasta and pre-packaged food while camping. Any ideas or suggestions would
be appreciated. I need to have a least a plan in my mind before I agree to
do this and I have to decide by next Saturday.

Thanks for the help.

Shari :-)

You should be able to find smoked turkey.......
Will you have an ice chest?

Take fresh green low carb veggies for grilling or steaming.
Grilled mushrooms and squashes are the gods.
--
Peace!
Om

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a [censored]"
-- Jack Nicholson

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Susan said:

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skizi said:

My family wants to go on a 4 day camping trip. I want to be able to stay
low carb while doing this and do not want to make two types of meals each
day. Breakfast is easy because I can still do eggs but I am not sure what
to do about lunch and especially dinner. We have a 2 burner camp stove and
there will be a fire pit. I do not like jerky. We do not have a lot of
money so the ideas need to be relatively inexpensive. I am used to cooking
pasta and pre-packaged food while camping. Any ideas or suggestions would
be appreciated. I need to have a least a plan in my mind before I agree to
do this and I have to decide by next Saturday.

Canned tuna (or in an envelope), peanut or other nut butters. Some
folks eat other canned meats. Cheeses, coldcuts, with or without low
carb wraps.

I guess I don't see what the issue is; if you can keep eggs cool, you
can keep meat cool, too.

Susan

I was thinking the same thing, but eggs will actually keep at room temp
for a couple of weeks.

I used to store eggs at room temp for hatching for up to 10 days and
still got a good hatch rate. If the chicks hatch live, the eggs are not
rotting. ;-)
--
Peace!
Om

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a [censored]"
-- Jack Nicholson

skizi said:

My family wants to go on a 4 day camping trip. I want to be able to stay
low carb while doing this and do not want to make two types of meals each
day. Breakfast is easy because I can still do eggs but I am not sure what
to do about lunch and especially dinner. We have a 2 burner camp stove and
there will be a fire pit. I do not like jerky. We do not have a lot of
money so the ideas need to be relatively inexpensive. I am used to cooking
pasta and pre-packaged food while camping. Any ideas or suggestions would
be appreciated. I need to have a least a plan in my mind before I agree to
do this and I have to decide by next Saturday.

Thanks for the help.

Shari :-)

Hi Shari,
I've been camping, as well as low carbing for some time now. The key
is to have one cooler for your frozen meats and poultry pieces. I'll
buy stuff like chicken breast, freeze the individual pieces (sometimes
after marinating them) on wax paper then pack in plastic bags. Same
basic procedure for burgers. Freezing them enables you to keep them
safe for days, only requires a bit longer cooking time for the first
several meals' meats and the other family members add different sides
(the pasta dishes you mentioned). You can add appropriate vegetables -
just make sure you keep the raw meats in a separate cooler.

Carmen

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Quoted message said:

I guess I don't see what the issue is; if you can keep eggs cool, you can
keep meat cool, too.

Susan

The problem is I don't have an over for bakced potatoes and other things,
nor a crock pot for chicken and . We don't usually grill anything but
hamburgers. I'm not very good at cooking while camping (I'm not very good at
cooking in general) and this seems to add an extra obsticle.

Shari

skizi wrote:
:: "Susan" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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::: I guess I don't see what the issue is; if you can keep eggs cool,
::: you can keep meat cool, too.
:::
::: Susan
::
:: The problem is I don't have an over for bakced potatoes and other
:: things, nor a crock pot for chicken and . We don't usually grill
:: anything but hamburgers. I'm not very good at cooking while camping
:: (I'm not very good at cooking in general) and this seems to add an
:: extra obsticle.
::

Canned meat, sardines, vienna sausages...spam....and nuts.

If you have no cooking skills, why not let someone else handle the
food...and you just take care of your stuff.

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Quoted message said:

My family wants to go on a 4 day camping trip. I want to be able to stay
low carb while doing this and do not want to make two types of meals each
day. Breakfast is easy because I can still do eggs but I am not sure what
to do about lunch and especially dinner. We have a 2 burner camp stove

and

Quoted message said:

there will be a fire pit. I do not like jerky. We do not have a lot of
money so the ideas need to be relatively inexpensive. I am used to

cooking

Quoted message said:

pasta and pre-packaged food while camping. Any ideas or suggestions would
be appreciated. I need to have a least a plan in my mind before I agree

to

Quoted message said:

do this and I have to decide by next Saturday.

Thanks for the help.

Shari :-)

A cooler filled with frozen meat and ice will last for days. I grill
everything over the fire with garlic and pepper. Can't be beat!

--

JK Sinrod
www.sinrodstudios.com
www.MyConeyIslandMemories.com

skizi said:

My family wants to go on a 4 day camping trip. I want to be able to stay
low carb while doing this and do not want to make two types of meals each
day. Breakfast is easy because I can still do eggs but I am not sure what
to do about lunch and especially dinner. We have a 2 burner camp stove and
there will be a fire pit. I do not like jerky. We do not have a lot of
money so the ideas need to be relatively inexpensive. I am used to cooking
pasta and pre-packaged food while camping. Any ideas or suggestions would
be appreciated. I need to have a least a plan in my mind before I agree to
do this and I have to decide by next Saturday.

Thanks for the help.

Shari :-)

Rather than jerky, summer sausages can take poor refrigeration for a
while. Buy several small sausages rather than one big one. Six or eight
ounce ones get eaten in a meal and some snacks. These will give you a
nice source of fat and calories without carbs.

Low carb flatbreads are also nice, if you can keep them away from the
others. Sandwiches with meat and lettuce and other veggies and cheese
are great made with flatbreads.

Low carb spaghetti such as Dreamfields? I cook my Dreamfields and then
dehydrate it. It rehydrates in cool water in 30 minutes, and then you
can heat it.

Hard cheeses will hold up with poor refrigeration and are also good fat
sources. I really find nice intense flavors in the cheese when it gets
warm on a hot day. Buy small packages - as they might not be bacteria
free if opened and stored for longer than a day.

Remember that the ancients loved cheese as a way to "store milk" in warm
climates.

For desert, one or two Swiss Miss No Sugar Hot Cocoa packets mixed with
cool water makes a great tasting desert drink to help cut off your after
dinner hunger pangs.

The suggestion to have someone else cook sounds good - meats and cheese
and veggies will be your friends.

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2) Exercise: It's Non-Negotiable..... Chapter 22 title, Atkins book
3) Don't Diet Without Supplemental Nutrients... Chapter 23 title, Atkins
book
4) A sensible eating plan, and follow it. (Atkins, Self Made or Other)

skizi said:

My family wants to go on a 4 day camping trip. I want to be able to stay
low carb while doing this and do not want to make two types of meals each
day.

Go far enough back and most humans camped and ate low
carb most of their lives. Camping food has been low carb
ever since the first ancestor left the trees and used a club.

Quoted message said:

Breakfast is easy because I can still do eggs but I am not sure what
to do about lunch and especially dinner. We have a 2 burner camp stove and
there will be a fire pit. I do not like jerky.

That is a problem of attitude to be overcome, but there are
plenty of types of cooked sausage made. Summer sausage,
pepperoni, salami in addition to jerky.

Quoted message said:

We do not have a lot of
money so the ideas need to be relatively inexpensive. I am used to cooking
pasta and pre-packaged food while camping.

Do you see the internal conflict there? Other than pasta almost
all prepackaged stuff is more expensive than the regular camping
food like sauages and cheese and root veggies.

Quoted message said:

Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated.

Dried sauages, other forms of dried meat other than jerky. Wild
animals hunted. Cheese. Root veggies. Dried beans depending
on your carb quota.

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"Susan" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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I guess I don't see what the issue is; if you can keep eggs cool, you can
keep meat cool, too.

Susan

The problem is I don't have an over for bakced potatoes

You normally eat baked potatoes on your low carb plan?

and other things,

Quoted message said:

nor a crock pot for chicken and . We don't usually grill anything but
hamburgers.

I think you should just go for it. You can even eat hot dogs or italian
sausage or polish sausage, those are all easy to grill up.

Quoted message said:

I'm not very good at cooking while camping (I'm not very good at cooking in
general) and this seems to add an extra obsticle.

Shari

for you campers--this looks like it's easy and low carb! it looks like an
omelet when done!

ZIPLOC OMELETS

This works great !!! Good when you're alone or when all your family is
together. Best feature is that no one has to wait for their special
omelet!!! Have guests write their name on a quart-size Ziploc freezer bag
with permanent marker.

-Crack 2 eggs (large or extra-large) into the quart size Ziploc bag (not
more than 2) shake to combine them.
- Put out a variety of ingredients such as: cheeses, ham, onion, green
pepper, tomato, hash browns, salsa, etc.
- Each guest adds prepared ingredients of choice to their bag and shake.
- Make sure to get the air out of the bag and zip it up.
- Place the bags into rolling, boiling water for exactly 13 minutes . You
can usually cook 6-8 omelets in a large pot. For more, make another pot of
boiling water.
- Open the bags and the omelet will roll out easily. Be prepared for
everyone to be amazed.
- Nice to serve with fresh fruit and coffee cake; everyone gets involved in
the process and a great conversation piece.

Imagine having these ready the night before, and putting the bag in boiling
water while you get ready. And in 13 minutes, you have a nice omlette for a
quick breakfast!!!

Doug Freyburger said:

skizi said:

My family wants to go on a 4 day camping trip. I want to be able to
stay low carb while doing this and do not want to make two types of
meals each day.

Go far enough back and most humans camped and ate low
carb most of their lives. Camping food has been low carb
ever since the first ancestor left the trees and used a club.

Quoted message said:

Breakfast is easy because I can still do eggs but I am not sure what
to do about lunch and especially dinner. We have a 2 burner camp
stove and there will be a fire pit. I do not like jerky.

That is a problem of attitude to be overcome, but there are
plenty of types of cooked sausage made. Summer sausage,
pepperoni, salami in addition to jerky.

Quoted message said:

We do not have a lot of
money so the ideas need to be relatively inexpensive. I am used to
cooking pasta and pre-packaged food while camping.

Do you see the internal conflict there? Other than pasta almost
all prepackaged stuff is more expensive than the regular camping
food like sauages and cheese and root veggies.

Quoted message said:

Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated.

Dried sauages, other forms of dried meat other than jerky. Wild
animals hunted. Cheese. Root veggies. Dried beans depending
on your carb quota.

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Darawen Littlestich said:

for you campers--this looks like it's easy and low carb! it looks like an
omelet when done!

ZIPLOC OMELETS

This works great !!! Good when you're alone or when all your family is
together. Best feature is that no one has to wait for their special
omelet!!! Have guests write their name on a quart-size Ziploc freezer bag
with permanent marker.

-Crack 2 eggs (large or extra-large) into the quart size Ziploc bag (not
more than 2) shake to combine them.
- Put out a variety of ingredients such as: cheeses, ham, onion, green
pepper, tomato, hash browns, salsa, etc.
- Each guest adds prepared ingredients of choice to their bag and shake.
- Make sure to get the air out of the bag and zip it up.
- Place the bags into rolling, boiling water for exactly 13 minutes . You
can usually cook 6-8 omelets in a large pot. For more, make another pot of
boiling water.
- Open the bags and the omelet will roll out easily. Be prepared for
everyone to be amazed.
- Nice to serve with fresh fruit and coffee cake; everyone gets involved in
the process and a great conversation piece.

Imagine having these ready the night before, and putting the bag in boiling
water while you get ready. And in 13 minutes, you have a nice omlette for a
quick breakfast!!!

Doug Freyburger said:

skizi said:

My family wants to go on a 4 day camping trip. I want to be able to
stay low carb while doing this and do not want to make two types of
meals each day.

Go far enough back and most humans camped and ate low
carb most of their lives. Camping food has been low carb
ever since the first ancestor left the trees and used a club.

Quoted message said:

Breakfast is easy because I can still do eggs but I am not sure what
to do about lunch and especially dinner. We have a 2 burner camp
stove and there will be a fire pit. I do not like jerky.

That is a problem of attitude to be overcome, but there are
plenty of types of cooked sausage made. Summer sausage,
pepperoni, salami in addition to jerky.

Quoted message said:

We do not have a lot of
money so the ideas need to be relatively inexpensive. I am used to
cooking pasta and pre-packaged food while camping.

Do you see the internal conflict there? Other than pasta almost
all prepackaged stuff is more expensive than the regular camping
food like sauages and cheese and root veggies.

Quoted message said:

Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated.

Dried sauages, other forms of dried meat other than jerky. Wild
animals hunted. Cheese. Root veggies. Dried beans depending
on your carb quota.

I think there's been recent confirmation of the health threats posed by
foods in plastics, especially those cooked in plastics not created for
high heat applications.

Susan

On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 18:10:11 -0400, Susan <[email hidden]>

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I think there's been recent confirmation of the health threats posed by
foods in plastics, especially those cooked in plastics not created for
high heat applications.

Could you please provide a source for this?

Jo Anne

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On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 18:10:11 -0400, Susan <[email hidden]>

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I think there's been recent confirmation of the health threats posed by
foods in plastics, especially those cooked in plastics not created for
high heat applications.

Could you please provide a source for this?

I'm very sensitive to tasting plastic container residue in food, so I
don't NEED any links to tell me that it gets into it -- I KNOW it does.
I don't know what specific health threats it might pose, but the fact
that I can detect it at ALL can't bode well.

I don't even use ZipLocs anymore because their smell tends to permeate
the food it contains. When I DO use a plastic zip bag, I use a brand
carried at Big Lots because it's NOT as strong, and therefore not as
smelly, as the ZipLoc brand. Mostly I tend to use Mason jars, foil and
clingwrap these days.

In the meantime, I have a BUNCH of ZipLocs that I previously bought in
bulk from Costco and I use them for non-food uses.

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Saffire
205/140/135-140 (aka JUST RIGHT!)
Atkins since 6/14/03
Progress photo: http://photos.yahoo.com/saffire333

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In article <[email hidden]>, Jo Anne Slaven
([email hidden]) says...

Quoted message said:

On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 18:10:11 -0400, Susan <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

I think there's been recent confirmation of the health threats posed by
foods in plastics, especially those cooked in plastics not created for
high heat applications.

Could you please provide a source for this?

I'm very sensitive to tasting plastic container residue in food, so I
don't NEED any links to tell me that it gets into it -- I KNOW it does.
I don't know what specific health threats it might pose, but the fact
that I can detect it at ALL can't bode well.

I don't even use ZipLocs anymore because their smell tends to permeate
the food it contains. When I DO use a plastic zip bag, I use a brand
carried at Big Lots because it's NOT as strong, and therefore not as
smelly, as the ZipLoc brand. Mostly I tend to use Mason jars, foil and
clingwrap these days.

In the meantime, I have a BUNCH of ZipLocs that I previously bought in
bulk from Costco and I use them for non-food uses.

Sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don't.

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Jo Anne Slaven said:

On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 18:10:11 -0400, Susan <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

I think there's been recent confirmation of the health threats posed by
foods in plastics, especially those cooked in plastics not created for
high heat applications.

Could you please provide a source for this?

Jo Anne

http://books.google.com/books?id=oSjn8N3Qm80C&dq=leaching+from+plastics+into+food&pg=PA2&ots=i46jR38flX&sig=G6KZCI0u9yLBcavaiJlMjfWhbKk&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fclient%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla%253Aen-US%253Aofficial_s%26hl%3Den%26q%3Dleaching%2Bfrom%2Bplastics%2Binto%2Bfood%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch&sa=X&oi=print&ct=result&cd=2

Susan wrote:

http://books.google.com/books?id=oSjn8N3Qm80C&dq=leaching+from+plastics+into+food&pg=PA2&ots=i46jR38flX&sig=G6KZCI0u9yLBcavaiJlMjfWhbKk&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fclient%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla%253Aen-US%253Aofficial_s%26hl%3Den%26q%3Dleaching%2Bfrom%2Bplastics%2Binto%2Bfood%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch&sa=X&oi=print&ct=result&cd=2

Google Queen!

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:31:25 -0400, Susan <[email hidden]>
wrote:

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|Jo Anne Slaven wrote:
|> On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 18:10:11 -0400, Susan <[email hidden]>
|> wrote:
|>
|>
|>>I think there's been recent confirmation of the health threats posed by
|>>foods in plastics, especially those cooked in plastics not created for
|>>high heat applications.
|>
|>
|> Could you please provide a source for this?
|>
|> Jo Anne
|
|
|http://books.google.com/books?id=oSjn8N3Qm80C&dq=leaching+from+plastics+into+food&pg=PA2&ots=i46jR38flX&sig=G6KZCI0u9yLBcavaiJlMjfWhbKk&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fclient%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla%253Aen-US%253Aofficial_s%26hl%3Den%26q%3Dleaching%2Bfrom%2Bplastics%2Binto%2Bfood%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch&sa=X&oi=print&ct=result&cd=2

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