Re: [Philmont]: Inedible Trail Food???

Pete and all --

I agree with Pete -- the food's not great, but certainly edible and occasionally tasty (Chinese and Mexican). Our guys never complained (except for our pseudo-vegetarian). The only thing approaching a complaint was that there was not enough macaroni and cheese! We swapped out some items, but mainly because we had too much food. The swap box was a useful tool for lightening our food load.

As to the bear bags, we found thought they were fine, too. I would recommend that you put your personal smellables in a waterproof bag (I used a zip-loc), but the bear bags were strong and lightweight.

Maybe Pete and I were just lucky we left on 7/24!

-- Doug Edmonds

Troop 91
Prairie Village, KS

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Swiggum" <peter.swiggum@sbcglobal.net>
To: "Multiple recipients of list philmont" <philmont@troop47.com>
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 4:18 PM
Subject: [Philmont]: Inedible Trail Food???

> Don Roberts wrote:
> "Trek food was AWFUL. No, I'll take that back, it was often INEDIBLE.
> So we forced it down. Heavy sugar and starch, light protein and carb.
> What are they thinking?"
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> I understand that personal tastes range all over the board, but my goodness,
> to call the trail food awful and inedible??? You had to force it down? I
> couldn't disagree more. Granted, there were several meals that we wouldn't
> want served at home, but all in all, the food got eaten, we had plenty of
> energy on the trail and no one went away hungry. Once or twice, it would
> have been nice to have a little more, but we were fine.
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> Our crew's personal favorites were the beef stroganoff and spaghetti. The
> Chinese rice dish (can't remember the exact name) was pretty good, too.
> Black beans and rice, however, made it on the list of "least favorite
> meals". In spite of that, we ate every scrap.
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> Everywhere in America, people complain about "camp food". From our
> standpoint, Philmont did a pretty good job providing us with decent food and
> energy for the trail.
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> "A Scout is Cheerful!"
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> Pete Swiggum
> Troop 1173
> Green Bay, WI
> Peter.Swiggum@sbcglobal.net
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