Re: [Philmont]: Cooking Philmont Meals

I followed the sage advice of this forum and bought a
bunch of Philmont food. It makes a great "show and tell"
and also allows me to see what its all about. Contact
Philmont for details.

The suppers have dehydrated in them. Each pouch requires 2
cups of boiling water (to feed two). The directions for
cooking them are on the pouch. The list has debated about
three ways to do this: in a pot (philmont taught method),
in turkey bags and in the shipping bags. Look in the
archive for pros/cons.

I weighed them. All are a meal for two. They are from
2005. L is lunch, B breakfast, S supper (duh?!). You can
do the math to compute an average day for two people. I
told my crew they'd each carry two breakfasts, lunchs and
suppers and share with a partner for four days of food.
(sometimes you go less time between stops, sometimes
more):

Meal LBS OZ
B9 1 0
L1 1 13
L5 1 9
L7 1 5
L9 1 6
S9 13
S7 14
S5 1 0

The lunches are heaviest because the suppers rely on
freeze dried. Sorry I don't have more variety but I bought
what I wanted to know more about.

On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 21:19:46 -0800 (PST)
  Russell Ballard <russell.ballard@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> Does anyone know the method for preparing dehydrated
>Philmont meals? Being dehydrated, do you simple boil
>water and pour it into the bag with the food for a few
>minutes while it to rehydrates? Any idea how much water a
>given dehydrated Philmont meal would take?
>
> Any idea what the average weight of a given day of
>Philmont food would be?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Russell Ballard
> Troop 1987
>
>

Kevin Cutts
(847) 438-1157

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Received on Sun Mar 19 01:03:08 2006