RE: [Philmont]: Philmont Meals

When we use the turkey bags, we basically use one pot for water boiling and 1 pot to hold the turkey bag. It gives you control over the amount of water that goes into the food and gives you a head start on the cleanup water.

I have heard several folks talk about splitting up the dehydrated food and reconstituting it individually. To me it seems like there is a lot of room to have some sort of accident. Also, during the cooking time, all of the crew is working on cooking instead of just 1 or 2. Each to his own, but I'm not going to give up centralized cooking just yet.

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From: "Barlow, Jim D" <jim.d.barlow@intel.com>
> I've seen a lot on the one-pot method on this list with the turkey bags.
> Last year, we just cooked in our cups/bowls, added the boiling water,
> and had no pot clean-up or turkey bag.  Cooks are relegated to water
> boilers and ladlers.
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> We'll try the Oatmeal cold, we did survive pouring the hot water into
> the envelopes so far....
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> Jim Barlow
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> '05 Troop 143, Duluth GA Trek 28
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> '06 Venture Crew 143, Duluth GA Trek TBD
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> Meals
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> Instant Oatmeal: it doesn't need hot water. It works well with cold
> water and since we never ate breakfast in camp why bother with stoves
> (unless cold and rainy). Just pour some water into the packet, stir a
> bit, wait a bit and eat. Guys thought they were just fine - we now have
> a new,easy custom on troop hikes with cold instant oatmeal.
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> Andre Houser <ahouser@yahoo.com> wrote: 
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> You pick up all of the meals that will last until your next comissary
> pickup.  Sometimes they have you are scheduled to miss a comissary.
> This year, on Trek 4, we had to start out with 6 days of food, even
> though we were within striking distance of a comissary on about day 3.
> As for your other question on weight, it varies from meal to meal.  Some
> of the lunches include canned meat, and can get heavy.  Cooking
> techniques are your own personal preference,  We used the one pot
> method, put 
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