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well maybe I am a dum bass.. but here I was grabbing some backpack stuff at the dollar store, some peanut -nougat logs (400 quick cals sugar for quick energy , fat for long energy 1/5 of the days protein needs,, and a lot more fun than cardboardy cliff bars,, )
and I saw they had 1 pound bags of rice,, A buck ! Wow ! says I , all the preppers chant Rice and Beans, Rice and Beans and I know my latino friends existed almost entirely on rice & beans for centuries,,
then I look at the cooking instructions,, boil 20 to 30 minutes, let simmer 20 to 30 minutes and so on
and I think, oh no,, maybe in the BOL on a quiet day,, with a roaring fire in the boxwood stove,, but not on the trail over a stealth fire in th pouring rain, with the posse 3 miles behind me
so, I instead grabbed a box of Rotini , same price , same weight, same indefinite shelf life, package only a little bigger,, and a helluva lot easier to pick up if you spill them than grains of rice... and easier to eat without utensils
cooking time 12 minutes,, that is a 1/3 of the fuel, 1/3 the telltale smoke, and quick enough to be on the trail with 1/2 my lead left ..still out of rifle range !!!
of course my old favorite is oatmeal,, even the regular, (not the powdery "instant" that has no chewing satisfaction) has a One Minute Cook Time !!! and mixed with ground up meat, (rodents look more like civilized meals when you grind or finely chop them),,, and some wild onion.. makes a satisfying carbo-protein meat or fish loaf. that does not look unlike something Mama made
and I saw they had 1 pound bags of rice,, A buck ! Wow ! says I , all the preppers chant Rice and Beans, Rice and Beans and I know my latino friends existed almost entirely on rice & beans for centuries,,
then I look at the cooking instructions,, boil 20 to 30 minutes, let simmer 20 to 30 minutes and so on
and I think, oh no,, maybe in the BOL on a quiet day,, with a roaring fire in the boxwood stove,, but not on the trail over a stealth fire in th pouring rain, with the posse 3 miles behind me
so, I instead grabbed a box of Rotini , same price , same weight, same indefinite shelf life, package only a little bigger,, and a helluva lot easier to pick up if you spill them than grains of rice... and easier to eat without utensils
cooking time 12 minutes,, that is a 1/3 of the fuel, 1/3 the telltale smoke, and quick enough to be on the trail with 1/2 my lead left ..still out of rifle range !!!
of course my old favorite is oatmeal,, even the regular, (not the powdery "instant" that has no chewing satisfaction) has a One Minute Cook Time !!! and mixed with ground up meat, (rodents look more like civilized meals when you grind or finely chop them),,, and some wild onion.. makes a satisfying carbo-protein meat or fish loaf. that does not look unlike something Mama made
