Camping using my H Revo - am I kidding myself?

For longer trips I make the first three days dinners at home and vac pac and freeze (you can get a lot of food in a small soft side cooler), just reheat in the bag, in a pot of water (doesn't even have to be potable water). Pasta, rice, polenta, legume style dishes with meat and veg added.  Ditto on the meat subsitutes, they travel well and have a much larger margin of safety as far a temp abuse goes.  

My goto breakfast is Musli/oatmeal with dry milk powder and dried fruit and some sugar/jam packet all vac packed into single serving bags, just add hot water to bag and give it 10 minutes, hot, filling, lots of energy and fiber .  I make one for every day I'm out.

Lunch: Onion Bagels (I like onion as they make good "bread" with dinner too)  with PB&J (those jars with both in one are nice). I cook off a couple pounds on bacon at home (nice and crispy in the microwave) and add it to my PB&J's in the field or other dishes that need a kick, it keeps well if keep "cool" as it is already cooked and quite salty.  Instant miso soup is also a fav of mine in the field.

I could go on forever, making freeze dried backpacking meals is a hobby of mine

go here and look at this thread;
http://www.northwestkayakanglers.com/index.php/topic,1231.0.html

Check out Mountain House freeze dried foods.  They taste pretty darn good.

Check out Mountain House freeze dried foods.  They taste pretty darn good.

I can't handle the tons of salt and extra "stuff" they put in those.  Two years ago, I ate them for a 9 days straight on a back country elk hunt and I swore no more, never again  

Check out Mountain House freeze dried foods.  They taste pretty darn good.

I can't handle the tons of salt and extra "stuff" they put in those.  Two years ago, I ate them for a 9 days straight on a back country elk hunt and I swore no more, never again  

My god man, 9 days.  You were asking for it. 

I could go on forever, making freeze dried backpacking meals is a hoby of mine

Dude.  Is there anything cool that isn't a hobby of yours? 

Check out Mountain House freeze dried foods.  They taste pretty darn good.

I like the ice cream.  No mess, no fuss with the kids in tight quarters.

Any eaters.  The low sodium, reduced fat SPAM and the oven roasted turkey SPAM is actually pretty good in my book.  I'd be hard pressed not to pack a can or two.

How about smoked or sharp cheeses, or aged cheeses like parmasian and the like?  Would they be considered reasonably safe?

PP, by all means please elaborate on your freeze drying food hobby.  Sounds like a really good way to save pennies on outback travel food.

Stoves, what do you all find worth while?  Type and make etc. White gas, isobutane, butane, multiple fuel? Am looking at the brunton Vesta Isobutane Stove
http://www.brunton.com/product.php?id=620. Would you go with just a wood burner like the Thermette that Zee menitoned.  Am thinking minamalize for sure.
holt

For longer trips I make the first three days dinners at home and vac pac and freeze (you can get a lot of food in a small soft side cooler), just reheat in the bag, in a pot of water (doesn't even have to be potable water). Pasta, rice, polenta, legume style dishes with meat and veg added.  Ditto on the meat subsitutes, they travel well and have a much larger margin of safety as far a temp abuse goes.  

My goto breakfast is Musli/oatmeal with dry milk powder and dried fruit and some sugar/jam packet all vac packed into single serving bags, just add hot water to bag and give it 10 minutes, hot, filling, lots of energy and fiber .  I make one for every day I'm out.

Lunch: Onion Bagels (I like onion as they make good "bread" with dinner too)  with PB&J (those jars with both in one are nice). I cook off a couple pounds on bacon at home (nice and crispy in the microwave) and add it to my PB&J's in the field or other dishes that need a kick, it keeps well if keep "cool" as it is already cooked and quite salty.  Instant miso soup is also a fav of mine in the field.

I could go on forever, making freeze dried backpacking meals is a hobby of mine

For stoves I am huge fan of the Coleman dual fuel backpacking stoves.  I tried living with my MSR isobutane stove and it was more trouble than it was worth- especially above 12000ft and <20*F.  Closer to sea level and above 50*F it is okay, but I prefer something a little sturdier like the Coleman despite the weight penalty.

Did you say you put bacon on a PB&J sandwich?

I always heard that "bacon is good on anything."

I am avoiding any fake meat, etc. made from soy after reading that it may elevate estrogen levels. I get enough of those scary chemicals (bisphenol-a) from the plastics i eat and drink from. This Spring I replaced all of my old, obsolete, bisphenol-a leaching, health-threatening polycarbonate water bottles with stainless steel.

Probably useless to worry about it since I read somewhere else awhile back that Teflon is now found everywhere on the planet. That's some slippery molecule! Wonder if that's why the days seem to go by faster the older I get.

I always heard that "bacon is good on anything."

I am avoiding any fake meat, etc. made from soy after reading that it may elevate estrogen levels. I get enough of those scary chemicals (bisphenol-a) from the plastics i eat and drink from. 

Fake meat?  You referring to Spam?

As far as stoves go I have 3 I use depending on need.  1st is the old standby  MSR pocket rocket. Nice and light and great for short trips where most food utilizes boiling water.  2nd is my old whisper lite international multi fuel,  I don't use it as much as I used to but I still like it for multi day trips, if its liquid and flameable it will burn it.  3rd, I cook right on top of my Kifaru small wood stove that I use to heat my tent on cold weather trips.  Works awesome and there is nothing like a heated shelter (open floor tepee style tent) in the wet cold months (collapsible wood stove with stove pipe under 3 lbs).

and you gotta try the Bacon/PBJ before you knock it.. Bacon needs to be crispy for it to work well.

Probably useless to worry about it since I read somewhere else awhile back that Teflon is now found everywhere on the planet. That's some slippery molecule! Wonder if that's why the days seem to go by faster the older I get.

That is a scary thought.   

Awsome information, all of which is new to me. I looked the Kifaru para wood stove up as well as the para tipi tent - very interesting for sure. Most of my yak camping will start around May and go into October. Thank you!
Holt

As far as stoves go I have 3 I use depending on need.  1st is the old standby  MSR pocket rocket. Nice and light and great for short trips where most food utilizes boiling water.  2nd is my old whisper lite international multi fuel,  I don't use it am much as I used to but I still like it for multi day trips, if its liquid and flameable it will burn it.  3rd, I cook right on top of my Kifaru small wood stove that I use to heat my tent on cold weather trips.  Works awesome and there is nothing like a heated shelter (open floor tepee style tent) in the wet cold months (collapsible wood stove with stove pipe under 3 lbs).

and you gotta try the Bacon/PBJ before you knock it.. Bacon needs to be crispy for it to work well.