FOOD!!!!

I really enjoy eating.  It's the whole package for me:  the planning, the food prep, the actual making of a meal and then the enjoyment of sharing it with friends and family.  I feel like I'm missing out when I don't make dinner at night.  I know, I'm weird!!

Alaska about to get her cook on!

In the planning phase of our hike, Bethany and I went over many blogs, read books and just over all researched what most people did on a lengthy hike like ours.  It was all over the map.  From just winging it and filling up on food as they came into towns to fully thought out meals dropped at trail stops.  It was overwhelming to say the least.  We knew we did not want to survive on ramen and Snickers bars and have a majority of our food be healthy and nutritious.  So we came up with our own plan and hopefully it works like we planned!!

First version of our dehydrated meals

So I was excited when we went with dehydrating our own food and making all of our own meals. I got to get my food prep and making a meal fix in!   Looking at the premade meals in the store, we just weren't happy with the added chemicals and lack of veggies.  Plus the cost!!  Holy crow, those meals are spendy!!  So, we figured we could do better.  We both got dehydrators and starting searching and trying out recipes.  Our poor families were subjected to many a dehydrated meal last summer and fall!!

Eggs baked and ready to dehydrate

Overall, we came up with some great meals that we really enjoyed in the taste test.  Fiesta chicken, cheddar and herb chicken, unstuffed peppers, curry with chicken, apple pie, sweet potato porridge are just a few that we will be dining on during our trip.  It doesn't sound like we will be roughing it with our food!!   We are glad that we took the time to do this all ourselves to have variety and some healthy choices that will fuel us on our hike. Cant wait to start eating!!

              

Alaska preparing a meal

Tootsie enjoying the meal :-)