Some on the playa bring gourmet foods and skills, dry ice, 5 coolers, numerous cookers, utensils etc...., others perfectly happy to see food as only fuel, with taste still being appreciated but ease of prep and no clean up being very important. I've converted many in my camp over to these pacs vs. spending way too much time in the playa kitchen LOL.
I see Trader Joe has their own label of vegan and vegetarian ready to eat packs of Indian food for $1.99, or maybe it's $2.99, I forget...
I haven't eaten the TraderJoes offering yet, but Tasty Bites is fantastic.
Every year TastyBites online has a big discount at this time of year:
https://www.tastybite.com/
Free shipping for orders over $50 and 30% discount if you add "Take30" to your order. Seven days for the free UPS shipping, so better hurry...
For those who don't know, you just plop the pac in boiling water (or you could heat it in the sun, or not heat it at all) and eat.
Ready to eat packs
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These are fun:
Humanitarian Daily Rations
Throw them off the back of the HMMV. They got text on them that says "A Gift of the People of the USA" in eighteen different languages. Keep them savages happy.
Humanitarian Daily Rations
Throw them off the back of the HMMV. They got text on them that says "A Gift of the People of the USA" in eighteen different languages. Keep them savages happy.
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Re: Ready to eat packs
They taste the same to me. Eat them straight out of the bag for breakfast!DoctorIknow wrote:I see Trader Joe has their own label of vegan and vegetarian ready to eat packs of Indian food for $1.99, or maybe it's $2.99, I forget...
I haven't eaten the TraderJoes offering yet, but Tasty Bites is fantastic.
The one time I tried eating tasty bites after sitting in the sun it tasted funny. The rice was kind of undercooked. Maybe I picked the wrong flavor, or there's some trick like mixing them first and letting them sit for a while?
Chunky Soups are one of my mainstays. Not as healthy, but cheap and easy to find anywhere. I just pop the top and eat straight out of the can.
Chunky Soups are one of my mainstays. Not as healthy, but cheap and easy to find anywhere. I just pop the top and eat straight out of the can.
The rice on those will always be a little funny regardless of preparation. I tend to keep a couple stashed in my desk at work, and I know first hand there's no real way to get the rice right on those ;)
When real food fails me, or I'm in no condition to cook, I keep a couple MREs stashed around. Flameless, self-heating food is a godsend at 2AM :D
When real food fails me, or I'm in no condition to cook, I keep a couple MREs stashed around. Flameless, self-heating food is a godsend at 2AM :D
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DoctorIknow
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The rice sucks...always tastes like mildew....
I cook up a bunch or rice before hand and keep it on ice in baggies.... lasts the whole week.
Also, rice cakes are good to "spread" some of the ready to eat meals on.
All I need out there are calories. I think daily need of vitamins and minerals is a myth. I take lots of apples and enough bananas for a few days and am happy as a fool can be...
I cook up a bunch or rice before hand and keep it on ice in baggies.... lasts the whole week.
Also, rice cakes are good to "spread" some of the ready to eat meals on.
All I need out there are calories. I think daily need of vitamins and minerals is a myth. I take lots of apples and enough bananas for a few days and am happy as a fool can be...