Joy of Cooking - Expired Vegan Camping Food Edition
Years ago, I was at an REI and spied a massive dried camping food sale. After reading the ingredients of every package present, I emerged with an embarrassing large number of items (I think that was a requirement of the sale). The items were NOT cheap. Anyway despite years of dreaming and hoping and having basically wildly unrealistic expectations about myself I finally recognized that as much as I love the outdoors I'm not going to become some enthusiastic camper and there's all this freeze-dried vegan camping food around. I know it's good to keep things around In Case Of Apocalypse, but I think we're okay on that front.
All these foods required me to do was to add hot water.
MaryJanesFarm organic:
Ginger Sesame Pasta - looked like Hamburger Helper. 99% Inedible due to sheer foulness.
Rice and Tofu with Miso - this was fine except for the flavoring, texture was great. The rice was light and fluffy, and there were visible chunky of tofu protein goodness. Flavor was salt and what I can only assume feces taste like.
Lentils, Rice & Indian Spice - totally edible. It's not what I'd cook at home, and it doesn't have nearly enough protein to be useful (11g/serving), but unlike everything else so far, edible. I also tested it on V, and he agreed.
Then I got full from eating the lentils. More to follow. No photos to spare you all the icky.
All these foods required me to do was to add hot water.
MaryJanesFarm organic:
Ginger Sesame Pasta - looked like Hamburger Helper. 99% Inedible due to sheer foulness.
Rice and Tofu with Miso - this was fine except for the flavoring, texture was great. The rice was light and fluffy, and there were visible chunky of tofu protein goodness. Flavor was salt and what I can only assume feces taste like.
Lentils, Rice & Indian Spice - totally edible. It's not what I'd cook at home, and it doesn't have nearly enough protein to be useful (11g/serving), but unlike everything else so far, edible. I also tested it on V, and he agreed.
Then I got full from eating the lentils. More to follow. No photos to spare you all the icky.