Dinner and Breakfast tips/products from the "camping" trip

This dinner was 15 oz to carry in my backpack and gave us Thai food for dinner while camping!


I used 4 of the packages in the photo above and 5 one ounce fake chicken strips (Trader Joes). I put the strips in a zip loc bag and added some lemon juice to marinate in for the two days before we cooked it.

This recipe also took two pans. I sauteed the fake chicken in one pan with some vegetable oil (i filled a 3 oz travel bottle with vegetable oil to bring with us) and followed the recipe on the package for the noodles.

It was REALLY yummy and filling. It was great. It felt gourmet out in the woods, I recommend it.

For breakfast on Sunday, I discovered an amazing product that I've never seen before.

I bought it and didn't really believe that it would work well. I mean, really? Hashbrowns out of a mini milk carton? I followed the directions on the carton exactly and they turned out really well.

You fill the carton with hot water and let it sit for a 1/2 hour, then dump it into a oiled skillet and brown--that took about 10 minutes. Then I brought 4 packets of ketchup stolen from Burgerville. It's kind of a one sided breakfast since eggs aren't going to make it in a backpack, but it's still better than pop tarts or a Cliff bar (they get old) and only 4 1/2 oz to carry and equaled enough hashbrowns to fill up two people! I brought instant oatmeal too, but my S.O. really wanted just the hasbrowns so there you are.