May 25, 2010

Backpacking Menu

The food Polly and I put together for the weekend was a huge success so I thought I would share our menu:

Breakfasts one and two: Quick 1 min oatmeal with brown sugar. Green tea.

Lunch one: Bagels and cream cheese, beef jerky, home mixed trail mix (cashews, honey roasted peanuts, banana chips, m&ms, yogurt covered raisins), fresh oranges

Dinner one: 2 cups instant rice, 1 can cream of celery soup, 1 can cream of chicken soup, 1 large foil packet of precooked/diced chicken- all mixed together and heated through and a little later the boys also made instant 4 cheese potatoes, instant gravy, and another packet of chicken. 

Lunch two: Hard salami, pepperjack cheese, wheat thins, and bacon cheddar squeezy cheese from a can. Fresh oranges, velveeta shells and cheese, and more trail mix.

Dinner two: McCormick Zesty Italian Marinara sauce packet (add a can of tomato paste), whole wheat noodles, whole grain artisan bread- warmed on a rock by the fire.

Snacks throughout the trip (and breakfast three): Various flavored granola bars, trail mix, fresh apples and oranges, s’mores, kettlecorn, hot chocolate, propel flavor packets for water, and a few other things I can’t remember right now. 

The food was a bit heavy but oh so delicious and worth every pound carried.  We ate a good portion of it and didn’t come back with too many extras…  Now I’ll just need to find a few new meal ideas for the next trip!!!

~Amy

April 15, 2010

Take me away…

I am so ready for a vacation…  Work and school have been pretty stressful the past two weeks and I absolutely need to get away.

I am so jealous of Nathan who gets to do a short camping weekend in a couple of weeks.  Curse you Saturday psych class!!! 

Just one more month and I’ll get away for a 3-day weekend at least.  Backpacking on the Superior Hiking Trail.  So excited to get out into the wilderness and hike my bum off!!!! 

A couple months after that we’ll be heading to the Boundary Waters for (**crosses fingers***) a 5-day weekend.  That will be using up my last few days of vacay.  Man, I want summer to be here!!!

~Amy

February 4, 2010

Heading to Colorado!

Amy and I are heading to Colorado to see Julie and go boarding. We are stoked! Amy is excited as she has done the book the two outter seats trick in hopes they do not fill the center seat. We just boarded so we shall see.

~Nathan

January 14, 2010

Pics up on Facebook

Puerto Rico pics up Facebook if you want to check em out!

~Amy
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