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Long Treks and Cold Weather Food Tips

Did you know that out of the following: rice, instant potatoes, couscous, and  semolina pasta,  that corn  (instant polenta, tortillas or even corn pasta if you can find it) delivers the most energy ?  Why? Corn has a higher fat content. Fat takes longer to burn and is harder to burn It delivers the energy you need for hard or long treks, and keeps your metabolism up to keep you warm when the temps drop.

Boost Your Protein and Energy without Meat

TVP (texturized vegetable protein) and Fantastic brand""Nature's Burger" can be used in myriad ways. Add TVP to your morning cereal.  Follow directions for  "Nature's Burger" and use it in packaged sauces, meatballs, or  hamburger patties.

Outwit Freeze-Dried Dinners

Yes, you can cook quickly without the after taste of a freeze-dried experience. Try clam spaghetti for two: You need angel hair pasta, Amore concentrated pesto* (Italy), Orchids (pull top) smoked clams*, roasted pine nuts , and  freeze dried peas. Average weight is about 10 oz. and you'll use the pesto more than once.  In your pot, boil water with a little salt. Open clams and pour some of the oil into the water. Put in angel hair pasta and partially rehydrated peas and stir it (it cooks very quickly), drain, add clams, and pinenuts, then pesto to taste. Sprinkle with parmesan cheese  and rehydrated parsley if you want.  Afterwards wash  the clam can thoroughly with soap or burn in fire (and remove) to get rid of odor. Store in plastic baggie with a moth ball in bear country.

*found at Cost Plus or gourmet oriented markets.

Fire Ants!

Yes! They are in California. Found in the summer of 1998, swarming out of ground at a McGee Creek tent pad in the Eastern Sierra. Mostly red, but can be a dull reddish yellow to black. They are tenacious and bite repeatedly (victim writes).   Bite feels like fire you can't put out. Initially a patch of small, painful and itchy blisters develop--within 24 hours it can swell to a huge welt or boil, and ache and itch if skin is very sensitive.