Food Preparation

Aug 24th.

Been doing a bit of shopping.  A bunch of cans - mostly for lunches.  Dinners are dehydrated home brew concoctions.~

This is how our spaghetti bolognaise with mushrooms is born.

Spaghetti bolognaise sauce cooked as normal  (with fat removed)  and dehydrated

Add dehydrated cooked pasta.  Using small elbow noodles as they dont puncture the vacumme bags.

Add some dehydrated mushrooms for an added flavour

Put in the vacuum sealer

Finished product - Just add  hot water in a food flask for about 15 mins to rehydrate and enjoy.  Can add dried cheese flakes or whatever you like after.  Tested this recipe in August from our experiments made in February and it was delicious.  (and still alive)

I found that 100g of dehydrated food was enough for me (before hydration) as a dinner.  I am not small  but didnt need more.  It is a smallish meal but I always had some snacks with a sundowner in the evening.  

Snacks I had on the few days I sailed were salty crack biscuits with Marmite or tuna/sardine pate or peanuts with rasins.

This is how we buy our peanuts and raisins.  Peanuts come in 1 kilo bags which are very reasonable in price but will go stale if left open too long.

I mix 100g of peanuts with 30g sultanas and vacuum seal into bags that will keep me going for ages without them going stale.

10 bags of peanut and raisin snacks that will remain fresh tasting.

Doing your own dehydrated meals is probably one third of the cost of buying and much nicer as you can add lots of flavors

I will ask Mrs Nuts for her recipes in detail but she tends to make things up as she goes.

Got about 40 meals done already and aiming for about 70.

Only got a few more days before my adventure begins