Here's a good start towards the amount of food we'll need. We'll have 15 to 20 lbs each of lunch food and somewhere in the range of 10 pounds each for dinner. Four of our nights will be something other than freeze dried and spaced out every couple days. What's on the menu? Dinner one will be spaghetti with red and green peppers, meat sauce, chicken, and a side dish of french bread rolls dipped in olive oil. Next we have burrito night. Simply beans, rice, cheese, diced green chiles all wrapped up in a flour tortilla. This will be followed by Quesadilla night...chicken, cheese, diced green chiles, and a lump of rice. Our final special dinner night will be Ramen with chicken. All of these dinners have one common denominator....chicken. It can be bought in small individual bags just like tuna and it's full of energy. As we get higher on the mountain the dinners get less exciting and easier to make. Most of the food higher up will be freeze dried. Just boil water, add to your silver packaging container, wait ten minutes and force it down. There's nothing quite like forcing yourself to eat at altitude. Actually, Dan can vouch for this, on our last trip I couldn't seem to stop eating. The guides said they had never seen someone eat so much food. Let's face it, I love to eat!
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Just a couple more days
Here's a good start towards the amount of food we'll need. We'll have 15 to 20 lbs each of lunch food and somewhere in the range of 10 pounds each for dinner. Four of our nights will be something other than freeze dried and spaced out every couple days. What's on the menu? Dinner one will be spaghetti with red and green peppers, meat sauce, chicken, and a side dish of french bread rolls dipped in olive oil. Next we have burrito night. Simply beans, rice, cheese, diced green chiles all wrapped up in a flour tortilla. This will be followed by Quesadilla night...chicken, cheese, diced green chiles, and a lump of rice. Our final special dinner night will be Ramen with chicken. All of these dinners have one common denominator....chicken. It can be bought in small individual bags just like tuna and it's full of energy. As we get higher on the mountain the dinners get less exciting and easier to make. Most of the food higher up will be freeze dried. Just boil water, add to your silver packaging container, wait ten minutes and force it down. There's nothing quite like forcing yourself to eat at altitude. Actually, Dan can vouch for this, on our last trip I couldn't seem to stop eating. The guides said they had never seen someone eat so much food. Let's face it, I love to eat!
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That reminds me: I'm not looking forward to putting together my menu for McKinley. Such a drag.
ReplyDeleteNow, I thought that this was a multi-week trip for you - but you say you're only bringing 15 - 20 pounds of lunch food? That's like, a week and a half, tops. :-)
I'm getting hungry just thinking about it. I say 15 to 20 lbs...Dan will probably be 15 and I'll have to bring 20.
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