Day 27 –ADD One week’s worth of dinner – for two.
This one is more of a challenge because I do not purchase prepared meals (stews or soups) or seasoning kits, and have no freeze-dried dinners. I pressure can our own. So, I took it a different direction. I prepared a week’s worth of “tinned” food to go camping: Breakfast, lunch, and supper. Some cans and dried fruits came from our larder, but I purchased some other cans and seasoning packets specifically for this task. MY goal was one week’s worth of food, in one container – a milk crate, with no glass jars or need for refrigerated/fresh items. I am also going to include this one in the day you asked us to put together a “kit” of some kind.
For breakfast: Oatmeal (regular not in packets), brown sugar, raisins, Craisins, diced dates cinnamon/nutmeg (I put this into a small spice jar), and soy milk. Also peanut butter (we like peanut butter and raisins on toast.) Spam with pineapple and rice. I will try to find some powdered eggs.
Lunches: Cans of meat – chicken, deviled ham, tuna, and spam. Ranch dressing, some dried dill and chives, and crackers, plus the peanut butter above. Three cans of fruit in juice, and the dried fuirts above.
Dinners: I purchased seasoning packets of spaghetti, chicken chili, teriyaki noodles, beef stew, and chili. I will also make hame and black-eye peas w rice. To help those packets become a meal there are cans of tomato paste, and sundried tomatoes and dried mushrooms; chicken, and white beans; tuna, pineapple; corn with peppers, Rotel; stewed tomatoes; corned beef hash, peas. I also packed some dry beans: pinto and black for the veg. chili, and black-eye peas (to go with ham and rice). Several cups of rice and dried kale, and small packages of salt, thyme, garlic powder, dried onions. Oh, and a package of spaghetti.
For Beverages there is: tea – caffeine and de-caf, dried pink lemonade, liter of apple juice, individual packages of hot chocolate.
Needed: I still need to add a small bottle of oil, find a small bottle or packages of soy sauce, and get some individual cans of vegetable broth. Plus more quarts of soy milk. And perhaps change the dried beans to canned beans. Oh, and fresh boxes of crackers. I think I will add a Nutella and a box of grahams for a dessert/snack. AND A DEDICATED CAN OPENER.
There is a gallon zipper bag with smaller bags each holding the seasoning packet and the needed dried ingredients for that meal. Plus, a gallon zipper bag with the listed contents of the bucket, and a daily menu. I’m thinking of plastic containers to hold the rice and the dried beans, and dried vegetables might be better, but take up more space.
I exceeded the one milk crate with what I have. If I add the needed and desired items above, I will need two crates, which I could then organize by breakfast and lunch in one and dinner in the other. With the addition of our water bricks, and drinking bottles, and cook kit we are set for a week.