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02-14-2011, 01:49 PM
Reconstituting an envelope of dried food FOR A MEAL or a snack can be a disappointment.
However there is a brand of 2 cup soups that never has been a disappointment to me.
DR McDOUGALL's Western Big Cups ("two servings") come in 11 types.
Each soup is a stand alone recipe.
If there is an art to dry soup recipe formulation these are by far the best I've ever eaten.
Minestrone $ Pasta
Split Pea & Barley
Hot & Sour & Org Noodles
Pad Thai (with wide rice noodles)
Vegetarian Chichen flavor Ramen
Miso & Org Noodles
Black Bean & Lime
Pilaf, Vegetarian Chicken Fl
Curry & Brown Rice & Fruite
Tamale & Baked Tortilla Chips.
Each comes inside a twocup 'bowl' container with an aluminumized powder packet you open and stir into the dried noodles, pasta, beans, whatever. This sealed flavor packet (let's call it) really makes the soups fresh and delicious. You pour hot water into the cup and let it sit the required minutes. Usually more because it's hot. Each soup is really good. And special enough to be a meal. I'm partial to the noodle soups. An easy lunch at home.
The packaging isn't very compact or easy to stow - each 2cup portion being put up in a half empty pint paper cup. But at $1.50 to 1.79 in Whole Foods or about $2 online, it will be the best boiled water snack you can experience.
McDougall also makes ready to heat soups in pint brick boxes. They are far better then what Pacific Foods or Imagine offer. Packaged wet and ready to heat, they would require less fiddling with and are more like home made than the dry. They might even pack better in the boat's lockers - but ofcourse weigh more. They are thicker soups. I sometimes prefer the broth style of the noodle soups. These cardboard brick containor soups are better than any canned soup imco.
This brand doesn't advertise anywhere I visit or read. Maybe in health mags?
But it seems to be a healthy growing company.
They have just launched an asian noodle entree package, in all your favorite flovors, that also looks promising to take cruising/camping. It's the right-on flavor recipes that makes tese so special.
Worth a try, imco.
And I'm not connected with this outfit in any way.
I've emailed them to ask if they package dry soups up in a more compact form, like for the armed forces. They don't.
Anybody else have some stand out camping foods they want to share?
However there is a brand of 2 cup soups that never has been a disappointment to me.
DR McDOUGALL's Western Big Cups ("two servings") come in 11 types.
Each soup is a stand alone recipe.
If there is an art to dry soup recipe formulation these are by far the best I've ever eaten.
Minestrone $ Pasta
Split Pea & Barley
Hot & Sour & Org Noodles
Pad Thai (with wide rice noodles)
Vegetarian Chichen flavor Ramen
Miso & Org Noodles
Black Bean & Lime
Pilaf, Vegetarian Chicken Fl
Curry & Brown Rice & Fruite
Tamale & Baked Tortilla Chips.
Each comes inside a twocup 'bowl' container with an aluminumized powder packet you open and stir into the dried noodles, pasta, beans, whatever. This sealed flavor packet (let's call it) really makes the soups fresh and delicious. You pour hot water into the cup and let it sit the required minutes. Usually more because it's hot. Each soup is really good. And special enough to be a meal. I'm partial to the noodle soups. An easy lunch at home.
The packaging isn't very compact or easy to stow - each 2cup portion being put up in a half empty pint paper cup. But at $1.50 to 1.79 in Whole Foods or about $2 online, it will be the best boiled water snack you can experience.
McDougall also makes ready to heat soups in pint brick boxes. They are far better then what Pacific Foods or Imagine offer. Packaged wet and ready to heat, they would require less fiddling with and are more like home made than the dry. They might even pack better in the boat's lockers - but ofcourse weigh more. They are thicker soups. I sometimes prefer the broth style of the noodle soups. These cardboard brick containor soups are better than any canned soup imco.
This brand doesn't advertise anywhere I visit or read. Maybe in health mags?
But it seems to be a healthy growing company.
They have just launched an asian noodle entree package, in all your favorite flovors, that also looks promising to take cruising/camping. It's the right-on flavor recipes that makes tese so special.
Worth a try, imco.
And I'm not connected with this outfit in any way.
I've emailed them to ask if they package dry soups up in a more compact form, like for the armed forces. They don't.
Anybody else have some stand out camping foods they want to share?