Scouting, Volume 62, Number 4, May-June 1974 Page: 16
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any big store will uncover a wealth of
brands and varieties of dried foods
that break down into the following
categories: Beverages, breads and
mixes, cereals, complete meals, des-
serts, fruits, grains, gravies and
sauces, milk, pasta, seeds, sweeten-
ings and vegetables.
There are also dried and canned
meats and fish that are practical from a
weight standpoint. They can be pre-
pared alone or added to the dinner
packages that require meat.
Dehydrated eggs can be used for
breakfast or included in such other
dishes as dessert mixes. You will also
find a wide variety of hard cheeses
that keep well.
Meat and dairy products are impor-
tant, since they contain protein, an es-
sential ingredient in the menu and per-
haps the hardest to find in supermar-
ket dried foods. In all, Troop 4 has
identified 135 types of food for back-
packing that are readily available in
large, local markets. You will find its
sample list at the end of this article.
To complete the job, you may also
want to make up a list of available
freeze-dried camping foods. Since
these are expensive, Troop 4 keeps
their use to a minimum, filling in with
them only when suitable variety (or
protein) can't be obtained in conven-
tional foods. The Scouts have a list of
109 different categories of camping
foods, created from lists available from
suppliers. Examples of these foods
are: Wilson's Freeze-Dry Pork Chop
Dinner; Drilite's Trail Lunch No. 2
(beef jerky, tropical chocolate, raisins,
cookies, punch); Stow-A-Way's
Canned Bread; Rich Moor's Vegetable
Beef Stew; F.S.P. Foods' Fluffy Scram-
bled Eggs; Chuck Wagon's Carrot
Slices, Fig Slices; Seidel's Jiffy Hot
Cereal; Gumpert's Butterscotch In-
stant Pudding; Bernard's Dinner No. 3
(potato soup, beef stew, biscuit mix,
pudding, punch); Oregon Freeze-Dry
Foods' Beef Stew. Each company has
a more extensive list. And there are
some backpacker food outfits not
listed here.
The next step is to find out what
foods your Scouts will eat. To do this,
an older Scout from Troop 4 gathers
everyone around and reads off the list
of supermarket foods. If there is even a
single objection, the item is scratched.
From the items that remain — more
than enough, it always turns out — a
menu is created that provides both va-
riety and a balanced diet containing at
least 4,000 caloriesfconf/nued on page 34)
Here's a partial list of foods for backpackers suggested by Bob Kelsey. Mention of a nationally-
available, brand name product is for your convenience only. It is not intended as an endorsement
by the author or by the Boy Scouts of America. Many chain food stores carry the foods below
packed under their own brand name. You might try them rather than nationally-known brands.
BREADS
Fish — cod and herring
Green pea
Corn-bread mix
Salt pork
Leek
Flavored croutons
Sausage and hard salami
Minestrone
National Biscuit Co.
MEATS AND FISH, CANNED
Mushroom and barley
(Nabisco) Graham Crackers
Anchovies
Onion
Goodman's matzos
Canadian bacon
Potato
Oevonsheer melba toast
Caviar
Tomato
Flap Stax pancake mix
Clams
Vegetable
Pumpernickel (black)
Rusk
Ry-Krisp
Sunshine soda crackers
Nabisco zwieback
CEREALS
Familia Bircher mlisli
Ralston, Purina Chex
Kellogg Corn Flakes
Kippers (herring)
Liver pate
Liverwurst
Lobster
Oysters
Salmon
Sardines
Shrimp
Spreads:
GRAVIES AND SAUCES,
DEHYDRATED
McCormick, French's
or Durkee:
Brown
Chicken
Chili
Ground beef, with and
Quaker commeal for mush
Cream of Rice
Nabisco Cream of Wheat
H-0 farina
H-0 granola
Chicken
Corned beef
Ham
Tuna
Vienna sausages
without onions
Hollandaise
Mushroom
Onion
Pork
Spaghetti
Post Grape Nuts and Flakes
GRAINS, SEEDS AND
Quaker Oats grits
VEGETABLES
Turkey
Quaker Oats instant oatmeal
Barley
DESSERTS
Oatmeal, regular
Beans, dried:
Nabisco cookies
Raisin Bran
Black-eyed peas
Jell-O gelatin, flavored
Rice Krispies
Great Northern
Betty Crocker Pre-mixes:
Wheatena
Lentils
Brownies
"NATURAL" CEREALS
Lima
Fudge
Alpen
Navy
Gingerbread
Heartland Natural Cereal
Pinto
Betty Crocker Snackin'
Nature Valley Granola
Split peas
Cakes:
Quaker Oats 100% Natural
Millet
Banana walnut
Cereal
Nuts:
Chocolate almond
Sun Country Granola
Planters Almonds
Chocolate chip
EGGS
Cashews
Coconut pecan
Fresh
Peanut butter
Jell-O or My-T-Fine
Ourkee western omelet
Peanuts
Puddings:
Durkee powdered with
Pecans
Butterscotch
bacon bits
Hungry Jack, French's or
Chocolate
Durkee scrambled
Betty Crocker potatoes:
Tapioca
FRUITS, DRIED
Dried
Vanilla
Sun Maid apricots
Dumplings
SWEETENINGS
Sun Maid cranberries
Hash brown
Hershey chocolate bars
Sun Maid currants
Mashed (flakes)
Hard candies
Dromedary dates
Pancakes
Honey
Dromedary figs
Scalloped
Jams
Sunsweet mixed fruits
Uncle Ben's Rice
Jellies
Sun sweet peaches
Uncle Ben's Minute Rice
Vermont Maid maple syrup
Sunsweet pears
Seeds:
(plastic bottle)
Sunsweet prunes
Pumpkin
Brer Rabbit Molasses
Sun Maid raisins
Sesame
Sugar:
COMPLETE DINNERS
Sunflower
Brown
Lipton's beef stroganoff
Soybeans
Rock
Lipton's chicken stroganoff
McCormick vegetable
White
Pennsylvania Dutch egg
flakes, dehydrated
DAIRY FOODS AND FATS
noodles with: Beef sauce,
PASTA
Butter, fresh and canned
Butter or Cheese sauce
Mueller's macaroni
Cheese:
Kraft macaroni and cheese
Mueller's noodles
Edam
Kraft spaghetti and
Buitoni spaghetti
Cheddar
tomato sauce
SOUPS
Goat's milk
DINNERS REQUIRING
Goodman, Lipton or Knorr,
Gouda
ADDED MEATS
MBT, Herb-Ox or Wyler's:
Parmesan
Betty Crocker
Beef bouillon
Romano
Hamburger Helper
Beef and noodle or
Swiss
Oriental dishes (Chun King)
vegetable
Lard
Hunt's skillet dinners
Chicken bouillon
Nucoa Margarine
McCormick taco casserole
Chicken noodle
Progresso olive oil
MEATS AND FISH, DRIED
Chicken rice
Mazola or Wesson
Bacon
Goodman, Lipton or Knorr:
Vegetable oil
Beef
Cream of chicken
Crisco vegetable
Chicken
Cream of mushroom
shortening
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