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Cam and I are planning on hiking the 104.3km of the GOW in 7 days (6 nights). Including the day of travel the day before, and therefore and extra night out, this has us needing a total of 7 dinners, 7 breakfasts and 8 lunches. Below our meal plan is outlined with quantities for 2 people followed by our shopping list for two people. It should be noted that Cam and I are both quite big eatters, especially when we are doing a lot of exercise. For this trip we are planning to have large breakfasts and dinners with a medium sized lunch and a small amount of snacks.
Meal Quantities
For this walk we are planning on having quite large breakfasts and dinners. It's looking like we are going to have a bit of rain, so we have got a quick easy lunch this time round. We've taken this week long hike as an opportunity to test out some dehydrated meals we think we would like to take on the Australian Alpine Walk at the end of the year. We have dehydrated our dips for lunches and all our dinners. Usually we would bring a lot more fresh food on the trip for our lunches and dinners, especially given its winter at the moment. Apart from giving us practice at dehydrating and dehydrating food it will also make our packs a lot lighter, food prep and cooking time a lot shorter out on trip and (hopefully) still be just as tasty!
Breakfast
300g Museli per day
1 apple per day (7 apples)
Lunch
10x Cruskets per day
100g Salami per day
1x 220g dip per day (Dehydrated (50-70g) then blended)
69g cheese per day
Dinners
It should be noted here that Cam and I made all of our sauces from scratch and did not follow any recipe when we made any of these dinners.... we barely even followed the shopping list we wrote prior to buying the food to make these, haha! As this was our first time writing up our food we apologise for not having some of the prior information such as the ingredients and the 'before dehydrating' weights. We will endeavor to record this information as we go next time we do a big cook and find something delicious!
Spaghetti Bol
220g of dehy sauce
500g of pasta
Korma with rice
220g dehydrated korma sauce
1 cup of rice
Sheppard Pie
220g dehydrated tomato and mince sauce
1 cups of instant mash potato
2 table spoon cheese sauce powder (mixed in with instant potato)
Roast Pumpkin Mushroom Risotto
500g of dehydrated roast pumpkin and mushroom risotto
Snacks
28 sweet biscuits
90g tea leaves
150g scroggin (per day)
1 block chocolate
4 oranges
3 apples
Dehydrated chicken breast
As this is a trip of experimentation we though we would give dehydrated chicken a go. We boiled two lots of 600g of chicken breast in 94 degree Celsius water for 12mins (until fully cooked). We let it rest and shredded it into very very small pieces. This took a lot longer than anticipated, and by the end our finger tips were white and turning wrinkly haha! We then dehydrated it at 65 degrees C for 8hrs*. It finished up weighing approximately 260g. We plan on adding chicken to both serves of korma and to our Risotto. For each meal we added 69g of shredded chicken and plan to boil it so it rehydrates properly.
*Appon reflection and reading the dehydration manual post dehydrating we discovered that perhaps we should have dehydrated it at 68 degrees C for 4hrs.
