Avoiding death by boredom

[Ross]

When provisioning for a passage away from land for weeks or months or even a circumnavigation of some 400 days.
How would you provision so that there is enough variety in your meals that you won't go mad or die of malnutrition?

Beans and dried beef is historically a mainstay on the whaling ships.

 

[zeehag]

beens and dried beef are boring ross....lol....fish and noodles and rice and whatever....canned and fresh and freeze dried.....add cranberries to chicken and rice ....raisins cranberries dried fruit cook well with pork, fish , chicken.......cheese to biscuits....herbs to biscuits...make corn bread....catch seafoods and make fritters
add coconut milk and fruit juices to fish and chicken and pork....many ways to change the flavors and vary the meals.......

 

[RECESS]

I can eat pasta 1,000 diferent ways with canned items. It is the best boat food there is in my book. It helps I absolutley love pasta. It also helps I love to fish. Freash seafood and pasta never gets boring.

 

[Bad Obsession]

Ross....Life is never boring when you have plenty of Grog rations!

 

[1977oday22]

I come from a musical background...... the old saying about ramen noodles is true!!!!!
(I could live on ramen noodles for a month, and buy that piece of gear!!!)

 

[Ross]

canned soups, fruits of all kinds, meats browned and canned in wide mouth jars, Turkey and goose do better as canned meat than does chicken but chicken is fine in soup. Meat loaf seems to loose a desireable texture but as a friend told me, after a cold, wet slog through a long day, it is wonderful. As others have said dried fruit of all kinds and pasta of all sorts, rice, flour, oatmeal it makes good cookies which means brown sugar plus dried nuts, cornmeal for all of the things you can make with cornmeal. All of the spices and leaven for cooking.

 

[RECESS]

I come from a musical background...... the old saying about ramen noodles is true!!!!!
(I could live on ramen noodles for a month, and buy that piece of gear!!!)

My kids always find it amusing at the beginning of the year that I eat Chicken Ramen everyday for lunch. I refuse to pay $2 for a school lunch that has about 3000 calories in it. Ramen has a few calories but nothing like the school lunches. I enjoy it everyday also. I love pasta.

 

[BobT]

Peanut Butter works for me!
Quick, Easy, nutritious, goes with everything. Appropriate at any meal or in between. No refrigeration required. I do stay away from the sugary brands.

 

[Ross]

Peanut Butter works for me!
Quick, Easy, nutritious, goes with everything. Appropriate at any meal or in between. No refrigeration required. I do stay away from the sugary brands.

Ya better learn to make bread. Peanut butter on a spoon can get as bad as beans and salt horse.

 

[Ross]

You can sometimes get some bargains on home canned meat. I just came back from Safeway with 5.5 pounds of split chicken beasts at $.56/ pound.
6 ounce cans of white meat chicken sell for $3.99 each.
It seems that they have about a ton of these and the sell-by is June 17.

 

[Warren Milberg]

You should read some of Buckley's books about his Atlantic crossings. His biggest worry was how to be able to serve a different vintage wine every night.... I bet he and his crew never ate beans or dried beef.

 

[Ross]

Ball sells a straight side 12 ounce jar that perfectly holds one whole boneless chicken breast. I am trying a couple of jars and will post a picture when they are finished.

 

[zeehag]

ROSS---WTH ARE YOU BUYING YOUR CANNED CHIX??????:naughty: i get mine for 2 dollars per can at dollar stores..lol..same stuff different label...lol mebbe a tad more water in it--that is fixed by using caldo de pollo from knorr.and i use the water inmy recipe...lol.....is mexican/hispanic/latino..(politically correct speaks spanish from the south and islands) and makes salt and chix flavor come into cooking also good are caldo de res and caldo de tomate....beef and tomato respectively....added to recipes and drink as broth---is alll goood---nice cuppa hot something sans caffeine.......also good to have is worcestershire sauce---stuff helps beef a lot-----LOL....why pay retail?????

 

[Banooma]

Ross, all that Safeway chicken you just purchased makes it sound like a) you're either not provisioning for a long trip, or b) you're acquiescing to food boredom ;-) Not that I would know, but I assume food boredom has got to be better than the original whalers' last resort of cannibalism!

 

[Ross]

Zeehag darling I never bought canned chicken anywhere. I just check the prices and pat myself on the back for being a tightwad.

 

[zeehag]

running away from home, eh, ross??

 

[Ross]

its a thought! I have been tempted by the need for a bit of peace and quiet. Most of the days are tranquil but sometimes.............................

 

[Banooma]

its a thought! I have been tempted by the need for a bit of peace and quiet. Most of the days are tranquil but sometimes.............................

Is that referring to running away or cannibalism?

 

[zeehag]

Zeehag darling I never bought canned chicken anywhere. I just check the prices and pat myself on the back for being a tightwad.

just checking, just checking---lol-----the tightwad part i was counting on..lol....but 3 dollars plus anything is high for canned chix--and if ye put in a lil of the dark meat with the breastisus ye will have more flavor---lol...( and will be cheaqper--thighs are less pricey than white meats....and the fat comes off ..lol...)


"Is that referring to running away or cannibalism?"

hmmmmm------- i dont think the cannibalism idea would be too handy at sea--ye neeed all hands..lol......so prolly the running away from home part..lol..:dance:

 

[Ross]

just checking, just checking---lol-----the tightwad part i was counting on..lol....but 3 dollars plus anything is high for canned chix--and if ye put in a lil of the dark meat with the breastisus ye will have more flavor---lol...( and will be cheaqper--thighs are less pricey than white meats....and the fat comes off ..lol...)

Sometimes I can get leg quarters for 50 cents a pound but these sale priced breasts were hard to pass up at 59 cents. The best deals I get after Thanksgiving day when I have gotten 20 pound birds for five bucks. I bought five! That year I even made turkey pastrami. I figured if it was a failure that I had wasted a dollar. It wasn't a failure but it needs some more work.