Posts Tagged dehydrator

Dried Fruit, Jerky and Tasty Table Scraps

The dehydrator came in yesterday, which makes me very happy.  I wanted to start making stuff right away with it, so what better foods to start off with than fruit and jerky?

Simple enough, so my roommate and I headed to the grocery store for a roast. We first hit up Fred Meyer.

No cheap roasts. Damn

So we head to Safeway.

Again, no luck. They had a couple bottom rounds, but at nearly 4 bucks a pound, I wasn’t going to even think of making Jerky with that. Not when knowing I can get a large roast from the Cash and Carry of much better quality for less.

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Research Overload – Food

There are so many thing that one needs to do a successful trip on 2 wheels. The most needed among those things, is well, the 2 wheels that will carry you, then everything else can be debated.

I’ve been spending a large amount of my free time with research. Research of pretty much everything one will need for an extended trip.

Being that this is my first true “Adventure” ride that I will take part in, I need a lot of supplies. And with needing supplies comes the age old question “Which one?”.

I have been researching everything from sleeping bags, tents, to even clothes and bags.

My latest bit of research got me looking into food supplies.  Food and Water are two very important things one must need to survive!

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