I know freeze dried and food may seem self-exclusive but that's what I'm looking for. I'm going airplane camping by myself this summer and I don't have room to haul fresh food. So I'm looking to take along some freezed dried stuff you can cook by adding boiling water, or maybe MREs? Do they sell those commercially? Since I just need to feed me, I'm not that picky. I just want something that's easy to prepare after a day of flying because I'm usually whooped. 😛
Here's some info from someone's personal field test you may find interesting.
http://www.galttech.com/resear.....-meals.php
If you have a dehydrator, you can make a lot of quality camping/hiking foods yourself.
Right up the road from me on the way to the mountains (in Mullins, SC), is the SoPakCo company that puts rations together for the military (and the government) ... they do the MRE's in a civilian case but exactly the same as the military ... Anyway, we try and keep a case of MRE's on hand. Being an old connoisseur of C-rations of many years ago I can bear witness MRE's are light years better! What I like about them is just keeping some on board the camper for those times when we pull in and need a top notch meal in a hurry. And if I remember correctly, shelf life on them is something like 5 years.
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so, can you describe airplane camping????? It sounds interesting.
As a flight instructor I used to also do a lot of airplane camping. With High Wing airplanes, we would pick a airport somewhere in the NorthEast, usually with a grass runway, or as a minumum grass tie down area. Take a big tarp and throw it over the high wings and stake it down on both sides - instant tent (or 2 tents if you do both wings).
Have done many a Sun & Fun fly-ins that way.
[img width=640 height=480]http://jandd.org/photogallery/SpringHouse_Camping1.jpg[/img]
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[quote author=Lone Lock link=topic=649.msg4513#msg4513 date=1299603823]
so, can you describe airplane camping????? It sounds interesting.
Sure! It's basically as described above but I'm going to try to get to airstrips that are out in the middle of nowhere. For this summer it means that I'm going to camp my way to Oshkosh WI which hosts the largest civilian airshow in the world: http://www.airventure.org
Since I live on the west coast and fly a slow airplane, it's going to take me about 3 days to get to Oshkosh. Instead of staying at hotels along the way I'm going to camp at airports along the way. Since not all airports are camper friendly I used this site to help me find those that are: http://www.americanaircampers.com
Since airplanes and weight are enemies you try to pack as lightly as possible. And since my aircraft is limited on storage capacity I don't want to bring a whole lot of extra stuff to cook dinner (and then there's that weight thing again). So I thought the easiest thing to do would be to get freeze dried or now I'm leaning towards the MRE's since they come with self-heating packs I don't have to pack a stove or burner to boil water.
I guess if you think motorcycle camping, then you'd have the same mindset as for airplane camping.
Since my plane is covered in Dacron and has folding wings does that qualify it as a pop-up airplane? Here's a picture of it:
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