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Good Food for Camp and Trail: All-Natural Recipes for Delicious Meals Outdoors

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Dorcas Miller's Good Food For Camp & Trail offers the outdoors enthusiast a complete guide for planning nutritious and savory meals. From Tortellini Stew; Cheesy Potatoes; Tabouli Salad; and Toasted Oatmeal; to Alpine Rice; Split Pea Stew; Roasted Soybeans; and Clam Spaghetti, Good Food For Camp & Trail offers a wealth of easy to make recipes. Especially recommended for the novice camper, Dorcas Miller provides excellent chapters on planning food for the trail; buying and packing trail food; quick reference charts; trail cooking instructions; as well as food values, specialized backpacking foods; complementary proteins, and expedition food lists. There are especially useful resource lists for thematically appropriate books, organizations and products. If you are headed for an outdoor adventure, your preparations should include browsing through Dorcas Miller's Good Food For Camp & Trail!

My wife picked up this book for me because she had heard me complaining about my own cooking on the trail and the few books I've been able to find to improve those skills. This book has lots of good recipes and easy to follow instrucions on planning and prepairing nutritional foods on the trail.

I am in charge of packing the food for my sister and I each Spring and Fall for ten days in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. I started drying our own food after the first trip (up to 15 trips now).

I rate this book very highly because Miller has (and shares) a great deal of wilderness camping/cooking experience. But I bought and use the book because of the extensive nutritional charts. When you are trying to pack the most nutrients in the least amount of weight, it is invaluable to know how many grams of protein are in specific amount of specific food. Miller also made me aware of tomato powder which is a great flavor boost to soups. Miller provides a very helpful nutritional critique of foods in the supermarket that might be used by those seeking lightweight food for backpacking/canoeing.

I can't say that I have made any recipes from this book, but it is invaluable nevertheless.