Freezer Bag Cooking: Trail Food Made Simple

by Sarah Svien Kirkconnell

Spend any amount of time in the outdoors and you have probably found that mealtime is full of trade-offs. Do you choose foods that fuel your body or foods that satisfy your taste buds? Do you spend the extra time to prepare a real meal or grab a protein bar on the go? Freezer Bag Cooking™ minimizes these trade-offs by changing the concepts of traditional outdoor food. It offers simplicity, convenience and variety and whirls them together with the philosophies of lightweight outdoor adventuring. The cooking gear needed is minimal, lightweight and can be bought, found or even made. When ready to eat, the meal is prepared in and eaten out of the freezer bag. Mealtime becomes fast, effortless and cleanup is as easy as licking your utensil and sealing the zip top bag. So whether you like to be fancy with your food or keep it simple, “Freezer Bag Cooking™: Trail Food Made Simple” can be your ticket to better eating and enjoyment of your outdoor experience

Genres: Outdoors, Nonfiction, Cookbooks

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 9, 2007

Reviews

[Cassandra Cridland · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent options for a backpacker looking for lightweight, easy to prepare meals.

[Angela · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nicely done book; now that I've run across recipe books that give you full recipes that you make and then dehydrate, I would probably recommend them over this one - but it still has some fun ideas and good recipes in it. It looks like the associated web site freezerbagcooking.com has fewer recipes than it used to carry, so it may be useful to get the book just for the greater variety of ideas. For my most recent trip I was looking for more healthy recipes (whole grains and so on) and there wasn't a lot there, so I ended up modifying recipes a tad - which is a little scary given the amount of prep for this kind of cooking!

[Patti K · Rating 2 out of 5]

A bit of a of a waste of money, thought this was going to be helpful for my older scout. Most of this info can be found on the internet. Kind of nice to have it all in one place but not worth what I paid for it. There are not that many different recipes. Just replace XYZ with ABC and it is a new recipe.

[Ellie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am perusing this one as Amy and I plan our summer venture of the John Muir Trail in its entirety. You can make bean and cheese burritos in a plastic bag, with yummy grasshoppers for dessert.

[Jenn "JR" · Rating 1 out of 5]

hoarding packets of condiments sounds like it generates a lot of trash - I'm not so sure about all the disposable freezer bag usage either...

[Chad Kerchner · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the most useful books on outdoor skills that I have ever read! I found myself wanting to go to the grocery store to get the needed supplies to cook some of these recipes today.