Feed in a winter hike

Much of that I here shall tell, well-known. For example " in the winter coldly ". Or " water freezes ". It is not so important in city, but essential, when spend on a frost many days successively. The cold compels(forces) to eat in another way and to use other products (in comparison with a summer).

Practical supervision.

I repeatedly happened in winter hikes, periodically forget about opposite property of water to turn in an ice and I do(make) any nonsense. For example I include in the menu ketchup. And it(he) gets denser so, that is not squeezed out from a pack. The lemon freezes through through, turning in veselenky a yellow cobble-stone. Fish canned food, it appears, contain a lot of water and not enough fat. Otherwise from what it(him) to freeze? Paste too becomes an ice. Behaves tushenka is little bit better - the liquid there turns to jelly, instead of in an ice. Honey should be knifed. Cheese - to cut with an axe. Sausage to cut nozhovkoj :)

About an axe and nozhovki I have joked. But products really are very difficult for cutting. And it is even more difficult to chew.
And worst of all that the chilled meal does not deliver any pleasure. Even chocolate finds "sense" only after will thaw at you in a mouth. And in general, it would be desirable hot.

Suitable products.

So razrabytyvaja the menu for a winter hike it is necessary to avoid vlagosoderzhashchih products. However, it too concerns to summer - there is no need to drag on itself excess weight (water). All should be dried: dried meat instead of tushenki, crackers or hlebtsy instead of bread, dry milk instead of sgushchenki, dry seasonings instead of sauces, mayonnaise and ketchup. Dry vegetables and not less dry dried fruits are inevitable. On a frost bacon well behaves. It though hardens, but taste and appeal does not lose.

Picnic in a snowdrift.

Dinners in a winter hike are poorly similar to slow years(summer) meals with obligatory after-dinner rest for the best digestion of food. In the winter light day very short, each minute on the account(invoice). Even more you start to appreciate minutes when you feel how the frost makes the way under clothes. To put it briefly, the winter does not promote long halts with magnificent dinners.

All looks(appears) so: have hidden from a wind, have sat down(lodge) on backpacks, it is concentrated crackers with bacon and cheese have chewed, have drunk(cut) some a few(a little;little bit) tea with chocolate, descended(went) " in kustiki ". Everything, the dinner is ended. On all about all 20 minutes (in the summer the dinner borrows(occupies) not less hour). All products have been prepared cut and distributed)(allocated)) even in the morning, in warm tent. Tea naturally from a thermos. It is necessary to eat usually in mittens, therefore sweets it is eaten together with wrappers :)

The dinner turns out very modest. But more attention it is given a pocket feed(meal). These are sweets, cookies and dried fruits nesomye in pockets and eaten directly on the move.

Breakfast of the tourist.

All with the same purpose of economy of time for a breakfast usually prepare for something high-speed: porridge or others hlopja with dry milk, sugar and raisin. There is no time in the morning potters with a fire, prepare on torches. So "fast" hlopja besides time will save also fuel (which except for the price for some reason has also weight).

And here for a supper it is terribly pleasant to load into itself something liquid, hot and nutritious. For example, dense soup from dried vegetables (cabbage, carrots, a beet, a potato), dried meat and any groats (for greater sytnosti). In the evening time not so draws in, it is possible to dissolve a fire. In that case it is logical to use a free-of-charge energy source not only for drying socks, but also for preparation of water for the morning (if you heat a snow). At the same time it is possible to fill thermoses with tea. Just in case I shall remind, that water remains liquid only if to hide it(her) in tent, between sleeping bags.