Olive oil in dehydrated meals or any other supplements

[HPRXTC]

Anyone try adding olive oil for calories and fats in dehydrated meals? I'm also considering milk powder to add calories while keeping cooking simple.

 

[BRTreedogs]

I tried it.
Coconut oil at first.
Mess, clump in the cold.
I think I tried olive oil the 2nd time.
You can buy in individuals on Amazon.
Over all it just wasn’t worth dealing with for me.
All that screwing around and to much more give you the runs.

I kinda forgot about it honestly.

To bad we can’t buy bacon fat individual servings.


Hmmm business idea?

For me I’d rather just pack in a couple slices of back for each day maybe sprinkled w brown sugar.

 

[HPRXTC]

Guess I could just bring a pound of bacon and cook a slice or three at a time. Wanted to stick to boiling water.

 

[BRTreedogs]

Guess I could just bring a pound of bacon and cook a slice or three at a time. Wanted to stick to boiling water.

Cook it at home.

Try the oil in freeze dried at home. See what you think.

 

[rclouse79]

I have added olive oil to meals when backpacking and hunting and found it to enhance what I was eating. Come to think of it, we eat quite a few dishes at home with olive oil so I never had it upset my stomach. Probably not a bad idea to test run any new backcountry diet changes before the hunt.

 

[EdP]

Just bring a choculate bar and eat it after the meal. It has about 1/2 the fat calories per gram compared with olive oil and tastes much better. Doesn't require a container so takes up no space in the pack once eaten.

 

[LongWayAround]

I've never had any digestive issues with olive oil. We consume a lot of olive/avocado oil around here.

A five-hour energy bottle makes a great container for adding a shot of olive oil to a few freeze dried meals.

 

[mt terry d]

According to Grok:
Bacon fat (rendered bacon grease) unrefrigerated in a vacuum pack will typically last 2–8 weeks (or up to a couple of months in ideal conditions)

Bacon grease is the elixir of Life.

 

[Turkeygetpwnd38]

I add them, the singles you can get on amazon. Never had any stomach issues and I never actually taste a difference. Another bonus is using it to fry little pieces of grouse or whatever meat you get.

 

[R boar]

I go with butter. Even in September, I have good luck keeping it from melting with just a little care. Cools down at night, then don't put it right on top of your pack in the sun. I put each big kerrygold stick in a sandwich bag. Goes in freeze dried, oatmeal, mashed potatoes.

 

[Drenalin]

I alternate between the single serve olive oil packets and a Ziploc baggie of powdered butter. Both are improvements to just about any freeze dried meal IMO, but I prefer the butter.

 

[justinspicher]

I’ve only ever used single use teriyaki and soy sauce packets. I’ve never even considered using olive oil.

 

[HPRXTC]

I
was thinking just a simple 8oz flip top bottle of EVOO. It's around 2000 calories and can be used for cooking, won't generally freeze, and I already use it in everything I cook.

Never heard of dehydrated butter, ill buy some to try out.

I'm trying to make sure I don't go on a carb+sugar heavy diet with no fats and minimal protien for a week when I don't normally eat like that.

 

[Chris in TN]

I have been on some variant of a keto diet off and on for ages - the last 5+ years nonstop - and perhaps half of my calories on any given day come from either butter or coconut/MCT oil, dropped into my morning coffee.

Our plan last year was to bring coconut oil as a fat source when we camped. Due to weather, we ended up in a cabin, which was nice, but I still had coffee with coconut oil and butter every morning.

I don't say this trying to be that annoying 'keto evangelist' but once your body gets used to straight fat for morning fuel, you can go all day with steady energy - I rarely even think about eating lunch on a normal day, even if I'm outside. Carbs may be better for intense short bursts of energy, but for 'go all day' sustained energy, fat is where it's at.

Fat is incredibly calorie-dense. Coconut oil is great. Oily peanut butter is great. Butter is great. But, yeah, eating straight fats takes some getting used to.

Also - look at prepackaged biltong. Yes, the stuff Cliff Gray advertises. Yes, it's expensive, but it's darned near the perfect backcountry food source, with a great mix of protein and fat and a bit of salt for electrolytes. I think I could eat it for an entire trip and not get tired of it, either.

 

[Poser]

In the past, I’ve carried individual packets of Ghee, though so far this summer, I’ve switched to just carrying an amount of Ghee in a small Nalgene bottle (leak proof). I generously add it to my coffee and dehydrated meals. You always need more fat in the backcountry.

 

[BRTreedogs]

Dehydrated butter mite be something im more interested in.

I know the coconut oil was a no go for me.
I had one or 2 leak.
And in cold weather it didn’t melt in the meal and I had a lump of slime

The olive oil I’m kinda spacing. I remember taking individuals for camp cooking at the truck. But I don’t remember carrying them in the backcountry.