Backpacking Recipe
Backpacking Fruit Leather
makes 4- 6X8 inch rolls
Making your own fruit leather saves money and has the added advantage of creating a product to suit your own taste buds. You can use natural sweeteners or artificial (if you must), add spices, flavorings and/or nuts and seeds. Fresh, frozen or canned fruit may be used.
Fresh Fruit Leather
ripe [...]
Pasta Fagioli
Tradition says tomatoes but I like it with and without. Raising the kids alone years ago was an exercise in frugality. Many times the budget didn’t allow cuts anywhere but in the food area. I’d make a pot of pasta fagioli (fah-zool light on the l) and do something new to it each night. [...]
Hummus For Dinner or “Formal” Lunch
Can be made into sandwiches with alfalfa or radish sprouts in pita bread, served on flatbread with cucumber slices or rolled into a wrap with roasted red peppers and or sundried tomatoes. Some garnishes may require additional time unless brought fresh from home.
Alfalfa sprouts should be started before leaving [...]
