Crackr'in Up

A quart of crackers a day—that should be more than enough to last 2000 miles, I imagine.

Packing clothes for a two week trip and getting the gardens and strawberry bed all cleaned up and ready for spring bloom was the easy part of my travel prep. Planning travel menus while continuing to use up food supplies was a bit more challenging.

  

My dehydrator got a workout as I turned quarts, probably even gallons of fruit sauce and frozen berries into fruit leather (roll-ups). I emptied jars of grains, (teff, amaranth, red lentils), and ground them into flours to roll into trays of hearty herb and garlicky crackers, topped with sunflower, sesame and poppy seeds.

I will be spending several days in North Carolina with cousin Jeff, who doesn’t do much cooking and likes to spend hours a day bicycling. Instead of packing tour books and theater tickets, I will fill a large ice chest with frozen meals and prepared snacks to eat and share while there. I shall eat my way to South Carolina to my friend Jackie’s, and maybe even back north if I have leftovers. I will likely have surplus dry goods to unpack once back home, enough for my next trip, but hopefully not.

My travel menu:

(already supplemented with 2 non-dairy ice cream bars— yes, one a day, courtesy of Jeff)

2 blueberry, black raspberry, pear crisps—one already shared with my Servas hosts in Bethesda, Md

a jug of wild grape kombucha tea

4 quarts of assorted fruit leather (unsweetened)

3 quarts home-dried pears

rice and tofu stuffed grape leaves (the last container of those), consumed on I-95

7 containers of homemade crackers

millet balls

nettle basil pesto and pasta

tomato white bean soup

black bean soup (made in Vt and brought to Rochester, and now to NC- this definitely needs to be consumed…before it is tired of traveling)

black bean brownies

tamari garlic roasted pumpkin seeds

olive spread

walnut spread

nori to make sushi if and when most of the above is gone…

and a jar of organic peanut butter, just in case!

Maybe I should just set up at a picnic table at a park and have a party with strangers! Or fix the flat tire (my first ever), and join Jeff for a ride. Nothing like biking through the woods in spring time to work up an appetite.