What’s your favourite meal to bring on a canoe trip??

Welcome to our new feature “Food Barrel Friday”. A new weekly post we’ll be rolling out to all you folks.

Today we’ll be bringing you three different posts through out the day that focus on….you guessed it FOOD. If anyone out there has some amazing recipes or meals you’d like to see featured on a food Barrel Friday please send us a message.

Here’s our recipe of the day. Let me say this we tried this recipe on a recent winter camping trip and man oh man it was delicious. We got all fancy and added some double smoked cheddar.

Bacon and Cheddar Bannock

Our recipe today is brought to all of you by My Outdoor Adventures. Dave was kind enough to share this with us. So in turn we’re sharing it with all of you. So make sure to pop by his page and check out what else he has going on. Warning! There are pictures of delicious moose burgers on his page and you won’t be able to get them outta your head.

1 1/2 cups all purpose flour

1 tbls baking powder

1 tsp kosher salt

1/4 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup cubed smoked sharp cheddar

1/2 cup cooked, chopped thick sliced bacon

1 cup water ( may require more or less depending on ingredients )

Mix all ingredients, slowly add water until mixture is consistent

Heat oil in a frying pan and cook over medium heat

carefully flip when the first side is golden brown. Check the middle with a small thin stick (toothpick)

If nothing sticks then its done inside

Throw out the potatoes and grab yourself some crickets? Okay okay maybe don’t go that extreme but since it’s food Barrel Friday our resident beast Johnny is going to share with you his meal plan for his trip to the Adirondak peaks (where he currently is right now) . This is not for everyone but it is interesting to see the planning involved to trip while on a ketogenic diet. Enjoy folks and send Johnny warm thoughts as he hikes the Dacks!

Fueling for the Dack’s

Food preparations have been made for my upcoming trip to the Adirondack Mountains to hike the High peaks in Winter. Something you will notice as you look through the pictures of food below that I will be taking, is the lack of foods like oatmeal, pasta or breads. The reason for this is because this trip will be fueled by a ketogenic diet, low carbohydrates, moderate protein and high fat. The macronutrient ratio is approximately 5%-10% calories from carbs, 15%-30% calories from protein and 60%-75% from fat and in the case of fat, even sometimes more. I have dabbled with this style of eating in the past and have experienced ketosis. This time however I went through a 38hr fast to kick start the process of depleting my glycogen stores and producing ketones in the absence of glucose. I transitioned into a ketogenic diet immediately following the fast and have since fasted each day from approximately 8pm until between 9am and 12pm the next day. I have narrowed my eating window to 2 meals a day with some light snacking on a handful of nuts or seeds. I feel very satiated in times of a lengthy absence from eating as well as my relationship with food and hunger changing. My upcoming trip will be a true test of my ketogenic state and how I respond. My energy levels have increased so I am very optimistic about my performance in the mountains, however only time will tell. Below I will breakdown the foods that will be going with me on this trip.

On the top in the containers, starting on the far left in the GooTube I have avocado oil. Working our way right I next have MCT oil. The next container is almond butter. To the right of that is Frank’s Redhot powder and pepper split. Lastly at the far right is coconut oil.

Going back to the far left column going down is dehydrated lemons for my water which helps boost metabolism first thing in the morning. I then have green tea and instant coffee (much prefer coffee done in a French press) which I drink both black (or green in the tea’s case).

Below that is a baggy with Pink Himalayan salt which provides up to 84 trace minerals.

Next column starts with Hemp seeds and below that a mix of hemp seeds and super seeds which will provide a full protein profile. Organic pumpkin seeds are next on the list and are very high in healthy fats along with the previously mentioned hemp and super seeds.

The next baggy contains organic dark chocolate wrapped super seeds as a nice sweet tasting healthy snack. Below that at the end of column #2 is everybody’s favorite, roasted crickets containing 100% of daily B-12 as well as a good amount of sustainable protein. So far what I have mentioned are mostly snacks, drinks, spices and things to add to meals to help compliment the macronutrient ratio.

The next column we get into the meat and potatoes. Wait… no potatoes, they are not keto friendly, just meat lol. First of we start with a bag of chipotle beef jerky. Next is dehydrated ground chicken and last in that column is a yummy salmon jerky.

Now what would all this food be without veggies (all dehydrated), which brings us to the last column on the far right. The top bag is onions, followed by green and orange bell peppers. Second last is chili pepper topped tomatoes. Finally I put together a baggy of celery and cucumber.

Other food items not shown in this picture include a package of salami, a mozzarella ball, two baggies of spinach and some eggs from our backyard chickens.

As an afterthought and as I write this post I also have sausage jerky and cinnamon avocado slices in the dehydrator to take as well. All of these items that I have listed fit nicely in 2 large freezer baggies that will go into a ditty sac in my backpack.

The oils and seeds will be added to the spinach and meats for the fats and the veggies will provide fibre and low amounts of carbohydrates. Most likely I will be in a fasted state for most of the morning and if I do get somewhat hungry I will have an egg or add MCT oil to my coffee to help satiate. Hopefully I have calculated everything properly but the trip will be my source of feedback.

If you have any questions regarding details around the foods or any other questions regarding keto, fasting or health in general when tripping, please feel free to comment or send us and email or message and we will gladly try to help. I hope this inspires you to take a hard look at what you are using to fuel your outdoor trips. We want to be as healthy as we can for as long as we can so we have many years of tripping ahead.