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Post by dice on Apr 17, 2017 9:57:59 GMT -8
has anyone tried to dehydrate thier favorite protein shake for the trail, I searched the forum but didn't find anything similar.
and I don't mean bring your powder with I mean actually make your shake and spread it out on wax paper and dehydrate it.
I dump liquid mineral supplements in, along with honey and cinnimon and about two cups of fruit with some coconut milk for electrolytes and occasionally some liquid silver if I'm feeling sick, it ends up being like 28 grams of protien and my days worth of fruit.
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then breakfast is useally 4-6 eggs and three cups of veggies scrambled with some liquid amino acids for joint pain, also tastes like soy sauce pretty awesome actually.
I plan on trying to dehydrate these as well.
then whatever high carb meal for dinner, useually something like a whole or half a pizza depending on if I'm eating alone.
also this diet has kept me very trim my entire life, gets me my daily fruit and veggies and recently science has begun to prove it is a good weight loss strategy.
the dehydrated eggs topic brought this to mind.
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Post by zeke on Apr 17, 2017 10:30:09 GMT -8
You might look into Packit Gourmet and their smoothies. Mango Kale Protein, carbs, fruit, all mixed with cold water on the trail.
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Post by dice on Apr 17, 2017 11:39:06 GMT -8
solid refferal, but I can't do the whey protien, I've been told I have a dairy allergy, but I know whey literally knocks me out.
ok confusion I know, I eat dairy, a couple times a week, after X amount I start feeling sluggish and need to sleep it off, I used to try wehy preotien in highschool when I lifted, and after some time I noticed that I would drink a whey shake and the next day I would have to sleep it off like a hang over, I switched to plant based sense.
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Post by Lamebeaver on Apr 17, 2017 12:26:34 GMT -8
and I don't mean bring your powder with I mean actually make your shake and spread it out on wax paper and dehydrate it. I'm not sure why you'd want to do this. It would be so much easier to just throw the powder in a ziplock bag along with some powdered skim or whole milk. If you like fruit, you could throw some freeze dried fruit in a blender to powder that as well. |
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Post by dice on Apr 17, 2017 12:32:45 GMT -8
well I was thinking it would turn into like fruit leather, I don't know what to equate that to if you haven't had it i guess like fruit jerky
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Post by sarbar on Apr 17, 2017 18:12:45 GMT -8
While you could dehydrate it, I wouldn't. If you have a powder you like (for example, I like hemp based protein) use that + freeze dried fruit (you can powder it) and whatever else you add. It will be the same weight wise overall. You can get coconut milk powder on Amazon that is actually quite good - and is dairy free. The biggest reason to NOT dry it mixed up is heat can affect vitamins but also....honey doesn't dry well. It's against honey's own nature to dry ;-) Better to carry it with you! |
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Post by Lamebeaver on Apr 18, 2017 8:32:01 GMT -8
dice,
Thanks for bringing up the subject. For some reason, shakes, smoothies, etc. never crossed my mind as trail food, but it's very do-able.
I add powdered peanut butter, malted milk powder, wheat germ, and cocoa powder to mine. I also usually add a banana, and a quick Google search made me realize that you can buy banana powder online! Even yogurt powder, thought I'm a bit skeptical about that.
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Post by trinity on Apr 18, 2017 9:18:09 GMT -8
Backpacker magazine did an article on trail smoothies that sound pretty good: link. I've never tried them, because I'm a big fan of Packit Gourmet smoothies, too bad they won't work for you. |
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Post by dice on Apr 18, 2017 9:20:39 GMT -8
I've considered buying one of those exspensive counter top freeze dryers, or pay an extra 5 K and spring for the industrial sized freeze dryer, as tehres a local market for freeze dryed food, and being a start up farm, I prefer freeze dryed to dehydrated or canned. If my uncle still had his taxedermy business I would ask him to give it a go for me lol. Am still legitimately considering asking a taxedermist locally about drying food for me.
I just hoped someone had tryed this all ready and knew exatly what would happen, protein powders suck, regaurdless of what they are derrived from without all the other fruits and sweetners. I was hoping it would dry like fruit leather or a protien bar, both are sticky and semi solid escue.
I've allready done the powder + freeze dryed fuit but it's just not the same =( definately better than not however.
Powdered coconut milk! so cool, chashew milk is really good but I like the coconut food values better.
I'd never considered what would/could happen to the mineral vitamin content dried, sense most vitamins are all ready dry in suppliment form.
I imagine anything with a natural water content could be powdered after freeze drying quite easily even.
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Post by ErnieW on Apr 18, 2017 18:18:11 GMT -8
This thread gave me an idea for a dehydrator experiment. I am going to make some standard thin apple sauce leathers then spread something that dries sticky like maybe pureed bananas with a little honey then dry again. When done take two dried sheets sticky face to sticky face and maybe give them a quick roll with a rolling pin to bond them.
Basically a layered leather sandwich. Leaves the not too sticky apple leather on the outside.
Maybe Dice could make some sort of leather sandwich with a vitamin enriched honey filling.
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Post by dice on Apr 18, 2017 18:40:58 GMT -8
Basically a layered leather sandwich. Leaves the not too sticky apple leather on the outside. neat idea, I'll have to give this a try soon, or at least dehydrating my shake once..and just see what it does, I found some recipe site off pintrest that leads me to believe it's possible. www.backpackingchef.com/fruit-leather-recipe.htmlI swear I saw a similar link on the forum somewhere. I need to clean my camping pintrest board out again, of dead links, poor gear, and move the more out of my reach trip suggestions to the nature page. |
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Post by sarbar on Apr 19, 2017 8:13:41 GMT -8
I'm not a shake fan, hence why I have like 1 or 2 shake recipes on the website. If I drink anything "shaky" related it has to be made in a high power blender with tons of ice ;-) I'm a frappe style girl!
As for the instant coconut milk powder, I like it. It is full fat. We don't do nut milks, major allergies in our house with one of our kids. Cashew milk hasn't shown up dried yet that I know of....but single serving milks of alternative nuts are becoming easier to find.
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Post by stealthytomato on Apr 19, 2017 17:04:15 GMT -8
Seems slightly counter intuitive (and energy intensive) to make a shake only to dehydrate it. Sounds like you want something like erniew made or like a Powerbar- a chewy protein bar. Maybe blend something very thick, dehydrate then cut into soft bars? I'll bet adding some powders would help absorb some moisture too.
i've made several types of energy bars but usually nutty, grainy ones. Now i'm intrigued. May be an experiment in my future also.
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Post by rebeccad on Apr 19, 2017 19:33:17 GMT -8
Seems slightly counter intuitive (and energy intensive) to make a shake only to dehydrate it. I'm contemplating ingredients that might go together to make a sort of shake or smoothie, starting from the dry things, not a wet shake. |
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Post by whistlepunk on May 31, 2017 20:55:27 GMT -8
Buy the unflavored whey powder. You can add it to anything for a protein boost -- add to oatmeal, mix into your energy bars, add to freeze dried dinners (most are high carb/low protein anyway), add to pasta sauce.
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