Hi Howard, I also fondly remember my dreams of a cheeseburger in paradise after living on the freeze dried food for a couple of weeks - both Philmont and a 14 day canoe trip above Ely Mn. I find the freeze dried food to be very expensive and very high in sodium sooo. I compromise on the 1 week trips and have switched to a much smaller cooler that only holds frozen protein - individual packed servings of some kind of fish, or shrimp. I include some frozen cooked shrimp in sandwich bags for lunches. These only last about 3 days at best. Fresh vegetables, fruit and eggs(turn every two days and they are good for a month) keep extremely well if they have not been refrigerated and good air circulation so the moisture does not collect and cause rot. There is pre-cooked bacon that needs no refrigeration that lasts for quite a while as well. So I have a hearty breakfast on the boat (and at home) while I am waiting for the wind to pick up - a two egg omelet, bacon, oatmeal with blueberrys, a couple of oranges and two mugs of green tea. This kind of breakfast can be done for two or 3 weeks with no refrigeration. lunch is thawed pre-cooked shimp that I can eat on the fly with some kind of cracker. When that runs out I switch to Penut butter and jelly sandwichs. Dinners after the frozen food runs out is pretty much the one pot fare that is described in numerous places - still fresh vegetable with rice or pasta and can of protien - salmon, ham or shrimp. The new pre-cooked chicken breasts/salmon in foil pouches are decent. For extended two week trips away from civilization my menu stays about the same as the last 4 described for the 1 week trip. I do add some vegetarian stir fry conglomerations with various nuts added for protien. All in all it is not bad fare. Thanks Doug Kelch --- On Mon, 8/10/09, Howard Audsley <haudsley@tranquility.net> wrote: From: Howard Audsley <haudsley@tranquility.net> Subject: Re: M_Boats: No Ice Food Options To: "For and about Montgomery Sailboats" <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission..com> Date: Monday, August 10, 2009, 11:17 AM Yup......I failed to mention those. There is tuna and a limited selection of other canned fish and other meats, such as vienna sausage, canned chicken, some beef. Freeze dried beef, jerky, etc. I carry a dry food tub on the boat, and I think it has a can of Hormel Chili in it right now. I've wondered about dragging along a chunk of country cured ham. Then there is the packaged mixes like the Lipton stuff. Red beans and rice, etc. One downside to a lot of those is dealing with the packaging. Do that often enough and you can start accumulating a good size pile of trash to drag around.