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Lizy's Famous Breakfast JANK
in a plastic bag, at home, combine:

	Instant Mashed Potatoes
	Instant Stuffing (like for thanksgiving)
	Cheddar Cheeze-Its crackers, or the like

On the trail, heat hot boiling water, and add to dry mixture. Eat!!If higher fat content is desired, add instant (powered) milk and/or solid (clarified) ghee butter at any time.

The term jank was concocted on an ESAR training weekend in the white suburban. It's just the Jank thing going 'round.

Liz Fort :)
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FROM carlj@hpcvmcdj.cv.hp.com (Carl Johnson)
English Muffins seem to work well, although I have just carried them in a kayak and not hiking.
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Breakfast - this is the toughest meal for me as I hate oatmeal and that's by far the best soln. I eventually resorted to using dry milk to make some of those instant breakfasts - at least it goes down fast.
None of my suggestions will appeal to the gourmet pallet, but they are very affordable and very easy to prepare.

Mike Engberg
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I often take bagels for lunch. Why? They're dense so they pack small and the will last for 4-5 days before they get too stale to eat!

Another option to bread are tortilla's. They are also dense so they pack up small. The can be filled with virtually anything and rolled up like a burrito. They're great in the morning filled with scrambled eggs, onions, bacon and a little Tabasco sauce.

Vicki O'Day
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From metsger@ea.ecn.purdue.edu You can also get pancake mixes that require only the addition of water at your local grocery store.
One of my favorites is to mix peanut butter with honey or preserves in about equal ratios and use it on bread or pancakes, it's easy to carry and not perishable...

Bisquick is also a staple for quick breads and/or biscuits that can be cooked in a pan or on a stick.

Ron Metsger
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Breakfast Cereal
quick cooking oats (if you are in a hurry)
or multi-grain cereal (if you are not in a hurry. Soaking grain overnight speeds things up)

milk powder
pinch of salt
dried fruit--eg: apples, raisins

directions: mix the above ingredients and put in plastic bags (4 day trip means four bags) All you have to do is boil the water and add to the ingredients.

Brown sugar or maple syrup is great on top!

Audrey Kager
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Simple Hot Granola Breakfast

I find the following hot granola breakfast with dried fruit quick, simple and practical for cold-weather hiking.

1. boil 2 to 3 cups of water in your pot (put the water in the pot the night before if you think it might freeze over night)
2. throw in about 1 1/2 cups of granola flakes
3. throw in a handful of dried fruit, such as apple rings, raisins, apricots, etc.
4. stir while you boil the mix another 30 seconds or so.
5. remove from heat and stir in 2 - 4 tablespoons of dried milk powder
6. cover and leave aside for 3 - 5 minutes (I usually put my kettle on at this point and immediately boil water for tea or coffee. This way a only have to light the stove once)

Some of the advantages of this breakfast:

	boiling sterilizes the water
	unlike oatmeal, the granola flakes can be eaten uncooked on days you don't want to cook or cannot for some reason.
	it is very easy to digest and you can eat a great deal of it --charging up your energy reserves for a hard-day ahead.
	quality dried fruit comes back to life quite nicely this way and makes the breakfast naturally sweet or tart and a bit more fresh and lively than plain cereals, cooked or uncooked. Also you can vary the fruit and add variety.

Happy hiking!

Jack Pledger
Etobicoke, Canada
j.pledger@sympatico.ca
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from: schell@basecamp.Eng.Sun.COM (John Schell) This is one of my favorite breakfasts. It takes a little longer than wolfing down some breakfast bars and coffee but is well worth the effort. Best used on bad weather days, etc. I've included weights and caloric breakdown. Total weight is about7.25 oz. per person.

Powercakes (Pancakes) (serves two)
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Ingredient QTY (oz.) KCAL CARB PROT FAT

Bisquick  1 cup     4.0  480  296  32   144
Milkman   1 lqd cup 0.75 90   48   36   9
Powdered Eggs 4 eggs 2.0 308  40   78   185
Butter    1/2 stick 2.0  400  0    0    400
dry Syrup 1 pkg     1.0  120  120  0    0
FD peaches
OR FD apples 1/2 oz. 0.5 ?    ?    ?    ?
Tang 1 quart 4.33 480    480  0    0

TOTALS         14.58 1878 984  146  738 

Basic Biscuit Mix - for four camp breads

	1 Tbl. sugar
	.5 tsp. salt
	2 Tbl. dry milk
	1 Tbl. baking pwd.
	.5 c. shortening

Mix together the dry ingredients. Cut in the shortening with two knives, mixing until the shortening is in tiny pieces (smaller then tiny peas). Put the mix into a plastic bag and label it "Biscuit Mix - add .25 c. cold water per cup of mix."

Trail Directions -biscuits

1. oil frying pan, bottom and sides. Coat with flour by shaking.
2. Mix up mix. Easier with floured hands. Shape the dough into thin, 2 in. wide biscuits, and set in the pan. Cover.
3. Cook over a flame or throw the pan into some hot coals, covering. When cooking over heat, the flame must be low. If it isn't, don't despair, simply move the pan around the heat and hold the pan off the heat part of the time, to keep the bottoms of the biscuits from burning. Cool them 5 to 7 minute on one side, then turn them with a spatula and cook 5 min. more.

	3 c. flour
	1 or 2 eggs, or 2 to 4 Tbls.dry egg
	1 pkg. dry yeast
	1 TBL. oil
	1 tsp. salt
	butter
	1 tsp. baking soda
	1 TBL. brown sugar
	syrup

Packing the Food

Put into 3 separate bags, then package with the trail directions: 1. flour
2. yeast
3. salt, baking pwd., sugar, and dry egg, if used. Carry in general provisions: oil, fresh eggs, if used; butter; and syrup.

Trail Directions

1. The night before, put the flour and yeast into a large pot and stir in 3 c. warm water. Cover and let sit all night.
2. In the morning, add 1 TBL. oil, the salt, soda, sugar, and dry egg (or fresh) to the batter. Froth it up, as the woodsman says, and let it sit for 30 minutes.
3. Lightly oil a skillet. Fry the pancakes, serve with butter and syrup.
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Pancakes: batch for 18 pancakes (mix dry ingredients ahead)

	2 c. flour
	1 TBL. sugar
	.5 tsp.salt
	2 TBL. dry milk
	1 TBL. baking pwd.
	0.5 c. shortening
	1 tsp. butter or oil

1. Add 2.25 c. water to 3 c. mix. Stir until mixed, but don't try to get all the lumps out.

2. Heat a teaspoon or so of butter or oil in a frying pan. When the pan is hot enough to cook a drop of batter, ladle out spoonfuls of the batter and brown the cakes on both sides. The first side is done when you can see bubbles forming in the batter and the edges browning.

Note; Use up all the batter; it is much more pleasant to eat leftover pancakes than to contemplate disposing of unwanted batter. Cold pancakes make a good lunch dessert when you spread them with butter or a little honey or with whatever seems tasty, including granola or GORP.

FROM mel@iies.ecn.purdue.edu
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Breakfast suggestions?
>Is there anyway to bring eggs in? (do they spoil?) recipes? Eggs work well and should keep for at least a week, longer if you grease them. I just cut up the carton as required for the trip. Bagels work well and (at least in the winter) you can carry cream cheese to go with them. Watching somebody toast bagels over a Wisperlite while sitting in a snow cave is something I won't forget for a long time.

Barry Needham ---- sun!arete!barry
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The US Navy Submarine Service keeps eggs on board ship without refrigeration for *weeks and weeks*. How?

The eggs are waxed. The wax coating prevents air from crossing the boundary of the eggshell and spoiling the contents. (neat, huh?)

How do they wax the eggs? I dunno. Feed the chickens paraffin? Wax the underside of the hen and let her set awhile?

How can you wax your eggs? I dunno. But I thought you'd like to know this bit of trivia :-))))

Ron Miller
(back country in a submarine means where the rudder is)
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I've experimented with several different ways of taking eggs on camping trips. As noted by others, eggs seem to last longer if bought fresh (not from Safeway). Also, you're a lot less likely to be carrying Salmonella along this way.

I usually break the eggs into a Nalgene bottle, and scramble them before I leave. I've kept them for 4-5 days like this in moderate heat, but they'd last longer unbroken. Note- don't do this on a bicycle or motorcycle - I ended up with a custard last time from the shaking and the heat. If you want to avoid breakage, *and* keep the eggs whole, put them in a Nalgene bottle, and pour corn meal, cereal, or flour around them. Then you have everything you need to bread and fry those trout!
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I'd suggest buying regular oatmeal, adding evaporated milk, and your own cinnamon, raisins or what ever.

I've always carried packets of instant milk. DairyMan(tm), I think the name is. They come in a box of 12, each makes a quart, and it is surprisingly tasty. Plus, the paper pouch can be burned afterwards!

Colin Fletcher recommends carrying some of the milk in one of those plastic ketchup/mustard squeeze bottles. Out here it works great, even in windy conditions -- just flip the lid and squirt dry milk. Under humid conditions, I wonder if it would glob up the spout? A great cuisine idea is to fill one of those plastic, refillable,"toothpaste"-type tubes with ghee - i.e. clarified butter. It won't go rancid for a *long* time, even when it's quite hot. And you can add nice real butter flavor to everything. You can make ghee yourself (I've heard a microwave helps immeasurably) or go to your local store selling Indian foodstuffs - you'll find imported ghee the jar, on the shelf (not in the refrigerator - I'm not kidding it won't go bad for a *long* time) and at a reasonable price, although quality varies. I usually make my own.

FROM: carnes@ico.ISC.COM (Steve Carnes)
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Last year (or so?) Quaker came out with another instant oatmeal which they call _Fruit_&_Cream_ (damn, now I'm not 100% positive of that). Anyway it's just a whole, whole lot better than they're old instant oatmeal. It comes in three or four fruit flavors. It's not as good as some alternatives but is quick and easy (if you're already starting the stove, that is).

Peter B
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In response to the recommendation for Fruit & Cream oatmeal. I tried that stuff last summer. In my book it cannot be considered food. I'm not positive, but I think instead of using evaporated milk, they use Coffee Mate creamer. I have a fairly forgiving digestive system, but it revolted big time with that stuff.

I'd suggest buying regular oatmeal, adding evaporated milk, and your own cinnamon, raisins or what ever.

Ugh. Just the thought of it makes me want to......

Randy Marks