WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.700 Welcome to Botches Off -Road. So we have a cool 00:00:04.700 --> 00:00:06.500 little episode for you today. We're going to 00:00:06.500 --> 00:00:08.599 talk a little bit about some budget meals and 00:00:08.599 --> 00:00:11.880 we got some voicemails set. So we'll talk about 00:00:11.880 --> 00:00:14.839 the budget meals for camping and overlanding 00:00:14.839 --> 00:00:16.359 here in a little bit. And we're going to start 00:00:16.359 --> 00:00:18.679 out with the voicemails. Alex, you want to take 00:00:18.679 --> 00:00:23.519 it away? Yeah. So first up we have Mitchell. 00:00:24.500 --> 00:00:27.280 Uh, so I'll play Mitchell's voicemail. There's 00:00:27.280 --> 00:00:29.019 a lot of words here for the minute and a half 00:00:29.019 --> 00:00:35.399 he talks. Oh, oh, we gotta turn the volume up. 00:00:35.399 --> 00:00:39.299 Hey guys, this is Mitchell. Uh, Gavin shows me 00:00:39.299 --> 00:00:43.039 better than Mark and Alex, but I'm Mitchell Donald 00:00:43.039 --> 00:00:45.740 Leatherwood and I'd like to get out with you 00:00:45.740 --> 00:00:48.719 guys. Uh, just a few comments on these leaders 00:00:48.719 --> 00:00:59.810 from that I put in the Harbor Freight box with 00:00:59.810 --> 00:01:57.540 the roto packs. Fuel tank on the back. I'm just 00:01:57.540 --> 00:01:59.780 curious on your guys' input on what you like 00:01:59.780 --> 00:02:03.859 to do. Thanks for doing the show. I like listening 00:02:03.859 --> 00:02:06.640 to it. Keeps my days at work a little bit more 00:02:06.640 --> 00:02:09.520 interesting. You guys have a good one. Nice. 00:02:10.020 --> 00:02:13.620 Thanks, Mitch. All right. That's... We'll try 00:02:13.620 --> 00:02:16.360 to do this in order here. Yeah. Well, and I just 00:02:16.360 --> 00:02:18.719 want to say... So first... Oh, sorry. I just 00:02:18.719 --> 00:02:22.060 wanted to say, Mitch is... Go ahead. Mitch, if 00:02:22.060 --> 00:02:25.659 some of you guys are listening, we did a... Podcast 00:02:25.659 --> 00:02:28.099 with our winter camp updates from the most recent 00:02:28.099 --> 00:02:30.400 winter camp and Mitch was the guy that I went 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:34.379 Camping with up there in northern, Michigan So 00:02:34.379 --> 00:02:36.900 that everything that he was kind of talking about 00:02:36.900 --> 00:02:39.139 that's a that's the same guy. So really good 00:02:39.139 --> 00:02:43.039 guy His if you haven't seen the pictures yet 00:02:43.039 --> 00:02:46.340 guys He installed on the bottom right of his 00:02:46.340 --> 00:02:49.379 alucab the diesel heater and has a fully plumbed 00:02:49.379 --> 00:02:52.990 in now So he doesn't have to take it out or anything. 00:02:52.990 --> 00:02:56.150 Yeah, he just has to turn it out is So I was 00:02:56.150 --> 00:02:59.250 telling I'll sell mark because we're kind of 00:02:59.250 --> 00:03:01.430 scheming something for his truck right now Yeah, 00:03:01.629 --> 00:03:03.729 and when we do it, that's what we're doing diesel 00:03:03.729 --> 00:03:07.110 heater will be permanent. No removable. Yeah 00:03:07.110 --> 00:03:11.469 Same thing. I don't know probably the black truck 00:03:11.469 --> 00:03:14.009 to you will end up doing that There's a lot of 00:03:14.009 --> 00:03:15.930 good spots to tuck a diesel heater on a third 00:03:15.930 --> 00:03:18.169 gen so it'd be really easy on the black truck 00:03:18.169 --> 00:03:20.990 Yeah, I mean is Alex gonna i'm sorry alex alan 00:03:20.990 --> 00:03:25.150 gonna camp in the third gen Yeah, I think so. 00:03:25.150 --> 00:03:26.810 Yeah, I mean that would make the worse. We haven't 00:03:26.810 --> 00:03:31.009 confirmed like fully Talked it out yet, but yeah, 00:03:31.030 --> 00:03:33.090 it's very likely. He's gonna be his camping rig 00:03:33.090 --> 00:03:37.229 for a good bit We uh, we did test him laying 00:03:37.229 --> 00:03:40.870 down in it and he can lay If he lays down in 00:03:40.870 --> 00:03:44.120 the back he can lay down flat with his feet against 00:03:44.120 --> 00:03:47.139 the back tailgate and his head against the seat. 00:03:47.659 --> 00:03:49.460 Well, that's what the seat pushed back to. So 00:03:49.460 --> 00:03:51.000 if we push the seat forward, there'd be even 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:54.520 more room. Wow. Yeah, that's good. So that'd 00:03:54.520 --> 00:03:59.120 be perfect. So yeah. So I got some ideas for 00:03:59.120 --> 00:04:01.439 doing that, but installing it permanent fucking 00:04:01.439 --> 00:04:04.180 solid. Oh, yeah. That makes life so much easier. 00:04:05.460 --> 00:04:09.759 I've installed one in a van that my friend used 00:04:09.759 --> 00:04:13.979 to live in. So I've had some experience doing 00:04:13.979 --> 00:04:16.779 that kind of stuff. Yeah, it's pretty fun Yeah, 00:04:16.800 --> 00:04:20.000 see what was his next part is his next part was 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:22.920 talking about how what we look for when we go 00:04:22.920 --> 00:04:26.100 out of state traveling So personally, I'm kind 00:04:26.100 --> 00:04:28.540 of like Mitch in the fact that I'm not looking 00:04:28.540 --> 00:04:32.339 for Terrain and stuff like hard terrain to go 00:04:32.339 --> 00:04:35.420 to I'm looking for beautiful scenery BLM National 00:04:35.420 --> 00:04:39.300 Park land Like I don't mind if it's there. I 00:04:39.300 --> 00:04:42.680 just that's not the basis of my trip So that's 00:04:42.680 --> 00:04:45.000 what I look for. So I kind of look around for 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:48.180 places like that that are closer in proximity 00:04:48.180 --> 00:04:54.500 right now, like the Ozarks. Right. Those are 00:04:54.500 --> 00:04:59.660 kind of close for us. Where's that? Yeah. Well, 00:04:59.819 --> 00:05:05.259 in 10 hours, southwest ish versus if we were 00:05:05.259 --> 00:05:07.360 to try to go to like Colorado, we'd have to go. 00:05:07.579 --> 00:05:10.220 are either down and around up and around or through 00:05:10.220 --> 00:05:13.399 the fairy. That's just you're looking at probably 00:05:13.399 --> 00:05:17.139 20 hours ish. Give or take, right? Yeah. Yeah. 00:05:17.180 --> 00:05:21.079 So it's it's not much farther to go to like Benji 00:05:21.079 --> 00:05:23.939 shop than it is to go to Q &A. Right. It's like 00:05:23.939 --> 00:05:27.279 an extra hour. Yeah. So like so there's a couple 00:05:27.279 --> 00:05:30.000 of places that are like in Tennessee, Kentucky 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:33.519 that I've been looking at. And honestly, I go 00:05:33.519 --> 00:05:37.860 to like I do a lot of like social media. So I 00:05:37.860 --> 00:05:39.939 look through social media posts and people will 00:05:39.939 --> 00:05:42.660 like put on like hey This is this is so -and 00:05:42.660 --> 00:05:44.800 -so national park and this is so -and -so national 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:48.480 park. I look at a little bit scouted out online 00:05:48.480 --> 00:05:51.480 Google photos actually is really cool because 00:05:51.480 --> 00:05:55.220 a lot of users can go into and upload photos 00:05:55.220 --> 00:05:58.379 so you can get a whole different bunch of You 00:05:58.379 --> 00:06:01.199 know pictures views out of that and then if I 00:06:01.199 --> 00:06:03.180 tried to mean out of state when that's kind of 00:06:03.180 --> 00:06:06.430 what I look for Me and mark are kind of the opposite 00:06:06.430 --> 00:06:10.290 we look for We try to find obstacles and then 00:06:10.290 --> 00:06:13.170 we go somewhere based on what they have so like 00:06:13.170 --> 00:06:14.910 we went to leatherwood That's because they had 00:06:14.910 --> 00:06:20.350 a lot of decent off -roading. Yeah when I mean 00:06:20.350 --> 00:06:22.430 Kind of be the same thing when we go out to the 00:06:22.430 --> 00:06:25.170 Ozarks, but we haven't act we just go down to 00:06:25.170 --> 00:06:28.009 Benji's We don't go to the Ozarks yet. We'll 00:06:28.009 --> 00:06:30.509 get there. We just need more time off work. Yeah 00:06:30.509 --> 00:06:34.920 and then When we get out to Moab, it's the same 00:06:34.920 --> 00:06:37.319 thing. We're looking for obstacles, not so much 00:06:37.319 --> 00:06:39.819 just I mean, we want to see pretty shit. Don't 00:06:39.819 --> 00:06:42.279 get me wrong, but I want to see pretty shit that 00:06:42.279 --> 00:06:44.500 it's hard for someone to get to. Right. Yeah. 00:06:44.699 --> 00:06:47.899 And like, I don't want it to be like straight 00:06:47.899 --> 00:06:51.600 dirt roads the whole time. But like, I don't 00:06:51.600 --> 00:06:54.439 want the main focus to be like rock crawling. 00:06:55.849 --> 00:06:59.629 That's me. Exactly. So like that's not my main 00:06:59.629 --> 00:07:01.990 focus is I don't want to sit there and do like 00:07:01.990 --> 00:07:04.730 five hours of rock crawling the day. I want to 00:07:04.730 --> 00:07:10.990 cover a lot of land, drive far distances off, 00:07:10.990 --> 00:07:14.730 you know, a main road somewhere that isn't highly 00:07:14.730 --> 00:07:19.529 traveled, you know, two tracks. And if it's rough, 00:07:19.670 --> 00:07:23.500 it's rough. Like I don't care. I just want the 00:07:23.500 --> 00:07:26.279 main part of it to be the travel to put the miles 00:07:26.279 --> 00:07:29.339 in to get somewhere that other people Usually 00:07:29.339 --> 00:07:33.300 don't go I think Alex and Mark just like to have 00:07:33.300 --> 00:07:35.620 the bigger obstacles to get to some of those 00:07:35.620 --> 00:07:39.180 spots so like in my form of travel I couldn't 00:07:39.180 --> 00:07:41.819 do some of the stuff that they would be doing 00:07:41.819 --> 00:07:46.759 but I think I feel like I could cover a lot more 00:07:46.759 --> 00:07:49.990 ground It doesn't necessarily mean one's better 00:07:49.990 --> 00:07:51.829 than the other though. I mean, I mean that we're 00:07:51.829 --> 00:07:55.149 both gonna see things that The other might not 00:07:55.149 --> 00:07:57.910 see in that same time span, you know what I mean? 00:07:58.110 --> 00:08:02.230 So yeah All right. So now we've got one from 00:08:02.230 --> 00:08:07.949 an unknown caller it's nine seconds long and 00:08:07.949 --> 00:08:11.310 I don't even see a name in the like Transcript 00:08:11.310 --> 00:08:13.310 so maybe but I do see what it's about in the 00:08:13.310 --> 00:08:16.250 transcript and it kind of goes with today's episode 00:08:17.860 --> 00:08:34.740 Ready get it I'm not Dammit Joe, I know who this 00:08:34.740 --> 00:08:37.639 is because he laughed at it and he was messaging 00:08:37.639 --> 00:08:40.830 me about it He goes, it was funny that you guys 00:08:40.830 --> 00:08:43.370 are trying to figure out who this was. And I 00:08:43.370 --> 00:08:45.769 was like, damn it. So I think that's Joe Karen. 00:08:46.429 --> 00:08:49.470 So that one didn't sound like Joe Karen. The 00:08:49.470 --> 00:08:52.929 last one did. I think that's him because he did 00:08:52.929 --> 00:08:56.889 mention something about that to me later. Very 00:08:56.889 --> 00:08:58.909 recently, either today or yesterday, because 00:08:58.909 --> 00:09:02.330 I was asking him about meal ideas, which kind 00:09:02.330 --> 00:09:05.549 of. brings us into our next topic. So one of 00:09:05.549 --> 00:09:08.029 the things that might hold some families back 00:09:08.029 --> 00:09:11.710 is the cost of, like, overland camping, you know, 00:09:11.730 --> 00:09:14.149 just getting to the destinations, the budget 00:09:14.149 --> 00:09:18.409 that you have to have to get there and, you know, 00:09:18.549 --> 00:09:21.769 just to camp and stuff, just all encompassing. 00:09:21.909 --> 00:09:25.289 But how do you do it on a budget? Still have 00:09:25.289 --> 00:09:27.710 diverse and delicious meals, but make it cheap? 00:09:28.639 --> 00:09:31.299 Um, that's one of the things that I kind of proposed 00:09:31.299 --> 00:09:33.179 earlier this morning that we were talking about. 00:09:33.259 --> 00:09:36.200 It's a way to cut back on spending, put more 00:09:36.200 --> 00:09:38.899 towards gas or to be able to get out there. And 00:09:38.899 --> 00:09:40.440 you're not kind of spending a shit ton of money 00:09:40.440 --> 00:09:44.259 on food, but how do we keep it somewhat diverse? 00:09:44.559 --> 00:09:46.820 And I have a family that doesn't like to eat 00:09:46.820 --> 00:09:50.759 like a bunch of the same thing. So I put a question 00:09:50.759 --> 00:09:54.100 out to a couple of people and you know, ask them 00:09:54.100 --> 00:09:57.259 like, Hey, for a weekend of camping, Can you 00:09:57.259 --> 00:10:01.539 make a menu for $50 or less? Um, you know, with 00:10:01.539 --> 00:10:03.679 a larger and bigger families, it gets a little 00:10:03.679 --> 00:10:06.480 harder. So, you know, that's kind of what I was 00:10:06.480 --> 00:10:10.399 looking for. And we got a few responses and I 00:10:10.399 --> 00:10:14.480 guess I'll start with Alex because I think his 00:10:14.480 --> 00:10:17.799 is, he's got, I think a couple different ones, 00:10:18.100 --> 00:10:21.399 one that's pretty simple. Um, so we'll start 00:10:21.399 --> 00:10:25.460 with you. Give, give some of your ideas. So number 00:10:25.460 --> 00:10:30.120 one, Uh, chili is very cheap and it can feed 00:10:30.120 --> 00:10:34.460 you for all three meals the entire weekend. You 00:10:34.460 --> 00:10:38.080 just got to keep it warm. Um, so that's number 00:10:38.080 --> 00:10:40.779 one, uh, make a chili, bring it with you. It's 00:10:40.779 --> 00:10:43.340 pretty good. So you're saying breakfast, lunch 00:10:43.340 --> 00:10:47.840 and dinner for all weekend, right? Yeah. That's 00:10:47.840 --> 00:10:53.809 crazy. Take a modium. That's not to make. Okay, 00:10:53.809 --> 00:10:55.610 you don't have to make chili that makes you have 00:10:55.610 --> 00:10:58.389 to shit. I think that's just a trait of chili, 00:10:58.750 --> 00:11:00.830 though. Usually what makes you have to shit in 00:11:00.830 --> 00:11:03.730 chili is the grease, so if you use a less fatty 00:11:03.730 --> 00:11:06.389 meat, something like venison, it's gonna cut 00:11:06.389 --> 00:11:09.590 back on it. The spice does, so try and keep it 00:11:09.590 --> 00:11:11.990 not a spicy chili, but more of a mild chili. 00:11:13.110 --> 00:11:18.110 And use less, um... I can't think of the name 00:11:18.110 --> 00:11:20.710 of the brown powder I put in mine, but use less 00:11:20.710 --> 00:11:22.610 of that. It'll make you have to poop less. Yes, 00:11:22.610 --> 00:11:24.830 thank you. Use less cumin, it'll make you have 00:11:24.830 --> 00:11:29.470 to poop less. So, you can make a chili that does 00:11:29.470 --> 00:11:30.950 not make you have to poop. And I just wanted 00:11:30.950 --> 00:11:33.649 like, I'm sorry, like your whole family is cool 00:11:33.649 --> 00:11:36.669 with eating that all weekend? That's it? Well, 00:11:36.750 --> 00:11:39.389 the kid would need PB &J, but that's easy to 00:11:39.389 --> 00:11:42.070 fit in that budget. Right, yeah. I just wanted 00:11:42.070 --> 00:11:44.110 to like, because he told me this earlier and 00:11:44.110 --> 00:11:47.730 I'm like, that must be really nice. Cause like 00:11:47.730 --> 00:11:50.149 I'm simple too. I could eat leftovers multiple 00:11:50.149 --> 00:11:53.590 days, but like my son doesn't eat typical dinners 00:11:53.590 --> 00:11:56.350 that we eat. My wife doesn't like eating something 00:11:56.350 --> 00:12:00.870 more than one day or meal. So it's like kind 00:12:00.870 --> 00:12:04.649 of have to appease the crowd. If it makes it 00:12:04.649 --> 00:12:07.210 so we can afford a trip, my wife does not care 00:12:07.210 --> 00:12:09.690 as long as she gets food. Yeah. I think part 00:12:09.690 --> 00:12:13.190 of it for my wife is that is part of the experience 00:12:13.190 --> 00:12:16.700 of the trip. So like she likes camping she likes 00:12:16.700 --> 00:12:18.799 the travel and stuff But she really likes the 00:12:18.799 --> 00:12:21.340 food too, and if we can't afford to eat out a 00:12:21.340 --> 00:12:24.259 fancy, you know Food trucks or something while 00:12:24.259 --> 00:12:25.960 we're out there a restaurant. She wants to at 00:12:25.960 --> 00:12:29.120 least have some decent food at camp. So like 00:12:29.120 --> 00:12:33.460 you know if it was like a really long trip and 00:12:33.460 --> 00:12:35.659 For like three days. We just had to eat dehydrated 00:12:35.659 --> 00:12:37.940 meals She like she'll eat dehydrated meals the 00:12:37.940 --> 00:12:41.019 whole trip if that if they're different as long 00:12:41.019 --> 00:12:44.779 as they're different so so that kind of goes 00:12:44.779 --> 00:12:48.139 into my next one now my next one this one's really 00:12:48.139 --> 00:12:53.360 smart you get 12 different meals for 50 dollars 00:12:53.360 --> 00:12:57.299 so if you go on marketplace look up military 00:12:57.299 --> 00:13:01.980 mre case b has to be case b because case a and 00:13:01.980 --> 00:13:05.360 case c are both more expensive but case b comes 00:13:05.360 --> 00:13:07.779 with cheese tortellini mexican rice and bean 00:13:07.779 --> 00:13:10.840 bowl mexican style chicken stew chicken burrito 00:13:10.840 --> 00:13:15.340 bowl pork sausage patty beef ravioli, jalapeno 00:13:15.340 --> 00:13:18.000 pepper jack beef patty, Italian sausage with 00:13:18.000 --> 00:13:21.080 peppers and onions, lemon pepper tuna, beef goulash, 00:13:21.320 --> 00:13:24.440 pepperoni pizza slice, and southwest style beef 00:13:24.440 --> 00:13:29.700 and black beans. They're okay. You're going to 00:13:29.700 --> 00:13:33.299 be able to eat a different meal every day. There's 00:13:33.299 --> 00:13:35.600 more than enough calories in every meal at that 00:13:35.600 --> 00:13:37.940 point. You could honestly eat one of them a day 00:13:37.940 --> 00:13:42.710 and be fine calorie wise. Right. Because there's 00:13:42.710 --> 00:13:45.149 like 1 ,500 calories per one dude. It's a lot. 00:13:45.409 --> 00:13:48.750 Yeah Yeah, I mean that's a good idea for so like 00:13:48.750 --> 00:13:52.490 I've used dehydrated meals not MREs but dehydrated 00:13:52.490 --> 00:13:56.070 meals as replacements or Lazy Day meals and stuff 00:13:56.070 --> 00:13:59.230 like that. So I mean and honestly, they're not 00:13:59.230 --> 00:14:02.529 bad like as I'd like to say, you know, they make 00:14:02.529 --> 00:14:08.090 a turd Alex's screen is do you see my camera? 00:14:08.250 --> 00:14:14.620 Yes, we do Come on. Stay with us, man So, yeah, 00:14:14.740 --> 00:14:19.000 I mean, the MRE thing is an interesting idea 00:14:19.000 --> 00:14:26.059 to do. We'll move into mine here. And let me 00:14:26.059 --> 00:14:28.700 scroll. Oh, well, let me go into Derek. Derek. 00:14:29.530 --> 00:14:32.649 Vespro from Facebook, he commented on it. And 00:14:32.649 --> 00:14:34.509 this is probably more of a joke because he's 00:14:34.509 --> 00:14:36.549 got a big family. I know he's not serious about 00:14:36.549 --> 00:14:40.350 this, but he said $20 in hot dogs, $20 in bush 00:14:40.350 --> 00:14:43.590 lattes, and 10 leftover for condiments and buns. 00:14:44.710 --> 00:14:48.149 So everybody knows Derek likes his wieners. So, 00:14:48.169 --> 00:14:51.909 yeah, I mean, everybody knows that. And hot dogs 00:14:51.909 --> 00:14:55.710 are honestly a great camp meal, so you can't 00:14:55.710 --> 00:15:01.909 really count them out. Yeah, I I Mean he's not 00:15:01.909 --> 00:15:05.429 serious, but to be fair. He only just got a grill 00:15:05.429 --> 00:15:09.990 like this last season So I don't know how he 00:15:09.990 --> 00:15:11.830 was cooking before. I think he was just using 00:15:11.830 --> 00:15:16.330 other people's fires and grills and stuff He 00:15:16.330 --> 00:15:18.590 would just eat everyone else's food. Yeah, man. 00:15:18.590 --> 00:15:22.990 It's easy. It wasn't even Yeah, I'm still here 00:15:22.990 --> 00:15:25.470 my camera just died so I don't know if my camera 00:15:25.470 --> 00:15:29.559 just broke or what but that's okay It gives me 00:15:29.559 --> 00:15:35.440 something to not look at. Oh, fine. So mine, 00:15:36.139 --> 00:15:39.919 and I usually do the planning for our food. And 00:15:39.919 --> 00:15:44.940 this is a meal set that is a typical meal set 00:15:44.940 --> 00:15:47.779 for us, because we try to keep things kind of 00:15:47.779 --> 00:15:49.899 budgeted unless we have extra money to spend. 00:15:50.940 --> 00:15:53.240 If we do, then we'll kind of go closer to the 00:15:53.240 --> 00:15:57.350 $75 to $100 range. For a weekend, we try to keep 00:15:57.350 --> 00:16:01.950 it at 50. So Friday night, pesto ravioli. You 00:16:01.950 --> 00:16:05.370 get the refrigerated raviolis and a jar of pesto, 00:16:05.889 --> 00:16:09.110 and it's super fast, super easy to make. Boil 00:16:09.110 --> 00:16:11.409 the ravioli for a couple minutes, throw the pesto 00:16:11.409 --> 00:16:13.710 in there, throw a little shredded cheese if you 00:16:13.710 --> 00:16:18.090 want, you're good. Saturday morning, egg, ham 00:16:18.090 --> 00:16:21.529 breakfast burritos. So, I mean, that's pretty 00:16:21.529 --> 00:16:26.279 easy. Let's see. Saturday lunch ham sandwiches. 00:16:26.980 --> 00:16:29.340 So the ham for the breakfast burritos, the sandwich 00:16:29.340 --> 00:16:33.360 meat ham or sliced thicker sliced ham that you 00:16:33.360 --> 00:16:37.080 can use for sandwiches too. That's pretty smart. 00:16:37.740 --> 00:16:39.720 Yeah. So a lot of the times what I try to do 00:16:39.720 --> 00:16:42.960 is keep a lot of ingredients that kind of like 00:16:42.960 --> 00:16:46.159 cross reference over into another meal. which 00:16:46.159 --> 00:16:49.000 is for another one. I'll have ham sandwiches 00:16:49.000 --> 00:16:52.019 with the lettuce and tomatoes. Saturday dinner, 00:16:52.179 --> 00:16:55.139 we'll do red beans and rice with andouille sausage. 00:16:56.580 --> 00:17:00.100 And then breakfast, we'll do like eggs and spam. 00:17:00.399 --> 00:17:04.740 But with the breakfast burritos, Saturday morning, 00:17:04.880 --> 00:17:07.700 the egg ham breakfast burritos, I can use lettuce 00:17:07.700 --> 00:17:09.859 and tomatoes on that too, along with shredded 00:17:09.859 --> 00:17:13.480 cheese. which also goes into the rice and beans, 00:17:13.539 --> 00:17:16.380 which also goes into the pesto ravioli. So like 00:17:16.380 --> 00:17:19.099 everything cross references a little bit keeps 00:17:19.099 --> 00:17:22.200 your, you know, you can use pretty much everything 00:17:22.200 --> 00:17:27.619 with everything. So, yeah, so that is mine. My 00:17:27.619 --> 00:17:29.700 wife even came up with one, which is surprising. 00:17:30.660 --> 00:17:36.619 And she said two steaks, mashed potatoes with 00:17:36.619 --> 00:17:40.240 mac and cheese, hot dogs, buns for the toddler. 00:17:41.039 --> 00:17:46.279 Dr. Pepper juice tortillas for Steak breakfast 00:17:46.279 --> 00:17:48.640 tacos and some shredded cheese and hot sauce 00:17:48.640 --> 00:17:51.759 for topping and Sunday we wouldn't really have 00:17:51.759 --> 00:17:55.599 a breakfast Which we typically don't that morning. 00:17:55.619 --> 00:17:57.799 We're packing up and leaving so she had a point 00:17:57.799 --> 00:18:01.500 there, but Yeah, so most the time too. We might 00:18:01.500 --> 00:18:04.779 do coffee Yeah, like I'll have a pop tart or 00:18:04.779 --> 00:18:06.380 something if that's in the budget or something 00:18:06.380 --> 00:18:10.329 like that, but yeah two steaks We usually get 00:18:10.329 --> 00:18:12.609 little bigger steaks, so we only eat half of 00:18:12.609 --> 00:18:16.450 those. The mashed potatoes, mac and cheese, we 00:18:16.450 --> 00:18:17.930 usually have with that. So you don't have to 00:18:17.930 --> 00:18:20.390 have a lot of the steak, as much as I would love 00:18:20.390 --> 00:18:25.130 it. We would save it. Hot dogs and buns for lunch. 00:18:26.170 --> 00:18:28.750 Then we do steak breakfast tacos, some shredded 00:18:28.750 --> 00:18:31.390 cheese. That's another one of those I kind of 00:18:31.390 --> 00:18:35.279 cross -references a little bit. We had... one 00:18:35.279 --> 00:18:38.559 entry and he kind of took the Alex's side on 00:18:38.559 --> 00:18:41.740 this too, which he's single, which that makes 00:18:41.740 --> 00:18:43.880 a little bit more sense. But he said sweet potatoes 00:18:43.880 --> 00:18:48.539 and chicken for the whole weekend, which is a 00:18:48.539 --> 00:18:51.400 healthy meal. And honestly, sweet potatoes and 00:18:51.400 --> 00:18:54.450 chicken is a great pair. Dude, and if you do 00:18:54.450 --> 00:18:56.750 it right you just wrap the sweet potato in tin 00:18:56.750 --> 00:18:58.970 foil and set it in the coals of a fire Yeah, 00:18:58.970 --> 00:19:02.029 let it cook for a few hours Maybe put a lip cut 00:19:02.029 --> 00:19:04.170 a wedge in it put a little bit of butter a little 00:19:04.170 --> 00:19:06.730 bit of honey and just let it cook there and then 00:19:06.730 --> 00:19:09.029 coals Oh my god, dude. That is sweet potatoes. 00:19:09.029 --> 00:19:12.849 That is prime Prime campsite. Yeah right there. 00:19:12.849 --> 00:19:15.210 I used to hate sweet potatoes actually because 00:19:15.210 --> 00:19:18.859 I just didn't like that sweet potato taste Um, 00:19:19.220 --> 00:19:21.039 but I've come around to them quite a bit. I started 00:19:21.039 --> 00:19:23.160 buying them a lot lately. They're healthier for 00:19:23.160 --> 00:19:26.380 you than some. Yeah. And they're, and they're 00:19:26.380 --> 00:19:28.140 good. So I like throw them in the oven, throw 00:19:28.140 --> 00:19:31.180 some butter into them and we'll just eat them 00:19:31.180 --> 00:19:33.339 like that. But yeah, they make good, they're, 00:19:33.339 --> 00:19:37.359 they're a good flavor enhancer to like a chicken. 00:19:38.339 --> 00:19:41.799 They cook in. You could actually do that whole 00:19:41.799 --> 00:19:44.240 thing cut the chicken up cut the sweet potato 00:19:44.240 --> 00:19:48.200 up Maybe add I like half a stick of butter which 00:19:48.200 --> 00:19:50.140 sounds high depends on how big of a bill you're 00:19:50.140 --> 00:19:52.579 making Yeah, but add a bunch of butter sprinkle 00:19:52.579 --> 00:19:54.920 in a little bit of seasoning. Just put that in 00:19:54.920 --> 00:19:57.480 the coals We call that a hobo packet Yeah, and 00:19:57.480 --> 00:20:01.400 out comes an amazing perfectly cooked meal if 00:20:01.400 --> 00:20:04.019 you let it cook long enough, which I never do 00:20:04.019 --> 00:20:08.130 Yeah chicken you want to make sure but for me 00:20:08.130 --> 00:20:09.650 too I mean if I know I'm gonna have something 00:20:09.650 --> 00:20:13.170 that's gonna take a lot of prep time let's say 00:20:13.170 --> 00:20:16.190 potatoes or I'm gonna have a lot of chicken that 00:20:16.190 --> 00:20:19.730 weekend like one weekend we did a like a full 00:20:19.730 --> 00:20:22.789 pack of chicken from Meyer and I took Saturday 00:20:22.789 --> 00:20:26.049 morning and just cooked the whole pack of chicken 00:20:26.049 --> 00:20:29.589 I made some just straight chicken breast I did 00:20:29.589 --> 00:20:34.839 some cut up for chicken tacos And then I did 00:20:34.839 --> 00:20:38.480 some for chicken alfredo. So, so we had like, 00:20:38.720 --> 00:20:40.740 you know, the whole weekend with just one protein 00:20:40.740 --> 00:20:45.299 and that was fine. So. Yeah. I, especially going 00:20:45.299 --> 00:20:48.079 into this season, I plan on prepping most of 00:20:48.079 --> 00:20:50.339 the food at home before we even leave. Yeah. 00:20:50.420 --> 00:20:53.200 So that I don't, all I have to do is throw it 00:20:53.200 --> 00:20:55.240 on the stove and cook it. We don't have to do 00:20:55.240 --> 00:20:57.200 anything else. Yeah. Things like sweet potatoes 00:20:57.200 --> 00:20:59.099 and stuff. You could have that cut and cubed 00:20:59.099 --> 00:21:03.049 thrown in a Ziploc bag. already washed, already 00:21:03.049 --> 00:21:06.990 done, or you could have your vegetables already 00:21:06.990 --> 00:21:09.990 pre -chopped and cut. There's a lot of stuff 00:21:09.990 --> 00:21:11.470 that you could do to make it a little smoother 00:21:11.470 --> 00:21:14.349 on you. I like kind of the whole process of doing 00:21:14.349 --> 00:21:17.269 it all outside, so I don't do it a whole lot. 00:21:18.329 --> 00:21:21.470 When I was a kid, my dad would make all of our 00:21:21.470 --> 00:21:24.109 meals in hobo packets before we left for camping, 00:21:24.650 --> 00:21:26.490 and then when he put them all in a cooler, and 00:21:26.490 --> 00:21:28.210 then when we were camping, he'd just throw hobo 00:21:28.210 --> 00:21:30.970 packets on the fire. let them cook and that was 00:21:30.970 --> 00:21:33.769 it. There was no prep. It was just grab and go. 00:21:33.930 --> 00:21:37.349 Yeah. No, that's pretty cool too. Um we have 00:21:37.349 --> 00:21:41.609 a oh we have one from Zach. He kinda did a full 00:21:41.609 --> 00:21:44.170 thing too. He says he just got a flat uh flat 00:21:44.170 --> 00:21:46.950 top section on my grill. Now, I have the ability 00:21:46.950 --> 00:21:50.369 to make our family all sorts of different uh 00:21:50.369 --> 00:21:53.750 meals for our camping this year. He said, Friday 00:21:53.750 --> 00:21:56.549 night, we try to do smash burgers. Super easy. 00:21:56.650 --> 00:21:59.619 One pound of meat and an iron and a press. Buns 00:21:59.619 --> 00:22:02.079 and condiments, cheese, chips, keep it simple. 00:22:03.519 --> 00:22:05.700 We just got to camp, s'mores would be the end 00:22:05.700 --> 00:22:08.680 of the night. Saturday morning, pancakes are 00:22:08.680 --> 00:22:12.799 super easy. Battered water makes pour or flip. 00:22:13.660 --> 00:22:16.000 Butter and syrup are easy to keep. Fresh fruit 00:22:16.000 --> 00:22:19.400 to serve with it. Saturday lunch, my family loves 00:22:19.400 --> 00:22:22.339 just a cold sandwich. PB &J for the kids on white 00:22:22.339 --> 00:22:26.440 bread. Chips, yogurt, banana maybe for us. Uh, 00:22:26.500 --> 00:22:28.220 turkey and cheese, a little mustard and mayo 00:22:28.220 --> 00:22:31.240 and some chips and I'm good to go. Uh, Saturday 00:22:31.240 --> 00:22:34.480 dinner, ground some more burger. I don't think 00:22:34.480 --> 00:22:36.640 he meant like hand ground it, but I think he 00:22:36.640 --> 00:22:39.519 means just use some more ground beef. Mix it 00:22:39.519 --> 00:22:42.779 in taco seasoning. Hard shells tend to keep wells. 00:22:43.700 --> 00:22:45.720 Um, soft shells could be warmed up on the flat 00:22:45.720 --> 00:22:49.660 top. Cheese toppings, chips and salsa. And did 00:22:49.660 --> 00:22:52.559 somebody say s'mores again? Which s'mores are 00:22:52.559 --> 00:22:56.440 a great dessert. It doesn't really matter. Sunday 00:22:56.440 --> 00:22:58.519 morning, eggs on the flat top, what are left 00:22:58.519 --> 00:23:01.140 over for the fruit? Usually this is when we just 00:23:01.140 --> 00:23:04.240 eat whatever with it that's left over snack wise, 00:23:04.680 --> 00:23:07.500 and 90 % of the time we're packing up after breakfast. 00:23:08.779 --> 00:23:10.680 Pretty much when shopping smart, I can get everything 00:23:10.680 --> 00:23:14.039 well under $50 for the most of, and the most 00:23:14.039 --> 00:23:17.519 expensive thing is burger. Yeah, I mean everything 00:23:17.519 --> 00:23:20.640 that he said is kind of, I think other than smash 00:23:20.640 --> 00:23:22.759 burgers, I don't really do that much. Like pancakes 00:23:22.759 --> 00:23:25.829 are super easy, and a lot of the times, like 00:23:25.829 --> 00:23:28.789 you have pancake mix at home and you don't go 00:23:28.789 --> 00:23:30.710 through all of your pancake mix like I have a 00:23:30.710 --> 00:23:33.910 big ass box I'll throw half a box in a ziplock 00:23:33.910 --> 00:23:37.690 bag throw it in a drawer and then I'll take that 00:23:37.690 --> 00:23:40.390 pancake mix and mix it up with some water so 00:23:40.390 --> 00:23:42.109 some there's a lot of ways you could do this 00:23:42.109 --> 00:23:44.690 that you don't really spend any money at the 00:23:44.690 --> 00:23:47.869 time of camping like you can use at home things 00:23:47.869 --> 00:23:51.490 cook some rice at home store it take it out with 00:23:51.490 --> 00:23:55.579 you rice rice I wouldn't store Rice? Rice grows 00:23:55.579 --> 00:23:58.259 all sorts of bacteria when you store it in the 00:23:58.259 --> 00:24:01.720 fridge. Well, I cook rice and people make fried 00:24:01.720 --> 00:24:04.119 rice all the time for the next day. So I think 00:24:04.119 --> 00:24:05.519 it's just one of those things like, yeah, I'm 00:24:05.519 --> 00:24:08.619 not keeping it for three days. But for my first 00:24:08.619 --> 00:24:11.400 dinner, I'll have the most perishable foods first, 00:24:11.819 --> 00:24:14.880 which is typically what I do. It's a very good 00:24:14.880 --> 00:24:17.519 way to do things. Yeah. So and then I had one 00:24:17.519 --> 00:24:21.539 more from Jake. I think his last name is Klawski. 00:24:21.640 --> 00:24:24.690 I don't remember, but. We also have one from 00:24:24.690 --> 00:24:28.069 Shane. Oh good. Yeah, you're right So he said 00:24:28.069 --> 00:24:32.210 if I had 50 for my family of five which that's 00:24:32.210 --> 00:24:34.890 where it kind of gets more tricky, but he goes 00:24:34.890 --> 00:24:39.450 I would do tacos and breakfast burritos hobo 00:24:39.450 --> 00:24:43.609 pizzas hobo pies and lunch meat cheese and crackers 00:24:43.609 --> 00:24:47.210 for lunches That's two dinners two breakfasts 00:24:47.210 --> 00:24:49.789 and two lunches. I would use eggs and bread for 00:24:49.789 --> 00:24:53.380 toast on day two. So that is super cheap. And 00:24:53.380 --> 00:24:55.539 this is where it kind of goes back to what we 00:24:55.539 --> 00:24:57.220 were saying earlier about like cross -referencing 00:24:57.220 --> 00:24:59.680 different ingredients for different meals. You 00:24:59.680 --> 00:25:02.779 know, you have your, you have, you could do all 00:25:02.779 --> 00:25:06.059 of your ground beef, two pounds or so of it, 00:25:06.420 --> 00:25:08.460 do tacos in the morning, use the leftovers for 00:25:08.460 --> 00:25:11.900 breakfast burritos in the morning. You could 00:25:11.900 --> 00:25:14.420 put them, and then you have hobo pizzas and hobo 00:25:14.420 --> 00:25:19.819 pies. You already have the bread and for the 00:25:19.819 --> 00:25:24.259 toast and stuff, meat and cheese already, so 00:25:24.259 --> 00:25:28.200 that stuff crosses over pretty easily. Does anyone 00:25:28.200 --> 00:25:30.960 bring a hobo pie maker with them on these trips? 00:25:31.460 --> 00:25:35.720 I haven't either. I have them on the top of my 00:25:35.720 --> 00:25:37.839 fridge and we used them when I first started 00:25:37.839 --> 00:25:41.019 out and they were pretty good, but I just kept 00:25:41.019 --> 00:25:44.250 losing them. and they were kind of big to like 00:25:44.250 --> 00:25:47.490 store so I think now all I have is like hot dog 00:25:47.490 --> 00:25:49.609 sticks and I don't even take those out I'll still 00:25:49.609 --> 00:25:53.089 find a stick around camp and use it before I 00:25:53.089 --> 00:25:57.170 go back and find it so yeah I mean other than 00:25:57.170 --> 00:26:00.170 that yeah that's a really good one too hobo pies 00:26:00.170 --> 00:26:02.450 are great anyway and this is not like hobo lunch 00:26:02.450 --> 00:26:04.990 is like what Alex was saying like wrap it in 00:26:04.990 --> 00:26:08.589 tin foil and throw it in the fire there's it's 00:26:08.589 --> 00:26:11.349 like a cast iron square that you put bread in 00:26:11.440 --> 00:26:14.759 some tomato sauce, cheese and pepperonis, put 00:26:14.759 --> 00:26:17.039 another piece of bread with butter on it, throw 00:26:17.039 --> 00:26:19.839 it in the fire and it makes like a pizza pocket 00:26:19.839 --> 00:26:22.859 basically. Yeah. So if you haven't seen a hobo 00:26:22.859 --> 00:26:25.859 pizza pie maker, then you're missing out. Those 00:26:25.859 --> 00:26:29.539 have been staples for like camp food when I was 00:26:29.539 --> 00:26:33.440 a kid. We ate those all the time, dude. Dude, 00:26:33.440 --> 00:26:35.440 and I was I was looking to see if there's like 00:26:35.440 --> 00:26:38.039 collapsible ones out there and they're just aren't. 00:26:38.180 --> 00:26:41.720 No. I would love to have one that we bring with 00:26:41.720 --> 00:26:44.599 us. They just take up so much space. Mm hmm. 00:26:45.359 --> 00:26:47.000 Yeah, you kind of have to pick and choose and 00:26:47.000 --> 00:26:50.500 really like if I wanted to make something kind 00:26:50.500 --> 00:26:54.240 of like a hobo pizza, I could like throw it on 00:26:54.240 --> 00:26:56.680 a pan, like make a grilled cheese style. But 00:26:56.680 --> 00:27:01.380 like, you don't get the whole experience. But 00:27:01.380 --> 00:27:05.660 yeah. So we got Shane, too. He's our last one, 00:27:05.660 --> 00:27:11.319 officially. He said. Dinner. Two boxes of Velveeta 00:27:11.319 --> 00:27:14.140 Philly cheese steak. One pound of ground turkey 00:27:14.140 --> 00:27:17.319 slash beef. Jack Daniel's steak seasoning. Fresh 00:27:17.319 --> 00:27:20.700 green peppers. That's 15 to 20 dollars. He said 00:27:20.700 --> 00:27:23.839 breakfast the next day. Eggs. Pre -baked biscuits. 00:27:24.259 --> 00:27:29.559 Sausage and gravy. Fuck yes. And then lunch. 00:27:29.660 --> 00:27:34.000 Sandwiches with leftover bacon. Second day dinner. 00:27:34.279 --> 00:27:37.220 Burgers. Fried eggs. And any remaining eggs. 00:27:37.380 --> 00:27:40.529 Oh, from any remaining eggs. So yeah. Yeah, that's 00:27:40.529 --> 00:27:41.990 a good one, too. I mean, you already have the 00:27:41.990 --> 00:27:47.609 burger for the cheesesteak. So burgers, fried 00:27:47.609 --> 00:27:50.049 eggs, that only makes sense. Another really good 00:27:50.049 --> 00:27:54.490 one. Honestly, I might try his two boxes of Velveeta 00:27:54.490 --> 00:27:57.470 Philly cheesesteak. That sounds really good. 00:27:57.470 --> 00:28:02.390 That is a really good recipe. So he for third 00:28:02.390 --> 00:28:05.349 gen weekend. It is after this last one. We did 00:28:05.349 --> 00:28:08.910 a potluck day Yeah, and that is now like he is 00:28:08.910 --> 00:28:12.109 mandated to make that every freaking time. Yeah, 00:28:12.150 --> 00:28:16.309 that's good. I think the pre -baked biscuits 00:28:16.309 --> 00:28:19.269 and Baked sausage if I could find pre -baked 00:28:19.269 --> 00:28:22.789 biscuits Or I guess I could just pre -bake them. 00:28:22.789 --> 00:28:24.670 I didn't really think of that. That's probably 00:28:24.670 --> 00:28:28.509 what he means, but uh, yeah biscuits and gravy 00:28:28.839 --> 00:28:32.279 Oh, that's so good. I've talked about it before, 00:28:32.460 --> 00:28:35.759 but, uh, the dehydrated meals peak biscuits and 00:28:35.759 --> 00:28:38.420 gravy. I don't know why, but I absolutely love 00:28:38.420 --> 00:28:41.779 it. Like I love that meal. Like an actual meal. 00:28:42.079 --> 00:28:44.500 Like I, as far as dehydrated meals go, that's 00:28:44.500 --> 00:28:48.099 a nine out of 10 for me. But you know, who's 00:28:48.099 --> 00:28:50.779 a biscuits and gravy is hot fucking garbage and 00:28:50.779 --> 00:28:53.279 no one should ever eat it. Uh, mountain house, 00:28:54.119 --> 00:28:58.619 the armies. Oh my God, dude. So It like it tastes 00:28:58.619 --> 00:29:02.799 metallic. It's that bad. Yeah, that that sounds 00:29:02.799 --> 00:29:07.380 rough. I still eat it, though. Yeah, I mean, 00:29:07.460 --> 00:29:09.500 at the end of the day, food is food. And like 00:29:09.500 --> 00:29:12.299 you obviously we all use what we can for budget. 00:29:12.619 --> 00:29:17.700 But the old idea of this, I guess, prompt was 00:29:17.700 --> 00:29:22.039 to see what everybody could think of. You know, 00:29:22.099 --> 00:29:24.279 Alex, it would be kind of interesting if you 00:29:24.279 --> 00:29:27.789 told A .I. to give you a camp menu for less than 00:29:27.789 --> 00:29:31.150 $50. That would be an interesting thing to see 00:29:31.150 --> 00:29:34.470 what AI would come up with. So he's typing it 00:29:34.470 --> 00:29:38.410 out. See what our good friend over at ChatGPT 00:29:38.410 --> 00:29:40.609 has to say. Yeah, I'm just curious what they 00:29:40.609 --> 00:29:43.910 would say. What do you think, Mark? Oh, I was 00:29:43.910 --> 00:29:46.130 going to say I didn't really have much for this 00:29:46.130 --> 00:29:48.750 topic because one, it was very short term for 00:29:48.750 --> 00:29:52.309 me to even think about budget -wise. Yeah. But 00:29:52.309 --> 00:29:55.500 a good thing that we've been doing is Became 00:29:55.500 --> 00:29:58.500 a staple for us for camping is we do walking 00:29:58.500 --> 00:30:01.779 taco for a night Yeah, and usually we buy like 00:30:01.779 --> 00:30:05.319 a big bay a big box of random sort of chips So 00:30:05.319 --> 00:30:07.559 yeah, you got it for that night and then you 00:30:07.559 --> 00:30:09.880 just got chips for the rest of the weekend Yeah, 00:30:10.240 --> 00:30:12.299 yeah walking tacos are good too because you could 00:30:12.299 --> 00:30:15.400 do a lot with the ground beef, right? So you 00:30:15.400 --> 00:30:18.339 get two pounds of ground beef one pound for walking 00:30:18.339 --> 00:30:20.940 tacos and then that might be a little too much 00:30:20.940 --> 00:30:24.200 for just a couple people but You do the one pound 00:30:24.200 --> 00:30:27.000 for walking tacos. Then the next day you could 00:30:27.000 --> 00:30:31.839 do You know sandwiches Then for dinner you could 00:30:31.839 --> 00:30:34.000 have burgers with the ground beef and then have 00:30:34.000 --> 00:30:36.619 chips on the side So there are definitely ways 00:30:36.619 --> 00:30:38.720 to get around it. I think with the bigger families, 00:30:38.720 --> 00:30:41.960 obviously, it's a little harder but I think it's 00:30:41.960 --> 00:30:44.099 just a cool way for everybody to kind of get 00:30:44.099 --> 00:30:46.839 other ideas for foods that they're making I think 00:30:46.839 --> 00:30:49.180 like we kind of fell into the slump towards the 00:30:49.180 --> 00:30:52.160 end of the summer that we were making the same 00:30:52.160 --> 00:30:55.720 things over and over and over and You'd only 00:30:55.720 --> 00:30:59.559 have so many hot dogs and like Jambalaya like 00:30:59.559 --> 00:31:01.799 I make a lot of jambalaya is it's really easy. 00:31:03.180 --> 00:31:05.799 I Gotta hand it to chat GPT. This is a banging 00:31:05.799 --> 00:31:10.220 menu. All right day one breakfast oatmeal bananas 00:31:10.220 --> 00:31:16.039 and coffee, okay lunch PB &J sandwiches and chips 00:31:16.039 --> 00:31:21.099 dinner hot dogs and baked beans day two breakfast 00:31:21.099 --> 00:31:24.859 egg and tortilla breakfast tacos uh lunch tuna 00:31:24.859 --> 00:31:28.900 packet tuna packets and crackers dinner sausage 00:31:28.900 --> 00:31:32.420 and potato onion and foil packs hubble packets 00:31:32.420 --> 00:31:38.039 yeah day three breakfast pancakes and syrup lunch 00:31:38.039 --> 00:31:41.519 ramen with egg mixed in dinner rice and canned 00:31:41.519 --> 00:31:45.880 chili plus cheese day four oatmeal and leftover 00:31:45.880 --> 00:31:50.079 pancakes lunch grilled cheese dinner, mac and 00:31:50.079 --> 00:31:55.559 cheese with sliced hot dogs or tuna. What's really 00:31:55.559 --> 00:31:59.720 cool is it actually gave me a grocery list and 00:31:59.720 --> 00:32:02.000 then gave me a realistic price breakdown, which 00:32:02.000 --> 00:32:06.480 comes out to $48 to $50 based on Walmart or Aldi 00:32:06.480 --> 00:32:11.299 budget brands. Then also gave me cheap camping 00:32:11.299 --> 00:32:14.940 hacks like rice and bean slash chili stretches 00:32:14.940 --> 00:32:18.680 any meal Oh, they also said that snacks would 00:32:18.680 --> 00:32:22.779 be trail mixer peanuts and granola bars But rice 00:32:22.779 --> 00:32:25.240 beans and chili stretch any meal slice sausage 00:32:25.240 --> 00:32:28.180 thin to make it last longer add eggs to ramen 00:32:28.180 --> 00:32:31.519 for protein Make extra dinners the next or make 00:32:31.519 --> 00:32:33.720 extra dinner so that the next day you can use 00:32:33.720 --> 00:32:36.819 it for lunch Bring spices slash hot sauce from 00:32:36.819 --> 00:32:42.240 home Yeah, dude, this is that's solid. That's 00:32:42.240 --> 00:32:44.240 a solid and that's funny because I don't really 00:32:44.240 --> 00:32:46.079 think of oatmeal that much I used to have it 00:32:46.079 --> 00:32:50.440 a ton as a kid and But oatmeal is a really really 00:32:50.440 --> 00:32:52.779 good cheap way to have a good breakfast with 00:32:52.779 --> 00:32:56.660 in a like a balanced breakfast like So like oatmeal 00:32:56.660 --> 00:32:59.319 and some sliced bananas or some berries. Yeah, 00:32:59.319 --> 00:33:06.029 that's that's a solid choice So yeah Just for 00:33:06.029 --> 00:33:08.170 shits and giggles. I'm gonna ask it to stretch 00:33:08.170 --> 00:33:11.130 that to six days Yeah, cuz that was that was 00:33:11.130 --> 00:33:15.069 more meals really than what we'd even need Yeah, 00:33:15.230 --> 00:33:20.150 I think it did like what four or five days Yeah, 00:33:20.190 --> 00:33:23.670 we did four days or did for I asked it to do 00:33:23.670 --> 00:33:28.130 four days and It goes yes, but we've got to be 00:33:28.130 --> 00:33:30.450 realistic about one thing fifty dollars divided 00:33:30.450 --> 00:33:33.630 by three people divided by six days equals two 00:33:33.630 --> 00:33:36.890 dollars and seventy five Sense per person per 00:33:36.890 --> 00:33:42.369 day Yeah, that's yeah, that's that's fair But 00:33:42.369 --> 00:33:47.029 I mean it how close does it get me still 48 to 00:33:47.029 --> 00:33:51.150 50 with six days Still oatmeal banana PB &J it 00:33:51.150 --> 00:33:55.009 cut out coffee Interesting enough. Yeah rice 00:33:55.009 --> 00:33:58.410 and beans pasta and canned chili on day two for 00:33:58.410 --> 00:34:03.140 dinner Ramen, egg, and veggies for day three. 00:34:03.259 --> 00:34:05.539 I'm looking mostly at dinners here because breakfast 00:34:05.539 --> 00:34:09.199 is like the same thing. Yeah. Potato and sausage 00:34:09.199 --> 00:34:14.219 hash for day four. Again, rice, beans and cheese 00:34:14.219 --> 00:34:18.119 burritos for day five. And then mac and cheese 00:34:18.119 --> 00:34:21.940 and hot dogs for day six. Like they did a... 00:34:21.940 --> 00:34:24.699 That could stretch for six days for three people 00:34:24.699 --> 00:34:29.690 under 50 bucks. I mean, it's not easy. No. No, 00:34:29.889 --> 00:34:34.469 and those are valid menu items that I can genuinely 00:34:34.469 --> 00:34:36.829 see under $50 too, like everything that they 00:34:36.829 --> 00:34:40.769 said. So yeah, that's a really good way too. 00:34:40.869 --> 00:34:44.170 I'm kind of glad we looked that up. Yeah, grilled 00:34:44.170 --> 00:34:46.969 cheese, that's a super cheap one. You already 00:34:46.969 --> 00:34:49.409 have the cheese and bread for sandwiches. You 00:34:49.409 --> 00:34:53.909 already have the butter for anything else. That's 00:34:53.909 --> 00:34:58.559 super versatile. And even the ramen if you have 00:34:58.559 --> 00:35:00.800 like let's say if you were to do ramen one night, 00:35:00.820 --> 00:35:05.460 you could do an egg You could slice up some Ham 00:35:05.460 --> 00:35:08.659 from sandwich meat. Yep, throw that into there 00:35:08.659 --> 00:35:10.719 if you have any veggies you could throw some 00:35:10.719 --> 00:35:13.739 veggies into that to make it kind of a bougie 00:35:13.739 --> 00:35:17.719 cheap ramen So yeah, there's ways to spice up 00:35:17.719 --> 00:35:21.639 super cheap meals to make them better. I Keep 00:35:21.639 --> 00:35:24.199 ramen in my truck at all times. Yeah, because 00:35:24.199 --> 00:35:28.489 even I mean, also keep MREs and dehydrated meals. 00:35:29.010 --> 00:35:32.150 But even if I, let's say I broke down on the 00:35:32.150 --> 00:35:34.010 side of the road and no one can, I don't have 00:35:34.010 --> 00:35:37.230 service for two days or something stupid. Like 00:35:37.230 --> 00:35:39.730 ramen's something I could just eat. Like I don't 00:35:39.730 --> 00:35:42.329 need to, I don't need to cook it. I can eat it 00:35:42.329 --> 00:35:45.789 dry. Um, and it's filling. I'm not saying it's 00:35:45.789 --> 00:35:48.369 good, but it's filling enough that I don't hurt. 00:35:48.510 --> 00:35:51.960 God, I remember in middle school. There was a 00:35:51.960 --> 00:35:53.719 trend going around where everyone was throwing 00:35:53.719 --> 00:35:56.420 ramen in Ziploc bags, throwing the seasoning 00:35:56.420 --> 00:35:59.300 in there, breaking it up and eating it as ramen 00:35:59.300 --> 00:36:03.519 chips dry. I also remember that. Yeah. So I mean, 00:36:03.659 --> 00:36:05.639 that's a that's a pretty good bet, too, especially 00:36:05.639 --> 00:36:07.980 as like a survival meal. And if and if you have 00:36:07.980 --> 00:36:09.760 like a hole put in your car or something like 00:36:09.760 --> 00:36:12.360 that and a bunch of superglue, you could throw 00:36:12.360 --> 00:36:14.619 the ramen in the hole, superglue it over and 00:36:14.619 --> 00:36:18.039 you have like homemade bondo, too. So, hell yeah. 00:36:18.199 --> 00:36:21.070 Yeah. I mean, ramen, if there's a Pothole that's 00:36:21.070 --> 00:36:23.070 too big in the road. You just fill it with a 00:36:23.070 --> 00:36:25.949 bunch of ramen Yes, if you get if you get stuck 00:36:25.949 --> 00:36:28.130 on the ice and you're sliding crunch up the ramen 00:36:28.130 --> 00:36:30.530 a bunch throw it under your toes You're out. 00:36:30.530 --> 00:36:33.289 Everyone just keep like a pack of six ramen. 00:36:33.309 --> 00:36:35.429 They're like three dollars. Just keep it in your 00:36:35.429 --> 00:36:40.730 truck fire starter ramen Fuck dude. Ramen is 00:36:40.730 --> 00:36:43.489 like that is the greatest gift God ever gave 00:36:43.489 --> 00:36:47.269 if you run out of seasoning ramen Crunch up the 00:36:47.269 --> 00:36:50.969 ramen. Yep. Boom Ramen is the most versatile 00:36:50.969 --> 00:36:52.829 food item in the kitchen. Yeah, I mean, you have 00:36:52.829 --> 00:36:57.170 seasoning packets there. You need reflective 00:36:57.170 --> 00:37:00.590 stuff so that you can try to like get people 00:37:00.590 --> 00:37:03.449 to stop. You could just run fish line and ramen 00:37:03.449 --> 00:37:09.050 packets across the road. Boom, dude. That's a 00:37:09.050 --> 00:37:11.829 little bit of a stretch, but but yeah, I mean, 00:37:12.110 --> 00:37:15.369 it's all about. Being able to stretch the food 00:37:15.369 --> 00:37:17.550 and stuff like hot dogs hot dogs are another 00:37:17.550 --> 00:37:20.510 good one Like obviously you can eat them as hot 00:37:20.510 --> 00:37:25.070 dogs. You could slice them up put them in macaroni 00:37:25.070 --> 00:37:28.409 Spam spam you can do spam sandwiches. You can 00:37:28.409 --> 00:37:30.829 use that as a bacon substitute for breakfast 00:37:30.829 --> 00:37:34.969 spam Spam has gotten stupid expensive. It has 00:37:34.969 --> 00:37:39.989 but it goes a really long way actually, so a 00:37:39.989 --> 00:37:43.380 can of spam which I eat frequently by the way, 00:37:43.960 --> 00:37:46.239 is it gives you more meat than you'd think. And 00:37:46.239 --> 00:37:50.300 when you slice it to, you know, half inch thick, 00:37:51.280 --> 00:37:53.500 three quarter inch thick, you can get like eight, 00:37:53.579 --> 00:37:57.599 10 slices out of it. And we always have, if we 00:37:57.599 --> 00:38:00.079 made like a can of spam for breakfast, we'd have 00:38:00.079 --> 00:38:02.920 like half a can left over, like worth of meat 00:38:02.920 --> 00:38:05.340 left over. And that's with us getting plenty 00:38:05.340 --> 00:38:11.590 of meat for breakfast. So. I typically will cook 00:38:11.590 --> 00:38:15.090 that up and then have kind of half left over, 00:38:15.130 --> 00:38:17.610 throw it in a Ziploc baggie, and it's already 00:38:17.610 --> 00:38:21.070 pretty crispy like bacon. Then I will cube it 00:38:21.070 --> 00:38:23.949 up and I can make breakfast burritos with it. 00:38:23.949 --> 00:38:27.730 Throw in some egg, then throw some shredded cheese 00:38:27.730 --> 00:38:30.449 and stuff in there. So spam is one of my go -tos. 00:38:30.550 --> 00:38:34.309 It's also a meat that's non -perishable. So I 00:38:34.309 --> 00:38:36.090 could just throw it in one of my drawers and 00:38:36.090 --> 00:38:38.309 I don't really have to worry about it going bad. 00:38:38.489 --> 00:38:41.190 So whatever I could do to kind of keep stuff 00:38:41.190 --> 00:38:45.190 out of the cooler freezer is that works for me. 00:38:47.250 --> 00:38:49.769 What about, yeah, but walking tacos is a really 00:38:49.769 --> 00:38:53.250 good idea. Dude, walking that has been our like 00:38:53.250 --> 00:38:57.320 camp staple this whole season. Yeah. Just because 00:38:57.320 --> 00:38:59.940 they're easy, they're cheap, they're fucking 00:38:59.940 --> 00:39:02.039 delicious. Yeah, I mean, one night you could 00:39:02.039 --> 00:39:05.340 do walking tacos. The next night, with the same 00:39:05.340 --> 00:39:10.000 ground beef, you could do Rotella dip. Yeah, 00:39:10.480 --> 00:39:15.420 exactly. Yeah, and we usually mix a can of corn 00:39:15.420 --> 00:39:20.360 in with our beef as we cook it. I do this, I 00:39:20.360 --> 00:39:22.719 do that with black beans. I strain some black 00:39:22.719 --> 00:39:25.559 beans and you could barely taste the black beans, 00:39:25.639 --> 00:39:27.699 but it stretches out. If you have like half a 00:39:27.699 --> 00:39:30.260 pound of ground beef, it's like adding another 00:39:30.260 --> 00:39:33.780 half a pound of protein. Like you can barely 00:39:33.780 --> 00:39:35.300 tell the black beans were there when they're 00:39:35.300 --> 00:39:40.719 all seasoned. What is that? Yeah, Alex. I clicked 00:39:40.719 --> 00:39:43.380 a reel about political stuff that we're not going 00:39:43.380 --> 00:39:46.039 to talk about on the podcast. But yeah, with 00:39:46.039 --> 00:39:47.719 black beans, you could really stretch it out 00:39:47.719 --> 00:39:51.320 too. So throwing in black beans, 98 cents a can. 00:39:51.940 --> 00:39:57.159 Corn, 99, 98 cents a can. So super easy. If you 00:39:57.159 --> 00:40:00.079 throw both of those in there, you have breakfast 00:40:00.079 --> 00:40:03.219 burritos, you have Velveeta Rotel mix, and you 00:40:03.219 --> 00:40:05.780 have walking tacos. That's already three meals 00:40:05.780 --> 00:40:09.760 with a pound and a half to... What's a pound 00:40:09.760 --> 00:40:13.400 of burger? Eight bucks. Two pound of burgers, 00:40:13.659 --> 00:40:16.340 about eight bucks. It depends. Are you doing 00:40:16.340 --> 00:40:19.559 cheap? Are you doing lean burger or are you doing 00:40:19.559 --> 00:40:21.840 cheap cheap? Cheap cheap is five dollars and 00:40:21.840 --> 00:40:24.800 sixty two cents. There you go. So that's fifteen 00:40:24.800 --> 00:40:27.500 dollars there if you used a pound of burger a 00:40:27.500 --> 00:40:30.900 day, which is probably a little much unless you 00:40:30.900 --> 00:40:35.269 guys are eating a good amount. But. If you if 00:40:35.269 --> 00:40:37.090 you don't make the burger the main part of the 00:40:37.090 --> 00:40:39.329 meal if you stretch it with like rice or pasta 00:40:39.329 --> 00:40:42.710 or something It's you won't go through that much 00:40:42.710 --> 00:40:45.690 But and that's what I recommend. I I recommend 00:40:45.690 --> 00:40:48.090 making the meat more of a flavor thing than the 00:40:48.090 --> 00:40:51.130 main product Because it's gonna make your food 00:40:51.130 --> 00:40:53.869 go a lot farther. Yeah Yeah, and if you're doing 00:40:53.869 --> 00:40:56.289 burger like the cheap cheap burger and you're 00:40:56.289 --> 00:40:59.829 gonna do multiple deals with burger in it Like 00:40:59.829 --> 00:41:02.860 you could do hamburger helper Like a family hamburger 00:41:02.860 --> 00:41:06.940 helper is like four bucks. Like for a box. You 00:41:06.940 --> 00:41:09.780 could do that one night and have leftover burger 00:41:09.780 --> 00:41:13.119 from Friday night that you did walking tacos 00:41:13.119 --> 00:41:16.079 with. So there you go. You got walking tacos 00:41:16.079 --> 00:41:20.139 one night. Like let's say a beef stroganoff for 00:41:20.139 --> 00:41:23.480 Saturday night. Then you have breakfast burritos. 00:41:23.619 --> 00:41:28.880 I mean chip dip, whatever. So beef is really 00:41:28.880 --> 00:41:32.010 good for that. It's like steaks. I try to do 00:41:32.010 --> 00:41:35.130 the same thing with steaks. I'll slice it up 00:41:35.130 --> 00:41:37.769 Try to eat only half of it if I can if I get 00:41:37.769 --> 00:41:40.190 the tiny ones like yeah as I mess a well and 00:41:40.190 --> 00:41:42.690 I just won't eat much the next day because I'm 00:41:42.690 --> 00:41:44.989 kind of a fucking pig when it comes to steak 00:41:44.989 --> 00:41:49.329 so But no, I mean all good options all good options. 00:41:49.329 --> 00:41:52.750 I would say snacks are kind of like the drinks 00:41:52.750 --> 00:41:56.550 kind of like the hardest part really Yeah because 00:41:56.550 --> 00:41:58.250 they're the most expensive part for me. Like, 00:41:58.449 --> 00:42:01.570 I like having monsters with me. Like for everybody. 00:42:02.690 --> 00:42:07.889 I like beer. Yeah, I like beer a lot. I don't 00:42:07.889 --> 00:42:10.429 I don't think I could do it under $50 because 00:42:10.429 --> 00:42:13.909 of beer. And Mark, your comment about us going 00:42:13.909 --> 00:42:17.469 over what I said in the group chat pretty regularly. 00:42:17.869 --> 00:42:21.130 If you think about it, at least $30 of that was 00:42:21.130 --> 00:42:24.239 beer. Yeah, but I remember us splitting a bill 00:42:24.239 --> 00:42:27.179 and we each had like over $100 for the whole 00:42:27.179 --> 00:42:30.519 group for a week. But we were not being budget 00:42:30.519 --> 00:42:34.260 that week. We were being bougie. I think we're 00:42:34.260 --> 00:42:36.139 still being budget though, because I remember 00:42:36.139 --> 00:42:38.300 putting stuff back because we found it cheaper. 00:42:39.880 --> 00:42:41.940 I mean, we were being bougie, but we weren't 00:42:41.940 --> 00:42:44.139 being stupid. Yeah, you were being price -conscious. 00:42:44.400 --> 00:42:46.760 I mean, yeah, I mean, that works. Mark made some 00:42:46.760 --> 00:42:51.380 bomb -ass fish tacos. I like I don't see Mark 00:42:51.380 --> 00:42:54.679 like cook a lot. So like not anything against 00:42:54.679 --> 00:42:57.400 Mark, but I wasn't expecting much when he said 00:42:57.400 --> 00:43:00.480 he was going to make tacos, which is really funny 00:43:00.480 --> 00:43:03.400 because Mark went to school for culinary arts 00:43:03.400 --> 00:43:07.619 and was a cook. I did for like three years. Yeah, 00:43:07.699 --> 00:43:11.619 I didn't know that. I mostly want to do bakery 00:43:11.619 --> 00:43:15.619 more than actual cooking. But, dude, you have 00:43:15.619 --> 00:43:18.900 to get a Coleman camp oven and bake us some damn 00:43:18.900 --> 00:43:21.559 bread. We talk about this. Hey, did you see they 00:43:21.559 --> 00:43:24.039 don't make that anymore? I know. I'm going to 00:43:24.039 --> 00:43:27.820 buy one off a marketplace. Yeah. Dude, Mark, 00:43:28.079 --> 00:43:30.380 you've been holding out on us motherfucker. I 00:43:30.380 --> 00:43:32.239 wondered why those fish tacos actually tasted 00:43:32.239 --> 00:43:34.400 good. I looked at Sienna and she's like, Chicken 00:43:34.400 --> 00:43:37.400 tacos? Or chicken tacos, yeah. And I was like, 00:43:37.599 --> 00:43:41.630 damn, these are good. These are really good fuck 00:43:41.630 --> 00:43:44.269 that was like very hodgepodge I like looked up 00:43:44.269 --> 00:43:47.369 a quick recipe and that's do you marinate them 00:43:47.369 --> 00:43:51.489 in like Italian dressing or something? It was 00:43:51.489 --> 00:43:54.610 like a onion Dressing I'm trying French onion. 00:43:54.670 --> 00:43:59.110 Oh, maybe it was like a Italian onion. It was 00:43:59.110 --> 00:44:02.829 like yeah I mean it was delicious. It was really 00:44:02.829 --> 00:44:06.329 good I was good. I wish I could have ate more 00:44:06.969 --> 00:44:09.070 But the pan was getting low and I told myself 00:44:09.070 --> 00:44:14.190 to stop. Oh, that's another banging food item 00:44:14.190 --> 00:44:17.110 that goes really cheap. Go to Sam's Club, get 00:44:17.110 --> 00:44:19.849 a rotisserie chicken, get a tub of mayonnaise, 00:44:20.289 --> 00:44:23.130 get some grapes, get some celery, make some chicken 00:44:23.130 --> 00:44:27.230 salad. You can make chicken salad in bulk from 00:44:27.230 --> 00:44:30.210 Sam's Club. enough to feed your whole family 00:44:30.210 --> 00:44:33.929 for five days every meal for like 40 bucks. Yeah, 00:44:33.929 --> 00:44:36.570 it's funny. Rotisserie chicken pound for pound 00:44:36.570 --> 00:44:40.110 is cheaper than like buying a chicken and cooking 00:44:40.110 --> 00:44:43.449 it pound for pound. Dude, literally, it's $4 00:44:43.449 --> 00:44:46.630 .99 for rotisserie chicken from Sam's Club, and 00:44:46.630 --> 00:44:49.670 it's like seven or eight dollars for a non -cooked 00:44:49.670 --> 00:44:52.750 chicken. Yeah, it's crazy. It kind of makes me 00:44:52.750 --> 00:44:55.409 a little like, like, why is this so fucking cheap? 00:44:55.610 --> 00:44:58.969 So the reason they do that is they use the rotisserie 00:44:58.969 --> 00:45:01.550 chicken to draw you in and they put the rotisserie 00:45:01.550 --> 00:45:03.630 chicken like all the way back in the food so 00:45:03.630 --> 00:45:05.869 you have to walk past everything else to get 00:45:05.869 --> 00:45:08.650 to it because that way people buy other stuff 00:45:08.650 --> 00:45:11.190 when they get the rotisserie chicken so they 00:45:11.190 --> 00:45:15.230 buy more stuff. They actually take a loss on 00:45:15.230 --> 00:45:17.789 rotisserie chicken and pizza at Sam's Club because 00:45:17.789 --> 00:45:20.070 it draws people into their store to buy other 00:45:20.070 --> 00:45:23.380 shit. Yeah, I think rotisserie chickens are really 00:45:23.380 --> 00:45:25.599 good for that. Even shredding it up and making, 00:45:26.460 --> 00:45:29.360 like there's times where I honestly just didn't 00:45:29.360 --> 00:45:31.860 feel like cooking chicken. I was already coming 00:45:31.860 --> 00:45:33.920 home from the store, grabbed a rotisserie chicken, 00:45:34.300 --> 00:45:37.380 and I used it as chicken tacos. It's already 00:45:37.380 --> 00:45:39.840 like tender and stuff. All you have to do is 00:45:39.840 --> 00:45:42.079 throw the taco meat taco seasoning in there. 00:45:43.599 --> 00:45:46.739 the crazy thing about rotisserie chicken is that 00:45:46.739 --> 00:45:50.420 if you go to like jeans or Whatever plums became 00:45:50.420 --> 00:45:55.559 or any or Walmart even or Meyer you're gonna 00:45:55.559 --> 00:46:00.099 pay 980 or more for a rotisserie chicken the 00:46:00.099 --> 00:46:02.460 only way that I look at rotisserie chicken is 00:46:02.460 --> 00:46:05.409 like a budget option is if I can get three or 00:46:05.409 --> 00:46:07.909 four of them at a time from Sam's Club. Yeah. 00:46:08.369 --> 00:46:10.570 I don't remember if you remember this meme, but 00:46:10.570 --> 00:46:13.230 there was a meme going around during covid where 00:46:13.230 --> 00:46:15.530 there was like this old Einstein looking dude 00:46:15.530 --> 00:46:18.710 with a T -shirt and had a barcode on his T -shirt. 00:46:18.889 --> 00:46:21.710 And he goes, he goes, don't touch my ro -ticker 00:46:21.710 --> 00:46:23.730 chickens. And he had like four of them on the 00:46:23.730 --> 00:46:25.829 belt at the grocery store. And they were like, 00:46:25.869 --> 00:46:27.530 well, we have to to scan him. He's like, no, 00:46:27.670 --> 00:46:29.510 scan a barcode. They're like, sir, we can't. 00:46:29.510 --> 00:46:32.250 He goes, that's a ro -ticker chicken. can't scan 00:46:32.250 --> 00:46:34.510 my rotisserie chicken, like and he was getting 00:46:34.510 --> 00:46:37.150 all bent out of shape about it, like freaking 00:46:37.150 --> 00:46:40.469 out. So that always reminds me of anyone saying 00:46:40.469 --> 00:46:43.170 anything about rotisserie chickens, like buying 00:46:43.170 --> 00:46:45.610 four of them. And he had a barcode on his shirt. 00:46:45.690 --> 00:46:50.530 He was ready to go. It was so funny. Yeah, we. 00:46:50.889 --> 00:46:53.650 We we eat a lot of rotisserie chicken just because 00:46:53.650 --> 00:46:57.650 it's cheap Like on weekends when mark the guys 00:46:57.650 --> 00:47:00.730 and everyone's over I generally just buy rotisserie 00:47:00.730 --> 00:47:03.969 chicken a tub of potato salad and call it dinner 00:47:03.969 --> 00:47:08.090 for the weekend. Yeah Yeah, potato salads potatoes 00:47:08.090 --> 00:47:13.170 in general Like a bag of potatoes for three dollars 00:47:13.170 --> 00:47:16.750 can last you a week Like yeah legitimately a 00:47:16.750 --> 00:47:19.090 week like a what is it like a what are those 00:47:19.090 --> 00:47:22.369 like a five pound bag? I could use that all weekend 00:47:22.369 --> 00:47:25.190 for camping. I could make mashed potatoes one 00:47:25.190 --> 00:47:27.710 day. I could make cubed up potatoes for breakfast 00:47:27.710 --> 00:47:30.829 on the side. I could throw the same cube potatoes 00:47:30.829 --> 00:47:35.110 and burritos the next day. Baked potatoes. I 00:47:35.110 --> 00:47:37.210 mean, just like a Lord of the Rings band, boil 00:47:37.210 --> 00:47:38.730 and mash them, stick them in a stew. They're 00:47:38.730 --> 00:47:42.289 good for everything. Every time I hear someone 00:47:42.289 --> 00:47:45.260 talk about potatoes and camping. I think about 00:47:45.260 --> 00:47:47.559 our first trip where we went down, you know, 00:47:47.599 --> 00:47:51.360 around Lake Michigan. We were storing the potatoes 00:47:51.360 --> 00:47:53.800 and onions in the little cargo pocket I now keep 00:47:53.800 --> 00:47:56.980 my radio in. And when I cleaned it out, apparently 00:47:56.980 --> 00:47:59.800 I left a potato in there. And like six months 00:47:59.800 --> 00:48:02.579 later, I pulled out a potato plant out of that 00:48:02.579 --> 00:48:05.820 pocket. Oh yeah, dude. That's crazy. I was wondering 00:48:05.820 --> 00:48:08.000 if you could eat the little nubs off those. I 00:48:08.000 --> 00:48:10.860 don't because I don't like the nubs, but the 00:48:10.860 --> 00:48:13.559 nubs just rubbed me wrong. I always peel them 00:48:13.559 --> 00:48:16.159 off, but I always see them like I'll find like 00:48:16.159 --> 00:48:19.860 a road potato in the bottom of my Drawer or something. 00:48:19.860 --> 00:48:22.360 I'm like, god dang it. Like should I try to know 00:48:22.360 --> 00:48:28.420 mine? No mine had a stock and roots and Leaves 00:48:28.420 --> 00:48:31.719 everything the whole ball, dude. It was and it 00:48:31.719 --> 00:48:34.019 had no light. I don't know how this thing was. 00:48:34.139 --> 00:48:38.099 Yeah growing, you know one thing I also say they 00:48:38.099 --> 00:48:41.880 grow underground so Yeah. But the plant doesn't. 00:48:41.880 --> 00:48:44.280 The plant is above ground and that needs sun. 00:48:44.800 --> 00:48:47.420 Yeah, I don't know. One thing I would like to 00:48:47.420 --> 00:48:50.460 add too is like before your camping season, buy 00:48:50.460 --> 00:48:52.340 all your seasonings that you're going to use 00:48:52.340 --> 00:48:56.340 for the camping season. So like I use like garlic 00:48:56.340 --> 00:49:01.099 salt or garlic powder, onion powder, salt, pepper, 00:49:01.460 --> 00:49:04.639 cayenne. I'll just buy all of those and then 00:49:04.639 --> 00:49:08.079 throw them in the truck. So I have all of that 00:49:08.079 --> 00:49:12.159 seasoning. already. For most of the meals that 00:49:12.159 --> 00:49:14.579 I cook, I can use that as part of the seasoning. 00:49:14.739 --> 00:49:17.440 If I want to add spice, I can use cayenne from 00:49:17.440 --> 00:49:20.980 my kitchen or maybe a seasoning from my kitchen 00:49:20.980 --> 00:49:24.000 and bring it back in. Or I usually have hot sauce. 00:49:24.239 --> 00:49:26.880 So like, like you guys know, we have a favorite 00:49:26.880 --> 00:49:29.199 hot sauce that we always take on these camp trips 00:49:29.199 --> 00:49:33.500 now. So, so we always use that hot sauce for 00:49:33.500 --> 00:49:37.469 just about everything. breakfast burritos, tacos, 00:49:37.829 --> 00:49:42.449 just about any meal. So hot sauce is a good flavor 00:49:42.449 --> 00:49:45.829 enhancer for cheap meals. So we use that a lot, 00:49:47.130 --> 00:49:50.389 too. Coffee, that's really cheap for the most 00:49:50.389 --> 00:49:51.949 part, because you could just bring that from 00:49:51.949 --> 00:49:57.829 home. Making it's kind of like sometimes that 00:49:57.829 --> 00:50:01.150 can be kind of a pain. But I think as a camp 00:50:01.150 --> 00:50:04.260 group, we've kind of We all have like a press, 00:50:04.559 --> 00:50:06.579 French press and stuff, and it's all pretty easy 00:50:06.579 --> 00:50:10.900 now. So, yeah, I have the Brewtrek overlander 00:50:10.900 --> 00:50:15.219 and I think that's what Alex had too. And I love 00:50:15.219 --> 00:50:18.460 mine. I don't think I'd change anything else 00:50:18.460 --> 00:50:21.260 about it. I was working with a company that had 00:50:21.260 --> 00:50:24.280 coffee tea bags. Those are super cool for like 00:50:24.280 --> 00:50:29.219 cold coffee in the morning. But I mean, for I 00:50:29.219 --> 00:50:33.000 can get more out of. I don't know, I guess I 00:50:33.000 --> 00:50:35.659 can't really. For the amount of coffee I use 00:50:35.659 --> 00:50:39.079 for the tea bags, it's cheaper to do bulk coffee 00:50:39.079 --> 00:50:42.840 than those tea bags are, but the coffee tea bags 00:50:42.840 --> 00:50:45.119 from Barebox Brews are really good to just kind 00:50:45.119 --> 00:50:47.880 of throw in the morning before, which is what 00:50:47.880 --> 00:50:51.380 they're used for. I mean, other than that, water. 00:50:52.059 --> 00:50:54.119 That does remind me, I do need to get a water 00:50:54.119 --> 00:50:58.460 filtration system this year. Like a LifeStraw? 00:50:59.019 --> 00:51:02.739 No, LifeStraws are... Like more for personal 00:51:02.739 --> 00:51:05.280 use to like drink out of a river, but I want 00:51:05.280 --> 00:51:08.860 to get like a platypus or something It's a the 00:51:08.860 --> 00:51:10.800 hanging bags you could throw in the river and 00:51:10.800 --> 00:51:15.139 they gravity filter your water so one of the 00:51:15.139 --> 00:51:18.420 biggest things that I Would have to go into town 00:51:18.420 --> 00:51:22.719 for is more drinking water But wait, I'm really 00:51:22.719 --> 00:51:25.099 confused. Why do you need to filter it if you 00:51:25.099 --> 00:51:28.039 have a life straw? Because the whole family is 00:51:28.039 --> 00:51:30.179 not gonna be drinking out of a life straw plus 00:51:30.519 --> 00:51:32.420 We're going to be making food with it, coffee 00:51:32.420 --> 00:51:35.320 with it. Well, if you're cooking it, you don't 00:51:35.320 --> 00:51:41.059 got to filter it. You boil it first and it's 00:51:41.059 --> 00:51:44.780 you need to filter your water. You could just 00:51:44.780 --> 00:51:47.960 you could just get three life straws. Yeah, we're 00:51:47.960 --> 00:51:49.739 not doing that. I don't know if you've ever tried 00:51:49.739 --> 00:51:51.860 to drink through a life straw, but it's not the 00:51:51.860 --> 00:51:57.349 easiest. No, I know. But but no, I mean. This 00:51:57.349 --> 00:52:00.250 is actually Mike and Melissa. They have a Jeep 00:52:00.250 --> 00:52:03.510 Rubicon and they have the trailer. They didn't 00:52:03.510 --> 00:52:05.929 even have to go into town for the whole time 00:52:05.929 --> 00:52:08.769 because they could just strain water out of their 00:52:08.769 --> 00:52:11.409 filter. Their filters, you could clean it out. 00:52:11.570 --> 00:52:15.349 It lasts years as long as you maintain it. And 00:52:15.349 --> 00:52:19.530 we had to go back to get extra water and they 00:52:19.530 --> 00:52:22.820 didn't have to move at all. So. it's just one 00:52:22.820 --> 00:52:25.599 of those things like also if you run into a survival 00:52:25.599 --> 00:52:27.780 situation where let's say you're broke down on 00:52:27.780 --> 00:52:30.800 the side of the road for two or three days and 00:52:30.800 --> 00:52:34.719 you're out of water uh it's nice to be able to 00:52:34.719 --> 00:52:36.400 filter your own water like it's just one of those 00:52:36.400 --> 00:52:39.059 things that we should all have anyway a way to 00:52:39.059 --> 00:52:42.420 filter water or have clean water so i used to 00:52:42.420 --> 00:52:44.500 have tablets i don't know where those went i 00:52:44.500 --> 00:52:46.599 have a life straw that we could all share i guess 00:52:46.599 --> 00:52:49.719 but That's not the most efficient for a large 00:52:49.719 --> 00:52:53.480 amount of water, like five gallons, so. You don't 00:52:53.480 --> 00:52:56.039 need five gallons. You just need to drink what 00:52:56.039 --> 00:52:58.920 you need and boil the rest. Oh, God. I don't 00:52:58.920 --> 00:53:00.860 know, man. You're overthinking. No, I'm not. 00:53:01.659 --> 00:53:04.079 You guys call in and tell me if I'm overthinking 00:53:04.079 --> 00:53:06.840 this. I have a feeling this one people will agree 00:53:06.840 --> 00:53:09.739 with me on because for my seven day trip, I was 00:53:09.739 --> 00:53:11.579 getting water. And this is the middle of the 00:53:11.579 --> 00:53:13.400 summer where we were drinking pretty much all 00:53:13.400 --> 00:53:19.380 water all day. We went through almost two gallons 00:53:19.380 --> 00:53:24.000 a day between washing dishes, drinking, etc. 00:53:25.840 --> 00:53:33.900 Did you know there's water in beer? Yes. Did 00:53:33.900 --> 00:53:37.920 you know? There's water in pop too? Like in Monsters? 00:53:38.480 --> 00:53:40.420 Yeah, what are you talking about? There's water 00:53:40.420 --> 00:53:45.239 in grapes? Watermelon? Wash your dishes in some 00:53:45.239 --> 00:53:47.940 Bud Light. There's water anyway. There's basically 00:53:47.940 --> 00:53:54.900 water, you're right. When you're thirsty, drink 00:53:54.900 --> 00:53:59.679 a Corona. It's basically pee. Why is Jasper falling 00:53:59.679 --> 00:54:04.280 over? ate out the Bud Light Wash Bowl. Yeah. 00:54:04.800 --> 00:54:07.840 Yeah, why does my cup taste funny, Dad? He's 00:54:07.840 --> 00:54:12.099 fucking stumbling around. I'm driving around. 00:54:12.260 --> 00:54:14.219 I feel a little woozy. Get pulled over and get 00:54:14.219 --> 00:54:18.219 a DWI from my left over. I'm just drinking water. 00:54:18.239 --> 00:54:22.780 My friend told me it was OK. It doesn't smell 00:54:22.780 --> 00:54:25.420 like water. No, well, it's just Bud Light I poured 00:54:25.420 --> 00:54:29.500 into my water bottle. He said it was water, though, 00:54:29.519 --> 00:54:33.789 so. No, he said it was basically water. His name 00:54:33.789 --> 00:54:38.809 is Alex. This is his address. Oh, yeah. You don't 00:54:38.809 --> 00:54:41.849 even know my address. Yeah, I can figure it out 00:54:41.849 --> 00:54:45.889 pretty quick. Quick drive -by. Ah, no, I don't 00:54:45.889 --> 00:54:49.269 have any address sign out front. Don't you look 00:54:49.269 --> 00:54:52.030 at your Google. Come here, Google. Come here, 00:54:52.190 --> 00:54:56.309 mailbox mail. All right, well, that was a good 00:54:56.309 --> 00:54:59.869 episode, man. It's interesting to see. All the 00:54:59.869 --> 00:55:02.469 different. Oh, that was loud. All the different 00:55:02.469 --> 00:55:08.090 ideas for cooking for cheap. So, yeah. Well, 00:55:08.289 --> 00:55:10.050 we'll catch you guys later. Yeah. Catch you on 00:55:10.050 --> 00:55:12.010 the flip side, guys. Later.