How to Eat While Camping

At first this "diet" (diet and experiment don't really describe this...anyone have a better word?) seems very limiting. But instead of focusing on all the things I cannot eat, I have had a great time discovering things I can eat, and things that I didn't know I would love to eat...like barley flour and duck eggs.

Anyway, the question of the hour is "How can you go camping with such a limited diet?"

And the answer is...

Justin and I left for a beautiful secluded campsite after lunch and brought the following:
Snacks for hiking: rice cakes, fruit, nuts and dried fruit trail mix
Dinner: We made this amazing soup. I now make it at home all the time. At the campsite, no fires were allowed so we used a small stove. The recipe is below.
Breakfast: oatmeal with chopped apples and nuts, raisins, cinnamon

Eagle Creek Soup
By Justin

Put the following ingredients into a pot in this order:
olive oil
(wait until it's hot)
onions and garlic
(wait until the onions are translucent)
chopped carrots and potatoes
curry powder and black pepper to taste
chopped broccoli or kale or whatever green you like
enough water to cover the top of all the veggies
1/2 cup red lentils and 1/2 cup quinoa
salt to taste

That's it. No measurements required, really. Just bring it to a boil and let it simmer until the lentils are all nice and mushy and it's stew like and you'd want to eat it.

This is a picture of the soup when I made it at home (not camping). I topped it with fresh parsley which was awesome.
So, there's something amazing and comfort-food like that I can eat. And it's so easy that you can bring it camping.

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