Meat Camp is back new and improve my friends..

Cheesy, but DELICIOUS.

This sounds like just what I need this year.... I was vegan for about five years, but several months ago, I had to go back to eating meat for health reasons. Now I'm eating the Paleolithic diet. Food is definitely turning out to be the hardest part of preparing for this trip for me.

Basically, I developed a series of digestive problems, food allergies and intolerances, and other health problems, to the point where eating a vegetarian diet really didn't work for me -- but the Paleolithic diet works great. I can't eat dairy products, beans (including soy), and many grains (especially those with gluten) -- but I can eat meat, vegetables, fruits, nuts, and seeds (which as it turns out was evolutionary diet of our Paleolithic ancestors).

This is making it really challenging packing food for the trip. I'm not going to have room for a cooler with a bunch of ice in it this year, so fresh food is out. I also can't eat most of those pre-packaged backpacking meals, because they tend to have ingredients that will cause problems for me. I was planning on getting a dehydrator and making a bunch of buffalo jerky and dehydrated vegetables this year, but I got sick and didn't have time for the production.... So it looks like the best I'm going to be able to do is canned salmon & sardines.

I'm normally pretty picky about the kind of meat I will eat (it has to be organic and free range, preferably lean game meat like buffalo or venison), but I have a feeling that on this trip, just getting sufficient calories is going to be my biggest concern. I am definitely going to every morsel of meat I can get that doesn't come out of a can.

Any chance I can join your kitchen? If you have some means of refrigeration, it would much simplify my food situation. I would be happy to chip in some $ and help out with some marinating and whatnot. (I made some great overnight marinated venison steaks a couple of weeks ago.)

Oh yeah, and if possible, I would like to put in a special request for game meat: Buffalo, venison, wild boar, snake... whatever you can come by.

Oh Tony you fuckin bastard I'm so envious! Next year I'm part of the crew. Do you know how shit this is? I lived in susanville until I was 12 years old, and now that I'm stuck in fucking Australia, Mutant Fest is 18 god damn miles from it. Fuck! My brother lives there, I could have had a house to stay in and free rides to town at any time, and instead I'm in god damn brisbane where even such basic commodities as pot are in short supply. Anyway, man, next year. I hate having to miss this. It makes this whole trip to Australia seem worthless. fuck.

-jeff

tony hop all is well

just make sure the meat is not from Safeway or some other store that supports factory farms, because that's definitely not in the spirit of mutant fest OR the paleolithic diet.

Oh yes we are back bigger and better people.... And now offering yoga and juggling with music and lots of food ... so find us and chill cause damn it I said so...
lol

Tony