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news in natural SUMMER 2018 · FREE Berry Season! Camp Food Native Pollinators Four Favorite summer recipes REGENERATIVE agriculture Contact Us General Manager Alex Beamer [email protected] Summer 2018 Store Manager Jeff Watson [email protected] Grocery Ben Martin Horst [email protected] Perishable Foods Dawn Hinrichs 16 [email protected] Bulk Matt Trickey [email protected] Produce Jimmy Vaughn [email protected] Beer & Wine Liam Stary [email protected] Wellness Marie Wallace 12 18 [email protected] Deli Jenna Otto On the Cover 4 Camp Food 16 Native Pollinators [email protected] It’s Berry Season! Eat healthy on the trail. A different look at Did you ever get scolded when you were a youngster for Try Kathy’s delicious helping bees thrive. stealing an apple from someone else’s tree? Well, you won’t Mercantile · Health & Beauty shortcake recipe. 7 8 Do Frogs Need get scolded for taking one from these trees! 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The material contained in this newsletter is for informational purposes only. Feel free to use any part. Always see your healthcare provider before beginning a self-treatment program. @LifeSource_Foods cook for an hour or more. I also recommend doing fun easy meals that are still delicious and calorie dense to fuel your activities that burn extra calories. OTHER CONSIDERATIONS Another variable to consider is what kind of cooking fuel you want to use. Are you wanting to use propane canisters with a camp stove or wood fuel in a fire pit? That’s completely up to your own preference. One factor to consider is that bundles of wood do take up space in the car, especially when you start to roast s’mores! I love to car camp, because I have more options for meals that utilize all my favorite fresh foods. Camping while backpacking can be more of a meal planning challenge, and you may have to give CAMP FOOD up some options due to weight restriction and lack Malheur Wildlife Refuge, Oregon of functional storage. You could purchase a bear By Miranda Vaughn · Wellness container, add ice or whatever cooling strategy you want to use and hike with fresh foods. I don’t usually ummer is here! As the trees leaf packing your food to carry in your Almond pancakes from Simple Mills, choose to do this due to the extra weight—I’m a pro out, the rains yield, and the skies pack. added cinnamon and protein powder. ultra-lite hiker, the lighter the better! I do, however, open for the sun to shine, all I can Add peanut butter and bananas on top recommend purchasing a bear canister if you are Sthink about is how much work needs MY FAVORITE MEALS for extra deliciousness. hiking in bear country. Your other option in bear Car camping in Tam McArthur with Miranda Vaughn to be done for my camping and hiking When camping with a car that has Stuffed turkey burgers with feta cheese country is to hang your food in a tree to keep it out trips. That, and my inner anticipation adequate room for coolers, I strive to and red bell peppers in the middle. I of reach. You can use climbing rope of any kind to to get out into the mountains! I’ve bring some of my favorite meals. suggest keeping these as safe as possible harness a suspension mechanism that will keep your weighed and re-weighed my supplies, Sauerkraut and bratwursts with sweet from cross-contamination in the cooler pack, with the food included, high up off the ground. singled out my hiking trails, planned potatoes, added greens for salad. by using resealable bags to keep raw my days, and purchased my permits. Eggs with greens (Swiss chard, materials safe. You can also use a vegan MY FAVORITE SNACKS Yet, something is lingering in the back spinach, and kale) added hard cheese patty recipe to create your own burger! Here are some of my favorite options when it comes of my mind—my meal planning. on top, for a hearty scramble. You can I usually add avocado and lettuce on to light weight snacks: For me, meal planning is the most substitute with tofu and Daiya cheese top as well, bonus points for a spicy Kale chips with almonds. I make my own kale chips crucial aspect to any camping trip. Not found in the chill department. All your BBQ spread! with fresh Italian and purple kale, and almonds from only do I love food, good food, but also favorite scramble veggies can be found the bulk department. while going full steam ahead on the in the produce department as well! PRECOOK TO SAVE TIME Nut mixtures with chocolate, my favorite is the trails I tend to have tunnel vision to my Spaghetti squash with pre-made sauce If you are vegan, vegetarian, paleo, or Mocha Madness from our bulk department, not only body’s needs. This is where my calorie of choice and pre-made curly kale feta have other diet restrictions you can is it calorie dense, it has sugar and coffee beans to dense, quick meals and snacks come in salad. I will usually add feta cheese, always substitute to fit your needs. Meal help boost my energy or allay altitude sickness. handy for my hyper-active mind and cranberries, nuts, a vinaigrette, and planning while camping with coolers Dried fruit, such as mango or apples. body; especially when I’m out camping cherry tomatoes to the kale salad. I and ice is limitless and full of healthy Veggie chips from our bulk department. and I want to explore the surrounding suggest precooking the squash before options! I recommend precooking as Clams, anchovies, tuna in lightweight pouches. areas. you go camping to save cooking fuel much as you possibly can. It is safer Tea (Earl Grey is my favorite). Whether or not you have a car and time. to carry cooked meats instead of raw, Fresh fruit. If I have extra spare weight I will carry to carry your food makes a huge Beef goulash with cooked veggies—in and it saves on cooking fuel. Invest oranges and apples to help increase my calories and difference in meal planning. With a car, a really large can, like the kind our in proper storage containers, prep all energy. you can pack up the coolers with your grandmothers used to buy their coffee your veggies and fruits, and plan out Summer sausage and hard cheeses. favorite foods. When backpacking, in. A family tradition! That way you your meals ahead of time for breakfast, Electrolyte packets for my muscle functions. you have to be more selective and take can plop the container right onto your lunch and dinner. This way you can Wine or beer. Kudos if you have spare weight to weight and volume into account when cooking stove or fire pit. enjoy more fun time versus having to bring one of our wine or beer options! 4 · News in Natural LifeSourceNaturalFoods.com · 5 BULK SNACKS Peanut butter and hummus! by thinking about all of those For Your Next Adventure! Bonus points if you use the amazing views and memories to lightweight powder options. The be walked and made, and then— Sweet Biscuit for Shortcake dried peanut butter can be found GloryBee Veggie Chips presto—you’re almost done! in the grocery aisle, and dried After the foods have completely By Kathy Biskey · Wellness • 3 cups organic flour • 3/4 tsp cream of tartar hummus in the bulk department. cooled and you measure them into • 1 Tbsp baking powder • 3/4 cup butter, My mom is 95 now and doesn’t • 1/4 cup organic sugar softened premixed meals, store each in a make biscuits anymore. But it’s easy • 1 tsp salt • 1 cup whole milk DEHYDRATE YOUR OWN container that can sustain high for me to remember just how they smelled and tasted warm out of 1. Preheat oven to 450ºF. MEALS water temperature to rehydrate the oven—mmmm! When we had When it comes to meals that I the meal. Now you are done, 2. In a large bowl stir together the flour, baking powder, sugar, salt, and cream strawberry or raspberry shortcake of tartar. carry in my pack, if I have time and ready to adventure in the she would sweeten up the biscuit Using a pastry blender, cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. I will pre-make my dehydrated mountains! recipe for homemade shortcakes. 3. Make a well in the center of the flour mixture. Add milk all at once. Using a When I was first out on my own, I meals. Knowing myself though, I use a small propane canister fork, stir just until moistened. made a single large sweet biscuit 4.