Well, I’ve got a couple of videos related to food 🍿 to share with you. This will be my last post about the preparations leading up to the mountain climb. It should get us caught up with what I filmed before leaving and had intended to publish on my climb if I hadn’t ran into technical problems with copying footage to my iPad.

This first video shows how I packed and sorted my food, along with what types of meals I planned to eat on the trip. I filmed it around 3:30 in the morning the day I left. My fiancé was sleeping and I was pretty tired so I’m speaking quieter than normal 🤫 . I’ll be doing a follow up video later on regarding how well all of this food planning ended up working out.

The second video is a recipe for some dehydrated ground beef. From what I hear, dehydrated ground beef isn’t very enjoyable. It can get a rancid taste and also it doesn’t tend to re-hydrate well since there’s not much there to reabsorb water. I found a recipe shared by Dixie over on her channel HomeMade Wanderlust that looks to solve that problem so I’m giving it a shot.

Here’s the recipe:

Ingredients
- 1 lb 93% lean ground beef (It needs to be 93% to help prevent the rancid taste)
- 1/2 cup bread crumbs
Instructions
- Combine raw ground beef, breadcrumbs and salt & pepper to taste in a bowl until thoroughly mixed
- Brown ground beef mixture in skillet
Rinse it in hot water to remove as much grease as you can
Drain well and dry with paper towels, again to remove as much grease as possible
Use parchment paper or buy a fine mesh screen for your dehydrator if you need to prevent it from falling through the grates
Dehydrate on 145℉ (60 ℃) for about 6 hours (you’ll know when its completely dry). You can mix it around during drying to dry more evenly if you want.

Stay tuned to the end of the video to see how well it tasted on the trip and also get a sneak peak at some of the first footage from the mountain.