Teardrops n Tiny Travel Trailers

I am getting things ready to go to the Palo Duro Canyon gathering, and I gotta tell you that my Foodsaver is awesome for camping. I wish I would have had one in my backpacking days.

I am cutting onions, measuring ingredients, and vacuum sealing everything at home, in my well-equipped kitchen, so when I am out in my Teardrop, all I have to do is cut open pouches and dump things into the pan, or onto the grill.

It is the camp cook's mis en plas.

And, no wasted food. You measure it. You seal it, you use it. Gone.

No, I don't work for Foodsaver. I just love to recommend products that serve me well.

Tip: You can ALWAYS find these things on sale. Just look. And, buy generic bags online. I get mine from Amazon.com, of all places, and they work fine, and are WAY cheaper than name brand at retail.

Bon Appetit!

CD

So I guess you still have to refrigerate or freeze it right?

Micro469 wrote:So I guess you still have to refrigerate or freeze it right?

Yep, but it would be all portioned and sealed from the water in a cooler. Good idea Casey.

I love my food saver.

It's also great from a food safety standpoint. By repackaging your raw meats into the sealed bags, you eliminate the potential for raw meat juices finding their way into other foods or the ice water in the ice chest. I also prepackage anything that might be ruined by submersion in water, i.e. biscuits in a tube, cheese, etc).

Joanne

caseydog wrote:I am getting things ready to go to the Palo Duro Canyon gathering, and I gotta tell you that my Foodsaver is awesome for camping. I wish I would have had one in my backpacking days.

I am cutting onions, measuring ingredients, and vacuum sealing everything at home, in my well-equipped kitchen, so when I am out in my Teardrop, all I have to do is cut open pouches and dump things into the pan, or onto the grill.

It is the camp cook's mis en plas.

And, no wasted food. You measure it. You seal it, you use it. Gone.

No, I don't work for Foodsaver. I just love to recommend products that serve me well.

Tip: You can ALWAYS find these things on sale. Just look. And, buy generic bags online. I get mine from Amazon.com, of all places, and they work fine, and are WAY cheaper than name brand at retail.

Bon Appetit!

CD

You do still have to keep perishables cool, but like Joanne said, you don't have cross-contamination worries.

I like it mostly because I can prep and portion in my home kitchen, instead of at a campsite. All I have to do is cook it and eat it when I am camping.

We purchased this and it works great.





Mk

You can also use it to seal an extra pair of greased bearings, works the grease right in............Saw that one on Extreme 4x4

I've always used ziplock bags for this purpose. Is this a big improvement over those? Does it make the stuff inside last longer? I'm always looking for a good reason to buy a new gadget (much to my wife's chagrin).

Dear Casey,

I have a shelf in the TD4V for my foodsaver. I use it all the time. Leftovers stay a LOT longer when put into foodsaver bags. That way you do not have to have the leftover the next day but can have it days later and not fouled by the cooler water.

I've wondered about the foodsavers and been tempted to purchase. I just wondered about expendables. Are they that expensive?

Geron

I am a FoodSaver believer ~

Buying bulk cheese or meat alone will save $.

Camping ~ many have said good things.

Some other suggested uses:

Soup:
Make uP soup and put plastic wrap in the bowls and put soup in the bowls
Then freeze the bowls of soup. Take the bowls out of the freezer and pull out
the individual soups and FoodSaver them. Then when you want to use the
soup you can just pull out preformed soup shaped bowls and put them in
the bowls again. Microwave or heat in on the stove and fresh soup is your reward.
****

Fruit:
Lay fruit cut or berries on a cookie sheet in the freezer.
Freeze and then put in FoodSaver bags and vacuum without the fruit mushing uP.

I agree Glenn !!!!!


I LOVE LOVE LOVE my foodsaver, although haven't used it much lately .
And I've bought a head of lettuce before and stored it in the fridge in the hard tall container (using a different sealing attachment tube) and the lettuce stayed crisp for - no kidding - three weeks!

It's great to chop three or four onions at home, seal in 1 cup increments or whatever, and if just using for cooking anyway, keep them in the freezer.

Food stays fresher longer and better because the air is removed and no freezer burn whatsoever!

GREAT for camping ... also seals medicine or dry socks or ??

Here's another food saver fan.. . We've had ours for about a year and when I wear it out, will buy another one. Excellent product! We do par freeze things first, then vacuum seal them. I have tried the Wal-Mart off name brand bags/rolls and was not happy with them. I'll give the ones CD talks about a chance.

Found ours @ Kohl's on supersale. I kept reading here about how it could be used for camping trips and home, so we bought one.
No more stale cookies, or snacko's!

The device is ez to use and keeps most food stuffs forever.
At the CG just zip open and pour. We bring exactly what we need for the weekend and it cuts prep time to nothing flat. Freezer to pot and then some.
In our four dollar a gallon world every weight saving device is worth its initial cost and more.

Mary K wrote:We purchased this and it works great.





Mk

I think I'm going to see if I can find one of these. So far I found one on Amazon for $18.