Mounting the Expedition - Step 1 - Dehydrate 6 Weeks of Food

3 home dehydrators running 24hours a day for a month... Since we're carting all of our gear with us on foot (including a Zodiac, outboard motor, nets, water quality and fishing gear) we wanted to be using as little fuel as possible (it is also frequently unpleasant or danged near impossible to cook up north near the coast, given the propensity for either driving ice pellets or malicious mosquito swarms). Backpacking meals have been forever transformed by our discovery of the book "Backpack Gourmet", with delicious and nutritious meals we pre-cooked and dehydrated - honestly, what could taste better on the tundra than multi-mushroom stroganoff cooked with plenty of red wine? Even if the rehydration step doesn't go quite as smoothly as we'd like?
(we won't mention the dehydrating experiments gone awry, such as cottage cheese...)


"Gee it's a good thing we're both small and don't eat much"
Each bucket will hold (in theory) one week's food. Minus snacks, of course, and boy were we excited to find 2 lb blocks of Lindt dark chocolate in a specialty kitchen store! Heidi is, once again, on the phone with the Firearms Licencing Centre folks as she sorts trail mix. Who knew that the folks at Miramichi, NB wouldn't have a clue what a courier way bill is? And would somehow confuse the name "Heidi Swanson" for "Robert Courchesne", of Bowman, QC, and courier us the wrong licence 2 days before we were scheduled to fly to Nunavut with our borrowed shotguns?