My wife any love to go camping. Not the kind of camping where you load up backpacks and hike miles into the wilderness. But the kind of camping where you back your car into a spots, and set up a tent. Kind of a lazy man’s roughing it.
This Spring, we are planning on doing a week long driving trip. When we have done this in the past, we have stayed exclusively at campgrounds, and set up our tent. This time, we will probably do a combination of the staying in a tent, and maybe a motel room. We will see.
But I was thinking about low-fat healthy camping type food. Let start with breakfast. Scrambled eggs are common, and easy to make while cmaping. But for low-fat versions use a liquid egg substitute like Egg Beaters. And don’t melt butter in the pan, use a cooking spray (butter flavored if you like). Then how about some 97% fat-free ham? If you have the little racks to hold the bread over the fire (or over a propane stove), you can make toast. Don’t use butter though. Use maybe a little jelly, or how about a few spritzes of buttery spray?
For lunch and dinner, how about fat free hot dogs? Ball Park makes three different kinds. You can cook these on sticks over a fire, or boil them over a stove. Be sure to bring ketchup, mustard, or reslish or whatever your favorite condiment is. And buns! Don’t forget the buns. You could always cook some more of the 97% fat-free ham. And you could maybe boil up some small salt potatoes. They are easy enough. Then cut them open, or mash them, and use some buttery spray, or some Molly McButter or Butter Buds. Also things like canned vegetables like corn or peas. Just don’t forget the can opener, or you might find yourself out in the woods bashing cans with rocks in a desperate attempt to open them.
Sorry to say that there is not much you can do to make Smores low fat and healthy. But go ahead and have one. Just one!!!! Remember moderation!! You don’t have to torture yourself by not allowing yourself a small luxury once in a while. If you cut yourself off completely, you are more likely to snap, and binge on bad stuff.
We are back from our trip. With all the good food at the various restaurants we went to, we didn’t eat particularly low fat. We didn’t go completely overboard. We never ordered dessert. And we did buy some fruit (bananas and grapes) to keep in our hotel room for snakcs. I did gain a couple pounds over our trip.
But now we are home. Last night I made Linguine With Clam Sauce. That is very low fat. I work today. So I will be taking several Healthy Choice or Lean Cuisine meals to work with me.
I continued to workout on our trip, running most of my scheduled miles, and doing some swimming too.
I had a meal at one restaurant that they called Linguine Chicken Tettrazini. I was going to try to make a low fat version of it, but the recipes I have found sound different than what I had in the restaurant. I think what I had in the restaurant was closer to a pasta alfredo. But the alfredo sauce was a little more liquid. I don’t know. I will dig through my cook books for something interesting to make.