On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:33:12 -0700, "Bill McKee"
wrote:


"John H" wrote in message
.. .
Reading Jim's posts on boat food left me thinking that some of you folks
may
have some good ideas for our upcoming trip to Utah. We're planning to
leave next
week, taking the travel trailer, and will return o/a the 24th of Sep.
We'll be
spending about two weeks in the southern portion of the state seeing Zion
National Park, Arches National Park, Grand Canyon (north rim), Monument
Valley,
Canyonland, Muley Point, etc, etc.

In the trailer we have a refrigerator with a small freezer. I'll have the
gas
Weber, and electric stoves in the campgrounds. On the way out and back
we'll be
spending some nights in Flying J parks, but while in Utah we'll be in
campgrounds or the Grand Canyon Lodge.

So, what I need are suggestions for food. Can't be sandwiches all the
time - too
fattening.

Ideas anyone?
--
John H

All decisions are the result of binary thinking.

Take an extra cooler and buy a dish drainer or make a device to keep the
food out of the melting ice. Use it as a spare container. For healthy
breakfast, mix oatmeal, Craisins, and cinnamon together and put in a Ziploc.
Just add boiling water to the mixture for a quick easy morning meal. Buy
local produce and stir fry with a little olive oil for veggies at dinner.
Buy some good fruit and spinach and Trader Joes Champagne / Pear dressing is
great over the fruit and spinach as a salad. Plus you can cook the spinach
as a veggie. Cut some fresh corn off the cob and add to the stir fry. Get
a toaster oven for when in RV parks. You can toast bread, reheat pizza, get
the refrigerated Tollhouse cookies and cook 4 at a time for fresh dessert.
Take PB and jam for lunch at times. The new thin bagels and thin breads
keep well and do not have the excess bread. Plus some Costco sliced turkey
luncheon meat. Get some good brats for dinners. Get some of the pasta
dinners that you just add meat to. Then use the canned chicken meat from
Costco as the addition. The pasta dinners store without refrigeration.
Then just shop in the local area for fresh supplies. We have Safeway most
places as well as Costco all through the West.
Most of the parks are very reasonable in the Southwest, and you will have
electricity. Flying J is noisy with all the trucks. Wal-Mart is a better
choice. Hospital lots are also a good choice. They figure you have a loved
one there and do not bother you. Zion will be free entry with the senior
pass, but may cost you $15 for passage through the tunnel, depending on
width of trailer. My truck camper is 1" over the limit. When going to
Canyon De Chelly, hire a local guide. Get a personal tour. With tip was
about $200 bucks for the 4 of us. Was just us and guide, and we used
buddies 4x4 Suburban as the vehicle for tour. You can book a tour at the
info center. There is a cheap RV park run by the Indians just outside the
entrance. South Rim Grand Canyon used to have GREAT ice cream shop. Have
not been there in years, so do not know if it still is good. Stay in
Flagstaff if no reservations at GC and get up early and go to the canyon for
First Come, First Served standby for camp site.


Thanks for the info. We've already got reservations at the Grand Canyon Lodge on
the North Rim. Our trailer's not very wide, so maybe we'll sneak through the $15
charge for the tunnel. Canyon De Chelly isn't on our 'to do' list, but we're now
looking to see if we should add it.

We're planning on the helicopter tour of Canyonland, and a couple others, so
don't know if another tour will fit the budget. But what the hell, budgets are
made to be broken, right?
--
John H

All decisions are the result of binary thinking.