Food for Travelling

We're going to Whiritoa Beach on the Coromandel Peninsula for a few days. The only shop is a dairy, so we'll be on taking all our food with us. We can top up with a few things from Waihi or Whangamata, but most of the foods we eat regularly won't be available. For many years, we had to carry gluten free food with us. Now that's quite commonly available, we've moved on to starch free!

I'm still finalising the food packing list, but it will probably look something like this (in no particular order).

• Raw milk (fresh and frozen)
• Caspian sea yoghurt (that we can use to make a fresh batch every day)
• Stock (frozen in small containers. If it was winter, they'd be pre-made vege soup, but in summer that feels too heavy)
• Filler free sausages (Stoneycreek Farm or Harmony)
• Meat (fresh & frozen)
• Maybe a couple of tins of salmon or sardines, or maybe just get some fresh fish there
• Sauerkraut
• Carrots, baby beetroot, tangelos and blueberries that will be coming in our order from the CSA the day before. From Commonsense Organics, I'll get a couple of small pumpkins, and see what else will travel well, maybe some avocado. Other than that, we'll probably take pot luck with what produce is available.
• Green Pastures fermented cod liver oil (we're currently "enjoying" Salty) and a probiotic
• A jar of each of Reilly's nut butters
• "Crispy" cashews and macadamias
• Some dried fruit or maybe some homemade fruit cake
• Coconut almond muffins or bread
• Organic butter or ghee
• Cheese
• Eggs - we'll take whatever's here, but buy extra free range eggs as needed
• A jar of Zenian Phillipine coconut oil or maybe just some refrigerated "slice" made from coconut oil and nut butter or cocoa butter
• EV Olive oil and some lemons
• Sea or Himalayan salt
• Bottles of kombucha
• Maybe some bottled water, but we'll mostly buy that once we're there

Anything I've forgotten?

PS. If you're a Nature Foods customer, don't worry, we're leaving my mum and sister in charge of sending out the orders.

Cheese muffins (no starch)

We're going away on holiday for a few days, and my mind has been mulling over what food to take with us - especially for the 9 hour drive north. We usually travel with a chilly bin full of chilled food, another full of frozens (depending on how long we're away for), and a cooler bag with food for the trip.

For snacks, we'll probably have nuts, fruit (fresh blueberries would travel well), maybe a coconut oil or cocoa butter based "slice". For lunch, I'll roast or bake some duck or chicken legs which we can eat cold with some carrot sticks and maybe some pre-cooked baby beetroot. I've also decided on cheese muffins. With pesto, ghee or another spread, carried in another container, these are filling and tasty.

I've used the standard coconut flour cheese muffin recipe before, which is nice. And I've also got an almond flour cheese scone recipe which I used to use a lot. But I usually prefer the two flours mixed. So here's my first attempt at a hybrid recipe. This amount made 6 standard sized muffins and about 10 mini muffins, so I think would make 9 std.

Please note, this isn't suitable for early stages of the GAPS Intro, only once you're back on full dairy.

Mix together:

• 1 cup ground almonds
• 4 tablespoons coconut flour
• a sprinkling of herbs of your choice (optional)
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda (leave this out if you're full GAPS, they'll just be a little heavier)

Beat together:

• 3 eggs
• 50gm (2 oz) melted butter or ghee
• 1/2 cup yoghurt or kefir
• 1/2 teaspoon sea or Himalayan salt

Grate:

• 1 1/2 cups tasty cheddar cheese (or substitute up to half with diced feta)

Mix all 3 together, and leave to thicken slightly while you prepare your muffin trays. I use a combination of coconut oil and lecithin for this, as recommended by Bruce Fife in his book on coconut flour cooking. Three quarter fill the muffin pans. Bake at about 175C for about 20 mins (a bit less for bite sized).

You can add other savoury goodies like bacon, salami, mushrooms, etc, depending on what your particular diet restrictions are. 

These came put a pretty good consistency, and I haven't even got any notes for how to improve them next time!