Boating

All of this crazy cold weather got me day dreaming about boating again, you I figured to make myself feel better I would do a blog about boating food.

My family and family friends all enjoy boating on the Mississippi, the reservoir and any other body of water that allows for it. Anytime that you drive all of the way out to a body of water you want to stay out all day, and that means not coming home to eat, and that means you either have to bring your own or stop at a very greasy dinner on the water.

The point of boat food is to be more like snacks, not be to messy (as to not mess up the boats interior) and very unhealthy. All of those things are more like guide lines though, because there are exceptions to all o them.

One of my favorites is caramel chex mix, as the name implies, it is chex mix that is coated with a caramel. It is made on a cookie sheet and is one of those foods that once you start eating it, you cannot stop until the whole bowl is gone. A great advantage to this food is that you don’t have to refrigerate it, this leaves more room in the coolers for things like pop and beer.

Another thing that is wonderful to have on the water or on a sandbar is deer. Most of the people with whom I boat love to hunt, that means that even if I didn’t have a great deer season, someone else always has some deer sticks or deer jerky to pass around. Unlike the caramel chex mix, this does require refrigeration which is the only draw back.

Chips are also a great way to slowly give yourself diabetes while you are boating. They taste great, require not cooler space, and everyone loves them. The only down side to chips is that they break apart and get every where, thus breaking the rule that they cannot be messy. But the mess is made up for by how convenient they are and also how you don’t have to make anything or kill anything to get them…they are just easy. (369 words)