Friday five: road foods that last (continued).

It's been raining for almost ten hours straight, so we had a short early day on the farm and then lots of time to sit.  After two Scrabble games, a few hours of long-overdue journal updates and photo organization, and some post-Ottawa planning... thoughts turned to food. 

So in prep for your next camping or road trip we bring you five foods that actually do *not* need refrigeration after opening, no matter what the package might say, in no particular order:

• soy milk
  
  
  for early escapes
  in prep for long driving days
  cereal is king
  (Killarney Provincial Park, ON)

• natural peanut butter

best when you combine

with chocolate and fire

at noisy campsites

(Golden, BC)

• mustard

  

dijon or yellow

doesn't really matter much

if the view is nice

(Chase, BC)

• cheddar cheese

 

beware of mossies

that get in your sandwiches

near Canada lakes

(Rainbow Falls Provincial Park, ON)

• maple syrup

 

just add bananas,

raisins, dates, oatmeal, and flax...

best. breakfast. evah.

(Waterton Lakes NP, AB)

Or maybe they *do* need refrigeration and after two months on the road, we just have stomachs of steel.  Hard to know for sure.

Lettuce, on the other hand - for the love of all that is holy, refrigerate.