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-FOOD BEAUTIFUL FOOD?
+===== Food, Beautiful Food? =====
-An Editorial Hash Concocted by a Panel of Experts.
-Food: Oh, if only I could carry more of the stuff. And yet some people cut it down to next to nothing, or even attempt to live off the land.'
+__An Editorial Hash Concocted by a Panel of Experts.__
-Early this year, I was on a trip with Putt. He announced that he was 'going to live off the land' but I noticed a few staple items in his pack all the sPme.
-The nearest he got to his goal was to pick blackberries at the Harry's River junction, borrow a pound of flour from Alan Round, and make a pie. This, with some of our Mellah made a delectable third course. However, without the two earlier courses (not off the land) without the flour and without the Mellah  well, I suppose you could live on blackberries for two days. Perhaps you could boil nettles with them
+Food! Oh, if only I could carry more of the stuff. And yet some people cut it down to next to nothing, or even attempt to live off the land!
-for variety. be
+Early this year, I was on a trip with Putt. He announced that he was 'going to live off the land' but I noticed a few staple items in his pack all the same. The nearest he got to his goal was to pick blackberries at the Harry's River junction, borrow a pound of flour from Alan Round, and make a pie. This, with some of our Mellah made a delectable third course. However, without the two earlier courses (not off the land) without the flour and without the Mellah... well, I suppose you __could__ live on blackberries for two days. Perhaps you could boil nettles with them for variety.
 I've known for some time that Colin was a protein-and-fat man. I also suspect that his stomach is made of cast iron. I asked him what were his ideas on walking foods, or should we say, foods for walkers.
-Pee  with Proteins.
-.. Colin Putt.
+....
-You can carry and eat almost anything you like on a weekend trip around Sydney, but on a job of several week's duration, in rough, cold country, such as SY.Tasmania or the N.Z. Alps, its a different story.
-If you're going on a long trip in snow-country, carrying some 25 lbs. of climbing gear and storm clothing besides your normal equipment and your food,
+__Pep up with Proteins.__
-inadequate food can lead to missed climbs, frostbite, or death, depending on your luck.
-Food is the bushwalker's fuel, we eat it for the calories (i e. energy) it contains. If you don't get enough calories, your legs go wobbly, your body gets
+Colin Putt.
-steadily weaker, colder and slower, and in the extreme case, finally stops working
-altogether. Living off the land, although exciting, leaves little time for walking, so we carry our food, and the aim of every serious walker is to carry sufficient for
+You can carry and eat almost anything you like on a weekend trip around Sydney, but on a job of several week's duration, in rough, cold country, such as S.W.Tasmania or the N.Z. Alps, its a different story.
-his energy needs, but no excess weight.
-The human body (and
+If you're going on a long trip in snow-country, carrying some 25 lbs. of climbing gear and storm clothing besides your normal equipment and your food, inadequate food can lead to missed climbs, frostbite, or death, depending on your luck.
-of the Blue Mountains in necessary daily calories
-Carbohydrates
+Food is the bushwalker's fuel, we eat it for the calories (i.e. energy) it contains. If you don't get enough calories, your legs go wobbly, your body gets steadily weaker, colder and slower, and in the extreme case, finally stops working altogether. Living off the land, although exciting, leaves little time for walking, so we carry our food, and the aim of every serious walker is to carry sufficient for his energy needs, but no excess weight.
-Proteins
-Fats
+The human body (and the bushwalker's) is so built that, in a climate like that of the Blue Mountains in winter, it can, without digestive difficulties, extract the necessary daily calories from a minimum weight of food made up of :-
-the bushwalkar's) is so built that, in a climate like that
-winter, it can, without digestive difficulties, extract the from a minimum weight of food made up of :-
+Carbohydrates: 14 ozs.\\
-/4_ ozs. )
+Proteins: 8 ozs.\\
-ozs. ) in summer, the fats could be cut to 6 ozs. ) 2 or 3 ozs.
+Fats: 6 ozs. (in summer, the fats could be cut to 2 or 3 ozs.)
-These figures are for a man weighing 12 stone, with a. 451b pack, walking at about 3 m p.h. in hilly country for 12 hours a day. (Man, or Superman?.. Ed,) If
-he lay about in his fleabag all day he would get by on half as much. Smaller people, and women particularly, need rather less food to keep going.
+These figures are for a man weighing 12 stone, with a. 451b pack, walking at about 3 m.p.h. in hilly country for 12 hours a day. (Man, or Superman?... Ed,) If he lay about in his fleabag all day he would get by on half as much. Smaller people, and women particularly, need rather less food to keep going.
 On trips of a week or less, the trimmings such as vitamins and minerals may be lacking, but will get straightened up with change of diet on return to civilisation. On longer trips we must be careful to take them with us, but on ordinary short trips we need only carry our carbohydrates, proteins, and fats, anything else is sheer wasted weight.
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-Vater is the hardest thing to keep out of the pack, and practically all"fresh" koods are just about made of it. Apart from the expensive' and nauseating "dehy"
+Water is the hardest thing to keep out of the pack, and practically all "fresh" foods are just about made of it. Apart from the expensive and nauseating "dehy" old fashioned foods like flour, rice, macaroni and sugar are dead dry and about 100% digestable carbohydrate. Most of the pure fats, such as dripping, margarine and butter are almost free of water. Protein is really hard to get in pure dehydrated form; most dehydrated meat is expensive and hard to reconstitute. Dried egg is very high in protein, but that 8 oz. per day is usually got from fresh lean meat (20% protein, 10% fat, remainder water) or mixed foods such as split peas and pea flour (22% protein, remainder carbohydrate), oats (18% protein, 3% fat, rest carbohydrate). Cheese, __not__ waterlogged "process" cheese (35% protein, 20% fat, 5 carbohydrate) and skim milk powder (40% protein, 50% carbohydrate).
-old fashioned foods like flour, rice, macaroni And sugar are dead dry and about 100% digestable carbohydrate. Most of the pure fats, such as dripping, margarine and butter are almost free of water. Protein is really hard to get in pure dehydrated form; most dehydrated teat is expensive and hard to reconstitute. Dried egg is very high in protein, but that 8 oz. per day is usually got from fresh lean meat (20% protein, 10% fat, remainder water) or mixed foods such as split peas and pea flour (22% protein, remainder' carbohydrate), oats (18% protein, 3% fat, rest carbo-
-hydrate). Cheese, not waterlogged "process"cheese (35% protein, 20% fat, 5 carbo-
+Another subtle way in which bushwalkers carry useless weight is by eating food which is not, in fact, digested. Some of the "health fad" foods containing large amounts of chaffy stuff are particularly bad in this way, and many of the super-wholemeal breads and breakfast cereals are only about 60% digested. If you want roughage, grass or fern-roots may be collected on the spot and chopped into the stew, so why carry it? It is, of course, most important that all food should be well and carefully cooked to get the most efficient use of it.
-hydrate) and skim milk powder (40% protein, 50% carbohydrate).
-Another subtle way in -which bushwalkers parry useless weight is by eating food which is not, in fact, digested. Some of the "health fad" foods containing large
+A simple, uncomplicated food list will lighten the weight by reducing the packaging. (Do you know that the useful food content of many "packet" soups weighs less than the packet?)
-amounts of chaffy stuff are particularly bad in this way, and many of the super- wholemeal breads and breakfast cereals are only about 60% digested. If you want roughage, grass or fern-roots may be collected on the spot and chopped into the stew, so why carry it? It is, of course, most important that all food should be well and carefully cooked to get the most efficient use of it.
-A simple, uncomplicated food list will lighten the weight by reducing the
+Dried fruit, although still containing less than 50% carbohydrate, is admissable as an appetising way of flavouring the sugar intake. Tea and coffee have no food value, but are lightweight and useful drugs. Rum and brandy, I regret to say, are more than 50% water, and the use of special sugars, such as glucose and lactose, is quite unnecessary for anyone healthy enough to go bushwalking.
-packaging. (Do you know that the useful food content of many "packet" soups weighs
-less than the packet?)
+If you want to carry water with you, may I suggest that a waterbag is a more convenient way than tomatoes, cucumbers and lettuce. Chocolate consists of carbohydrate and fat in the right proportions for a high-speed pick-me-up, plus some staying power, between meals; in fact, the right proportion of fat in every meal or snack will help it to "stay with you" till the next one. Excess fat in the diet, however, can land you in nasty metabolic complications after a while.
-Dried fruit, although still containing less than 50% carbohydrate, is admissable as an appetising may of flavouring the sugar intake. Tea and coffee have no food value, but are lightweight and useful drugs. Rum and brandy,I regret to say, are more than 5Q% water, and the use of special sugars, such as glucose and lactose, im quite unnecessary for anyone healthy enough to go bushwalking.
-If you want to carry water with you, may I suggest that a waterbag is a more convenient way than tomatoes, cucumbers and lettuce. Chocolate consists of carbo-
+Under very cold living conditions a few more vital calories can be tucked into every meal by eating and drinking it all piping hot, and keeping the stomach warm to aid efficient digestion.
-hydrate and fat in the right proportions for a high-speed pick-me-up, plus some staying power, between meals; in fact, the right proportion of fat in every mai or
-snack will help it to "stay with you" till the next one. Excess fat in the diet, however, can land you in nasty metabolic complications after a while.
+....
-. Under very cold living conditions a few more vital calories can be tucked into every- meal by eating and drinking it all piping hot, and keeping the stomach warm to aid efficient digestion.
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+Hmm! You've said a mouthful, Colin...
-Hmm: Ybu've said a mouthful,
 The thought of blackberries and nettles then prompted me to ask the opinion of a cucumber connoisseur well known to us all. I expected a slightly different approach!
-.. Clem Hallstom. Nuts and  Nettles.
-No matter haw confident a bushwalker may feel regarding his ability in finding his may around mountainous country, if there is a vitamin mineral deficiency in his daily food intake his health must ultimately fail.
+....
-Fresh air and exercise derived from bushwalking cannot alone maintain health, but a combination of these and a well -planned vitamin mineral food content will provide the needs that health will not deteriorate.
-.
+__Nuts and  Nettles.__
+Clem Hallstom.
+No matter how confident a bushwalker may feel regarding his ability in finding his may around mountainous country, if there is a vitamin mineral deficiency in his daily food intake his health must ultimately fail.
+Fresh air and exercise derived from bushwalking cannot alone maintain health, but a combination of these and a well-planned vitamin mineral food content will provide the needs that health will not deteriorate.
 Undenatured food in variation is important in firing the blood, building tissue, replacing plasma, strengthening the bones, flexing the muscles, stimulating the power of thought and maintaining an army of special cells to combat the effects of disease.
 No Bushwalker is exempt from disease while ever he consumes meat (poultry and fish included), condiments and refined foods in all forms of preparation.
 Food cooked in animal fat retards digestion and overworks the liver.
 For those who must cook, there are no finer methods than to bake without removal of the jackets, or steam under pressure with skins intact.
 All palatable cooked foods are second rate to raw.
 Common salt is a poison and the body should be given consideration by eliminating its use.
 Pepper effects the action of the heart and the function of the kidneys. Vinegar inflames the walls of the stomach, allowing ulcers to form.
-Meat consisting apnraximately of four percent uric acid adds greater work to the system's eliminating processes when eaten. Meat stimulates the gonad glands to
-the stage of unbalance, effecting the body function drastically in later years.
+Meat consisting apnraximately of four percent uric acid adds greater work to the system's eliminating processes when eaten. Meat stimulates the gonad glands to the stage of unbalance, effecting the body function drastically in later years. Meat eating introduces irritability, nervousness, depression, weakness and That Tired Feeling, which otherwise would not occur. Meat was never meant for human consumption.
-Meat eating introduces irritability, nervousness, depression, weakness and That Tired
-Feeling, which otherwise would not occur. Meat was never meant far human consump-
+A carnivorous animal bolts its food down and when digestion is completed it is passed on, either absorbed into the blood stream or evactuated as roughage well within the time limit, whereas food undergoing the process of assimulation in the human body takes double, sometimes treble, the time, with adverse consequences.
-tion.
-A carnivorous animal bolts its food down and when digestion is completed it is passed on, either absorbed into the blood stream or evactuated as roughage well within the time limit, whereas food undergoing the process of assimulation in the human body takes double, sometimes treLle, the time, with adverse consequences.
+Putrefaction is the worst form of slow poisoning to the system. Putrefaction is the forerunner of many incurable diseases. Meat should not be consumed under any circumstances if health is desired.
-Putrefaction is the worst farm of slow poisoning to the system. Putrefaction is the forerunner of many incurable diseases. Meat should not be consumed under any circumstances if health is desired.
-A proper balanced eating habit, consisting of fresh raw vegetables, fruits,
+A proper balanced eating habit, consisting of fresh raw vegetables, fruits, whole grain foods and the required amount of water suffices to maintain health at its highest level.
-whole grain foods and the required amount of water suffices to maintain health at its highest level.
 There is an abundance of fruit and vegetables to be had all the year round so that a well balanced meal can be prepared.
 The lowly lettuce is always a good source of iron.
 The revitalising power of magnesium is in proper proportion to meet the body's needs.
 The iodine content will impede goitre infection.
 Phosphorus, which is an essential brain nutriment is not lacking in lettuce; also for the maintenance and beautifying the skin there is sulphur and silicon.
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 All raw vegetables, fruit and grains provide the powers to cleanse the body of waste materials and to maintain a state of health.
-To prevent disease conditions arising, each and every one of us mast take heod of the dangers in eating meat, denatured factory preared tinned foods, condiments and other man prepared concentrates, which are forcing early sickness in conjunction with pain, followed by death.
-Oooer'  . After these uncompromising lectures I thought I'd seek the advice
+To prevent disease conditions arising, each and every one of us mast take heed of the dangers in eating meat, denatured factory preared tinned foods, condiments and other man prepared concentrates, which are forcing early sickness in conjunction with pain, followed by death.
-of Jim (knead 'with the hands) Brown. He knows all about dough and dampers and says
+....
-that he recommends his particular method because it takes 8o long that you're not hungry anyway, and too much carbohydrate is not Food for you. Come to think of it he does look a bit thin, doesn't he? I'll ask him to read the other contributions and then see what he has to say.
-.. Jim Brown.
+Oooer!... After these uncompromising lectures I thought I'd seek the advice of Jim (knead with the hands) Brown. He knows all about dough and dampers and says that he recommends his particular method because it takes so long that you're not hungry anyway, and too much carbohydrate is not good for you. Come to think of it he does look a bit thin, doesn't he? I'll ask him to read the other contributions and then see what he has to say.
-The hide of the Editor: Thin, he says: Infernal cheek: I've never heard anyone call him Tubby Matthews. If it's thin-ness he's talking about, then what about Len Fall? Now, there's a real light weight model for you. Once I spent a windy night (literally) camped with Len in a tent at Glenraphael. All night the tent flapped noisily, and presently I said Peevishly Why don't you hold that side down - roll over on the odge of it?" And Len said "I was, but I got sick of being bumped up and down."
-HEALTH FOOD SHOP ,otiVEGETARIAN
+....
-USE
-MARMITE
+Jim Brown.
-for
-FaVOURINGS OUPS and STEYVS or
+The hide of the Editor: Thin, he says: Infernal cheek: I've never heard anyone call him Tubby Matthews. If it's thin-ness he's talking about, then what about Len Fall? Now, there's a real light weight model for you. Once I spent a windy night (literally) camped with Len in a tent at Glenraphael. All night the tent flapped noisily, and presently I said peevishly "Why don't you hold that side down - roll over on the edge of it?" And Len said "I was, but I got sick of being bumped up and down."
-asa SPREAD on biscuits or bread
-DRIED FRUITS IN STOCK: APRICOTS PEACHES NECTARINES PRUNES GOLDEN DROP PLUMS APPLES FIGS SULTANAS RiISTNS.
+Thin - says the Editor. All right, but that's nothing to do with intake of food. It's no criterion whatever - just like boiling point. I remember Phil Hall (another meagre sort of citizen) holding forth about boiling point. It was around a camp fire in Kanimbla Valley and Phil was arguing "There's nothing miraculous about boiling point. It is only 100 degrees Centigrade, or 212 degrees Fahrenheit - the temperature when water vaporises. All this business about things having to be at boiling point to sterilise something is so much nonsense. It's just...." he spat vigorously. "Ken, what's wrong with this custard. It's foul! What did you do to it? Didn't you boil it?" "No", said Meadows blandly, "There's nothing miraculous about boiling point".
-HUNTER ST. SYDNEY. BWI725.
- ///,
+Another spare fellow of my early walking with the Club was Bill Horton; we once had the dubious fortune to go away with a prospective, a big bloke, carrying a big pack. Half way up the western side of Mount Solitary he began to wilt, and we investigated his pack. There were 3 lbs of sausages, 3 lbs of potatoes, some onions, a pound of dried apricots and 2 lbs. of sugar. He'd emptied a can of condensed milk into a glass jar because he'd heard that we avoided carrying tinned stuff; but there were two large cans of soup, fresh tomatoes, four quarter pound blocks of chocolate, a pound of bacon, half a dozen eggs and a dozen oranges.
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-Thin - says the Editor. All right, bu+ that's nothing to do with intake of food. It's no criterion whatever - just like boiling point. I remember Phil Hall (another meagre sort of citizen) holding forth about boiling point. It wPs around
-a camp fire in Kanimbla Valley and Phil was Prguing "There's nothing miraculous about boiling point. It is only 100 degrees Centigrade, or 212 degrees Fahrenheit -
-the temperature when water vaporises. All this business about things having to be at boiling point to sterilise something is so much nonsense. It's just...." he spat vigorously. "Ken, what's wrong with this custard. It's foul! What did you do to it? Didn't you boil it?" "No", said Meadows blandly, "There's nothing miraculous about boiling point".
-Another spare fellow of my early walking with the Club was Bill Horton; we once had the dubious fortune to go away with a prospective, a big bloke, carrying a big  pack. Half way up the western side of 'Mount Solitary he began to wilt, and we investigated his pack. There were 3lbs of sausages, 3lbs of potatoes, some onions, a pound of dried apricots and 2lbs. of sugar. He'd emptied a can of condensed milk into a glass jar because he'd heard that we avoided carrying tinned stuff; but there were two large cans of soup, fresh tomatoes, four quarter pound blocks of dhocolate, a pound of bacon, half a dozen eggs and a dozen oranges.
 Bill took about 71bs. extra weight; because I was carrying the tent I acquired two pounds, and we managed to get him as far as the cave in Chinaman's gully. There we decided we'd have to lighten the poor fellow's burden before going on.
-It was a dreadful night. While a screaming July westerly battered the trees above, we gorged ourselves; half a dozen times, quite bloated, we had to take pPuse and drink some of his tea and coffee and rest a while before returning to the trough, but it was worth it. After a gargantuan breakfast next morning his prick was down to a weight that Bill and I could easily lift - together.
-At the other end of the scale was the cove who went off for Easter at Barringtor Tops some years ago with two pounds of dehydrated potato.
+It was a dreadful night. While a screaming July westerly battered the trees above, we gorged ourselves; half a dozen times, quite bloated, we had to take pause and drink some of his tea and coffee and rest a while before returning to the trough, but it was worth it. After a gargantuan breakfast next morning his pack was down to a weight that Bill and I could easily lift - together.
-Food is a serious subject. One should not jest about it. Once I tried to console a fond mother whose 12 months-old had filled up on maggotty apricots lying _1mi-ex., a tree in our garden. "Quite all right" I assured her "To him it's just grub, lovely grub". Not amused.
-The nearest thing I have ever seen to a food riot occurred in a Headquarters Unit of the Australian Army in 1945 on Bougainville Island. A few days before one of the monthly meetings of the Ness we'd had scrambled eggs for breakfast; in itself that wasn't remarkable. Scrambled eggs, prepared from egg powder, were a staple item of diet, along with bully beef, tinned sausages, goldfish (herrings), baked beans, and dehydrated vegetables, mutilated in the way only the Army Catering Corps could connive. The astonishing thing was that these were fresh whole eggs.
+At the other end of the scale was the cove who went off for Easter at Barrington Tops some years ago with two pounds of dehydrated potato.
-At the meeting someone asked the President why the eggs were scrambled. Smoothly he explained there were insufficient to go round. The Quartermaster Warrant Officer interjected that the full strength of the mess was sixty-four Warrant Officers and Sergeants. To his personal knowledge, six dozen eggs had been delivered. Someone else asked whether it was ccrrect that the cooking staff and the Mess Committee had enjoyed a private meal of fried eggs. The President reddened, the Secretary busied himself with his minutes; someone moved that all Mess officers be requested to resign. Within five minutes we had a new Mess Committee pledged to deliver whole eggs - if another shipment ever arrived.
+Food is a serious subject. One should not jest about it. Once I tried to console a fond mother whose 12 months-old had filled up on maggotty apricots lying under a tree in our garden. "Quite all right" I assured her "To him it's just grub, lovely grub". Not amused.
+The nearest thing I have ever seen to a food riot occurred in a Headquarters Unit of the Australian Army in 1945 on Bougainville Island. A few days before one of the monthly meetings of the Mess we'd had scrambled eggs for breakfast; in itself that wasn't remarkable. Scrambled eggs, prepared from egg powder, were a staple item of diet, along with bully beef, tinned sausages, goldfish (herrings), baked beans, and dehydrated vegetables, mutilated in the way only the Army Catering Corps could connive. The astonishing thing was that these were fresh whole eggs.
+At the meeting someone asked the President why the eggs were scrambled. Smoothly he explained there were insufficient to go round. The Quartermaster Warrant Officer interjected that the full strength of the mess was sixty-four Warrant Officers and Sergeants. To his personal knowledge, six dozen eggs had been delivered. Someone else asked whether it was correct that the cooking staff and the Mess Committee had enjoyed a private meal of fried eggs. The President reddened, the Secretary busied himself with his minutes; someone moved that all Mess officers be requested to resign. Within five minutes we had a new Mess Committee pledged to deliver whole eggs - if another shipment ever arrived.
 No, Mr. Editor, food is a touchy topic: I will not write about it for you.
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+Use Marmite for flavouring soups and stews or as a spread on biscuits or bread.
+Dried fruits in stock: apricots, peaches, nectarine, prunes, golden drop plums, apples, figs, sultanas, raisins.
+Hunter St., Sydney. BW1725.
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