Freezer Bag Cooking Order

The winner of yesterday's lottery is: Sarah from Freezer Bag Cooking.

So, what do I get to play with this weekend? Well, there's the starter pack with

• the book "Freezer Bag Cooking: Trail Food Made Simple" by Sarah Svien Kirkconnell. I'll be reading this and giving it a go. There are also lots of recipes on her website (as well as well-photographed trip reports and trees).
• cozy. I went for the desert camo one. I thought a subdued one suited me, but not so subdued that I couldn't find it in the heather. Just tried it with a Wayfarer's dinner pack, and it fits it perfectly.
• GSI long handled spoon. That's for the outdoor cutlery box, even though it has a spoon end and a "scraper tip". That's the non-spoon end. And in between, there is a handle - wow, they've thought of everything ;-)
• 2 ziploc bags. These are, with good planning, the right size for the cozy.
• Not in the starter pack is the GSI nesting mug and bowl. The mug has an insulated layer, and sipping gaps at two of the sides of the triangular-sectioned. Both are marked in ml and fl oz. The mug's lid could be used as a strainer for the bowl.

I'm off to swap out my Nalgene 'mug' (visible behind the stove in this shot, wrapped in an insulated layer) and put the cozy into a waterproof bag. My mug normally holds the makings for beverages, i.e. ziplock bag with tea bags, a Nalgene container with coffee, an old film canister with whitener and finally a slim container of sweeteners.

Note - the cozy mentioned above is not a pot cozy (home-made one photographed). The idea is that you put the food into the cozy instead of using your stove to simmer it. Here's a link to Sarah's interview with Practical Backpacking. It is where I first heard of this. I was at Geldie Lodge in, 2006, I think. Link.

And Sarah's also got a YouTube channel.

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PS: as an ex-pat Doonhamer, it would be "unbelievable" (as someone's just said on the radio) if Queen of the South beat Rangers this afternoon in the Scottish Cup Final.