“I remembered a thought I had the first time I walked into an EMS store: you need a lot of stuff to live simply. The obvious choices—frozen burger patties, peanut butter and jelly, cans of beans and packets of oatmeal—were not appealing to me. I could make my own burger patties, and I could shut up and deal with the peanut butter and jelly, but I wanted to have one really good satisfying meal to follow the full day hike that was planned.”
