Prairie Fare: Bring safe and tasty food on your outdoor adventures

Consider packing nonperishable foods to refuel safely during your outdoor adventures. (Pixabay photo)
Consider packing nonperishable foods to refuel safely during your outdoor adventures. (Pixabay photo)

By Julie Garden-Robinson, food and nutrition specialist “Be sure to check your sleeping bag,” one of my college friends said.

“For what?” I replied to my friends on my first camping adventure.

“Snakes like to crawl into sleeping bags,” one of them replied.

I am sure my wide-eyed look of terror was fulfilling to them. They continued telling me about bears and other wild animals. I quickly understood t…