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Dicentra
08-21-2009, 15:32
I meant to post this before our trip, but I just plain ran out of time... I didn't eat all this in the order posted. This is more or less just a guideline so I knew that I would have the right amount of food.

Overall verdict is more snacks. Especially carbs and flavored nuts. I was also eyeing Rooinator's pepperoni sticks and peppered beef jerky he had for snacks. I need to look into more things that I can eat while actually walking along.

Ended up eating trail bars for breakfast one day, and a PB Crunch Wrap for lunch on the last day. The tortillas got dry and a bit crumbly by day 5.

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Day 1
Breakfast: at home
Lunch: salami and cheese (the little wax covered wheels)
Dinner: Pasta w/Chicken and Artichoke Hearts - excellent!

Day 2
Breakfast: PB Crunch Wrap - good stuff. Packed too much granola, better with the maple almond butter than the cinnamon PB (Justin's Nut Butters)
Lunch: salami and cheese
Dinner: Chili Mac - ok

Day 3
Breakfast: PB Crunch Wrap
Lunch: Wasa crackers and shelf stable cream cheese (eaten with more salami, pepperoni sticks or similar would have been better) - wanted more of this. Better than expected
Dinner: Unstuffed Peppers w/quinoa and chicken

Day 4
Breakfast: Cherry Almond Oatmeal - made with almond milk powder. Very good!
Lunch: Mount Daniel Wraps (black beans, cheese, taco sauce, tortilla) - 5 min to make and awesome! A little too much beans - the excess went on Rooinator's tuna wrap. He said it was good.
Dinner: Rice & Veggies w/ Peanut Sauce

Day 5
Breakfast: Strawberry Almond Oatmeal - made with almond milk powder. Very good.
Lunch: whatever cheese/crackers/salami and snacks are leftover
Dinner: at home/in car

Snacks
Dried mangos - wanted more! MORE! MORE!
PB M&Ms - more! Good fast energy. Or similar candy. Snickers? Payday w/chocolate?
salted cashews - just right amount
California Crunchies (flavored almonds) - love these. More. I think I can reverse engineer these to be made at home too.
EmergenC x 22 - half would be more than enough. Overkill.
Luna Moons x 3 - more
1 mini chocolate bar - more
1 chocolate cliff nectar bar - didn't eat
1 cherry lara bar - good snack
Just veggies - didn't eat.

Other
Starbucks Via instant coffee - great!
Sugar in the raw packets
Powdered almond milk (only b/c I didn't have regular milk) - good. Really good in the oatmeal
Herbal Tea packets - great! Nice change from plain water and EmergenC w/dinners
1 dessert - Nutella and banana wrap - Made and gave to Rooinator. He said it was good.
Olive oil - only added to the artichoke pasta
salt & pepper packets - didn't use
JaxHiker
08-21-2009, 16:19
Thanks for sharing. What was your weight for this? I've been working on the menu for my Labor Day hike. Breakfast will probably be the usual maple oatmeal. The cheese and salami sounds good for lunch. I have two dinners planned so far: garlic & olive oil vermicelli with seasoned chicken breast; and teriyaki noodles/vegetables with salmon. Not sure what else to try.
Dicentra
08-21-2009, 17:00
Thanks for sharing. What was your weight for this? I've been working on the menu for my Labor Day hike. Breakfast will probably be the usual maple oatmeal. The cheese and salami sounds good for lunch. I have two dinners planned so far: garlic & olive oil vermicelli with seasoned chicken breast; and teriyaki noodles/vegetables with salmon. Not sure what else to try.

Honestly? I forgot to weigh it! I got in a bit of a hurry at the last minute...

Drop me a line if you'd like some ideas for dinners or whatever. ;)
Dicentra
08-21-2009, 17:04
One more thing I really wished I had packed was soup. Instant miso would have been easy enough. I keep packets of it in my pantry.
sarbar
08-21-2009, 18:43
One more thing I really wished I had packed was soup. Instant miso would have been easy enough. I keep packets of it in my pantry.
Yeah, that is something I learned back a couple years ago that on section hikes, soup is SO soothing when the tummy is upset :)
Dicentra
08-21-2009, 18:55
Yeah, that is something I learned back a couple years ago that on section hikes, soup is SO soothing when the tummy is upset :)

Ditto on the Wasa crackers! Those helped a lot when I couldn't eat anything. And they don't weigh anything!
Jester2000
08-21-2009, 19:15
Overall verdict is more snacks.

Overall verdict should be more cheese! I sentence you to life behind cheese with no possibility of pure mold. The sentence was commuted from death by lethal cheese ingestion, because that would be a waste of cheese.

Cheese. There, I said it.
Dicentra
08-21-2009, 19:24
Overall verdict should be more cheese! I sentence you to life behind cheese with no possibility of pure mold. The sentence was commuted from death by lethal cheese ingestion, because that would be a waste of cheese.

Cheese. There, I said it.

I had three different kinds of cheese in my pack, sir! :banana
Jester2000
08-21-2009, 19:55
Three types of cheese is not nearly enough. Here's an old post of mine that covers the cheese-filled bases:


See, this is excellent advice, and I see where he's going with it, so I'll continue the thought. You're going to want to bring a lot of cheese with you. I mean A LOT. Studies have shown that while lack of sunlight will eventually drive you insane, lack of cheese will make you incredibly unhappy, to the point that you will drive everyone else insane.

But you've gotta get on a schedule. Say you're going out for a week. You want seven days worth of cheese, but not the SAME cheese. You want at least seven different kinds of cheese, and you want to eat them in ascending order of hardness.

So maybe you bring a huge thing of crumbly feta with you for a salad topping on day 1, with maybe some goat cheese for lunch. Then you move on to your mozzarella ball on day two. A really big mozzarella ball, and you eat the whole thing by itself, like you're eating a snowball.

You get the point, so I won't belabor it. You end up on the last couple of days with some sharp Vermont cheddar and then a block of parm. I do recommend also carrying a can of grated parm to put on top of every other meal you eat.

The cheese will last, as long as you eat it in the right order! You'll hike like you have wings! You'll stay toasty warm at night! You won't poop the whole time you're out there!

Good luck, and enjoy the cheese!
Dicentra
08-22-2009, 03:38
Ah well 3 outa five ain't bad, right? I did get to eat cheese every day!

And I totally agree with bringing the can o'Parm. Makes just about everything better! EVOO too. ;)
slickgoku
08-28-2009, 15:24
I don't think you'd poop at all while you are out there eating so much cheese :D
Jester2000
08-28-2009, 15:45
I don't think you'd poop at all while you are out there eating so much cheese :D

That's one of the important side benefits, mentioned in the second-to-last sentence of the post. No messin' around with catholes or privies!
Dicentra
08-31-2009, 13:46
That's one of the important side benefits, mentioned in the second-to-last sentence of the post. No messin' around with catholes or privies!

Jester! You're cheese obsession is notorious! Saw it mentioned in Squatch's video on Saturday night. :D

I own the most current video, but seeing it again reminded me of you and this thread.:p
sarbar
08-31-2009, 17:14
Lol...yes, heck the cheese thing came up at the PCT Pub on Saturday in Cascade Locks!