Mid-day snacks / on the go lunch - Whats your favorites? [Archive] - WhiteBlaze

OBOZ

03-04-2010, 21:22

HELP! OK I have searched. But I would like to know, what are your favorite LIGHT WEIGHT(I'm a gram weenie) snacks or lunches midday on the trail?

I personally like:

Slim Jim and Cheese stick 1.5oz
Banana Chips and freeze dried strawberries
Peanut M&Ms
Jelly Belly Sport Beans w & w/o caffeine

I need help with new ideas on what to carry to just get me by until I hit camp and have dinner. What do you carry?
Any replies appreciated.

Also I am sooooo tired of eating GORP! :D

fiddlehead

03-04-2010, 21:31

Potato chips.
Little Debbies.
Nuts.
Dried fruit (my own, not store-bought as their too dry)

I feel like a need a mix of sweet and salty snacks.
And I also think that your body craves what it needs.

OBOZ

03-04-2010, 21:31

ALLLLLLRIGHTY....did a search and read what came up... I scroll down after I post new thread and see this:

http://whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php?t=51903

:datz

OBOZ

03-04-2010, 22:03

Potato chips.
Little Debbies.
Nuts.
Dried fruit (my own, not store-bought as their too dry)

I feel like a need a mix of sweet and salty snacks.
And I also think that your body craves what it needs.

Little Debbies! Now see...that's what I need. Didn't think of them and they are cheap and lightweight. Thanks fiddlehead

bigcranky

03-04-2010, 22:10

Combos (cheese filled pretzels)
Oreos
Snickers

OBOZ

03-04-2010, 22:23

Combos (cheese filled pretzels)
Oreos
Snickers

Combos is another i didn't think of! I have done the Oreos and I crush them and the minisnickers melt too. I'm glad I posted this...Thanks for replies

RollingStone

03-05-2010, 03:38

I personally like Balance Bars, Snicker, and Baby Ruths. They offer a pretty big bang for the ounce and buck. I'll also do my own gorp mix sometimes too.Usually with mixed nuts, plain M&M's and dried Blueberries. Measure out only a few ounces at time.

daddytwosticks

03-05-2010, 07:30

Fritos Corn Chips (dip sized)...great snack/lunch plus they are multi-purpose (emergency fire starter). :)

LaurieAnn

03-05-2010, 07:54

Homemade Harvest Oatmeal Bars (very high-cal for their weight)
Gorp made with seeds, toasted and mapled walnut halves and banana chips
Snickers
Dried fruit

Ox97GaMe

03-05-2010, 08:10

I carry a small Pringles can or the Lay's Stax container. After you eat the chips, it works great for stuffing cookies, snack cakes, or even fruits like grapes, raisins, tangerines in. The canister weighs next to nothing and helps keep things from getting crushed while in the pack.

For my snacks, I usually carry snack crackers. My favorite is the Smokehouse Cheddar from Lance. I also like the Quaker chewy granola bars.

Roche

03-05-2010, 08:23

Breakfast bars.

DAJA

03-05-2010, 08:30

mini begal and peanut butter
snickers
cliff bars
gorp
cheese
jerky

mweinstone

03-05-2010, 08:41

lot of sugar guys. how bout pizza? pepperoni and cheese on tortilla! and then have some sardeens. now thats proteen instead of noteen.or peanut butter with no sugar on cinnomine rasin bagels.maby you have a ziplock of cooked leftovers from dinner the night afore. thats satisfing and quick. but to eat sugar is heavy and unrewarding. little debbies are an offence to my people. she should be hunted and captured and forced to be organic.

OBOZ

03-05-2010, 08:49

Fritos Corn Chips (dip sized)...great snack/lunch plus they are multi-purpose (emergency fire starter). :)

Definitely a good fire starter. Been there done that lol

toegem

03-05-2010, 11:58

Three pepper hummus on pita, hand full of gorp and sports drink.

Manwich

03-05-2010, 12:18

Goober in a Tortilla I prepare before i leave in the morning.

LaurieAnn

03-05-2010, 12:33

for lunches I like things that I can rehydrate with cool water, such as

homemade hummus or dips
citrus lentil salad
slaws with added cheese or meat
brie (shelf stable variety) and crackers
olive tapenade with pita bread or crackers

Dicentra

03-05-2010, 13:17

redmarbleshoe

03-05-2010, 13:25

I alternate from powdered/dehydrated peanut butter and crackers
or I use my sealer system and make my own portable peanut butter packets.

Rice crackers now come in bite sized rounds, but you have to pack them carefully to reduce crushing. I use the sweet fruity flavored ones for breakfast and mix some protein shake in my water bottle to get me going.

Lunch, I am very fond of the Oro wheat thin buns. looks like a flat bun, that peals apart into 2 pcs. I use that, with a tuna pack (the one mixed with mayo). Yummay easy lunch. My husband eats 2. Not as light, but great for getting a REAL protein down.

There are also rice based snack bars that are really tasty and light too.

I second the dehydrated hummus dip. YUM!

LaurieAnn

03-05-2010, 13:52

Here's a link to one of my hummus recipes for those who want to try it out...

http://backpackerrecipes.wordpress.com/2009/04/12/the-easiest-of-trail-lunches/

tiptoe

03-05-2010, 17:05

gorp, dried fruit, beef jerky, rhubarb fruit rollups, Snickers bars...

OBOZ

03-06-2010, 23:20

Awesome LA Thank you!

Here's a link to one of my hummus recipes for those who want to try it out...

http://backpackerrecipes.wordpress.com/2009/04/12/the-easiest-of-trail-lunches/

jrwiesz

03-07-2010, 02:53

Here's a link to one of my hummus recipes for those who want to try it out...

http://backpackerrecipes.wordpress.com/2009/04/12/the-easiest-of-trail-lunches/

Great recipe!

How close are you to the release of your new book, "Another Fork in the Trail"?

I recently went vegan for my dining choices, and I am looking forward to this release. I definitely attempt organic where possible. I enjoy Mary Janes Farm selections, but they are some what limited in the amount of selection choices. I'm hoping yours will offer more options.

Looking forward to the new release; keep up the great work. :sun

JAK

03-07-2010, 04:19

I was pretty happy with my "fruit to goes" which are like fruit chews. Also lemon powder and water, or snow. But these thinks are pure sugar, which is ok as long as they don't make up too much of your daily calories. I think also they should at least provided 100% of your vitamin C. The lemon powder I found did, but I am nit sure about the fruit leather. Plain dried fruit might better. Ideally sun dried, I guess, so as not to destroy the vitamin C and anti-oxidants. I dry blueberries in my convection oven, but the minimal 170F really dries the living snot out of them. Need to try something different. I think the natives here use to smear blueberries on birch bark, then sun dry them.

LaurieAnn

03-07-2010, 05:36

Great recipe!

How close are you to the release of your new book, "Another Fork in the Trail"?

I recently went vegan for my dining choices, and I am looking forward to this release. I definitely attempt organic where possible. I enjoy Mary Janes Farm selections, but they are some what limited in the amount of selection choices. I'm hoping yours will offer more options.

Looking forward to the new release; keep up the great work. :sun

Thanks....

Send me a pm and I will sneak you a few recipes if you like. I'm also going to post one or two here at some point.

About the book. The release has been delayed until 2011 (early in the year). The manuscript is basically complete, all the recipes tested and such but we need to go through the edit stage. I'm going to be a little slower at that because, well, I'm expecting in early June. This kind of blind-sided me because we tried for 18 years and during that time we adopted a little boy... it's a great reason for a delay but I was still a bit disappointed that it's not going to be on shelves this spring. C'est la vie :)

JustaTouron

03-07-2010, 09:04

LaurieAnn -- Congrats. Maybe the next book after that can be one of recipies of hiking foods that would appeal to children.

As for the OP's question: breakfast cereal, in the dry form snacked on and often mixed in with other trail food...eg raisins, Cheerios, & m&ms

Jonnycat

03-07-2010, 13:28

I don't like a heavy or complicated lunch on the trail, so I go for easy carbs:

Granola
Mixed nuts (no peanuts)
Dried apricots
Mini pretzels
Smartfood chedder popcorn
Keebler chedder sandwich crackers
Clif bar
1/2 little debbie fudge brownie

I put it all in a ziplock (save the clif bar) and it's lunch.

OBOZ

03-09-2010, 09:16

Smartfood chedder popcorn

I am a former addict of Smartfood :D
My appetite is very low midday and need to figure out light snacks. Man I ate heavy on a hard stretch before and I was obsolutely miserable

d.o.c

03-09-2010, 09:22

no one ever used a jumbo rice crispy treat it weighs less than snikers and holds the same amount of calories i made a bunch of homemade ones for my hike used all sorts of nuts cashew butter and cereal when i made them. but the ones at the store work fine dnt weigh nothn

modiyooch

03-09-2010, 21:53

would a hard boiled egg be considered a snack, or lunch?

johnnybgood

03-09-2010, 22:27

would a hard boiled egg be considered a snack, or lunch?
It would be considered a snack...unless of course you ate it for lunch. :D

jrwiesz

03-10-2010, 00:58

would a hard boiled egg be considered a snack, or lunch?

It would be considered lunch; unless you ate it for a snack. :sun

daddytwosticks

03-10-2010, 07:29

I eat hard boiled eggs for breakfast the first few days out...:)

JustaTouron

03-10-2010, 07:54

would a hard boiled egg be considered a snack, or lunch?

It would be considered a snack...unless of course you ate it for lunch. :D

It would be considered lunch; unless you ate it for a snack. :sun

I don't really consider lunch an event, but a process.

For me lunch begins immediately after I finish the breakfast dishes and continues until I start cooking dinner.

monkeyboy71

03-11-2010, 19:59

1azarus

03-11-2010, 23:27

Dried mangos and dark chocolate. Every trip. Every time. :)

I also like corn nuts, soy nuts, California Crunchies (flavored almonds), various trail bars, shelf stable cheese, salami, crackers... Basically anything that sounds good. I like a big variety.
I was going to say dried mangoes dipped in dark chocolate... is that what you meant? i've only found them once -- dipped about half way... loved em.

tech30528

03-13-2010, 13:52

Big Sur bars. I get them at Mountain Crossing since I live in the area, but you can mail order them too (I have) and Felicity says there is another outfitter store up near Virginia that carries them. Not only are they reaaallly good, they pack over 600 calories per bar. I go for fuel density with trail food, and never understood the Ramen thing, there's just no substance to them. I also like Clif Bars, I get boxes of the mini ones at WalMart to stave off the hungries during the day at work. They come three flavors in a box, and each bar is 100 calories.

LaurieAnn

03-14-2010, 11:09

We often dip things like dried fruit (mangoes, blueberries, cherries, apricots, pears, etc.) in dark chocolate. Another yummy snack is candied stem ginger dipped in dark choc. Yum.

mweinstone

03-14-2010, 11:24

yeah yeah yeah whatever. i was once such a freaky snacking hiker dude i wore a ragg wool balancalva backwards and upsidedown on my neck sort of like a resque dog. even in hot weather.in the "pouch", i had an 8 oz nalge with water, a bag o miso with a cornner cut off and a sandwitch bag of peanuts. without stopping, and at a conciderable pace, i would mix a squeeze of brown rice miso into the water and drink it down with spirrulinna pills and whole food vitimins chased by peanuts. then i would be so pumped on b vitimins everything kinda glowed extra green.