Whats a normal hiking breakfast for you?

[denimlabels]

For me it would be a couple bags of cheap oatmeal, a banana, a large pot of hot herbal tea, followed by a couple hand fulls of granola mix with chocolate and about as much water as I could top off the tank with. Then...I start off slow like a turtle and just keep slowly speeding up all day.

What do you do for breakfast on the trail after a few months?

[AlyontheAT2016]

instant oatmeal or grits, coffee, (and a banana if I happen to have packed one), then about an hour later I eat whatever snack I happen to have brought with me. I like to eat when I walk.

[soumodeler]

Poptart to start then snacking all day.

[Northstar]

Granola and powdered milk when its warm. Instant oatmeal when its cold

[denimlabels]

A Poptart? Really? I never understood the concept of Poptarts as a breakfast. Its not really a food as much as processed chemicals made to look like food.

But we like what we like. Im 45 and still a big fan of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on tortilla. Its one of my favorite foods.

[jenningka]

I usually start of with oatmeal and tea to warm me up, a bar of some sort after I've packed away my camp, and then on with munching almonds as I start my hiking day.

[denimlabels]

Powdered Milk.....Yum! Cant hardly wait!

[rafe]

A Poptart? Really? I never understood the concept of Poptarts as a breakfast. Its not really a food as much as processed chemicals made to look like food.

But we like what we like. Im 45 and still a big fan of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on tortilla. Its one of my favorite foods.

With you on all of that. PB & J is great any time on the trail. Poptarts, meh.

[Dogwood]

Normal??? Please explain.

Sincerely,
Abby Normal

[denimlabels]

Normal.... you know... A can of sardines and a few fingers of scotch. Thats when men were men. Could you imagine Lewis and Clark eating pop-tarts and fruit roll ups?

LOL

[Another Kevin]

Porridge, or granola, or PB and gorp on a tortilla, or if I'm expecting a lazy day, I might even steam bake some muffins. Coffee is a must. Fresh fruit if it's my first morning out of town, otherwise Trader Joe's has a nice selection of freeze-dried. I'm partial to the mandarin orange sections, reconstituted.

[The Cleaner]

Powdered Milk.....Yum! Cant hardly wait!

Use Nido powdered whole milk.Much better...

[The Cleaner]

Here's a real breakfast.Steel cut oats sweetened with chopped dates.It takes about 15 minutes to cook and you have to have a real stove and know how to clean a pot.037.JPGAfter some blood tests last summer the Doc said I was "pre diabetic". No more instant oatmeal or pop tarts.I haven't had a soda (Coke & Pepsi) for 6 months now.Get all the sugar out of your system and you'll start feeling better.

[Grampie]

First half of the trail. Instant oatmeal ad coffee. Send half of the trail. Dry Cereal with powdered milk and coffee.

[shelb]

Normal.... . Could you imagine Lewis and Clark eating pop-tarts and fruit roll ups?
LOL

I read a book called "Undaunted Courage" that catalogued what they ate on the voyage, based on the journals of Lewis, Clark, and other members of the Corps of Discovery. I don't remember their breakfast; however, I do remember that they were eating about 10-15 pounds of meat a day!

When I have a stove, I eat 2 packets of oatmeal. When I do not have a stove, I eat a protein bar. I plan on having a snack about 1 -2 hours into my hike. Please, realize that I am a section hiker, so I can't advise on those with "Thru-hiker hunger."

[Malto]

Huge variety.
poptarts, granola, other cereal, all with Nido, oatmeal etc. for first breakfast.

then it's been cold mocha or my old standby, Maltodextrin mix the rest of the morning.

[MuddyWaters]

Ist is a quick item, cliff bar, cookies, snickers, granola bar, pastry. Something that can be eaten while walking.

Second, midmorning, is granola/nido when it warms up enough to stop.

Or maybe vice versa in warmer weather. Or maybe not. Depends on circumstances. I really like camping a few miles short of town, and hiking into a town midmorning for bacon/eggs/coffee before resupply. Breakfast is my favorite town meal, drinking coffee after doing without it for a week, relaxing is great. On such morning I totally skip trail breakfast not to ruin it.

[tiptoe]

Souped-up muesli (extra dried fruit, nuts, brown sugar perhaps, Nido) and Tang (heavy, but tasty). That lasts me a couple of hours usually, and then it's time to snack. Small, frequent feedings work well for me.

[GoldenBear]

Wyler's single pack.
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Instant coffee with hot chocolate mix.
Two breakfast bars, one with more sugar than the other.

Believe it or not, the coffee is invariably the only heated food I have all day. My appetite for food vanishes while I backpack, and I've never gone out for more than five days. Thus, I'm famished when I finish, but until then I really don't want to eat much.

I used to have instant oatmeal in the morning, but one day I realized I didn't want to eat it.
Bizarrely, I still love oatmeal at home. I'm still not sure why I don't like it on the trail.

[rocketsocks]

Porkroll egg and cheese on a hard roll w/pepper and ketchup, but it depends on where I am, don't think you can get that down south.