What Are You Eating, Your Next Trip?

[JJJ]

On my next trip I am taking around 10 Superfood Slam Pro Bars, my favorite of the bunch.

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Absolutely the best.
They are hemp-a-licious

I've been toying with a knock-off recipe all winter.

Next trip will just be overnight and light, so no cooking.
But boiled eggs are good, quick, food value so I'll take those again.

[IceAge]

It will be a while before my next trip, but please don't forget to take Stove-top stuffing along on your next one.

[Mike Way]

Try this for breakfast. Quick and filling. Tear up bagels or pita into McCormacks white country gravy.

[couscous]

If there are 3500 calories in a pound of stored fat, then I'm good for weeks with nothing. But just to be social I'm taking four boxes of Near East Couscous Mixes - Roasted Garlic & Olive Oil, Tomato Basil, Herbed Chicken & Toasted Pine Nut .. four cereal bars and a few 1.5oz Planters Nutrition Heart Healthy Mix packs for a 5-day trip later this week.

[ASUGrad]

I'm packing an Easy-Bake Oven and will probably stick to the cake.

Actually, Tuna and Salmon. Lipton Cup-A-Soup with extra pasta. Flavored grits. Lots of nuts. Real peanut butter.

[msujay]

Cinnamon Brown Sugar Mini Bagels + Peanut Butter = good times.

[msujay]

If there are 3500 calories in a pound of stored fat, then I'm good for weeks with nothing. But just to be social I'm taking four boxes of Near East Couscous Mixes - Roasted Garlic & Olive Oil, Tomato Basil, Herbed Chicken & Toasted Pine Nut .. four cereal bars and a few 1.5oz Planters Nutrition Heart Healthy Mix packs for a 5-day trip later this week.

Well you certainly chose the correct screen name!

[russb]

Absolutely the best.
They are hemp-a-licious

I've been toying with a knock-off recipe all winter.

Care to share your knock-off recipe?

[couscous]

Well you certainly chose the correct screen name!

[rpenczek]

Typical menu for me is:

Breakfast:
2 via coffees
Dried Fruit
and
Begal
Single serve PB
OR
Granola cereal and Nedo in a Freezer bag
OR
Pop tarts

Lunch:
Dried Fruit
and
Jerky
Cliff Bar
Trail Mix
or
Foil tuna
Crackers (1 sleave of saltines)
or
Potted meat
Mayo packets
Tortillia(s)
or
Hard salami
Hard cheese
Crackers

Dinner
Dried Fruit
Crackers (1/2 sleave of saltines)
and
Mountain House Meal
or
Raman and foil or can chicken (hydrated in freezer bag)

[Knocky]

One stripped MRE each, and one MH meal each.

Fresh fruit, trail mix, Cliff bars, coffee, tea and hot cider.

[Doctari]

My next 5 day trip in KY:

Day 1
Breakfast on way to trailhead.
Lunch: 3 sweet & salty nut bars from Nature valley & a Snickers bar.
Dinner: 2 Packs of Thai noodles. Like Ramen but better, I found them at Biglots.
Total food cost (on trail) for the day: $4.00

Day 2
Breakfast: 2 - 3 packs instant Grits. "Candy bar"
Lunch: 3 sweet & salty nut bars from Nature valley & a little Debbie apple fritter.
Dinner: 2 packs Thai Noodles
Total food cost for the day: $6.00

Day 3
Breakfast: 3 packs instant grits.
Lunch: 3 little Debbie apple fritters & an oatmeal pie.
Dinner: Dried corn chowder & couscous (I'm adding the couscous to dry mix)
Total food cost for the day: $5.50

Day 4
Breakfast: Grits & a grilled slice of SPAM! OMG the best trail breakfast ever!
lunch: Jerky.
Dinner: YEP, Thai noodles. BTW, I'm carrying 5 different flavors to mix & match as I see fit.
Total food cost for the day: $7.00

Day 5: Whatever I got left for breakfast & lunch, Dinner on the way home, hopefully AYCE Chinese.
Total (on trail) food cost for the day: $3.50 or so.

In 14 years of hiking I have had TWO commercial "Hiking meals". About 80% of the food I hike with is gotten at Big Lots or Family Dollar or Dollar General or similar store. The remaining 20% is at other stores along the trail & rarely a few Large food stores at home (Aldi's near me has shelf stable BACON for way cheap!)

[JJJ]

Care to share your knock-off recipe?

No problem



Chop all the nuts and dried fruit (cut into pieces as needed), mash the blueberries and blackberries and mix in a large bowl with the dry stuff

CUPS unless noted -7/13/2010 recipe

Mixed Nuts (walnuts, cashews, almonds, etc) 2.75
Rolled oats 6
Rolled rye 1
Sunflower seeds 1
WW Flour 0.5
coconut, shredded 0.75
dark chocolate chips 0.75
sesame seed 1.25
hemp hearts 0.75
milled flax 0.5
wheat bran 0.25
demenara, or unprocessed dry sugar 0.75
apricots, dried 0.5
crasins, dried 0.5
cherries, dried 0.5
dates, dried 0.5
raisins 0.25
Blueberries, fresh or thawed 1
Blackberries, fresh or thawed 1

Put these ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth
rice syrup 0.75
maple syrup 0.5
molasses 0.25
honey 0.75
Canola oil 1
toasted sesame 0.125
plain yogart or kefir 1.25
peanut butter 0.5
sunflower butter 0.5
Almond butter 0.5
Vanilla, extract 2 tbls
Water 0.5
fennel powder 0.5 teas
acia powder 0.5 teas
fenugreek powder 0.5 teas
Barley or wheat grass powder 1.5 tbls
Salt 1 teas

Spread a cake ~ 1/2" on parchment and dehydrate
~10hrs @ 145° or until bar-like consistency
(this is the tricky part -working on the "too crumbly" texture but getting there)

Substitute or omit items as seems fitting to your tastes
I have yet to use any hemp oil but I bet it would give it more of that SuperSlam flavor, but even these are delicious.

[Omega Man]

What about butter? Is there any kind of butter that will last on the trail? I've heard that those squeeze bottles of Parkay or "I can't believe it's not Butter," last quite a while without refrigeration.

[JJJ]

Butter will last a few days in summer, but to extend the life, turn it into Ghee.

[JAK]

I would like to try a 5-6 day trip with nothing but oats

not sure why

just for the heck of it I guess

[Feral Bill]

I would like to try a 5-6 day trip with nothing but oats

not sure why

just for the heck of it I guess

6 days of just oats wouldn't kill you, but you might wish it would before you were through.

[garlic08]

I would like to try a 5-6 day trip with nothing but oats

not sure why

just for the heck of it I guess

I've actually done this, or close to it. I made a muesli of oats, walnuts, raisins, and added powdered milk and hiked over 100 miles in five days through the High Sierra on the PCT with it. I also brought two jars of peanut butter for fat, because I was already fairly thin from the 800 mile hike leading up to it. It was my first attempt at a stoveless diet. I'll never do it again--I craved other stuff too much. But the muesli remains the staple in my trail diet, at least 25% of the food weight I usually carry. It's great stuff.

I tried it because I met an AT veteran on the PCT who I instantly respected, who said that's all he ate, all the time, on the trail. He finished the PCT and went on to his Triple Crown, on mainly oats and peanut butter as far as I know.

[JEBjr]

My latest favorite dinner:

a bag of vermicelli, a small can of salsa, olive oil and parmesan

I haven't tried adding chicken yet but that will be the next step!


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[couscous]

Dried corn chowder & couscous (I'm adding the couscous to dry mix)

"welcome to the dark side, we have cookies"