BTW...great list WOO! Thanks! Maddog
BTW...great list WOO! Thanks! Maddog
"You do more hiking with your head than your feet!" Emma "Grandma" Gatewood...HYOY!!!
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I got hooked on 490 calorie fried cherry pies as a mid morning snack.
others have already covered most of it 1 new one i didnt see that i really love is pesto mix its cheap, light, and very tasty.you just heat olive oil and add pesto mix its great on rice or noodles.
A couple of meals for you:
Mediteranian:
Parmesean Cous Cous
add tuna
add curry powder
add hot sauce
Thai:
Ramen - ditch spice packs
cook and leave water
add peanut butter - stir well
add soy sauce
add hot sauce
sm can cocunut milk (super gourmet)
Euro / American
Cereal with powdered milk
dried fruit
?
Peanut butter
nutella
?
Cheese / triscuits
I could go on and on - unless someone
gives me one of those backpacking
store (mountain house) meals, i buy
all my backpacking food at grocery or
whole foods (type) stores
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They don't take terribly long to cook. Some as little as 10 minutes, and some longer. I usually just bring the soup to a boil, let it sit in my cozy for 10 minutes to soak, and then heat it up again if it doesn't look like it's cooked all the way. That way I don't use too much fuel. I really like the creamy soups, like the pototoe one. Add a can of chicken!
Some people take the straight and narrow. Others the road less traveled. I just cut through the woods.
Man that Starbux Via instant Iced coffee packets sounds good...
re.Bear Creek soups
Not the cheese broccoli. That stuff is heaven and near instant. Add ramen without spice pack for variety. makes a good evening meal too.
I always carry tortillas. Bread: the staff of life.
Any soup with beans takes a long time to cook.
Grinder
AT hiker : It's the journey, not the destination
Dogs are excellent judges of character, this fact goes a long way toward explaining why some people don't like being around them.
Woo
One of the valuable tools I use is the smart phone camera to remind me of products and prices.... quick snap and I dump in a file for packing
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Dogs are excellent judges of character, this fact goes a long way toward explaining why some people don't like being around them.
Woo
I could a poptart and not eat anything else anymore for mos of the day, tuna is nice too though, I guess I would take a variety of things, all of them not really healthy, but I also take some fruit along.
+eat, also; why is there no edit button ?
The falafel packs next to the couscous are good.
Also the answer to your pop-tart crumbling is to pour it in a PB tortilla, the crumbs will stick to the PB, that's a fine burrito.
Avocados pack out well, and have one of the better caloric to weight ratios of anything in the produce section.
Lastly if you leave town with less than 1lb of cheese your wrong.
Best formula I use: 1 serving cheap carbs (usually noodles of some sort), 1 serving protein (tuna in tin foil, sometimes jerky), 1 serving fat (olive oil or peanut butter), 1 pinch spices - usually salt, pepper, cayenne, occasionally hot sauce. Cook it up, mix it all together with a little extra water and form a sauce to go with it. It's mildly "Thai" tasting...I can live off of this for days on end when on trail!
Ranger
I usually carry tuna in foil (at least two or three packs), a can of Bega cheese (long shelf life), pilot crackers or flat bread. Lasts for a good three day weekend backpacking trip and takes up little to no room and weight. The tuna is under 1lb, cheese is 0.55 pound and offers 600 calories and the bread, well it is flat and lightweight!
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Sandwich Thins more durable and taste better than tortillas or pita
Justin's Peanut butter packets (for shorter hikes)
individual Nutella packets (^^^)
brentwood Sandwich biscuits. (kinda like less sweet oreos) easy to find at Job Lot 1200cal for 8.5oz package ~140cal/oz