Bread.(not a jaw dropping insight but worth mentioning)

[Rooster]

I hiked nearly halfway before meeting a guy who always hiked with a loak of bread and lunch meat. Most people, like me, were on the tuna fish and tortillas lunch plan. Bread doesn't squish as bad as you might think, is actually a decent source of calories and is a hell of a lot easier to find than frickin' tortillas. Lunch meat as in salami and other extremely cured meats last for at least three days with no worries. I personally could never make it past day four w/o finishing of the pound I would buy. That and a block of extra sharp was my lunch and it was a lot better than another packet of tuna.

[Pokey2006]

I sometimes carried bread (once, hot dog buns), keeping it from getting crushed by tying it to the outside of the pack. There's nothing like a real sandwich on the trail!

[Spirit Walker]

English muffins are also good - compact, filling and they last. Any good dense multigrain or rye bread will also work, but the end of the loaf is likely to be pretty squished.

[RITBlake]

Here's 2005 SOBO Don King going through the notch w/ a loaf of bread swinging from his pack.

[max patch]

I had a bagel every day.

[RITBlake]

And I always packed a bag of bagels out of town. During short distances between resupply we would buy one bag and split it.

[Old Grouse]

Pitas work well, too.

[Nicksaari]

yeah pita are where its at. spread on some PB and sprinkle raisins and VIOLA! you've got a dry and yet scrumptious lunch or dinner. or breakfast.

[Jim Adams]

if you want to carry bread, buy a round oatmeal box, eat the oatmeal and put your loaf of bread inside...won't crush till the box gets too worn and crushes.

geek

[TD55]

Whats wrong with smashed up bread??? It taste the same and you can still smear peanutbutter or whatever on it.

[YoungMoose]

ive had pita with dried hummus. The hummas tasted great after you added the water. It was homemade too.

[BigFoot2002]

I carry half loafs of bread in my snow peak 1400 ti pot. Some times cookies, triscuits, cheeze-its, pastries, whatever I don't want crushed. I don't understand why so many hikers put their stove, etc in their cookpot.

[TD55]

I carry half loafs of bread in my snow peak 1400 ti pot. Some times cookies, triscuits, cheeze-its, pastries, whatever I don't want crushed. I don't understand why so many hikers put their stove, etc in their cookpot.

'cause they don't know no better.

[The Old Fhart]

When I did my first section hike we called it "accordion" bread because you'd put one hand on each end and push to compress it by about two thirds.

[Bronk]

I also carried a loaf of bread tied to the outside of my pack...you could eat over half of it before it was too mangled. I'd take the smashed pieces and roll them into tiny balls and put them into my ramen noodles.

I made grilled cheese sandwiches with that pre-cooked bacon in them, and I also would buy pepperoni and mozzarella and a tiny can of tomato sauce and make grilled pizza sandwiches.

[Fiddleback]

On one 'hike', which was actually a search for a horse that had bolted and disappeared, I took pre-made, peanut butter and brown sugar on white bread sandwiches. Some folks recoil at the 'recipe' but it's the kind of junk I was brought up on and I still rather like it...sometimes.

The sandwiches were cut in quarters which were used for trail snacks during rest breaks. Maybe it was the rapid, forced nature of the hike...maybe it was just me at the time, but...they turned out to be one of the most energy-boosting snacks I've experienced. I didn't expect such a lasting benny from something so sugar-based...

FB

...the horse was recovered unharmed after a day or two...but not by us.

[JAK]

When I was at Fortress Louisburgh they made they really heavy round bread made in ovens there. It wasn't as hard as hard tack but it was probably heavier. It would be nice to be able to buy bread like that for the trail. Sometimes you can find bread that is close in size and shape and ingredients but no so heavy. For local hikes its fun to try and make your own, and live with the consequences. lol

[JAK]

We had Scottish Oatcakes and Irish Tea Biscuits on our hike on the Easter Saturday with the kids. The kids liked the Irish Tea Biscuits which really were good and nice and big, what I would call scones but not as heavy as mine. They didn't like the oatcakes so much but I of course loved them and would like to figure out how to make them on the trail. I could make scones on the trail too maybe but they require more of an oven method than a simpler hot surface like a skillet or rock.

[mister krabs]

You could make just about any kind of soda bread or quickbread with an oven type setup. I've done it over a wood fire putting coals on my pot lid.

Start here

• 1 cup milk
• 1 cup quick cooking oats
• 1 egg
• 1/4 cup vegetable oil
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/4 cup white sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

[JAK]

You don't even need an egg really. I like the oats though. Nice touch. I've heard you can make baking soda from wood ash. Not sure how to get it to rise though as baking soda still needs acid I think, unlike baking powder which has that covered. Adding some lemon powder maybe, or letting the skim milk go sour somehow. I like the coals on the pot lid idea.