New ideas please for snacks and desserts

[daddytwosticks]

Fritoes Corn Chips for the two essentials (grease and salt)!

[Skid.]

If you have a Sam's Club in your area, get a bag of 'Back to Nature' Nantucket Blend. A mix of nuts with dried cranberry, cherry, and pistachios, for a really different flavor. Careful, it's addictive.

[tiptoe]

Homemade rhubarb rollups. Stew the rhubarb, add sugar to taste, spread on dehydrator sheets, dry, and roll up in clear plastic wrap.

[fins1838]

2 dozen Maryland steamed blue crabs & a 6 pack of Natty Boh. Easy speezshy.

[Bookworm2]

This sounds excellent! I'll have to make these.

[Farr Away]

Cashews or almonds
Dark chocolate
Fresh fruit (a piece or 2 anyway)
homemade real fruit rollups (you can do anything when you do it yourself- strawberry rhubarb, blueberry apple)
dehydrated melon slices
baby carrots

[Whack-a-mole]

No bake jello cheesecake. Take a can of condensed milk and a graham cracker crust. When you get to camp, put the milk and pie ingredients in the creek to get cold. Mix as directed and build a cairn of rocks in the creek. Set the pie on the cairn so that it is in the water to cool, but not so deep that water goes into the pie. After it sets up put the topping on, walk back into the shelter with it and watch the people freak out.

[Moose2001]

I've been thinking that when I do the AT again, or any other long trail that for every other(or maybe all) town resupply stops, I will buy a package of brownies, or bakery cookies, or frosted cake. Sure it would be heavy to carry, but that will make it taste all that much better!

One of my friends carried a whole apple pie out of NOC. Sprung it on us after dinner! Yumm! I've seen other hikers carry watermelon, ice cream, cakes etc out of town. Very yummy as well. I've made pudding in camp as well. Just need a stream to set your pot in so it can cool and setup. I've seen and tasted the instant cheesecake mixes done the same way.

Maybe not dessert but coming out of Gatlinburg once, I stopped at the KFC right on the edge of town. Bought a 10 piece bucket of chicken and stuffed in two gallon ziploc bags. Broke it open at Icewater Spring and thought I was going to get attacked by other hikers!

[Miner]

Box of hostess donuts. Hostess Fruit Pies (400+ calories!) Anything made by Little Debbie. Dark Chocolate. Hard candy. Brown sugar mixed with some oil (even olive oil will work) spread on a bread product like a tortilla; tastes suprisingly good on the trail.

[MuddyWaters]

anything individually wrapped, little debbie snacks, fig bars, etc. meat sticks and cheese combos, snickers, peanut mms, granola (whole foods), trail mix.

[Velvet Gooch]

Oven roasted chickpeas. Plain or seasoned

[Wise Old Owl]

75491808102_450x450_a.jpgPoppycock.... Snickers or Heath bars... or Skor.