Opinin: Top 5 "Must Have" store bought food items.

[moonshiner]

Please list the top 5 items that you don't leave the grocery store/outfitter/dollar store without when you're hiking. Please only list 5 and please only list items that can be bought in most stores along the AT.
Be as specific as you like with Name Brands as well.


My Top 5

1. Tuna/Salmon Packets
2. Reese's Crunchy Peanut Butter
3. Kraft Mac & Cheese
4. Tortillas
5. Boil in a Bag Rice

[Wise Old Owl]

Can't do it in Five - YOU FORGOT CHOCOLATE!

[TACKLE]

1.Tuna packets(albacore)
2.M&M peanuts
3.Potato Buds or fresh potatoes
4.Lipton noodles(any flavor)
5.Ramen

[moonshiner]

Okay, someone is holding a piece of chocolate in front of you...if you name just 5 items, (now 4) you get the piece of chocolate. Just want your 'Opinin' (Really, I passed third grade spelling)

[taildragger]

1. Cous Cous (or other pasta)
2. Extreme chunky peanut butter
3. Foiled meat (mmm tuna?)
4. Cheese
5. Fruit

[Almost There]

1. Knorr Noodles/Rice
2. Skittles or Butterfingers(Time of Year)
3. Bagels
4. Cashews
5. Some kind of fresh meal for first night, sub sandwich, burger, or a frozen dinner that can thaw during the day and then be cooked in my pot.

[Yahtzee]

Lipton Sides
Kraft Real Bacon
Snickers
Chicken/Tuna
Honey Buns

[Appalachian Tater]

1. Ramen, any brand, chili or cajun chicken or other spicy flavor if available
2. M&Ms, including dark chocolate, and either peanut butter or almond
3. Granola bars for breakfast, any brand
4. Stuffing, preferably cornbread, any brand
5. Chicken in a pouch if available, or in a can, any brand

Oh, and I always try to carry out a couple of pieces of fresh fruit, but it's not always available.

[Littlest Hobo]

1. Barelli dry tortellini (or Liptons if not available)
2. Jerky
3. Combos
4. Payday
5. Foiled chicken

[Wise Old Owl]

1. Chocolate. (Snickers)
2. Coffee (High Octane)
3. Low sodium Jerky.
4. Yogurt covered Granola bars.
5. large Summer Sausage with cheese inside.
6. I still need a six.

[snowhoe]

1. oatmael or gritts instant
2. jerky
3. ramin
4. snickers
5. jack daniels

[hobojoe]

1.yeung ling
2.Rolling papers
3.Oranges
4.REAL Bacon
5.Honeybuns

[Almost There]

Thought about puttin' booze on the list, but you can't get it everywhere.

[Hooch]

1) Cous cous or other pasta product
2) Trail mix of some sort
3) Nutella with extra hazelnuts to crush and put in it
4) Bananas
5) When in NC/TN, Cheerwine! :banana

[A-Train]

Good thread

1.Mac n Cheese
2.Cheese
3. Tortillas/eng muffins/bagels/some sort of bread
4.snickers
5. craisins or some other dried fruit.

I can live with just that for a couple days.

[Christopher Robin]

1.Ice cream
2.Fruit
3.Subs.
4.Meat for the first nite on the trail.
5.Candy.

[Lilred]

1. some kind of snack, candy bars or energy bars
2. an Apple or two
3. some kind of packaged sausage
4. Some kind of bread
5. nuts, usually cashews

Most of my food is in mail drops, but I'll be picking these items up as I go along.

[FeO2]

1. tuna packets
2. oatmeal
3. cliff bars (apple/cranberry)
4. m&m's
5. Cashier, must be cute, near my age and have no sense of smell :D

Disclaimer if my wife happens to surf by my comments (in small print too):

Do not assume that you know everything there is to know about a writer simply because you read their post, particularly #5. Any judgments you make will be based on the information they have provided you about themselves, which is probably vague, incomplete, embellished and probably misleading . Whatever opinion you form on them as people, or their life as a whole, is probably best kept to yourself. Remember, you are the reader. An obvious exception to this would be if someone were asking for advice or opinions.
:-?

I think I'll still be in trouble if she reads this! Maybe she'll suggest I go hiking or something.:D

[hootyhoo]

mac and cheese
country time pink lemonade
pistaccio pudding
hersheys chocolate bars
coffeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[moonshiner]

Wise Old Owl,

Thanks, and please share #6 also.

[Micky]

1 Liptons any flavor will do.
2 GORP
3 Snickers
4 Any kind of packaged meat
5 Crown and coke, water, ice, air

[Erin]

Good thread....
1. One Orange
2. Peanuts and Candy Korn (a perfect salt and sweet mix)
3. Folger's coffee singles
4. Stove Top Cornbread stuffing
5. Chicken in a pouch
I feel like the anti-Christ...I never pack chocolate. Nothing against it, I just don't crave it.

[Feral Bill]

Swiss Miss (or equivilent)
Cheeze
Dry Salami
M+Ms
Dry Fruit

[Farr Away]

1. Coffee!!!
2. Nature Valley Chewy granola bars
3. Dried Fruit
4. Foil packed chicken/tuna/something
5. Some kind of carbs to go with #4

Did I mention coffee? :D

[doggiebag]

1. For my meals I usually go with Liptons rice or noodle sides - which I supplement with Spam or summer sausage. (1 can of Spam can supplement 4 of the Liptons dishes).
http://www.noodleson.com/store/images/other/lipton.thai.noodle.jpg
2. Tabasco Sauce - gotta have it.
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en-commons/thumb/b/be/150px-Tabasco_sauce.jpg
3. Breakfast stuffs - cocoa,poptarts, oatmeal, raisins and sugar.
4.Candy bars and snacks - Snickers, honey roasted peanuts ... etc.
5. Batteries for my head lamp and camera.

I could probably list more things ... but I've already cheated by bunching my list into sets. That is a minimum list of what I need to keep going.

PS - Dog food.

[dessertrat]

poptarts, instant mashed potatoes, lipton noodles, powdered gatorade, foil pouch tuna.

[envirodiver]

A rice and beans dish of some sort
Cheese
Hot sauce
mixed nuts
clif bars

[mkmangold]

1. Ramen noodles
2. Oatmeal
3. Dry milk
4. Raisins and/or craisins
5. Sugar

I haven't eaten dogfood since 2nd grade so I probably wouldn't bring that.

[peanuts]

1. fav cheddar cheese
2. summer sausage/pep
3. crackers
4. nido
5. anything in a foil package

[zoidfu]

Pepperjack cheese
Peanuts
ice tea drink mix
coffee
Taco Microwave helper

[Sly]

Must have, but don't always have

coffee
powered drink
liquor

everything else is just food.

[Wise Old Owl]

Wise Old Owl,

Thanks, and please share #6 also.

If we are passing thru Tennessee - #6 is moonshine or Jack D.

[JAK]

1. Oatmeal
2. Honey
3. Skim Milk Powder
4. Trail Mix
5. Jerky

I would make tea on the trail from leaves and sticks and stuff.

[Hitch]

tuna or chicken foil pacs
almond or walnuts
coffee
snickers
peanur butter

[Hurley]

1. Things to make oatmeal (oats, brown sugar, dehydrated milk) come on, counts as one.
2. snickers
3. flat bread
4. pre cooked chicken
5. green tea

[ATSeamstress]

1. Luna or Odwalla bars (if not available, granola or Nutri-Grain or similar bar)
2. Raisins or whatever dried/fresh fruit is available.
3. Summer sausage, chicken, or tuna
4. Nuts
5. Lipton with veggies

[BR360]

1. Cheese
2. Triscuits
3. Folgers Coffee Singles
4. Odwalla bars or substitute
5. Chocolate covered expresso beans

[the goat]

barilla plus pasta
dark chocolate
peanut butter
nature valley oats & honey
tuna

[Doctari]

1) Grits, nearly any flavor but cheddar is my favorite.
2) Couscous
3) Green tea (powder form)
4) Sweet n Salty candy bars (I prefer the almond ones).
5) Oreo's. Specially if I can find them in the 4 packs so they fit in my bowl & don't get crushed.

I'm getting some good ideas from this thread, keep em comming.

[Sly]

Anyone else think tuna taste like **** in a Liptons? On bread with mayonnaise great, in a Litpons... blah.

[error]

1) Grits, nearly any flavor but cheddar is my favorite.

They come in flavors? I just eat mine with a little sugar and butter. And bacon and eggs.

[Skidsteer]

Anyone else think tuna taste like **** in a Liptons? On bread with mayonnaise great, in a Litpons... blah.

Yeah, until I tried salmon.

I still eat it though. :o

[Erin]

Yes, Sly, I like tuna every which way but warm mixed in with noodles or rice. But then, I may not have ever been really hungry.
Great ideas on this posts though. I forgot cheese!

[Doctari]

They come in flavors? I just eat mine with a little sugar and butter. And bacon and eggs.

The instant ones do.
Not nearly as good as home cooked, but IMHO better than instant oatmeal. I fix 3 or more 1 oz packs per day if it's the prepackaged stuff, or about 3 - 4 Oz if it comes in bulk. Add a bit of olive oil & bacon bits & :eek: O M G!!!
Yea, you can add sugar to the plain or "Butter flavor" ones, I just don't like sweets.

[Neurosis]

Noodles of any sort
Granola bars of any sort/
Gorp or maybe some fruit
Tuna
Bread products