I've got breakfast, dinner, and snacks covered. My problem is lunch. I don't make anything at home usually, preferring meal bars or shakes around the middle of the day.
Anyone have some advice, suggestions, or even just what they did for lunch?
I've got breakfast, dinner, and snacks covered. My problem is lunch. I don't make anything at home usually, preferring meal bars or shakes around the middle of the day.
Anyone have some advice, suggestions, or even just what they did for lunch?
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I've always had peanut butter and jelly on a tortilla.
Second PB&J on a tortilla. I save the single serve packages that you get at restaurants or hotel breakfasts. Single serve cream cheese, dehydrated hummus. Anything that you can spread. Cut up single serve spam. Tuna packages.
Ritz crackers with the same. Keep from crushing with Pringles cans or plastic soda bottles cut in half and slid together.
Anything that doesn't take a lot of time.
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Fresh fruit on day 1 returning to trail from town, and almost always : nuts (fatty sustained energy), hot tea, jerky or protein bar or wrap with tuna/chicken pouch, and some carbs like crackers or bread... and hard candy for dessert, usually while walking after lunch.
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I love the wrap ideas. I used to have single serve spam and tuna for my school lunches. For peanut butter do you carrying single servings or powder (I have powder here at home and it's extremely light in a fairly sturdy container)? And should I still plan on protein/meal bars for those days when I don't want to make something?
Lunches.. there is always GORP (good ol' raisins and peanuts, often with m n ms mixed in for good measure. Snickers bars, A good block of cheddar cheese that you can slice up, summer sausage or salami to slice up. Lunch is generally snacks, not some big meal.
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Another PB&J on flour tortilla.
Only one lunch? I usually eat and snack throughout the day when I'm hiking
Chicken salad.
small can of white meat, mayo, lemon juice, tobasco, slivered almonds or walnuts, dried fruit if you like.
spread on flour tortilla. Curry power for a change.
Spiced-up tuna pack, homemade carrot oatmeal bar
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Has anyone tried the savory meal bars like Tanka or Epic?
I just found those while browsing for meal bar recipes.
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76 HawkMtn w/Rangers
14 LHHT
15 Girard/Quebec/LostTurkey/Saylor/Tuscarora/BlackForest
16 Kennerdell/Cranberry-Otter/DollyS/WRim-NCT
17 BearR
18-19,22 AT NOBO 1562.2
22 Hadrian's Wall
23 Cotswold Way
Forget the single serving sizes - IMO - too much trash for the weight you carry. I always grabbed a tub or bar of cream cheese in town. At first, it lasted 4-6 meals. After a few months, 2-4 meals.
Lots of flavors, lots of variety. Never had a problem with it getting too hot while it was stuffed down in my pack/food bag.
I also went from peanut butter - too dry, too much water to wash down - to a jar of Nutella. Almost the same calorie/nutrition counts. Again, the number of meals dropped as time went by.
Also had to go from the 8" to the 10" tortillas. THESE were the biggest weight in my food bag. 3-4 per meal.
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String cheese, Fritos, and summer sausage. Add a lemon flavor packet to some water, and that's a hot weather lunch. In cooler weather I'll make hot tea and instant soup.