Any lunch ideas for the trail?

[lemon73]

I'm trying to find good ideas for things to eat at lunch. Eating bars and garp all day is kind of boring. And I don't want to get the stove out either. Any "light" ideas? I'm leaving this week to section hike from Grafton Notch to Katahdin and I'm starting to get nervous about this issue. (Thank you!, first post!)

[tlap]

• Peanut butter on a bagel, tortilla or pita.
• Mix up powdered hummus with water and olive oil before breaking camp, and eat with a tortilla or pita.
• Tuna from a foil pouch, and crackers.
• Jerky or soy jerky and crackers.

[Sierra Echo]

I LOVE peanut butter and honey sandwiches! And a few carrot sticks!

[Llama Legs]

...and I'm starting to get nervous about this issue.

It's good that you're nervous about lunch, it takes your mind off of the bears. Try some pepperoni, hard cheese, and crackers...

BTW, have a great hike !

[max patch]

I ate the same thing for lunch almost every day on my thru; Peanut butter and jelly on a bagel, a large hunk of cheddar cheese, and something from my snack bag.

[garlic08]

Lunch starts very soon after breakfast and continues until just before dinner. I just snack all day on whatever is in my food bag, which is typically cheese, tortillas, crackers, cashews, raisins, fig newtons. Dried hummus is a great idea if you can find it.

[lemon73]

Thank you for your answers. Its pretty much what I was thinking about. And about bears also... I think I will carry peanut butter. However, bread is not really an option for mail drops. What do you think about uncooked Ramen noodles?

[Sierra Echo]

no nutritional value at all!! and lots of bad fats.
could you carry some flat bread? That shouldn't take up too much room!~

[bigcranky]

http://whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php?t=51903

http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php?t=59646

[lemon73]

Thank you Big Cranky. I was looking for that thread and somehow I did not manage to find it!

[lemon73]

no nutritional value at all!! and lots of bad fats.
could you carry some flat bread? That shouldn't take up too much room!~

It is not a space problem. But I worry that in my maildrop to Monsoon in +-3 weeks the pita will take a nice blue colour. Maybe I will try to buy some at Shaws if they have some.

[Sierra Echo]

It is not a space problem. But I worry that in my maildrop to Monsoon in +-3 weeks the pita will take a nice blue colour. Maybe I will try to buy some at Shaws if they have some.

how about multigrain saltines?

[lemon73]

how about multigrain saltines?

Good idead, mixed with peanut butter, that will keep my quiet for a while!

I was thinking about RYVITAs. They are not very caloric but all I need is a good support for my peanut butter.

So in the end the menu will be (at least for a while) :

Breakfast:
Instant oatmeal (2X)
Carnation instant breakfast (1)
Skim Milk (1 cup)

Cliff Bar (1)
garp

Lunch
Ryvita (whole grain Rye Crispbread) (2)
Peanut butter


L'Arabar (1)
garp

Half a Mountain house
Some Instant potato

Btw : Did anyone ever tried to separate a mountain house by putting half of it in a Ziplock and washing the aluminum bag to cook the other half the next day?

[daddytwosticks]

OK...sometimes I'm very dense and getting "up there" in age and can't keep up with all these new fangle acronyms. What the heck is "garp"? I know what gorp is...

[Farr Away]

If you wanted to add some variety or calories to your menu, maybe add some jerky and/or cheese.

Also, no coffee?

-FA

[Scooby99]

Tortillas with PB and Nutella are nice, the laughing cow cheeses with bagels are great, and the cheese doesn't melt if you use a water bladder and place them behind the water in your pack. Summer sausage with crackers are nice as well with some nice mustard http://www.minimus.biz/Mustard.aspx

[Nevermind]

Just got back from a 4 day hike. One lunch I quite liked was a Starkist ready-to-go Tuna Salad pouch. I put half the pouch on a tortilla, rolled it up like a burrito, ate, and repeated. I'm not even a huge fan of tuna salad but this was pretty delicious and a nice alternative to gorp.

[lemon73]

Also, no coffee?

-FA

I am coffee addict. I decided to cut the coffee on the trail. It will be hard at first.

And yeah I meant "gorp"!

[lemon73]

Thank you all for the suggestions. I added cheese to my menu and I already had some kind of summer sausage. The mustard is a good idea. Flavour goes a long way on the trail.

I'm just a bit worried about the weight. Since I start at Graffton Notch I wont go for resupply at Andover and I will need 6 days of food before my resupply. I'm over a pound a day of food already.

I'm leaving Friday morning. I will stop worrying now. Either I will loose a bit of weight or I will share the extra food I have have some.

See you on the trail!

[Wise Old Owl]

bagels (cream cheese)
· Pita bread
· Logan Bread
· granola bars
· candy bars
· dried fruit
· GORP (nuts, M&M's raisins, yogurt peanuts, crackers, dried fruit, etc)
· Pringles
· crackers (the dense kinds at health food stores)
· Wheat Thins
· Cheeses (string cheese, blocks of mozarella, etc)
· Tuna (sold in pouches now)
· lunch meat
. Hard boiled eggs/ with salt packet
. jerkys pemmican
. Summer sausage (eg Landsjager) (80 cal/oz)