Backpacking Food...

[JC785]

When i have time I'm gonna go to the grocery store and pick out meals that just take water to make. It seems like thats the best way to go besides dehydration

After you dehydrate your meat and etc. Do you just add boiling water or? to cook it?

[JC785]

Oh yeah, Thanks Matthew for opening up the food tab.

[Cuffs]

When i have time I'm gonna go to the grocery store and pick out meals that just take water to make. It seems like thats the best way to go besides dehydration

After you dehydrate your meat and etc. Do you just add boiling water or? to cook it?

I dehydrate just about every vegetable there is, and also cooked meats.  Yes, just add hot/boiling water to rehydrate.

[JC785]

Thanks!

[Dicentra]

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[lawnmowwer]

 Hears two for you. If you have a fire. I use usually don't build one any more.

 Lasagna

make two berger patties the same size.  Lay one on some Hd aluminum foil.  Next a layer of your fav. cheese, a layer of jar sauce, and some raw noodles, next sauce and more noodles, then sauce, and more cheese. put the other pattie on top. Wrap in foil. Turn over and wrap in a second layer of foil.  Make and freeze a couple of days in advance.   To cook rake some coals to the edge of the fire and throw it on them. Turn over about every 10 min. for around 45 min. and Wa-La back country lasagna.

Fajitas

Cut strips of chicken or stake, onion, peppers, etc. For the sauce mix lime juice and Worcestershire.  In a small pan lay Hd aluminium foil mix in meat a veges cover with sauce and seal up the foil flip and add another layer of foil. Cook in the coals of a fire about 30 min.
 

[DavidR]

Thought I'd revive this thread as I have been thinking more about trail nutrition lately. I eat big on and off the trail. If I'm not in the woods I'm in the gym. I use http://fitday.com/ to monitor my calorie and micro nutrient intake for training purposes, but I've found that it is a good way to plug in a mach trail menu to make sure I'm getting the breakdown I want. As for diet planning, I generally have tried to keep carbs higher on the trail than my day to day diet. I think that would be best for high energy consumption over a short (2-5 day) span. I found this article at Backpacker regarding diet: http://www.backpacker.com...alth_hiker_diet/gear/6406 that reiterates my thoughts, but long distance (months of hiking) calls for a different diet; more like 50% fat, 30% carbs, 20% Protein. All that said here's a normal day for me:

Breakfast: 2pk Quaker Oatmeal, Large Coffee
Snack: GORP or Big 100 Bar & (Cliff energy shot, or some high energy small snack)
Lunch: Backpacker's Pantry Entree (half or a whole if I'm hungry enough)
Snack: GORP or Big 100 Bar & (Cliff energy shot, or some high energy small snack)
Dinner: Backpacker's Pantry Entree (half or a whole if I'm hungry enough)
Snack: Nuts or oil or cheese & hot cocoa lately...lol

Here are some of the specs:
Mountain House Sweet & Sour Pork        4.41oz      380Cal   60Carb    15Pro    8Fat
B-Packer's Pantry Beans & Rice                6oz          600Cal   124Carb   24Pro    2Fat
B-Packer's Pantry Cajun Chicken              6.3oz       600Cal   116Carb   34Pro    3Fat
B-Packer's Pantry Apple D'Lite                  2.5oz       260Cal   66Carb     0Pro      0Fat
CVS GORP                                                 .25oz       140Cal    14Carb    4Pro      9Fat
Met RX Collosal 100                                 3.52oz      420Cal    48Carb    30Pro    12Fat

New item: Candycane Cocoa                   1.4oz        170Cal    33Carb    2Pro      3Fat


Muscle Milk makes some very calorie dense shake powder that rocks too. http://www.cytosport.com/products/all-products

[wirerat123]

REVIVE!!:

Breakfast: Oatmeal Packets, Instant Grits packages, or Cream of Wheat Packages, Coffee
Lunch: Usally some pouch Tuna, some type of cheese, mustard or mayo packet with a tortilla, or something that doesn't require cooking.  Pouch Tuna is great .
Dinner: Hamburger Helper Singles (Soooo worth it!), Lipton sides, Ramen, Dried Veggies, Mountain House (Rarely), Considering trying out drying my own foods.

Snacks: Trail Mix, Clif energy shot, Clif Bars, granola bars of some type, or Snickers.

Agree with the above that Muscle Milk powders make great drink mixes, and are super healthy.  They'll top off what your meals do not, and taste great.

[fungi]

After I’m done with breakfast and before I put my stove away I boil some more water to rehydrate some re-fried beans and rice for lunch.  I either throw them into a little plastic container I sometimes carry or do an FBC pack.  Pack everything up and then at lunch I can easily pull out the beans and rice and make a great burrito for lunch without having to get out my stove again.

I never had a bad meal in the woods.

[squidbilly]

I never had a bad meal in the woods.

True that      Whatever you take to eat is great when you're hungry.


And, that's a great idea about prepping lunch while cleaning up breakfast.