1 Day food pack.

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Don'tkillbill

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Here’s a quick and light home made survival food pack. That will fit in a zip lock medium freezer bag.

Tang Drink
Serving Size: 11g; Calories: 40, Total Fat: 0g, Carbs: 9g, Protein: 0g

Almonds (Planters)
Serving Size: 1 oz. (28g / 23 nuts); Calories: 160, Total Fat: 14g, Carbs: 6g, Protein: 6g

Granola Bar (Nature Valley)
Serving Size: 2 bars; Calories: 180, Total Fat: 6g, Carbs: 29g, Protein: 4g

Chocolate (PowerBar)
Serving Size: 1 bar (65.0 g); Calories: 230, Total Fat: 2g, Carbs: 45g, Protein: 10g

Instant Noodles (Mr. Noodles)
Serving Size: 86 (full pkg); Calories: 380, Total Fat: 12g, Carbs: 56g, Protein: 4g

Hershey Milk Chocolate Bar (Hershey's)
Serving Size: 1 Bar; Calories: 210, Total Fat: 13g, Carbs: 26g, Protein: 3g


Lipton Cup A Soup
Serving Size: 1 Package; Calories: 60, Total Fat: 1g, Carbs: 10g, Protein: 2g

Instant Rice (Uncle Ben's)
Serving Size: 1/2 cup (52g) (About 1 cup cooked); Calories: 190, Total Fat: 0.5g, Carbs: , Protein: 3g

Tuna Pouch (StarKist)
Serving Size: 1 Pouch (3oz./85g); Calories: 90, Total Fat: 1g, Carbs: 1g, Protein: 20g


1540 calories.

Subs

Pop tarts 400 cals

2 oz of pasta 200 cals

Couscous 3 oz 105 cals

Sunflower seeds 190 cals per 1/4 cup


You get the idea.


I'd add 2 pouches of instant coffee and a sugar along with salt and pepper packs from a take out place. Maybe a multivitamin with an extra zip lock bag to prepare food if you lost your pot.
 
Don'tkillbill said:
1540 calories.
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In normal daily life a guy needs between 2,000 - 2,200 calories per day to maintain weight.

Increase that for stress and level of activity.

If you are preparing for a long backpacking hike you could burn 400 - 500/hr

Add items with a higher fat content - cheese; peperoni
 
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Just posting a few items that you could throw in a bag ( I have 2 in the truck) in case your stuck. I should pick up a few more freeze dried meals and leave 2 in the truck along with a few more candles. The ones in the truck have smore pop tarts :)

If I could I'd wrap up 2 water treatment pills, multivitamin, and a few advil. I guess I could get a food saver.

Very true 2200-2400 calories are very light days for me. I go winter camping to eat and not enjoy the woods :D I get 4500 calories per day but I figure a few 1500 cal bags I could stretch out a bad time.

What would you all have in your bags?
 
I realize that 1500 calories is low for most of our average daily caloric intake, but I have found that when I go backpacking (usually 3-5 days) I always take too much food. I estimate that I'll need 3000+ calories for the hike/work involved, but, at the end of the day's hike, the last thing I want to do is eat. There is always food left over at the end of the trip. I feel that I bring to much. Consequently, 1500 calories seems about right for a short term trip. Not trying to derail, but I (we) put lots of thought into our packs, and at my age, the difference between 20 and 22lbs in a pack matters even in the short term.

I guess my point/question is, does anyone else carry/eat less food when they backpack than normally consumed? and 'survival' rations are more than adequate for the job. I do lose weight over the trip, which I don't mind :)
 
Nice post, but a quick (serious) question, and everyone in the know please chime in - do overweight guys like myself (5' 9, 225) need more, or less food than the 1500/2000 daily calories outlined above?

The answer may well be no, as I typically pack more food than needed (i.e. twice the 3000 daily calories for each planned day of the outting), seldom eat a full days rations, and usually come home with most of the food (and am not hungry)...I might lose five pounds in two or three days, yet still feel great.
 
as an aside, I gave my Chem 1 students a practical problem to develop a retort package for a hurricane 3 day kit... that would allow you to just add water to a pouch and not require a separate eating container and keep the cooking pot clean... after a little tweaking we came up with a gallon zip loc bag, 24x24 sheet of heavy aluminum foil, and two paper towels... fold the foil in half, triple fold the edges....fold double towel in half, replace back into gallon zip loc, add Ramen/par boiled rice to foil pouch, replace pouch in bag, nested in towels, don't hold in your hand while you add hot water, seal top of foil pouch.....worked well with ramen/converted rice... lost heat too quickly to completely cook yellow rice with one cup hot water...paper towels available for TP
 
To the OP. . . Nice idea. I see it as something that would be good to have in the car in case you get stranded in bad weather. For trips to more remote areas you could put together a 2 or three day food pack in a larger bag. If you're stranded and stationary, you shouldn't need as many calories, but you may be tempted to eat more out of sheer boredom.

To healthvet, and others. . . You may be interested in this book: http://www.brasslite.com/OrderForms/FIW.html

There's a link there to let you read the introduction. The basic idea is that you can pack the most nutritious foods with all the calories that you need, but if it's not in a form that you enjoy, you won't wan to eat it. The introduction does a better job of explaining what the book is all about than I can. I just got the book and can't wait to try out some of the recipes and ideas in it. It does take a bit of preparation at home, and a food dehydrator, but it sounds like it will be well worth it.
 
Melvin-Purvis said:
Nice post, but a quick (serious) question, and everyone in the know please chime in - do overweight guys like myself (5' 9, 225) need more, or less food than the 1500/2000 daily calories outlined above?

The answer may well be no, as I typically pack more food than needed (i.e. twice the 3000 daily calories for each planned day of the outting), seldom eat a full days rations, and usually come home with most of the food (and am not hungry)...I might lose five pounds in two or three days, yet still feel great.
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The question is what you want to accomplish. If you want to maintain your body weight your need to eat the same number of calories that you expend. Also, after exercise you need to boost your protein eaten so that your body can repair and build the muscles after exercise. If after exercise you just ate fats and carbohydrates you might be loosing muscle and building back up your stores of fat.

Also, do you want to loose muscle or fat weight. If you lost 5 pounds - 1 pound of it might be muscle.

You need to tailor the type and amount of food to your goals and activity.

http://www.weightlossforall.com/exercise-fuel.htm
 
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I just keep a couple of mainstay blocks in my BOB, and forget about it. I have a problem with the "one day survival" pkg. the OP likes: I'd forget the cup of soup, noodles, and rice and would substitute something which requires no water and no heating/boiling. I can imagine situations in which you might not be able to.. or might not want to.. boil water.
Actually I don't think a "one day" pack acomplishes anything other than comfort. You can make it one day without food. You SHOULD avoid food if you have insufficient drinking water. So if I were changing my plan (dump the Mainstay) I'd just pack a handfull of Cliff Bars and a few liters of water.
 
for emergency rats 1500 should suffice, water is going to be much more important than food in the short term anyways

my backpacking daily intake is roughly 3000 calories (typically am expending at least twice that)

breakfast of dry cereal w/ dried fruit and instant whole milk (little hard to find)- just add water ~ 500 calories
breakfast bar X 2 ~ 300 calories
coffee/cocoa mix ~ 100 calories

snacks- mid-morning, mid-afternoon
cliff bar X 2 ~ 400 calories
gatorade packets X 2 ~ 200

lunch- dried salami, cheddar cheese, mini pitas ~ 750

supper- freeze-dried meal ~ 600-800 calories

works out very close to 1.5#/day

here's a full four day loadout

4dayfoodloadout.jpg
 
Cool post but i think its a bit too complicated for one day. For a one day hike you need only carbohydrate to move and isotonic drink to dont loose to much electolyt, if you add some multivitamin as an extra you are more than fine to go. Thats all in case of emergency.

Carbohydrates: fruit, bread, energy bar, glucose, some other form of sugar.

not recommended: chocolate:) i hate cause if i do phisycal work i really feel terrible myself caused by chocolate.
 
Excellent thread. Lots of good ideas about backpacking food.

Mt.Warden-- I noticed you didn't count the calories in that pile of orange spaghetti :D
 
Just a couple ideas. Nothing most here doesn't know already, no doubt.

MREs. Also, the summer sausage, cheese, and crackers combo. I took this combo out yesterday to the Smokies for a "not so quick" 6 miler (I'll post that hike up later, I learned a few things). Man that was good and hardy.
 
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