Trail and Backpacking Food..... What do you take?

ss Dragonfly said:
I am trying to find some way to pack PB better to reduce the weight as well...
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Go to your local backpacking store and buy some empty tubes for your peanut butter. Kinda like a reusable toothpaste tube, it is how I carry PB in the woods and it is a very convenient dispenser.;)

Cheers, Shane[/QUOTE]

Skippy or one of the other brands can be bought in a tube :) Even has a ribbon style nozzle. Makes for easy no mess sandwiches :D
 
I like to make sure I consume everything I bring with me when I backpack. I know this sounds lame but I try to buy snacks and take them to work and try them. there is nothing worse than bringing something on a trip and having taste horrible, then having to pack it out.
usually I check out the length of my trip. I pick out a breakfast, lunch and dinner.
I put all of the contents for the one day in a 1 gallon freezer bag or I vacuum pack it.
I then label it by day. day one, day two, and so on.
the types of things I like to bring are kind of unusual I guess.
I core and slice two green apples and put them in a nalgene bottle and then fill it with water and a bit of ice. the water keeps the apples from turning brown and then the cold water tastes like green apples when you are done eating. also no core to pack out.

tortellini is a good thing to pack out for the first night. just boil it. no prob. I stop by a KFC and get a few butter packs and bring them to mix in with the tortellini. a few black pepper packs also.
I found that justin's almond butter is great. it is already packed and no messing with packing it in tubes.
http://www.justinsnutbutter.com/
miso soup packs.
single serving Gatorade packs. it is good to get a few flavors so you don't get sick of one after 5 days.
emergency packs. vitamin C with joint health. helps the body
http://www.bizrate.com/vitamins_nutrition/products__keyword--emergen+c+joint+health.html
tigers milk bars. lots of carbs and vitamins.
http://www.tigersmilk.com/
wasabi peas. and Tabasco. help you keep warm at night. as well as a thick all dark chocolate bar. a bit of dark chocolate before bed helps you keep warm at night also.
lately I have been replacing the coffee in the morning with a five hour energy bottle. they are small and work better than coffee. the other thing is no carrying of filters, sugar, or powdered creamer.
http://www.5hourenergy.com/?gclid=CMG8lIPF55oCFSRPagodoF7jBg




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dougo83 said:
Usually dried venison sausage and clif bars. I also will throw in sunflower seeds, jerky, and a couple cans of tuna or chicken. I like to mix it up, especially on a longer trek so that I am not eating the same stuff every friggin meal. I am trying to find some way to pack PB better to reduce the weight as well...
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Hey Doug, swing by REI...they have a two-set of refillable/resealable squeeze tubes...perfect for peanut butter...

Squeeze Tubes

ROCK6
 
+1 on Unltralight Joe's Moose Goo. I add a teaspoon or so of cayenne to jack it up a bit.

You can't go wrong with Idahoan brand instant loaded potatoes. just add hot water and the meal is ready quicker than any freeze dried meal. Add no cook bacon and crushed goldfish crackers for extraflavor and texture.
 
I usually try to bring a fresh red pepper and a bunch of green onions. They just add so much to the typical noodle packs I bring. Right now, I really like the Knor packets called veggie plus or something like that. They have a full serving of dehydrated veggies in them. Spruce with with real veggies and they are quite good.

I often bring a little bit of curry powder and samba oleic in a small container for additional spice. I like canned kippers quite a bit. Kolbassa is one of my staples. You can eat it without cooking if you need to, but cooked on a fire it is heaven. +1 on the tortillas. They don't seem to go stale until many days out. You can also get those breakfast pitas that have raisins and sesame seeds. They are essentially flat bread and just sweet enough to eat as is for breakfast. Quaker oats instant oatmeal is another breakfast staple.
 
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tenkara said:
+1 on Unltralight Joe's Moose Goo. I add a teaspoon or so of cayenne to jack it up a bit.

You can't go wrong with Idahoan brand instant loaded potatoes. just add hot water and the meal is ready quicker than any freeze dried meal. Add no cook bacon and crushed goldfish crackers for extraflavor and texture.
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Your post reminded me of a 12 day canoe trip we took back in the 80's. My buddy found some canned (uncooked) bacon in a food specialty store. It worked really well, once you got past the salt!!

Doc
 
tenkara said:
+1 on Unltralight Joe's Moose Goo. I add a teaspoon or so of cayenne to jack it up a bit.

You can't go wrong with Idahoan brand instant loaded potatoes. just add hot water and the meal is ready quicker than any freeze dried meal. Add no cook bacon and crushed goldfish crackers for extraflavor and texture.
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+1 on the instant potatoes! Toss in some salt, pepper, and Spam. Yummy.
 
zenheretic said:
I always tried to bring a tin of smoked oysters and some saltines. Salty ocean goodness out in the middle of some grizzley infested wilderness.
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Nothing better than some smoked oysters with a little Tobasco drizzled on top. :thumbup:

Well... unless you add a cold beer.
 
ROCK6 said:
Hey Doug, swing by REI...they have a two-set of refillable/resealable squeeze tubes...perfect for peanut butter...

Squeeze Tubes

ROCK6
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Ugh...I should just go work there. They already get half of my paycheck. If I was working for them I could just sign it over and save the gas I use on shopping trips...:o
 
I don't really like to deal with dishes at all in the woods, so often the most complicated I get is boiling water.

In the winter I do lots of cocoa.

Some staples of my woods diet include:
Peanut butter
Granola/GORP
Fruits (such as bananas, apples, grapes) for dayhikes especially
Sausage/bratwurst/hotdogs
Honey
Quickcook starches (instant mashed potatoes, couscous, cup noodles)

Essentially, I try to pack alot of calorie dense foods that are easy to prepare, don't spoil too quickly, and don't make alot of dirty dishes.

Some good ideas in this thread!
 
1.ramen noodles
2.instant mashed
3.rice porridge
4.STUFFING!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (i forgot the stuffing on a weeklong trip once and i dreampt about it every night)
5.rice

along with those 5 i bring some grape jelly to act as cranberry sauce for my stuffing, dehydrated veggies, dehydrated hamburger meat, extra bullion and soy sauce to flavor the rice or mashed, and a few foil packets of tuna or chicken.

with my 5 staples and condiments list i have a pretty good mix and match system where no matter what i end up with some sort of protein with carbohydrate that has at least one flavor.
 
Bigdumpling how do you prepare the stuffing??? never tried that before and it sound very intresting..

Sasha
 
You all have made this a really great thread....

You all have a ton of really great ideas....

I am gonna eat like a king next time I go out, and it's all because of you.

SCORE!

Marion
 
I bring a box of the shelf stable bacon you can buy at most grocery stores now. I make tortillas with peanut butter and/or honey. I also make Thai Noodles with peanut butter and red pepper flakes mixed with ramen.
 
I take along meat I smoke at home, dried foods like minute rice and mushrooms. I have a bag of spices like garlic salt and mrs dash. I like the tuna that you can get in an envelope, they have other meats like that too. Granola, summer sausage and that kind of thing. I usually take tortillias too as it packs better than bread and no refrigeration needed. Last time out I found some pasta primavera at the grocery, just add butter, cream and a bit of water. I used powdered milk and it worked great. I take butter and olive oil in reuseable squeeze bottles
 
I take Ghee (clarified, stabilized butter) with me nowadays. A little goes along way and it doesn't go rancid. nom nom nom ;)
 
Normally the first day I'm only hiking a few miles due to the drive to get there so I usually wrap a pork chop or chicken breast in foil with olive oil garlic and some potatos or zucchini in it, cook that in the fire and have it along with the wine:thumbup:

For breakfast I usually make my own granola but sometimes carry stuff like grits or cream of wheat and sometimes even some eggs for the first morning. Any heavy sort of foods I might bring I try to eat the first day.

On the trail I usually have jerky slim jims, pita breads and some sort of cheese. Also the salmon in a pouch. I usually bring crackers and sometimes freeze dried hummus. Dried fruit. I like the tinned fish but hate to carry the tins after used so I pass on them a lot.

Couscous and quick cooking pasta are great. On that I use the chicken and other meat in a pouch. Also I like instant mashed potatos with powdered milk added and then topped with chicken bullion.

A good food for later trip is the above with freez dried chicken chunks.

Another one I like is the chinese dry noodles cooked with dried Shiitake mushrooms and then some sort of meat like salmon or freeze dried beef chunks.

Yet another is freeze dried ground beef and red beans mixed with cayenne pepper and curry.

MOST freeze dried meals suck in my book. However I like freeze dried COMPONENTS sold by these guys:

http://www.packitgourmet.com/


One final fave is I cook venison and dehydrate it. Steam sweet potatos and dry them. Steam onion and dry. Mix and add powdered ginger and cumin. These 3 taste great together.:thumbup:

Oh and another is bring a few olives some string cheese a bulb of garlic and some bannock mix or pita breads and make sort of a trail pizza.
 
Bannock made with spelt flour and then with cranberries and blueberries picked along the trail:

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Ramps I steamed these wrapped up in foil over a small alcohol stove with cashews olive oil and tamari and we ate them over couscous
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Heavy, but my pal Bill brought a huge container of home made pesto 2 years ago made from his own basil and garlic
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Aftermath of Hummus eating

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