honey on the trail

[Which Way]

Thanks for all your ideas. You are health conscious like my wife and me. People do not understand that just being vegan is not healthy, you could eat Oreo's and drink beer every meal and remain vegan. As for the OP. we bought some honey crystals by Fresh Essentials. It taste good, dissolves well, is not messy, but is mixed with cane sugar.

[Which Way]

Yes, exactly what I bring---YS Eco Bee Farm raw honey. I usually order it on Amazon. One plastic container is about 22 ounces---and the container can be discarded in various way during the trip.


Here's a pic of my honey on a recent trip. I take alot of honey because it's used for all morning hot teas and replaces chocolate and snickers and junk sugary snacks when I get a sweet tooth going.


I also use this honey (16 ozs) which is available at my local grocery store---and also comes in a plastic jar (as does the peanut butter). And btw, honey is great too in the winter no matter the temps---it'll spoon out if you have a strong enough spoon.

Thanks for all your ideas. You are health conscious like my wife and me. People do not understand that just being vegan is not healthy, you could eat Oreo's and drink beer every meal and remain vegan. As for the OP. we bought some honey crystals by Fresh Essentials. It taste good, dissolves well, is not messy, but is mixed with cane sugar.

[Puddlefish]

I brought along a few Smucker's individual packs. Messy, watery and weak flavored. Would not recommend.

[JJ505]

You could check out honey crystals vs powdered honey. I think it's pure honey vs powder which has more sugar.

[MtDoraDave]

Honey packets. They're great for single servings. I usually bring along a bunch from Starbucks

Chic-fil-a also has honey packets. I grab two packets when I go there. I also grab two texas pete hot sauce packets when I go there.

[DrL]

Chic-fil-a also has honey packets. I grab two packets when I go there. I also grab two texas pete hot sauce packets when I go there.

Those honey packets, most of them anyway, taste like garbage. Label says 100 percent, but my mouth says shenanigans.

[Traffic Jam]

Thanks for all your ideas. You are health conscious like my wife and me. People do not understand that just being vegan is not healthy, you could eat Oreo's and drink beer every meal and remain vegan. As for the OP. we bought some honey crystals by Fresh Essentials. It taste good, dissolves well, is not messy, but is mixed with cane sugar.

I can also recommend Eco Bee Farms honey, it's delicious. At room temp, it's solid but soft. Warmer temps, it's softer with a liquid-like center but still spreadable and non-messy.

[Fredt4]

I've carried honey in the 8 oz honey jars (plastic) on the AT and the PCT and I've never had one open inadvertently on me. I aim for an oz a day. I grab the honey packages when they're available but Starbucks is kind of scarce on the trails.

[mikec]

Mr. & Ms. Bear are just waiting for you honey carriers out on the trail.

[naysjp]

There are honey stir that you can buy at Amazon or from health stores like Sprouts or Whole Foods(if I am correct). If you have a FoodSaver vacuum sealer, you can make your own honey stir with straws that are heat sealed at one end and then sealed at the other after squeezing honey into them. Perhaps store them in a toothbrush holder to keep them from breaking in your pack and small enough to slip in a slim pocket on your pack.

[Dogwood]

Honey supply can't meet worldwide demand. The US accounts for most of the global honey consumption. This makes for a US honey market ripe for greater profiteering through fraud particularly when honey is imported by or sourced through unscrupulous greedy foreign entities.

Fraud absolutely does exist when non honey additives are added to honey to increase volume and increase profits. Despite testing controls for noting some of these non honey additives some are known and used that pass the testing controls.

In short, honey can be diluted with other additives making the product the consumer thought he or she was receiving not truly honey. This is what I believe Rock Doc was getting at. Be careful about sourcing your honey. Venchka mentioned the same a short while back on a different thread.

This is one reason why US honey producers are being slowly pushed out of their own countries honey market. It's an unfair economic playing field brought on by deceptive unbridled greed and business practices.

[Dogwood]

..People do not understand that just being vegan is not healthy, you could eat Oreo's and drink beer every meal and remain vegan...

You have wrong information. Nabisco itself, the makers of Oreos, states Oreos are not Vegan. That is a fact. Some, I'd probably say most, beer is Vegan friendly but not all. That is my opinion though. Some beer isn't even vegetarian friendly. That is a fact.

Any diet can probably be amended to be healthier or unhealthier. That's my opinion. The idea that a Vegan lifestyle is automatically unhealthy is wrong. That us factual. Some professional medical and nutrionists opinions support Veganism can be a healthy dietary approach and lifestyle.

I am not even a Vegan saying this.

I don't even know why the door to these pts of view even have to be opened on this thread. I did not start this! Do not label me as some sort of food Nazi. This is simply incorrect information I am correcting. Research it yourselves before offering supposed food and dietary "truths."

[Dogwood]

..People do not understand that just being vegan is not healthy, you could eat Oreo's and drink beer every meal and remain vegan...

You have wrong information. Nabisco itself, the makers of Oreos, states Oreos are not Vegan. That is a fact. Some, I'd probably say most, beer is Vegan friendly but not all. That is my opinion though. Some beer isn't even vegetarian friendly. That is a fact.

Any diet can probably be amended to be healthier or unhealthier. That's my opinion. The idea that a Vegan lifestyle is automatically unhealthy is wrong. That us factual. Some professional medical and nutrionists opinions support Veganism can be a healthy dietary approach and lifestyle.

I am not even a Vegan saying this.

I don't even know why the door to these pts of view even have to be opened on this thread. I did not start this! Do not label me as some sort of food Nazi. This is simply incorrect information I am correcting. Research it yourselves before offering supposed food and dietary "truths."

[Dogwood]

I dont know why I'm double posting. It was unintended. Sorry.

I don't find it a hassle taking a small amount of 100 % organic raw avocado, white tupelo, or manuka honey on trail during cooler shoulder and winter season backpacking. I take it for its anti bacterial, anti fungal, richness in vitamins, minerals, and anti oxidants and it being lower on the glycemic index than natural sugar. All sugar or sweeteners are NOT the same. Still I try to pair small amounts of homey consumption with some kind of fiber with low sugar content food like oatmeal or a fiber rich no sugar minimally processed baked cookie or oat fiber or whole grain bar. Because the varieties I aim for are very low in pesticide content and high in those other things mentioned I'll apply it to skin for many dermatological benefits. I may even apply it to a rash or cut or as a skin mosturizer.

The avo honey is sourced from an organic farm in the Kona coffee belt surrounded by other organic farms on a property I'm involved producing organic produce and coffee. The white tupelo honey comes from organic farms in northern FL and MS where I know the owners. The high UMF 15 + manuka honey, so named because it only comes from the manuka flower of NZ, comes from, yes NZ.

I usually carry it I'm a thin glass or BPA free plastic jar with a screw cap lid in 4 oz amounts. Its stored in a Ziploc in the food bag. It's spooned out added to various teas and added into warmed bfasts. I only take honey when it's cool. I rather like the ease of dispensing when it's thick and also finding it less messy.

[Dogwood]

Those honey packets, most of them anyway, taste like garbage. Label says 100 percent, but my mouth says shenanigans.

Exactly. Your mouth is not betraying you.

[Dogwood]

It's hard to find "honey" crystals that aren't mixed with other ingredients. Powdered honey even when it's organic raw and 100% doesnt have the health benefits of the same non powdered 100% raw organic version. Where the benefits are in the decreased volume, wt, and potentially less/non messiness.

[DrL]

Exactly. Your mouth is not betraying you.

If the packets would just be honest, then I would have less of an issue.

[AllDownhillFromHere]

If the packets would just be honest, then I would have less of an issue.

It's the universe telling you to stop stealing condiment packets.

[DrL]

It's the universe telling you to stop stealing condiment packets.

Ha. You've got a funny definition of "stealing".

[BlackCloud]

I always try to buy honey made from some mom & pop place. Even Target sells such honey. I've never heard anyone poo poo honey as unhealthy!