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    Default Lunch Menu Ideas/Suggestions?

    I've got breakfast, dinner, and snacks covered. My problem is lunch. I don't make anything at home usually, preferring meal bars or shakes around the middle of the day.

    Anyone have some advice, suggestions, or even just what they did for lunch?
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    I've always had peanut butter and jelly on a tortilla.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Odd Man Out View Post
    I've always had peanut butter and jelly on a tortilla.
    Oddly enough, that's what I have when I don't want bars or shakes. I didn't consider it for the trail.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Odd Man Out View Post
    I've always had peanut butter and jelly on a tortilla.
    Second PB&J on a tortilla. I save the single serve packages that you get at restaurants or hotel breakfasts. Single serve cream cheese, dehydrated hummus. Anything that you can spread. Cut up single serve spam. Tuna packages.

    Ritz crackers with the same. Keep from crushing with Pringles cans or plastic soda bottles cut in half and slid together.

    Anything that doesn't take a lot of time.
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    Fresh fruit on day 1 returning to trail from town, and almost always : nuts (fatty sustained energy), hot tea, jerky or protein bar or wrap with tuna/chicken pouch, and some carbs like crackers or bread... and hard candy for dessert, usually while walking after lunch.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RangerZ View Post
    Second PB&J on a tortilla. I save the single serve packages that you get at restaurants or hotel breakfasts. Single serve cream cheese, dehydrated hummus. Anything that you can spread. Cut up single serve spam. Tuna packages.

    Ritz crackers with the same. Keep from crushing with Pringles cans or plastic soda bottles cut in half and slid together.

    Anything that doesn't take a lot of time.

    Summer sausage or pepperoni slices with the same.
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    I love the wrap ideas. I used to have single serve spam and tuna for my school lunches. For peanut butter do you carrying single servings or powder (I have powder here at home and it's extremely light in a fairly sturdy container)? And should I still plan on protein/meal bars for those days when I don't want to make something?

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    Lunches.. there is always GORP (good ol' raisins and peanuts, often with m n ms mixed in for good measure. Snickers bars, A good block of cheddar cheese that you can slice up, summer sausage or salami to slice up. Lunch is generally snacks, not some big meal.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Indigo Hawk View Post
    I love the wrap ideas. I used to have single serve spam and tuna for my school lunches. For peanut butter do you carrying single servings or powder (I have powder here at home and it's extremely light in a fairly sturdy container)? And should I still plan on protein/meal bars for those days when I don't want to make something?
    Personal opinion:
    Not the powder. Not enough fat or calories to make it worth carrying. It also doesn't have the texture or taste of real nut butters.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DavidNH View Post
    Lunches.. there is always GORP (good ol' raisins and peanuts, often with m n ms mixed in for good measure. Snickers bars, A good block of cheddar cheese that you can slice up, summer sausage or salami to slice up. Lunch is generally snacks, not some big meal.
    I love summer sausage. I'm starting to see lunch = slightly larger than average snack. I'm over-thinking it.

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    Another PB&J on flour tortilla.

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    Only one lunch? I usually eat and snack throughout the day when I'm hiking

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    Chicken salad.
    small can of white meat, mayo, lemon juice, tobasco, slivered almonds or walnuts, dried fruit if you like.
    spread on flour tortilla. Curry power for a change.

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    Quote Originally Posted by egilbe View Post
    Only one lunch? I usually eat and snack throughout the day when I'm hiking
    I have some food issues so while I do eat some small snacks throughout the day, if I don't eat three "meals" I forget to eat enough. So having a designated "lunch" helps me keep track and makes sure I have eaten what I need.

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    Spiced-up tuna pack, homemade carrot oatmeal bar

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    Has anyone tried the savory meal bars like Tanka or Epic?

    I just found those while browsing for meal bar recipes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RangerZ View Post
    Second PB&J on a tortilla. I save the single serve packages that you get at restaurants or hotel breakfasts.
    How do you go about in actually obtaining these single serve packages?
    Last edited by Farr Away; 05-22-2017 at 14:27.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PGH1NC View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by RangerZ View Post
    Second PB&J on a tortilla. I save the single serve packages that you get at restaurants or hotel breakfasts.
    How do you go about in actually obtaining these single serve packages?
    Not to put too fine a point on it, I go to restaurants and stay in hotels.
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    Forget the single serving sizes - IMO - too much trash for the weight you carry. I always grabbed a tub or bar of cream cheese in town. At first, it lasted 4-6 meals. After a few months, 2-4 meals.

    Lots of flavors, lots of variety. Never had a problem with it getting too hot while it was stuffed down in my pack/food bag.

    I also went from peanut butter - too dry, too much water to wash down - to a jar of Nutella. Almost the same calorie/nutrition counts. Again, the number of meals dropped as time went by.

    Also had to go from the 8" to the 10" tortillas. THESE were the biggest weight in my food bag. 3-4 per meal.
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    String cheese, Fritos, and summer sausage. Add a lemon flavor packet to some water, and that's a hot weather lunch. In cooler weather I'll make hot tea and instant soup.

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