What Are You Eating, Your Next Trip?
What is everyone packing for meals for your next trip? MRE's, freeze drired crud or something else?
Next Trip
I'm bringing a cook (my wife), Outback Oven, and raw ingredients. Nothing beats baked meals with dessert!
My next trip will be continued testing of the Packit Gourmet meals, A Three to Four day trip, The menu so far is:
Breakfast
Tex Mex Breakfast Taco-8.9oz(Serves2)
Migas Del Sol-6.9oz(Serves2)
Buttermilk Pancakes-13.8oz(Serves2)
Lunch
Austintacious Tortilla Soup-3.6oz(Serves1)
Trailside Bean and Cheese Burrito-4.1oz (Serves1)
Wild Carrot Salad-5.9oz (Serves1)
Dinner
Market Pasta Puttanesca-6.0oz (Serves1)
Roaring Campfire Pizza-11.0oz (Serves1-2)
All-American Burger Wrap-3.9oz (Serves1)
Dessert
Lemon Cheesecake with Gingersnap Crust-5.8oz (Serves1)
Pumpkin Cheesecake with Gingersnap Crust-5.8oz (Serves1)
Summer Berry Trifle-8.9oz (Serves2)
Also in my pack will be: Skillet Cornbread-11.2oz (Serves2-4), Banana Puddin'-4.0oz(Serves1), Creamy Italian Polenta-3.2oz(Serves1), Tuscan Beef Stew-7.5oz(Serves2), Dottie's Chicken & Dumplings-4.0oz(Serves1), Nawlins YaYa Gumbo-6.5oz(Serves1), Zydeco Red Beans & Rice-6.7oz(Serves1), Strawberry Cheesecake with Gingersnap Crust-6.1oz(Serves1) and Bangers & Mash-6.7oz(Serves1).
The daily menu is not set in stone and with the additional options above that I am bringing, Will change depending on what I feel like at each point in time.
Last edited by Mountain Wildman; 07-11-2010 at 17:52. Reason: Added weights and serving size
Whole Food Bars
Check out ProBar whole food bars. More food value than a Mountain House 10 oz. meal with 1/10th or less the sodium. Great with morning coffee!
Cocoa, oatmeal, Costco gorp, cheese, salami, tortillas, black refrieds, Alessi soups, Knorr sides, maybe some pita bread, other stuff I forget.
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I appreciate the tip Llama Legs. My wife and I are leaving for a thru hike of the Long Trail on July 25. ProBars are available locally. We'll be checking them out.Check out ProBar whole food bars. More food value than a Mountain House 10 oz. meal with 1/10th or less the sodium. Great with morning coffee!
I'm probably the only guy in the world that actually enjoys Ramen while hiking, plus it's so simple to cook in the field. Problem is, it's not the most nutritious/healthy choice. I'm assuming the little packet is the issue -- too high in sodium. Question: Does anyone have any tasty homemade "Ramen-esque" types of recipes?
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Ramen is so good the way it is that it's hard to improve upon it, I will from time to time throw in a can of peas or corn etc...
If you are worried about the sodium, do not add the entire flavoring packet into the Ramen. Personally I think that it is too much flavor with the whole packet, adding less then half of it still produces the same taste.
I will be experimenting with Ramen for a thruhike of indiana's 140mile Knobstone trail. It is appealing because it is so light (as i will be carrying 8 night's worth of food) but the nutrional value is.. well.. scary. I think I will be bringing along some freeze dried veggies to add in, maybe some beans. Any one else have some suggestions for "beefing up" ramen? im not picky so... worms?Originally Posted by pattydivins
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On my next trip I am taking around 10 Superfood Slam Pro Bars, my favorite of the bunch.
I'm preparing my food bags and will be taking:
** apples
** four frozen meals(Amy's burritos, etc)double ziplocked and eaten the first four days.
** Dried mangos
** tea with honey
** small nalgene(pint?)of eggless mayonnaise
** nalgene of cashew butter with blueberry jam
** bag of rice cakes
** whole wheat bread loaf
** 2-3 lbs of goat cheese
** 10 packets of organic oatmeal
** crushed corn chips ziplocked
** four Tasty Bite lentil meals
** six Seeds of Change brown rice pouches
** three Mary Jane Farms meals(Bear Burrito, etc)
** eight Mary Jane polenta meals(very good--cook and let stand for 20 minutes--thickens into polenta).
** Frontier Herbs fruit powder drink mix
** bag of small organic brownies
** raisins and pecans.
This list is off the top of my head w/o looking, there's probably several things I'm forgetting. Below is a fotog taken on a 2009 trip of my 2 liter MSR pot with a Tasty Bite pouch meal.
Plenty of great food at the supermarket, and much cheaper than freeze-dried meals from the backpacking store.
Here's a quick recipe: 1 Lipton's Thai Sesame Noodles meal, 1 bag chicken, 1 single-serve peanut butter (or big spoonful from PB jar), packet of TrueLime, couple of packets of soy sauce and hot sauce. Cook the noodles, add everything else, and enjoy. Feeds two weekend hikers or one thru-hiker.
On my next week long section I'll decided to try the Packit Goumet meals :
* Packit Gourmet Meals
--- Breakfast
+ Oatmeal variety pack
Craisins and other dried fruit for snacks
* Packit Gourmet meals - Lunch
+ Summer sausage & crackers - mid afternoon snack
* Knorr sides , and either bread or muffins. - Dinner
+ Cliff double chocalate for a evening snack
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Post three, Mountain Wildman. Could you give us a weight on what you listed. You have talked about how good the Packit Gourmet foods are that I am going to try them. I do not know if it is age or what, but I am getting as to where some of this packaged food tastes awful to me after about three days on the trail. Any suggestions will be appreciated.
Ditto this. Makes resupply easier, too, if you can learn to depend on the market shelves.
I carry tortillas, bagels, cheese, crackers, instant mashed potatoes, fig newtons, oats, raisins, walnuts, powdered milk when I can find it, and a ramen or two but only if I'm desperate. None of the above requires cooking, either, if you don't feel like it.
"Throw a loaf of bread and a pound of tea in an old sack and jump over the back fence." John Muir on expedition planning
What Garlic said. Add: granola, dried fruit, cashews and other nuts, pop-tarts, jerky, sliced pepperoni, bags of tuna and chicken, Snickers and M&Ms, cookies, bagged salad mix, hard cooked eggs (don't forget the salt!), yogurt, instant pudding mix, etc.
(Okay, I guess Garlic eats healthier than I do on the trail....:-)
Some Hawks Vittles-North African Stew, Cashew Curry
Home assembled TVP and Israeli CousCous 1 with some Mexican seasoning 1 with Italian
Hawks Vittles-Oatmeal an done of my store boughtones
Home assembled GOMCAPBC Good Ole M&M, Pineapple (dried), Cashew Almonds, Peanuts, Bananas (dried), Coconut
A few Cliff Bars
and some Lumen Foods Soy Jerky
Second on Hawk Vittles - he makes the meals himself (but not the jerky), and you get your money's worth.
Bagels, as always, for the first three days, then I'll pick some more up at the resupply on day 5. In the meantime I'll eat a few granola bars for lunch instead. I either eat cold cereal or oatmeal for breakfast. Dinners are usually Lipton with some dried (jerkey) or canned (foil packaged sometimes) meat (tuna, salmon, chicken, or ham). I always have plenty of gorp on hand (peanut M&M's, Craisins, and almonds), also I often pick up summer sausage at resupply points, and, lately I've been finding that carrying a good amount of hard candies gives me a short-term boost when I'm tired. I also carry coffee grounds and am learning to drink coffee black.
I rarely use freeze dried. The only thing I've found that I like is Mountain House Spaghetti with meat sauce or Lasagna by the same company.
As I live, declares the Lord God, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn back from his way and live. Ezekiel 33:11
Weights and serving sizes
Beartripper,
I updated my post #3 with net weights and serving sizes, So far my favorite meal was the Market Pasta Puttanesca, If I served you any of the P.G. foods I've tried, You would not think it came from a pouch. I have not tried all of their offerings but the ones I've had were very good to excellent. I have previously posted a review in the Gear Review forum under Food, I enjoyed their Bangers and Mash meal but think it would be better with a larger sausage instead of the two thinner sausages which as I stated reminded me of slimjims. My post #3 consists of the other meals that I have not tried yet and I have not placed my order with Packit Gourmet, I have it saved in my cart for easy ordering. My only suggestion would be to go to their website and order the meal or meals that appeal to your personal taste, I actually ordered the Pasta Puttanesca because it was only 5.49 and I figured it would be like any other spaghetti meal I've ever had but I was wrong, I loved it, It was not the same old, I even thought, maybe I was just starving and that's why it tasted so good but the fact is I rarely starve myself, I have no affiliation with Packit Gourmet so my only gain would be knowing that a fellow Whiteblazer is eating better than just Ramen or Noodle side dishes, Which I also enjoy but they get old after 3 or 4 days straight, I may not fill my pack with nothing but Packit Gourmet meals but there will always be one or a few in there, I have not tried the other quality meals like Hawk's but I will eventually.
Hope I've helped and enjoy!!
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