Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Food for four days

2 Mountain House Meals, a lasagna with meat sauce, filling, and a beef stew loaded with vegetables, healthy, but not a meal always easily digested. Mountain House is the steel that can reinforce any backpacker's pantry. Low in weight, high in calories, and a bit pricy.
Two Knorr's pasta sides. Many hikers can't stomach this product, but I just discovered these in Mammoth, only 600 miles ago, so they still taste fresh to me. Boil and let sit.
One Ramen Noodle package, the .
Chedder-Broccoli soup. Picked up from hiker who didn't want extra weight. Add hot water.
Dried Mashed potatoes. Just add water. Surprisingly good when wrapped in tortilla. Almost tastes better cold.
18 ounces oatmeal mixed with half pound brown sugar, half pound raisins, almonds, and a quarter pound Nido. Nido is a powdered milk often found in the Hispanic section of a grocery store. Unlike powdered milk, Nido is not non-fat, and thus has more calories.
20 small tortillas, 25 ounces. Essential for sandwich construction.
1 pound peanut butter. If Mountain House is backpacking steel, then peanut butter is the wood framing. Absolutely essential, and great-tasting, especially after a couple days on the trail. The best calorie to weight ratio around, 2800 calories per pound.
Honey residue leftover from 12 oz bottle.
Half-pound cheese, half-pound salami wedges from Gallo. Valuable protein and tasty when wrapped in tortilla and topped with honey. Cheese keeps well on the trail. Even so, I eat it first because it weighs a lot, and eventually it will sweat or mold.
1 pound Granola. Used for Gorp, combined with peanut M and Ms, half pound raisins, nuts.
 Assorted bars, Chewy, Cliff. Pop Tarts. I love the brown sugar pop tarts. Cliff bars, always good. Chewy bars-cheap, can be dipped in peanut butter to enhance nutritional value.
Instant Folger's Coffee: The X factor. I feel like Superman on this stuff. Tastes awful, but the effect is immediate. 
Final verdict: Probably too much food, but I won't have to worry about going hungry.

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