[3/4 time]

What do you carry to eat on a 1-day or multi-day trip?

Breakfast, Lunch, Snacks, Dinner?

Fresh food vs. prepared?
Do you cook or eat cold? Prepackaged meals, Freeze dried, dehydrated, MRE’s, food off the super market shelf, trail mix, (store bought or do you make your own), Power Bars, Cliff Bars, granola bars, candy bars, fruit, vegetables, etc? Do you carry just water, Gatorade or something else?

Two summers ago my son and I took an 8-day trip, but I carried food for 10. Since we were in a canoe, I even brought some canned food. (However carrying out the empty cans and in particular an empty pickle jar taught us a lesson.) Our food bag was larger than our clothing bag.

On a quick day hike what’s in your pack?

On an overnight or multi-day, what are you eating?

[dudley]

Ramon noodles...mac/cheese box... Lipton noodle pouches .....tuna in a pouch....summer sausage....carrots... peanut butter ..... tortillas...... bourbon ....cowboy coffee.......

When ever I cruise the isles of the grocery store, I always keep my eye on the stuff on the top shelf...that's where all the light weight stuff is
Amazing the menus you can come up with when your hungry

For day hikes it's peanutbutter sandwiches and snickers

[carndog]

On day hikes I bring powerbars/cliff bars, hammer gel, and a home made trail mix ((1 part)craisins, (1 part)chocolate chips, and (2 parts) salted peanuts), for snacks. I normally just drink water on the trail, so I get the salted peanuts, to put back some of the salt I have sweat out. For lunch it is usual peanut butter and jelly on wheat bread, or cold pizza.

Over nights, Mac and Cheese, and Ramen are good, but I get a can of chicken and dump that into the ramen, or tuna in a package and put that in the mac and cheese. I also enjoy fajitas and Spaghetti, and red sauce. I pack some dehydrated fruit and a snickers or some sort of candy bars. Breakfast is Instant Oatmeal and Hot Chocolate, really anything I can just boil some water in one bowl with while breaking down camp.

I have a book, Backcountry Cooking that is great, you can get it used on Half.com for about $5, I highly recommend it.

[fishmonger]

Day hikes: Clif bars, beef jerky, honey roasted peanuts, pistachios, fruit, granola bars

[redsox322]

I'll almost always pack some type of fruit, then fill a nalgene with some Bear Naked granola.

[mike48]

Finally a subject I can sink my teeth into.

For any length hike I take a bag of GORP. I include peanuts, raisins, Check cereal, and plenty of M&Ms. I also take fresh fruit for day hikes. For multiday hikes I include pasta or rice mixes from Market Basket. These mixes are prepared by adding 2 cups of boiling water and waiting about 5 minutes. Throw in a can of chicken and it’s not bad. I haven’t taken Ramon noodles yet, but have tried them at home and figure to add it to the menu on future trips.

[murph1134]

Fig Newtons are a favorite for day hikes. Grapes are also amazing to have on a hike, but sometimes tough to pack without getting squished.

Other than that, the standards (trail mix, balance bars, etc.)

[Andrew_CT]

Day Hikes:
pb&j, bars, trail mix, bagel, cheese, candy

Multiday:
nutella and/or peanut butter, bagels (bagel with nutella on it tastes like a chocolate doughnut), poptarts, three musketeers bars, trail mix, tortilla with hummus and cheddar cheese, a whole block of seriously sharp cheddar cheese, just add hot water soups, freeze dried meals, chicken breast that comes in the packet (right next to the tuna fish in the grocery store)

[Stickball13]

Day hike:
Cereal before I drive to the trailhead
At the trailhead bannana or muffin.
Then I take 2 boiled eggs, cheese stick, 2 bagels with peanut butter, apple, cliff bar and bag of trail mix.

[3/4 time]

I'm going to try a lot of different food and cooking methods on my trip in August. One thing that I plan to do is bring along one of those small (2 or 2.5) pound canned hams, chunk pineapple and a boiling bag of rice. The ham I plan to slice into three steaks and either grill or fry. Along with some baked beans, heated in a sauce pan it will be dinner for two. We'll probably top it all off with blueberry pie.

[Andrew_CT]

3/4 time, on Jun 30 2009, 11:11 AM, said:

I'm going to try a lot of different food and cooking methods on my trip in August. One thing that I plan to do is bring along one of those small (2 or 2.5) pound canned hams, chunk pineapple and a boiling bag of rice. The ham I plan to slice into three steaks and either grill or fry. Along with some baked beans, heated in a sauce pan it will be dinner for two. We'll probably top it all off with blueberry pie.

sounds good. One of my favorite dinner meals is pasta with pesto. It's super easy: boil pasta, add pesto sauce>>instant Italian deliciousness. If you want to go crazy bring some sliced parmesan cheese

[Ben Smith]

Short day hike (10 miles or less): Normal breakfast, nothing while hiking although I'll have a granola bar or chocolate chip cookie square on hand just in case.

Long day hike (10 to 20 miles): Large breakfast and a couple of chocolate chip cookie squares.

Expedition day hike (12+ hours sustained hiking, with lots of elevation gain and/or snow travel): Very large breakfast (till I can eat no more), dried fruit, granola bars and a few cookie squares.

On top of the above food, I'll will bring additional emergency food supplies depending on how far into the wilderness I will be going.

[3/4 time]

I just bought a Coleman Camp Oven. Next month I plan to find the remotest spot I can in the northwestern corner of Maine, sit on a stump, and bake pizza. There will be plenty if anyone wants to join me.

[Ben Smith]

3/4 time, on Jul 1 2009, 11:22 PM, said:

I just bought a Coleman Camp Oven. Next month I plan to find the remotest spot I can in the northwestern corner of Maine, sit on a stump, and bake pizza. There will be plenty if anyone wants to join me.

Sounds like my kind of hike

[fishmonger]

If you can get the coals just right, pizza cooked over an open camp fire is PHENOMENAL