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Apr 4, 2013 at 7:49 pm #1301316
Is there something you eat in the backcountry that you don't eat otherwise?
For me it's chocolate and potato chips. I was on a weekend trip with a friend once and he pulled out a can of Pringles. I normally don't eat potato chips but they tasted awfully good on that trip and I've taken them many times on short trips. I also don't eat chocolate unless I'm backpacking. I take a Hershey's bar or a couple of Reese's Peanut Butter cups for each night of every trip. And I add M&Ms to trail mix even if it has them already.
And I'm not talking about things that I avoid for the health factor. I just don't have any desire to eat them unless I'm backpacking. Anybody else do this?
Apr 4, 2013 at 8:06 pm #1972981Ramen (as a pre-dinner soup – the "good stuff"), hot chocolate, bagels, candy bars, jerky, and various trail mixes/GORP-type stuff. Plus the occasional Mountain House.
Apr 4, 2013 at 8:34 pm #1972990Pop tarts with Nutella.
Apr 4, 2013 at 8:42 pm #1972993Salami
Coffeemate
Raman noodles, toss the packs. The noodles are handy.
Hard liqour
Dirt,bugs and wood ash also.Apr 4, 2013 at 8:47 pm #1972996Spam
Granola bars dipped in Nutela
GORP
Nutela straight from the jarEdit – Oh and 3500+ calories a day of anything
Apr 4, 2013 at 9:04 pm #1973000Pasta sides, instant potatoes, nutella from the jar (well.. sometimes at home haha), Nutty bars, Nido (on cereal for breakfast)
Apr 5, 2013 at 4:51 am #1973034For me its summer sausage, porridge and dehydated meals.
I also only drink hot chocolate, packet soup and whiskey on trips.
Apr 5, 2013 at 7:41 am #1973057Chicken–a vile, filthy bird that makes for tooth-sticking meat gnawed off greasy bones. I can't stand it. But among the dehydrated options, chicken-based sludge is often better than the other sludge.
Apr 5, 2013 at 7:48 am #1973063Just about everything.
I stick to a whole foods/paleo diet at home. Backpacking falls under the category of "road rules". Love a big bowl of pasta in the evenings, and a giant diner breakfast or dinner (or both) on the way home.
Aug 5, 2013 at 2:07 pm #2012656"Combos" — pretzel outside, faux-cheese inside. Such a revolting product, even Walmart doesn't stock them, so you have to get 'em at a gas station! At home, these would sound like a punishment; at the bottom of Grand Canyon, in the near-100F heat, these taste great!
Aug 5, 2013 at 2:17 pm #2012659I eat butter. I mean I just take a stick of butter and chow down. The taste is pretty neutral for me and it gives me fuel for cold nights.
Aug 5, 2013 at 2:19 pm #2012660Almost everything I eat while backpacking is food I hardly ever eat at home: cured meat, cheese in general, lots of sweets, bad coffee, Mac and cheese etc.
Aug 5, 2013 at 2:25 pm #2012662Fresh non-stocked trout!
Aug 5, 2013 at 2:59 pm #2012669Nah, I eat the same at home. I even eat Mountain House at home when my wife is gone because that is all I know how to cook — and the good folks at McDonald's know me by name and my wife can check with them to make sure I didn't eat there 3 times a day, so I have to mix it up between MH, McDonald's and Del Taco.
Aug 5, 2013 at 3:20 pm #2012673""Combos" — pretzel outside, faux-cheese inside. Such a revolting product, even Walmart doesn't stock them, so you have to get 'em at a gas station! "
get the PB filled pretzels that Walmart and Job-lot DO carry :) so much better than Combos. I eat those on and off the trail. 130cal/oz and hold up well in the pack.
Aug 5, 2013 at 4:16 pm #2012694I would say that the differences in what I eat on trail or at home (not counting specific trail meals) has to do with caloric intake and burn, thus I am more likely to justify high calorie sweets on trail while I have a hard time justifying them while sitting on my butt all day at work.
Aug 5, 2013 at 4:56 pm #2012719Fresh porcini mushrooms, if I'm lucky.
Aug 5, 2013 at 5:15 pm #2012726I love pop tarts but they are always getting crushed. I need to find some kind of pop tart protector container.
Aug 6, 2013 at 1:55 am #2012855I find it revolting under normal circumstances, but on the trail mixed with other things, it's tolerable. Plus, all that sodium. Mmmmmm.
Aug 6, 2013 at 5:13 am #2012869And maltodextrin.
Aug 6, 2013 at 7:01 pm #2013120In the winter and on super cold nights that either push or destroy my sleeping system, i buy Hersheys bars and eat one whenever i wake up cold, usually around 4 am. I thinks it helps out a lot. Other then those times, i rarely eat chocalate.
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Aug 7, 2013 at 9:53 am #2013266Pretty much EVERYTHING I can't eat when I'm back in the world.
I eat paleo so all this food makes me sick and fat over time.
but when I"m in the woods it really isn't a problem and I've gotten pretty good at cutting back to regular foods after a trip.
Aug 7, 2013 at 10:05 am #2013271Pretty much everything I pack to go camping is something I don't eat normally:
-freeze dried meals
-Instant mash potato singles
-Instant hot chocolate
-Starbucks Via
-Slim JimsAug 7, 2013 at 5:14 pm #2013413I eat paleo, too, but I bring my paleo food backpacking because it's so damn good.
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