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Most calorically dense food with no dry heaving
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May 25, 2009 at 7:46 am #1503349
If i remember correctly a "brick" of ramen is actually two servings, so it's the 188 calories x 2 or 376 calories.
So a full brick of ramen is 3 ounces and 376 calories, so 125 cal/oz
May 25, 2009 at 9:39 am #1503368My favorite backpacking meal is home-made banana chips with Hershey’s milk chocolate and peanut butter. Yum. The bananas are essential for potassium, and who can resist chocolate and peanut better.
May 25, 2009 at 1:41 pm #1503417Snickers, oh Snickers wherefore art thou, Snickers.
May 25, 2009 at 2:39 pm #1503431> Snickers, oh Snickers wherefore art thou, Snickers.
Somewhere behind the chocolate-coated scorched almonds…
Cheers
May 25, 2009 at 3:09 pm #1503443Spam is easily dehydrated and easily rehydrated…and weighs almost nothing when fully dried. It also keeps a loooong time when dry. Add it to your ramen and you have yourself a high calorie/high fat/high salt meal that's not too hard to get down.
I prefer my Spam with instant mashed spuds, with lots of milk powder and butter in the spuds. Mmmm, add some gravy if you need even more salt!
May 25, 2009 at 5:22 pm #1503456Lynn,
You're my kind of "trail eater". I love Spam. I once had a Spam Tee Shirt. It showed an enlarged picture of a juicy Spamberger. It got me into a lot of interesting "pro-and-con" discussions.
I never thought of the dehydrating thing. I wonder if I can get some dried before I leave for the Lost Coast next Sunday.
Yum. I'll never have to carry the can again.
May 25, 2009 at 5:25 pm #1503458Denis, I find Spam dries pretty quickly in a dehydrator. If you don't have one of these, I'm sure your oven set on low would work just fine. Cut it inot small pieces first.
I confess to being a bit of a Spam rebel…I only eat the (low fat) turkey Spam. But it's still full of salt!
May 25, 2009 at 5:38 pm #1503462The name of this thread is most calorically dense food with NO DRY HEAVING. I was raised on spam, baked in an oven on a fancy platter with, so help me, brown sugar and mustard spread on it. Mom would slice it for dinner, and the leftover slices were fried for spam sandwiches the next day. I shudder when I think of it. Oh, the dry heaving is starting. That stick of butter rolled in brown sugar is sounding pretty good.
May 25, 2009 at 6:49 pm #1503479"I was raised on spam,"
That is so sad…Spam should be saved as a special treat ;)
I was raised on Underwood Devilled Ham !!!!
May 25, 2009 at 6:58 pm #1503481Hah! If I remember right (and I've spent decades trying to forget), they smell about the same.
May 25, 2009 at 7:22 pm #1503488"they smell about the same"
Cat food. Only the texture has been changed to protect the innocent. BTW my cats would do just about anything for turkey Spam…
May 25, 2009 at 7:45 pm #1503494on fresh, crispy saltine crackers. Maybe with a very thin slice of Swiss cheese.
May 25, 2009 at 8:31 pm #1503507Lol…you all just have to find the Spreadable Spam that comes in tiny cans (with pull tops).
I can eat Spam, but it has to be cut small and cooked till crispy. In fried rice it is totally divine.
Cooked as a ham with glaze…that brings back scary nightmares of my youth and the Better Homes and Gardens plaid cookbook from the '50's that belonged to my mom! ;-)
May 26, 2009 at 12:21 pm #1503656…and the vikings sing "spam,spam,spam,spam lovely spam, glorious spam!"
May 29, 2009 at 11:18 am #1504381hmmmm – eat it with a spork right out of the lightweight plastic
NUTELLA
May 29, 2009 at 11:51 am #1504384I like it with Peanut Butter and Banana chips.
Jun 17, 2009 at 4:05 pm #1508897Would maybe smoked salmon that was then dried slightly to lighten the exess water out be a good source of fat and protein? I know the drying part might be tricky. I guess salmon jerky would be the same. Just wouldn't want to take any in bear country!!
The foil packets of salmon are great but i know they arn't lightweight. But they are nice for the first night out.Jun 17, 2009 at 6:49 pm #1508931Great for POCs and heavy metals.
Cheers
Jun 18, 2009 at 9:08 am #1509034>>Great for POCs and heavy metals.
>>Cheers
I know, right? Sad. But I eat it anyway. In moderation.
Back to the poster who brought up (real) pemmican, it may or may not pass the dry-heaving test, but I've been on a pemmican kick lately, thinking it would be perfect for backpacking.
I'm going to be making some as an experiment to bring along on some trips this summer. Should be around 182 calories / oz, and if you do it right with good grass-fed beef (or bison), full of Omega-3's, CLA, and vitamins (including Vitamin C if the meat isn't dried at too high a temp = no scurvy, unlike the white man's rations of the time). Essentially a complete food, and easy to digest. Inuit, plains Indians, trappers and explorers lived on it for months with excellent results, and if properly stored it lasts indefinitely without refrigeration.
U.S. Wellness Meats makes some but supposedly it's not very good. Better (and simple) to make your own.
I like the idea of it for all those reasons, as well as the traditional aspect. The taste will determine if all those things are worth it . . . I've heard it's not bad, once you get used to it.
Jun 18, 2009 at 9:23 am #1509037"trappers and explorers lived on it for months with excellent results"
Hmmmm.
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Jun 18, 2009 at 9:48 am #1509044What is pemmican?
Jun 18, 2009 at 10:09 am #1509050In moderation fish is fine for eating. I enjoy smoked salmon maybe once a month – and enjoy every tasty bit. I only eat wild Salmon though – caught in Alaska or on the runs here in Washington (I used to know a lot of retired fishermen when I lived on an island who would bring me whole fish as tips in the coffehouse!)
Fish has a lot to offer health wise in moderation.
Jun 18, 2009 at 10:17 am #1509051Wild salmon is one the best fish to eat when you are concerned about mercury. I am not sure what other heavy metals the above poster is so concerned about to 'disqualify' it
Just make sure you eat wild salmon… friends don't let friends eat farmed salmon.
Jun 18, 2009 at 10:20 am #1509053I tried durian last week in Jakarta and decided that I am too old to 'get used' to food, no matter how healthy, nutritious, leightweight or beneficial to my sexlife it is.
Jun 18, 2009 at 10:38 am #1509055I think salmon is actually categorized as a "medium" risk for mercury – it's a fairly high food chain feeder (bad), but lives pretty cold water (good – less heavy metal saturation)
Most of the "low" risk for mercury fish are little fish, preferably little fish from cold waters, that feed lower in the chain – herring, sardines & the like
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