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    Nick Garner
    BPL Member

    @nwgarner

    Locale: Silicon Valley

    I'm curious what your menu looks like for a day of hiking.

    For me it's usually like this.
    Breakfast: Granola + Nido or a Clif bar or homemade equivalent
    Lunch and dinner: 1 serving FBC with chicken. I sometimes split a 7 oz. bag of chicken between lunch and dinner.
    Various Clif products for snacking on the move.

    Do you stop to cook lunch? I usually have no problem making time to boil some water and eat while taking a rest around lunchtime.

    Thank you,
    Nick

    #1647856
    Sarah Kirkconnell
    BPL Member

    @sarbar

    Locale: Homesteading On An Island In The PNW

    Sure!

    Breakfast = Could be anything from oatmeal to a bagel with toppings. Hot drink

    Snack

    Snack

    Lunch = either cold served on a wrap or crackers or a hot lunch. Depends on weather. Big cold drink, in cool weather a hot drink.

    Snack

    Snack

    Dinner = hearty FBC meal with lots of protein. Hot drink.

    Dessert

    #1647870
    Hiking Malto
    BPL Member

    @gg-man

    Just put this together for my 3 day hile mileage/off trail trip to the Sierras. Target 4000cal/day and less for day 3. (Target no food on return.) The malto and recovery are both Maltodextrin mixed with protein and other goodies that I will be drinking on the trail during the most intense portion of the day.

    1
    Muffin 500
    Lays chips 230
    cookie 320
    snickers 280
    Oreos 300
    PB MM 400
    MH Stew 500
    Maltodextrin Mix 1200
    Recovery Mix 300
    Total 4030

    2
    snickers 280
    Poptarts 400
    Mocha 220
    cheetos 320
    cookie 320
    crackers 180
    Oreos 250
    MH Spaghetti 540
    Maltodextrin Mix 1200
    Recovery Mix 300
    Total 4010

    3
    snickers 280
    Poptarts 400
    Mocha 220
    BBQ chips 230
    cookie 320
    crackers 190
    Oreos 150
    PB MM 200
    Maltodextrin Mix 900
    Total 2890

    #1647890
    Laurie Ann March
    Member

    @laurie_ann

    Locale: Ontario, Canada

    Mine often looks like this over a 4 day trip… on top of this I carry extra little baggies of nuts and gorp as well as extra energy bars in case I need the fuel. None of the lunches in this particular menu require the use of a stove.

    Day One

    B – Harvest Oatmeal Bars
    S – Dried Fruit and Almonds
    L – Tuna Salad Wraps
    S – Dark Chocolate
    D – Chicken Stew with Dumplings
    D – Caramel Apple Chai (this is a hot tea that doubles as dessert)

    Day Two

    B – Muesli with milk
    S – Dried apples and cheddar
    L – Roasted Tomato Dip and Pita
    S – Pepperoni sticks
    D – Black Bean, Corn and Sweet Potato Soup

    Day Three

    B – Blueberry Maple Granola with Nido
    S – Gorp
    L – Citrus Lentil Salad
    S – Homemade Energy Bars
    D – Minestrone
    D – Chocolate Moosey Mousse

    Day Four

    B – Homemade Energy Bars
    S – Frunola Bars (these are purchased from Kettle Valley)
    L – Black Bean Dip with Pita
    S – Smoked Almonds and white cheddar
    D – Spaghetti with Meat Sauce

    Stopping to cook lunch? It depends on the trip and the weather and who we are hiking with. Most often I have something that requires cold water rehydration such as my various trail salads. On occasion we will stop and have a soup or other warming dish for lunch though.

    #1647892
    Dustin Short
    BPL Member

    @upalachango

    Greg, what's your calorie breakdown for fat/prot/carb.

    Your list seems very carb heavy at a first glance without enough fat and protein to provide sustained energy. But like I said, that's just a first glance.

    #1647922
    Hiking Malto
    BPL Member

    @gg-man

    I have not done the calculations on this. I suspect that it will be very high on the carbs and the Energy Drink is also loaded with Whey or Soy protein depending on which drink. 50% of my calories are from an equivalent product as Hammer Perpetuem and Recovery (maltodextrin). I am maxing on the high carb food to maximize my chance of actually being able to eat it. This diet has worked well for me on 40+ mile days at elevations below 10.5k. It will be first time that I have attempted this diet above 11k but based on the results. We'll see how it works.

    #1647926
    Dustin Short
    BPL Member

    @upalachango

    I can u.understand that, the best nutrition does you know good if you can't choke down the fuel.

    Also each person's body has its preferred source of calories. Personally I feel better when my protein and fat %s are higher than recommended, but my fast metabolism burns through crabs too quickly.

    That said I've noticed love me a bag of goldfish crackers throughout a day.

    #1648122
    Larry Dyer
    Member

    @veriest1

    Locale: Texas

    Breakfast:
    Coffee!
    Clifbar builder bar and/or peanut butter crackers once hiking.

    Snack:
    Peanut butter crackers or clifbar and Gorp

    Snack:
    Gorp (I like it with lots and lots of peanut M&M's and dried fruit)

    Lunch: Gorp and salami with peanut butter crackers. Cup of coffee if it's cool out.

    Snacks: Repeat.

    Dinner: Ramen (need to start making my own), salami, or beef jerky etc. Maybe some Gorp.

    Oddly enough hard salami, gorp, and jerky are some of my favorite foods and I don't eat them unless I'm traveling or treating myself for some reason so when I go backpacking it's a real treat!

    #1648134
    David Noll
    BPL Member

    @dpnoll

    Locale: Maroon Bells

    I am starting a 6 day trip Sunday and here is my menu.
    All cooking is FBC.
    Breakfast – alternate granola and oatmeal and Via – 24 oz
    (both have nido, nuts and fruit inc)

    Lunch and snacks – jerky, fruit, nuts, bars, and Mike Clellands energy spackle and Nunn tablets for electrolytes
    62.5 oz

    Dinner – Thai noodle with sauce, Dehydrated mole sauce over Spanish rice and refried beans, Zippy spaghetti, Mango quinoa with chicken, and Pistou. Tea and chocolate.

    31.6 oz

    #1648162
    Mike M
    BPL Member

    @mtwarden

    Locale: Montana

    mine is

    Breakfast- a cold cereal (granola of some sort) w/ Nido dried whole milk- I add dehydrated blueberries (or the like)- just add water and stir

    a couple of nutir grain bars

    coffee (Via w/ Nido and some hot chocolate- a quasi mocha)

    Snacks- usually Clif Mojo bars (one mid morning, one mid afternoon)
    powdered gatorade (mid morning/mid afternoon)

    Lunch- mini pitas, dried salami, cheddar (or other) cheese

    Supper- dehydrated/freeze-dried meal- add hot water- let sit
    sometimes a dessert, sometimes fresh trout as a hors d'oeuvre :)

    usually in the 1.25# range/day calories ~ 3000

    #1648245
    Dicentra OPW
    Member

    @dicentra

    Locale: PNW

    5 Day PCT Menu with Post Trip Notes

    Day 1
    Breakfast: at home
    Lunch: salami and cheese (the little wax covered wheels)
    Dinner: Pasta w/Chicken and Artichoke Hearts – excellent!

    Day 2
    Breakfast: PB Crunch Wrap – good stuff. Packed too much granola, better with the maple almond butter than the cinnamon PB (Justin's Nut Butters)
    Lunch: salami and cheese
    Dinner: Chili Mac – ok

    Day 3
    Breakfast: PB Crunch Wrap
    Lunch: Wasa crackers and shelf stable cream cheese (eaten with more salami, pepperoni sticks or similar would have been better) – wanted more of this. Better than expected
    Dinner: Unstuffed Peppers w/quinoa and chicken

    Day 4
    Breakfast: Cherry Almond Oatmeal – made with almond milk powder. Very good!
    Lunch: Mount Daniel Wraps (black beans, cheese, taco sauce, tortilla) – 5 min to make and awesome! A little too much beans – the excess went on Rooinator's tuna wrap. He said it was good.
    Dinner: Rice & Veggies w/ Peanut Sauce

    Day 5
    Breakfast: Strawberry Almond Oatmeal – made with almond milk powder. Very good.
    Lunch: whatever cheese/crackers/salami and snacks are leftover
    Dinner: at home/in car

    Snacks
    Dried mangos – wanted more! MORE! MORE!
    PB M&Ms – more! Good fast energy. Or similar candy. Snickers? Payday w/chocolate?
    salted cashews – just right amount
    California Crunchies (flavored almonds) – love these. More. I think I can reverse engineer these to be made at home too.
    EmergenC x 22 – half would be more than enough. Overkill.
    Luna Moons x 3 – more would have been good. Easy to eat while walking
    1 mini chocolate bar w/dried fruit (Target) – more
    1 chocolate cliff nectar bar – didn't eat
    1 cherry lara bar – good snack
    Just veggies – didn't eat.

    Other
    Starbucks Via instant coffee – great!
    Sugar in the raw packets
    Powdered almond milk (only b/c I didn't have regular milk) – good. Really good in the oatmeal
    Herbal Tea packets – great! Nice change from plain water and EmergenC w/dinners
    1 dessert – Nutella and banana wrap – Made and gave to Rooinator. He said it was good.
    Olive oil – only added to the artichoke pasta
    salt & pepper packets – didn't use

    #1648392
    Kimberly Wersal
    BPL Member

    @kwersal

    Locale: Western Colorado

    Day 1

    Breakfast on the Road

    Lunch: Jerky,cheese, dried fruit, Larabar

    Dinner: FBC mexican rice with shredded beef/dried red peppers
    Dessert

    Day 2

    Breakfast: Cheese Grits with Ham/ granola bar

    Lunch: Tuna salad sandwich, cheddar cheese, Larabar

    Snack: granola bar

    Dinner: Coconut Chicken Currey with Rice, FBC
    Dessert

    Day 3

    Breakfast: PB & J sandwiches, cheese

    Lunch: jerky, dry cereal (I like Cracklin' Oat Bran), dried fruit.

    Dinner: Pig out on the way home

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