Is there something you eat in the backcountry that you don’t eat otherwise?

Ramen (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.

Pop tarts with Nutella.

Salami
Coffeemate
Raman noodles, toss the packs. The noodles are handy.
Hard liqour
Dirt,bugs and wood ash also.

Spam
Granola bars dipped in Nutela
GORP
Nutela straight from the jar

Edit – Oh and 3500+ calories a day of anything

Pasta sides, instant potatoes, nutella from the jar (well.. sometimes at home haha), Nutty bars, Nido (on cereal for breakfast)

For me its summer sausage, porridge and dehydated meals.

I also only drink hot chocolate, packet soup and whiskey on trips.

Chicken–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.

Just 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.

"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!

I 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.

Almost 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.

Fresh non-stocked trout!

Nah, 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.

""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.

I 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.

Fresh porcini mushrooms, if I'm lucky.

I love pop tarts but they are always getting crushed. I need to find some kind of pop tart protector container.

I find it revolting under normal circumstances, but on the trail mixed with other things, it's tolerable. Plus, all that sodium. Mmmmmm.

And maltodextrin.

In 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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Pretty 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.

Pretty 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 Jims

I eat paleo, too, but I bring my paleo food backpacking because it's so damn good.