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Episode 7 of my Lightweight Backpacking Foundations series
Top Ultralight Backpacking Food Tips:
Some choose:
- A food is fuel mentality - Strictly for calories, taste, and ease
- Body is a temple approach - Take time to prepare, dehydrate their own recopies, and are willing to bring a little extra weight for better nutrition.
- For ease and convenience Lightweight backpackers tend to lean towards the food is fuel mentality.
To go light and get serious, measure Calories per ounce.
- Get as light as possible.
- Nut & seeds, olive oil, peanut butter, chocolate, high fat foods - more cal/oz
- Fresh fruits and veggies - less cal/oz
- Good range 120-130 cal/oz
The goal - nutrition, taste, & calories while keeping weight low
- Good trail nutrition is just like good nutrition at home -
- Balance of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates - with fiber, fruit + veg when possible
- When “cooking” on the trail - Ease of “cooking” for most lightweight backpackers is important
- Boil water and pour in a bag
- Choose meals with short cook times
- Amount of food. You’ll need more calories than normal, especially for full days and long trips
- Some thru-hikers find that they consume 5-6,000 calories per day - very long hiking days
- Avoid all canned food. Heavy - low in calories - pack out the trash.
- Repackage all food when possible to reduce weight and volume
- Save weight and add nutrition with dried Fruits & Veggies
- Use a food dehydrator to make your own delicious and healthy trail snacks.
Popular UL Food Choices:
Snacks
• Very important part of trail diet - keeping constantly fueled
• Dried fruit
• Trail mix
• Energy bars - lots of bars
• Fruit leather strips
• Nuts
• Chocolate
• Chips & crackers
• Beef jerky
• Candy
Breakfast
• Will you want to cook?
• Powdered milk
• Granola
• Pop tarts
• Bars
• Carnation instant breakfast mix
• Snacks - trail mix, dried fruit
• Tea/coffee
• Instant oatmeal
Lunch
• Sandwitches
• Whole wheat tortillas
• Bagels
• Salami
• Summer sausage
• Peanut butter & jelly
• Honey
• Hard cheeses
• Fill in with snacks
Dinner
• Freeze dried meals are light but can be expensive - $7-10 per
• Similar meals can be found in grocery stores for a fraction of the price
• Dehydrated meals
• Dry soups
• Pasta sides
• Rice sides
• Instant potato flakes
• Instant stuffing
• Easy Mac
• Ramen noodles
• Couscous
• Tuna and chicken in foil packets
• Add freeze dried veggies when possible
Extras
• Fast food packets for condiments
• Hot sauce
• Olive Oil
• Seasoning
• Powdered sports drinks
• Hot coco
1 июл 2024