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Hikngrl Canyoneering is my 'Happy Place'
Joined: 27 May 2003 Posts: 5578 Location: Peoria, AZ
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Posted: 2/19/2006, 7:04 pm Post subject: |
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http://javette.com/home.html
http://www.minimus.biz/detail.aspx?ID=7581
Here's two choices for ya IGO. I have only tried the Javette and loved its convenience and the taste was pretty good considering the weight savings and small size.... I am gonna send in a minimus order if I can ever get my lazy butt organized and decide what all I want to order... I will let ya know how the stuff from minimus tastes after I have tasted it. I most likely won't ever go back to any of the other coffee gimmicks for a back pack these little packets just work oh so well! _________________ ~~~Diane~~~
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Hikngrl Canyoneering is my 'Happy Place'
Joined: 27 May 2003 Posts: 5578 Location: Peoria, AZ
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Posted: 2/19/2006, 7:08 pm Post subject: |
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Tuna with honey BBQ sauce from Chick-fil-et, PB&J, and I am dying to try out some of the recipes in my new back packing cook book as soon as I get me a dehydrator! Then there is always the ever popular mixture of crap to include trail mix....energy bars..... and one of my favorites prosecutor bars! I have tried the moose goo that Cholla talks of and liked it but it was pretty heavy! _________________ ~~~Diane~~~
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Desert-Boonie
Joined: 23 Nov 2004 Posts: 219 Location: Glendale, AZ
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Posted: 2/19/2006, 7:44 pm Post subject: |
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SPAM & Powergels!!! _________________ ~Never Satisfied~
"If I can't be my own, I'd feel better dead" |
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Cholla
Joined: 26 Oct 2005 Posts: 379
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Posted: 2/19/2006, 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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<<Tuna with honey BBQ sauce from Chick-fil-et, PB&J, and I am dying to try out some of the recipes in my new back packing cook book>>
IS SOMEBODY HAVING A BABY AROUND HERE? Don't let Daddee's wife see this thread.
Oh my gosh!!! Igo found the vacuum packed chicken!!! |
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azhiker96
Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Posts: 1419
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Posted: 2/19/2006, 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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For dayhikes I just toss whatever from my hiking shelf into the pack. It's usually a mixture of Kashi Crunchy bars, gorp, and jerky. Sometimes I supplement it with a fresh apple or orange. If it's a backpacking trip then who knows what I'll take, anything from Mac N cheese to steaks and instant mashed potatoes.
I like tuna but limit how much I eat due to the mercury. They do package Salmon though and it's a great addition to noodles with sauce. _________________ It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. -- Carl Sagan |
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JW I'll make rain with my spaceman powers!
Joined: 20 Sep 2003 Posts: 1296
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Posted: 2/19/2006, 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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azhiker96 wrote: |
For dayhikes I just toss whatever from my hiking shelf into the pack. It's usually a mixture of Kashi Crunchy bars, gorp, and jerky. Sometimes I supplement it with a fresh apple or orange. If it's a backpacking trip then who knows what I'll take, anything from Mac N cheese to steaks and instant mashed potatoes.
I like tuna but limit how much I eat due to the mercury. They do package Salmon though and it's a great addition to noodles with sauce. |
Lunches are the hardest part of multi-day BPs to plan. Geo and I have talked about the weight of fresh fruit, before. It's way too heavy, and if you can depend on H2O along the way, dehydrated works. But if you can't, and it's a dayhike, real fruit is like 90% water plus so many electrolytes.
While I'm a lifelong lover of seafood, as Geo notes, the mercury (and lead) content of the oceans finest is something to research. Far northern types of fish may be preferable. Fish farm types should be avoided.
Everything ends up in the oceans, and that's where the planet's food chain begins. _________________ What a magnificent time to LIVE! - Everett Ruess.
Since my house burned down, I now own a better view of the rising moon. - Masahide. |
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CatValet Got Gear?
Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 735 Location: Scottsdale
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Posted: 2/19/2006, 10:54 pm Post subject: |
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Clif bars and maybe jerky. I don't eat much on the trail, as hiking tends to depress my appetite as opossed to siting in front of the tube, which tends to stimulate it. |
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IGO
Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 4144 Location: Las Vegas
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Posted: 2/20/2006, 5:39 am Post subject: |
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Hikngrl wrote: |
http://javette.com/home.html
http://www.minimus.biz/detail.aspx?ID=7581
Here's two choices for ya IGO. I have only tried the Javette and loved its convenience and the taste was pretty good considering the weight savings and small size.... I am gonna send in a minimus order if I can ever get my lazy butt organized and decide what all I want to order... I will let ya know how the stuff from minimus tastes after I have tasted it. I most likely won't ever go back to any of the other coffee gimmicks for a back pack these little packets just work oh so well! |
Trail Mocha has always been a ritual but the mix weighs about 5 pounds leaving the house and is the only thing in my pack that sends out rodent radar so it's time to change. _________________ "Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes - all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them." John Muir |
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Cholla
Joined: 26 Oct 2005 Posts: 379
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Posted: 2/20/2006, 8:03 am Post subject: |
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A book I recently added to my collection is Travel Light - Eat Heavy by Bill McCartney. ISBN #0-615-12911-0. One nice feature I liked is his meal plans include the calorie count.
It's a small book, only 132 pages. I found mine at Amazon. It would be very useful to new backpackers and still provide some variety for those who are more experienced. |
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fairweather8588
Joined: 30 Dec 2003 Posts: 716
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Posted: 2/20/2006, 11:29 am Post subject: |
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I don't ever really eat lunch, if I eat anything though it'll be my trusty Pop Tarts _________________ But let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious
Kerouac |
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ck1
Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 1331 Location: Mesa
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Posted: 2/20/2006, 2:11 pm Post subject: |
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South Beach has a product line of tortilla lunches...chicken Caesar and Southwest chicken...mmmm _________________ -Colin
"The Journey is the Destination" |
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GTG Was lost but now am found
Joined: 30 Dec 2002 Posts: 2387 Location: Peoria, Arizona, originally from Rocket City, USA
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Posted: 2/20/2006, 2:38 pm Post subject: food and such |
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ck1 wrote: |
South Beach has a product line of tortilla lunches...chicken Caesar and Southwest chicken...mmmm |
That's supposed to be Uncrustables isn't it ck1?
GTG _________________ Good things come to those who walk. |
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ck1
Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 1331 Location: Mesa
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Posted: 2/20/2006, 2:45 pm Post subject: Re: food and such |
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GTG wrote: |
ck1 wrote: |
South Beach has a product line of tortilla lunches...chicken Caesar and Southwest chicken...mmmm |
That's supposed to be Uncrustables isn't it ck1?
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Those are good as well...so many options! _________________ -Colin
"The Journey is the Destination" |
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Vashti
Joined: 10 Feb 2003 Posts: 135 Location: Gilbert, AZ
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Posted: 2/20/2006, 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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For backpacking lunches...
On day 1, we usually have some bread product and the spreadable cheese (Boursin garlic cheese or Rondelle garden vegetable cheese). Usually, its the fresh french bread that is 99 cents at Fry's bakery. It is large, but it weighs nothing and we eat most of it at lunch, and finish off the rest with dinner. If not bread, then those crush-resistant crackers (wassa???) are great, and they last the whole trip. Small beef summer sausage is tasty, too, along with the above. Call us crazy, but the extra weight is gone within a few hours, and its nice to eat something unique for the first day (wow does pita get BORING after a while!).
On day 2, we usually have some bread product again, but something not crushable like bagels or the crush-resistant crackers, plus PB and Nutella. We combine both PB & nutella into those squeezie tubes that you can get at REI. Yum.
I must mention that oftentimes, given that we are weekend warriors, are BPing trips are 2-3 days max, so we aren't stuck with the perpetual pita and PB. For longer trips, well ... pita, wassa, etc.
Another good "day 1" option is subway subs without the condiments or any 'wet' vegetables to sogify your bread. You can get the condiments from subway in packets to take along. Love that mustard.
For later days, we take pita and the dried hummus that you can rehydrate without heating water. Even that no-cook bacon is good for lunch. A nice change to having jerky all the time. We are also fans of the tuna or chicken flat packs that everyone has been mentioning. I prefer the chicken packs, but they are harder to find in the grocery store. The crab is good, too.
Anyway, that's our way of spicing up the food sector. Since others have been mentioning breakfast caffeine ... my fav is trader joe's powdered chai. YUM. Just add water, and you get flavor and caffeine! For those of you who may not be coffee drinkers, but are caffeine addicts.
We supplement with some combination of the usual snacks - Fruit Leather, powerbars, luna bars, fruit snacks, trail mix, dried fruit, jerky...
Vashti! _________________ Be Happy!
Enjoy Life!
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Shihiyea
Joined: 20 Oct 2003 Posts: 1135
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Posted: 2/20/2006, 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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I pretty much grab whatever I have in my pantry (which is set up for hiking/backpacking), tuna, crackers, trail mix, instant soups, mashed potatoes, hummus, in the fridge is generally carrots, some lettuce, oranges and apples. I will grab something that I feel like eating the day that I'm leaving. I also keep a little bag with enough food for 1 1/2 days, so if I don't have time to think about it, I just grab the prepackaged bag...it's a 'grab bag' meal . I eat most of my lunches like that too! Mary |
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