I never buy the freeze dried backpacker store kinda stuff because it's too expensive and generally sucks.

Sooooo....... Liptons noodles and sauce, cheeses, homemade trail mixes, tuna or chicken in the pouches, my own homemade "Discipline Loaf" (I got the recipe from an article on what they feed prisoners in solitary), cereal and my luxury item, UHT milk in cartons( keeps unrefrigerated for months and tastes so damn good after a day in the hills).

And most of my backcountry hunting areas have trout streams so a 5' 2pc. Lamiglas rod comes along.

What do you boys eat........

top ramen(1 per day), instant oatmeal(2 per day), some jerky(2 bags) and hi energy bars(1.5 per day)--for drinking I take some powder orange stuff and tea--chris

On a sheep hunt 2 coffee bags,outmeal or granola.2 pilot bread, hard salami,cheese,1 mt house, tang, and a sip or 2 of CC. Extra's are candy bars and a can of peachs that gets us up the the final climb.

On one-day hunts, candy bars and water. On multi-dayhunts: mountain house, or chicken-noodle cup-a-soup thingies, hard salami, pita bread, lots of mars and snickers, some dried apricots, hot chocolate powder, instant coffee, tea bags, instant oatmeal.

Frans

Breakfast--trail mix
Lunch--trail mix
supper--trail mix,halvah, cheese,some wassa crackers.

luxuries coffee, gatorade, a pack or 2 of noodles.

I make my own delux trail mix. dry papaya, mangoes,peaches,prunes,figs etc. Callebaut chocolate in large chunks. Almonds,cashews etc. I figure if I gotta eat the same damn thing all the time it might as well taste good. I think there are things much lighter than trail mix but it's loaded with calories and fills me up.

I really lean towards heavy carbs and high fat foods. The wassa crackers are really just something thats fun to eat. Halvah is great stuff it must be okay the Romans ate it while on campaign!!

I really look foreward to getting back to the first restaurant I can find.

the chef

Hello;
I've got a tiny little collapsible burner I bought at Home Hardware for around 20. It fits on one of those small disposable propane bottles and works just fine. I've been using some of those boil and eat rations but unfortuneately my supply has dried up. The freeze dried sounds good but I choked when I saw the prices in Red Deer yesterday. 15. for a basic meal. There are lots of quick light nutricious foods available at the supermarket, lots of them of Asian origin and I'm doing a little research in this area. Planning a trip through the T&T supermarket in Calgary. Besides the usual noodles and sauce or Soupeworks type stuff, I've tried the instant type rice, where you just pour boiling water in the bag and let it sit for a while. Especially in the winter, you can't beat a nice hot meal.
Grizz

A good buddy of mine infoed me what he did on a Yakutat moose hunt.

Packing in a few bagels (1 per day) with solid cheese and salami/hickory beef slices, then vacuum sealing.

I tried this out on a recent goat pack-in hunt,....boy howdy!!
After sealing em' these get shrunk down pretty compact and are excellent for a hearty mid day lunch meal to look forward to. Kinda weighty packin' in but it's the good kinda' pack weight, you don't have to worry about packin' out later.

For supper I packed in 1 Mountain House per day.
Powerbars/snickers bars for pick-me-up sugar lift when on the move.

p.e. n' sitka

Skinner,
If you're near any us army surplus store you might see if they have the MRE Artic rations. They are the same thing as the old LRRP meals that were freeze dried.
Good thing is, you can scavenge anything you might want to take, such as the main meal, bread,crackers,peanut butter,coffee,ect, and leave the rest. I've also seen them on ebay.
Regards,

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Originally posted by Skinner.:
I never buy the freeze dried backpacker store kinda stuff because it's too expensive and generally sucks.

Sooooo....... Liptons noodles and sauce, cheeses, homemade trail mixes, tuna or chicken in the pouches, my own homemade "Discipline Loaf" (I got the recipe from an article on what they feed prisoners in solitary), cereal and my luxury item, UHT milk in cartons( keeps unrefrigerated for months and tastes so damn good after a day in the hills).

And most of my backcountry hunting areas have trout streams so a 5' 2pc. Lamiglas rod comes along.

What do you boys eat........

Quit being so mean to yourself !!!
http://www.mountainhouse.com/new_prdcts.cfm
This stuff tastes good and fills you up (buy the double portions appx $11cdn)

I think the beef stroganoff is the best of the lot when it comes to the freeze dried foods, but it takes up a lot of room to pack enuff for 5-7 days IMO, but maybe that's cuz I'm packing to much other stuff--but I'll stick to top ramen anyway----chris

I usually bring granola bars and jerky for breakfast and lunch. I bring freezedried (like mtn house) for a evening meal. The double portion entree is about right.

I don't cook at all this way only boil water. I tried the MREs but just won't anymore. They're bulky, heavier, and contain lots of trash. The preservative in them tastes awful!( I knew being a sailor had some advantages and this was definately one of them ) Nate

Most of the time I have oat meal and dryed fruit for breakfast. Then jerky a candy bar or so for lunch and Mt house freeze dried for dinner.

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Originally posted by BigNate:
I usually bring granola bars and jerky for breakfast and lunch. I bring freezedried (like mtn house) for a evening meal. The double portion entree is about right.

I don't cook at all this way only boil water. I tried the MREs but just won't anymore. They're bulky, heavier, and contain lots of trash. The preservative in them tastes awful!( I knew being a sailor had some advantages and this was definately one of them ) Nate

Like someone else said about the mre's. You can open them up, break them down and leave the stuff you dont need or dont want behind.