Can anyone recommend types of cheese and sausage that will last 3-4 days without refridgeration? I'd like to use them for backpacking. I have access to a lot of speciality/ethnic food shops so obscure cheese/sausages aren't out of the question.

-Blast

p.s. "Valvetta" is NOT an option.

Canned Cheese Whiz and Hormel Pre-cooked Sausages!!!

There's enough artificial ingredients and preservatives in those things that they will be around long after the cockroaches have died off

Blast What about the hilshire farm summer sausage. You see it sitting on shelfs at stores. No refridgeration needed. OR maybe some nice spam. And for the cheese you could use any hard type that is completly covered in wax.

Blast,
Cheese was originall a way to keep milk without refrigeration and most cheeses will last for several days without refrigeration still but the cheese moist cheeses of today will get oily in just a few hours. The dry cheeses like parmisan will last for weeks and melt like regular cheese. The key is the drier and harder ir is the linger it will last, and if it molds cut the mold away and be happy cause all cheese really is in molded milk.

Second ray's comment on hard cheeses like Parmesan and Asiago. You can also carry feta, its softer, but it comes packed in brine (or should, if it isn't go somewhere else) so it should last. Summer sausage will store well unopened, but you've got to eat it or refrigerate it after you open it or it'll go bad. If you know a butcher, ask him.

Even some of the semi-hard cheeses like jack and cheddar will be ok for a few days. You just have to expect a little mold on the outside. Just slice off that thin layer, and the rest is fine. It looks a little gross when you see the mold, but, it's really fine under that.

Shame, shame. What will Wolfe Brand and Dinty Moore think?
I have used smoked summer sausage and blocked cheeses on extended backpacking with great results.
kmat

One of my friends takes the Healthy Choice low fat sausage and slices it thin and puts it in his dehydrator and makes sausage jerky for backpacking. It was excellent! He also makes pepperoni chips that way.

BLAST.. i take aged cheddar..the older the better..jarlsberg
also keeps well..i take both on canoe trips in a small soft
side cooler along with jam tubes and margarine..
i also see some high end meat sticks in the dele case at
the supermarket..some covered in herbs and course pepper..
last trip i took one that had the least coatings and it
kept well and i had it for lunch..sorry i don't recall the
name...i have also used string cheese in one serving packs.



the photo is a typical lunch..the summer sausage was made
from buffalo and did not keep very well.i had to trim
the end if i did not cut off a hunk for lunch every day
so i went to the high end stuff at twice the price but
it did keep better,only weaping a bit of grease on the
cut end between uses

BLAST-- just went thru my canoe logs..it's Colmbus brand..
the dry one without the pepper and herbs..
also found in my notes i was using Hoffmans Smoked Cheddar.

If you can get some McLelland Mature Cheddar in the your local Specialty food store. It might not last 3-4 days though because you probably would have eaten all of it on the first day.

Hope your local deli is better than this Cheese Shop

As for the sausage why not try some salami sausage or one of the other smoked alternatives.