While walking - Gorp with chocolate chips, BonBell baby bell cheese, summer sausage or pepperoni or jerky or salami and if it's the first day on the trail I might have some fresh fruit.

GORP recepe, in unmeasured portions favoring the nuts roughly 3 to 1

pistachios, almonds, peanuts, peacans, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, walnuts
raisins, dried cherries, dried apricots, chopped dried dates, (sometimes dried pineapple)
chocolate chips (sometimes yogurt covered raisins)

carry 2 liters water drink continuously no salt

Breakfasts invariably oatmeal with added powdered milk, gorp (or atleast the raisin part of the gorp), and Ghi and brown sugar

Dinner dehydrated stuff from home. On recepe is dehydrated refritos and dehydrated meaty spagetti sause and potato flakes and a couple tbl's of olive oil. If I've brought enough summer sausage or salami it will often go in the dinner pot as well.

I carry a minimalist kitchen so it's boil water, add to dehydrated stuff in bowl in cozy and wait 10 min while I pack up the stove and pitch camp.


The breakfasts are pre-mixed baggied separately for each day - I tried one big bag once but I ended up with no breakfast for the last day <img src="images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

Dehydrated dinner supplies are carried as separate items and I often end up with extra potato flakes at the end of the trip.

Ghi and olive oil are mandatory calorie boosters as well as very tasty. Carry these in squeeze bottles inside ziplocks.

Choose your meats carefully for spoilage rates and weather. In the winter you can carry steak in the summer Jerky is a better option.