Has anyone tried cookie crisps for breakfast out on the trail? How does the cereal, cookie crisp, compare to other breakfast meals on the trail?
Cookie Crisp Nutrition Facts:
Serving size: 1 cup
Calories: 120
Total Fat: 1g
Sodium: 180mg
Potassium: 35mg
Total Carbohydrate: 26g
sugars: 13g
other carbs: 13
Protein: 1g
bearbait
http://www.calorie-count.com/calories/item/08017.html
Honeycomb is almost the same.
http://www.calorie-count.com/calories/item/08335.html
Corn Flakes even gets less calories from fat but 1/6th the sugar content. It only has 16 less calories.
http://www.calorie-count.com/calories/item/08020.html
You can compare nearly all brands from the link above.
007
Have you tried these for breakfast on the trail? I usually just stuck to oatmeal, or breakfast bars.
Or pudding.
Is this a good variation?
bearbait
I haven’t had Cookie Crisp in a long time and never on the trail but I will on my next weekender. I like variety. I love putting cereal into my gorp and adding raisins, dried cherries and lightly salted peanuts. Makes a good mix for munching during the day. I usually get the instant oatmeal with fruit flavor in the morning or grits. Pop tarts if I am lazy. I know some that eat the same thing everyday. I like my variety.
007
A good granola, with powdered honey and powdered milk was pretty tasty had decent “staying power” and held up to the food bag fairly well too.
yo-yo
Has grains, sliced nuts, etc.
Still hate powdered milk, but what are you gonna do on the trail?
For variety I ate oatmeal, breakfast bars, and even carried
whole eggs and later powdered eggs. Cooked bacon lasts
for days. Tried pancakes for a while, but kept burning them.
I don’t know why people don’t put more thought into their
menus. There is no need to have the same food day after
day. I never ate pop tarts. Others lived on them.
Scamp
Scamp
I like powdered soy milk over milk. You can get vanilla flavored, which is pretty good.
Macaroons are good in the morning, and so is whole or dried fruit. Drinking a quart of water helps lube everything up for the day.
Nuts, fruits, and water are good because they give quick, pure energy that can be sustained until the mid-morning snack.
I don’t eat bacon, and I especially wouldn’t on the trail. That’s just begging for a critter to chew through your foodbag. Scamp- did you ever have that problem?
The popular cereals mentioned above are mostly devoid of nutrition, and you probably expend more energy in carrying them than you get from eating them. Remember that calories do not equal usable energy. Those cereals are low-quality incomplete grains with salt, sugar, and other flavor enhancers loaded on them. Many conventional granolas are no different. However, there are cereals that are better for you. Go to a health food store and look in the bulk food section for cereal that’s worth carrying if that’s what you want in the morning.
Tha Wookie
Not true, peanuts are very slow to give you energy has their calorie source comes from fat. Ask any athlete, you perfer your calories to come from carbs, not fat if you need them quickly, like hikers do. Nuts will make feel full faster. But that is not what you need.
Peanuts = high level of calories from fat
Cereal = high level of calories from carbs
This link shows Nuts being very high in fat.
http://www.calorie-count.com/calories/item/12637.html
You want carbs for energy. Not fat. Fats will give you the feeling of getting full faster.
The primary function of carbs is to provide energy quickly. I choose to combine the two in my gorp. Looking at it logically, you should have your carbs in the morning, fat in the evening. You should also take a multi-vitamin everyday on the trail.
007
IMHO, Wookie is right - there is very little nutrition, if any at all, in Supermarket cereals. Not all “food” is food, you know? In fact, I would suggest avoiding ALL cereals. Eating these malnutritiuous cereals can lead to manifestations of poor nutrition such as fatigue, headaches, muscle aches, poor sleep, digestive problems such as constipation, and more, which ultimately could end your hike.
Why carry PILLS if you get the mirco-nutrients your body needs through the food you eat? Only if you eat nutritionally devoid food is it necessary to to supplement with PILLS.
I have read endless pages about food, nutrition, diets, the FDA, modern medicine, alternative medicine, exercise, etc. and I have come to this very simple, common sense conclusion: “Food is your BEST Medicine.” Afterall, it was Hippocrates, the “Father of Modern Medicine” who stated, “Let food be thy medicine, and medicine thy food.”
I find it very ironic and comical that graduating medical students take the “Hippocratic Oath” – really, products of modern medical doctors have no idea how to HEAL patients. But, they sure do know how to posion their patients closer to death. Remember, everyone wants to make a living. And in our society, making a living is generally gained at the expense of others; Drs are no different, even if the people they make a living off of are sick. What good would it do if the doctor actually helped you overcome illness?
Today, we are each responsible for our own health. The saying “You harvest what you plant” really means so much to me. Think about it.
My advise: Find the TRUTH; let it set you FREE.
The truth cannot be argued – that is why certain powers go through such effort to hide it.
Here is the “Hippocratic Oath”:
"I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:
I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.
I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures which are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.
I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon’s knife or the chemist’s drug.
I will not be ashamed to say “I know not,” nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient’s recovery.
I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.
I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person’s family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.
I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.
I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.
If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help."
Of course, this is just my opinion…
See you on the trail!
~Dawgtrekker
dawg
Cookie Crisp?? Don’t bother. Grape Nuts or other Whole Grain cereals will give you what you need. Its not just carbs but what kind of carbs that are important. Cereals like Cookie Crisp are over processed and loade with sugar and artificial crap. Whole grain cereal like Grape Nuts or Frosted Mini Wheats have are made from Whole wheat and have complex carbs as opposed to crap sugar cereals like cookie crisp that are made from processed white flour. Try this for cereal. Frosted Mini wheats with powdered milk or instant breakfast drink mix= sugar to get ya going and compelx carbs to keep ya going. Another one is 1 part grape nuts,1 parts granola, 1 part corn flakes. Top with rasains and use instant breakfast mix instead or powdered milk. If you eat lots of whole grains plan on drinking extra water and try to cut out coffe in the morning as caffiene is a diuretic(increase urine output) and can contribute to dehydration. Have a couple of spoonfuls of peanut butter for fats and protein.
BooBoo
Thanks for the suggestions.
I don’t go with grape nuts, granola, or other crunchies because that’s what my gorp consists of, with the fruits and nuts. What I was looking for was for something to get me going in the morning, that doesn’t consist of what I’m already snacking on all day.
NO PEANUT BUTTER please. I can’t even look at that stuff anymore.
I just noticed that most breakfast cereals are stocked up with carbs and sugar, which, well, will get you going for a little while in the morning. Long enough to wake up, for me at least, and have that first gorp break.
Of course, the oatmeal squares were working out well, and I really didn’t get sick of them.
bearbait