What are your fav. long distance hiking meals?
Breakfast; cereal and powdered milk. Protein drink with powdered milk.
Lunch; lunch meat and cheese wrap.
Dinner; taco flavored lipton side with onion/garic and cheese. Good by itself or in torts.
Spigot
I love me some tortillas w/some cheddar cheese slices or peanut butter. Also, dried mango slices rock (Whole Foods has 'em).
Squatch
I’m going to plug my own favorite, since you asked for these; I make a kind of power bar that is my one great trail staple. It’s breakfast and afternoon power boost both, and very effective since it packs quite a lot of both protein and carbs. I call the Logan Bars, since the original recipe came from an old Logan Bread recipe that I first learned back in Boy Scouts at 14 (from one of our college-aged assistant scoutmasters, it’s a long story.) It full of some very calorie-dense materials and tastes fantastic. Best of all, if you have a vacuum sealer and can store them for the trail (and mail drops) they work out a whole lot cheaper than Clif or other commercial bars and they’re better for you, being pretty much whole foods.
Strategic
My husband makes a really good logan bread. Very dense. It has a lot of dried fruit, so it’s also very sweet.
Love the dried mango. We eat a lot of exotic dried fruits - thanks to Trader Joes.
Otherwise - we usually eat Liptons dinners mixed with protein. Favorite is cheesy rice with salmon, alfredo with chicken or just about anything with spam. They all get old after a while though.
Ginny
Spread equal amounts (lots!) of nutella and peanut butter on a whole wheat tortilla. Roll up and enjoy an instant 700 calories hit. Even better: In the heat of the desert, roll up a soft, squishy Snickers bar along with the other stuff.
For dinner, take 1 packet of instant stuffing and mix with 1 packet of instant mashed potatoes. Add 1 packet turkey gravy. Combine with 4 cups water. Add 1 cap Hormel “Turkey”. Enjoy.
Suge
1 cup instant brown rice, 1/2 cup chopped peanuts, and 1/2 cup golden raisins. Seasoning of your choice! Works great in a freezer bag. Yum, Yum!
Janet
A burger, big salad and a beer.
But that is only off trail. Not too many bar and grils in the Sierra, San Juans, etc. :cheers
Paul Mags
Well, I know that it will probably kill me someday, but I bring SPAM in those little single serving slices packed in an envelope like tuna comes. I eat it with pita bread or tortillas. It’s GREAT - even for a no-cook breakfast. I know, lots of grease and stuff. But it tastes salty/spicy and seems to keep me going. A few chunks in other dishes seems to work too.
CBiscuit
i like to cook up some river trout in lemmons and peppers. Cooks best if you gut the trout, stuff it with the lemmons and peppers, then wrap the trout in 2 or 3 layers of aluminum fool and cook over the coals of a fire. Tastes even better if you pour beer on the trout before you wrap it in the foil.
slick b
Like Squatch, I love tortillas with cheese or PB. My main staple is cold cereal which I make myself–rolled oats, walnuts, raisins, powdered milk mixed in. Idahoan instant potatoes work cold, too (I don’t cook on the trail).
garlic
Pasta tossed with olive oil, spices and herbs and a bunch of Parmesan cheese. I usually add in dried vegetables as well and or dried beans. Easy to make, easy to eat!
sarbar
on trips-nutella (in large amounts) on mre issued bread (like the white better than wheat-but will take both)or on tortillas. cliff bars or jerkey w/ peanut butter (an developed taste). and dried squid if i can get it or make it cheep enough
boviine
Instant mashed potatoes (“loaded baked potato flavour”) with a handful of those vaccuum packed real bacon bits thrown in - yum! Or Annie’s mac n cheese with bits of dried red peppers and dried onions (from Just Tomatoes).
Brainwave