Favorite High-Cal Foods?

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#1

Hey everyone…

I’m leaving for Georgia on Monday, and I was wondering if anybody would care to share their favorite high-calorie trail foods with me before I go so I can get some ideas.

I’m usually along the lines of Uncle Ben’s boil-in-bag rice with some tuna (in foil pack) thrown in, but I’m sure that there are higher-calorie options out there. I’d like to avoid prepackaged hiker foods, but maybe not if one of you can make a good case for them. I also bring the standard assortment of GORP+whatever, powerbars, candy bars, block o’cheese, etc.

I’ve never been out for more than a week at a time, so if I’m malnourishing myself, I haven’t noticed yet.

Baboo

#2

Jif Smooth Sensations chocolate silk peanut butter. 150 calories per ounce

Peaks

#3

Bagel with cheese and pepperoni, cheddar.

B+B

#4

My favorite is Velvetta Shells and Cheese. 1500 Calories a box.

I would recommend that you get the Appalachian Trail Food Planner by Lou Adsmond. It has great recipes for trail food and suggestions on food planning. Go to the ATC webpage and you can find the book.

Andy

#5

Cheese burgers and a pints of ice cream kept me alive. Enjoy the towns. Granola bars and Gorp with protein rich soy nuts, tuna salad packets, grandmas cookies, butter and those potatoe chips I found ON the trail once (hey when your hungry you’ll eat anthing). Mac and cheese, yuck but filling. Hiker box stew… yumm, and free. Trail magic, definately trail magic.
Good luck and enjoy,
TurkeyBacon

TurkeyBacon

#6

One thing that I’ve always questioned is exactly how that so many calories per ounce is calculated----For example noodles that are completely dehydrated and of course very light come in at say 150 calories per ounce-----yes, when dry----but when you rehydrate them, you’re actually eating close to a pound or more of noodles to get 150 calories. So when you really look at it, Ramen and other noodles (although very light) really don’t supply too many calories. Am I correct on this or am I missing something? Try Spam, it has a high calories per ounce, even though a can of it weighs 16 ounces----when you’ve eaten a can of it, you’ve packed on some calories. Peanut butter also great.
Keep on Hiking. :happy

Maintain

#7

try Annies a healthier ( tastier ) mac and cheese. it is good ! can anyone say enough about king sixz snickers ? I also enjoy luna bars and cliff bars… esp. the ice series. Yummy… I am getting hungry here. PB, hershey and gram. crackers are pretty good too. Just keep walking towards the pizza. I crave that ALOT out there.

yappy

#8

Put plenty of nuts in your trail mix and also consider summer sausage and cheddar cheese.

Sparky

#9

Personally, I like a good pint of Cherry Garcia or the new kind with oatmeal rasin cookie dough. I try to eat a pint in every town. :tongue

THA WOOKIE

#10

Fat gives you the most calories per gram of weight. That is why hikers at the poles often carry only butter. For down here cheese keeps longer. I have carried cheese for a week at a time, in the summer, on the southern AT. It does get slimey but it tastes the same. I’ve been told it only goes bad if you touch it, so I eat it directly out of a plastic bag.

Blue Jay

#11

I have two favorite foods.

  1. Ramen noodles with peanut butter, sunflower kernels, and a pinch Cayenne pepper.
  2. Peanut butter and peperoni on rye or whatever.

Darth Pac-man

#12

Fried fruit pies have 400 calories and they are cheap too.

Darth Pacman

#13

Cherry Garcia…yep a pint in every town. Sometimes two.

Two Scoops

#14

Another calculation to consider (for fun, of course) is calories per penny. Fried pies (especially lemon cream) come in at about is 10 calories per penny–when two for a dollar, which they usually are—also dollar store peanuts–1400 calories for a dollar—might I suggest carrying oil to add to your dinners. i used to crave meat on the trail until i started dousing my dinners in oil or butter when its cold–makes all the difference----fat calories are good–enjoy

Yahtzee