I was thinking about putting flour Tortillas in my resupply boxes does anybody know if they will hold up for 4 or 5 months?
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Tortillas - Pacific Crest Trail
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#2
You can buy them along the way nearly everywhere. Lots of Latino population along the PCT. If you need a bread product in a box in a remote place, look at Wasa crackers.
Tortillas are made with fat, either lard or vegetable shortening, which is why they taste so good on the trail. Lard will definitely go rancid sitting in a box that long. Shortening probably will. I’ve heard of them lasting up to one month, but I’ve never heard of anyone trying more than that.
Good luck.
Garlic
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#4
I am always eager to try a new food on the trail. What do you guys usually put in your tortillas?
Rooster
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#5
A lot of people seem to put peanut butter in them. You can also buy dehydrated refried beans online. Those have a lot of calories per ounce, too.
RickD
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#7
If you can afford it, Nutella is amaaaazing. I don’t even worry about the weight of the jar, as on a thruhike I can just sit down and eat the whole thing, tortillas or not. Yummmmm.
Also, Bob Peoples (of the AT) suggested this mondo tortilla wrap once: peanut butter, marshmallow fluff, jam, and nutella all rolled up. Sticky, caloric, a little wierd, and great.
Doodle
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#8
In a freezer bag - dried refried beans, instant rice, dried onion, red pepper flakes, chili powder, cumin. Add either hot or cold water, let soak until rice is tender (takes about 30 minutes for cold water). Spoon on torillas, add packet of picante sauce and cheese if you have it.
Turtle Walking
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#10
I watched with seething envy as someone put tuna and cheese in their tortilla. I could not choke down my peanut butter and tortillas. Even with jelly it was too dry.
Piper
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#12
Cheese, unless it’s going to be stinking hot for many days. Then I’ll use peanut butter. Once in a while tuna, but I don’t like to carry the trash.
Garlic
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#13
You can vacuum seal tortillas and have them last many months in a drop box as long as they are not left in the hot sun. Make sure that you put a piece of butcher’s paper or waxed paper between them or you will have a blob of dough when you open them.
I did this for my JMT drop ships that were sent out a month plus before I got to them.
They were still fresh and had no mold.
As an experiment, I vacuum sealed them and stored them in my closet at home for 3 months and they were fine. Of course your mileage may vary and do at your own risk.
OregonBeerMan
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#15
Whole grain flat wraps available at Costco and probably other places come in 6 to a pack and do not seem to need refrigeration - healthy too and tasty. Packs opened and repacked in smaller amounts seemed ok on the AT last year for a couple months in the fall but were getting kind of dry by the end of that time but keeping them in resupply boxes in unopened 6 per package did not have that problem. I used to always use crackers but now like a bit of variety and the flat wraps taste good with peanut butter and jam.
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