[Slugman]

I could live with that.

[polesneeded]

My husband and I were two of the many backpackers you met as you left Enchanted Valley...Really enjoyed your trip report and pictures! Thanks for posting them.

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[Eeyore]

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thx much! great food for thought we get our carbs in the morn with grape nuts our protein/carbs at lunch with cheese and crackers and the rest with a balanced meal at nite .. i repackage cup o' meals in quart freezer bags for each of us .. add 1 cup of boiling h2o and eat right out of the bag .. while there's the bag to carry back out .. this requires no clean up so it's a fast and ez meal

[Eeyore]

I have been drinking a pint of instant breakfast with Nido in the morning, a PB&J or Spam sandwich for 1st lunch, meat, cheese & wheat thins for second lunch, and granola, nuts, dried fruit, and small candy bars in between times. I have a belly bag full of snacks and take a bit every half hour or so. Seems like I eat pretty much all the time.

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thx again .. the instant breakfast is a great idea .. getting tired of grape nuts (and erin's breakfast cookies) .. even though these are the only things that sustain us to lunchtime .. do you find the IB with Nido keeps you going? i should've mentioned that we do have our favorite snacks along too .. robert likes m&ms ... i like salty -- sunflower seed, pretzels .. or occasionally trail mix (but that's pretty heavy) o and dessert for after dinner .. hot cocoa if it's a cold forecast .. and a couple of cookies

[Eeyore]

A pint of Nido and Instant Breakfast has nearly 600 calories. I have been eating a small breakfast bar with it because I fell the need to crunch something, although I do not think it is necessary. I carry a couple of quart sized Gatorade bottles with me. In the morning I drink one (filled with water) down to half way, dump a pre-made baggy of powder into it, shake a moment, and start drinking. I can be tearing down camp at the same time and there is no cleanup required. Just add a little water to the bottle, shake and drink and then refill for the trail. I eat some cookies prior to bed as well. Good little treat.

[AlpineRose]

Good food discussion. I will forward to a friend who is struggling with finding backpacking foods he likes. Three comments: As long as your coffee doesn't have to be hot, Starbuck's VIA dissolves in cold water. Some types of tuna have high mercury levels. Should be eaten rarely and with caution. Probably not at all by children. Am I the only one who really likes Clif bars?

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another meal i forgot .. we find crackers and cheese gets old fast .. so sometimes i will take 6 whole wheat floor tortillas, 3/4 c dehydrated black beans in a freezer bag, paks of salsa i get at taco bell, a pack of tuna, and 1 cup of uncle bens quick cook rice in a baggie ... i add a 1 cup or less boiled h2o to the rice and beans and let them sit for 5 mins .. then make up a batch of wraps .. enough for dinner that night and lunch the next day .. this is a luxury meal (being heavy) .. so we usually consume it early on to shed the weight .. recently we did a backpack in the sw where we had to carry in all our h2o .. this is when i really started rethinking about what you really need cause we had to conserve water .. on our last trip we took only the rice and tuna for dinner (with paks of soy sauce) .. mixed them together in individual freezer bags, added the hot h2o to each and ate right out of the bags as usual .. again, fast ez and no clean up we never cook in our titanium pot .. only boil water alpinerose ... of course we know about tuna ... we might eat it once a month ... if that; we drink VIA ... but didn't know about cold water imo all those bars taste the same

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[kite]

packitgourmet has several meals that are cold prep

[Eeyore]