When Backpacking...

[whammy]

Hey guys, figured this would be an OK place to ask this since a good number of you backpack.
When you Backpack what do you bring for food?
I want to get some good ideas that aren't those pre-portioned dehydrated meals you can pick up.
Any suggestions would be great.
Thanks

 

[Big Guy]

I make up my own dried meals. I take a 1L nalgene bottle 1/2 fill it with minute rice, add some dried soup mix. just add boiling water and you got great tasting hot rice. I like the Knorr dry veggie soup, you can also add some dried shrimp or jerky to it for a change.

 

[horshur]

depends how long your planning to be out--short trips the sky is the limit--Menno saugage--sardines--back bacon--cheese. Also depend on how you can prepare food--if fuel for stove is limited than cooking time is as well--however if you cook over a fire than pasta and rice and bannock are options.
I never have bought the prepared freeze dried stuff and have spent 10 days or so out of a pack--if you can have a fire a old scout trick of steak and onions and a few potatoes and butter wrapped in tin foil and set in coals to cook makes a dandy first meal.

 

[sandytye]

for the short trips any thing that striks your fancy. i've even taken canned ham and canns of stew. but that was near the end of the season when i was in shape.

for longer trips 7-14 ++ days i stick to oatmeal, a little trail mix and noodles. not gourmet but straight energy food that will keep you going.

try those sidekicks noodles that are packaged pritty close to induvidually. on those long trips i will even repackage those into big ziploc bags. that paper/tinfoil/plastic stuff is suprisingly heavy!!!

 

[sealhunter]

Lots of oatemal and noodles on the long trips, and rice.
I always bring some jerky too. The rice and oatmeal and noodles are light and high in carbs, can't go wrong with that.

On a short trip I take balogna, onion, bread, maybe stew. Our short trips when we;re hunting are usually the ones we clean the fridge and freezer out with. I think i was eating a moose steak from 1994 the last time I was in.

Sometimes we'll bring along a little pancake mix and fry up a grouse or a rabbit.

My main thing when going for a long time is high carb, low sodium, light to pack, preferably warm