Need New Food

I’m starting to sort through gear and freeze dried provisions for a mid-May trip and feel like I need to shake things up for my lunches and snacks. Anyone have a secret munchable food item that doesn’t weigh a ton? I’m in a rut with gorp, jerky and powdered peanut butter. Thanks.

I’m big into homemade jerky (never gets old), I also make a variety of dehydrated fruit, and homemade fruit rolls. If weight isn’t the biggest issue, apples and mandarins.

Dehydrated strawberries are a favourite. They are kind of like taking a pinch of dip, you can suck on them for a while or chew them like gum and then to top it off for further enjoyment you get to pick the seeds out of your teeth. Rhubarb leather is also great!

Dehydrated pineapple & cranberries are both awesome.

For lunch on the float, in the boat, no time to stop, I’ll vote for mandarins & jerky. And those packets of 6 or 8 cracker sandwiches with the fake peanut butter between them. And granola bars. But if you’ve time on your hands and a cooler, there’s nothing wrong with putting out a full deli spread, either.

How lobg are you away?
What temps?
Solo or group paddle
Portaging lot/some but nasty/ none.

Are ij my mind whenni think about my food. And the rest of my gear.

New recepy for lunch/ breakfast
250 gr chickpea flour.
a TEaspoon ginger, turmeric , garlic.
2 tablespoons of koriander or mint or dunnno what is growing next to the river.

Bit of water mix to thin dough ,
Bake pancakestyle

Finish
Depending on your traveling style. I could be good

dutchlennart said:

New recepy for lunch/ breakfast
250 gr chickpea flour.
a TEaspoon ginger, turmeric , garlic.
2 tablespoons of koriander or mint or dunnno what is growing next to the river.

Bit of water mix to thin dough ,
Bake pancakestyle

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Sorry, some here are old enough to remember and smile.

I’m going with my dog. He’s not good for carrying stuff, but great at cleaning up and disposing of mistakes. I’m going with 100% freeze dried dinner meals to allow me to portage more, so weight matters. I am looking at more dried fruits. Took dried mangos last year and they were great, until they got old. Maybe a variety is in order. I looked at some yesterday and they seemed overly dry, tough. Foil chicken seems plausible, so I’m thinking burritos? Years ago, they had foil ground beef, but it seems to have disappeared. I miss my mule.

one of my go- to's are dried sausage, there's enough variety out there to go a month without repeating the same flavour, for some real variety hit an Italian deli, they literally have dozens of them from pate consistency to actual chunks of meat, a favourite is sweet capicola or mild pepperoni, but there's smoked kielbasa, various pepperonis, salamis, capicolas, and dozens of others...