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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.
 
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
 
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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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.
 
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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...
 
Besides gorp and bars, I/we tend to bring an assortment of dried fruit (Trader Joe's!) like mango, chile-spiced pineapple, cherries, mandarin orange slices, etc.

We also always bring a very dry salami and some parmesan cheese, both of which will easily last a couple of weeks, and if it was not hot I'd do longer without worrying. Some years we've brought biltong instead of salami, and that was good too.

Finally, the secret weapon to mix up the lunch menu....shore lunch. Walleye, Pike, Lake Trout...worth a two-hour mid-day timeout to get a fire going and eat like kings. Then an afternoon coffee and finish the day's paddling.
 
may you have a look to this ...

High-calorie meals for seniors


 
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