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Anonymous Fri May 22 04:53:07 2015 No.6529610 [Reply] [Original]

I'm going hiking in a few months. What are some foods high in calories and nutritional that would be easy to cook on the trail? Bonus points if they are easy to store in my bag and lightweight.

Anonymous Fri May 22 04:56:25 2015 No.6529612

Nuts and beef (or whatever other meat you have available) jerky. You can make your own jerky in a variety of methods; it's not high in calories but it is very light and protein dense. As far as things to cook that are going to be relatively nutritionally dense you're probably going to be looking at things like rice and beans. Depending on how long the hike is I'd make sure to bring some salt and sugar as well in case you get into some dire situation.

Anonymous Fri May 22 05:05:23 2015 No.6529625
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>>6529612
It's going to be about a month but resupplying is super-duper easy. Rice and beans is always my first thought but I'm not sure how easy beans will be to cook to innawoods. When I make them at home I soak them for a long time first which wouldn't be possible out there. I can just make beef jerky in the oven, can't I?

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 05:37:30 2015 No.6529650 Can OP bump their own thread?

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 05:42:29 2015 No.6529654 >>6529610 MREs >>6529650 Not for fifteen minutes and never if nobody else posts

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 05:46:50 2015 No.6529660 File: 2.46 MB, 320x240, 1427037164467.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6529654 >MREs so like, snickers?

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 05:52:22 2015 No.6529662 File: 54 KB, 680x510, 1432002423562.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6529660 always have a snickers on you when you go to war

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 05:57:10 2015 No.6529668 File: 2.99 MB, 480x320, 1426320374707.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6529662

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 06:09:34 2015 No.6529674 >>6529610 Make your own trail mix ahead of time. https://youtu.be/wmJ0C1fAlQE?t=7m39s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugvVvGUHajs Also, pick up some Mountain House maybe.

Anonymous Fri May 22 06:17:45 2015 No.6529682

>>6529625

same person you quoted:

yea you can make beef jerky in the oven, you essentially just cook it at a very low temperature for a long time. I have no precise cooking times or temperatures to give you because it depends on how accurate the oven is and how thinly you slice the beef, but if you just keep an eye on it until it looks more or less like beef jerky you'll be fine.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 06:52:03 2015 No.6529722 >>6529610 trail mix is called trail mix for a reason

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 06:54:02 2015 No.6529723 File: 1.88 MB, 288x288, 1430292307815.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6529722 checked

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 07:09:38 2015 No.6529738 File: 1.09 MB, 2256x1496, pemmican.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6529610

Anonymous Fri May 22 07:19:20 2015 No.6529748

>>6529682
>you can make beef jerky in the oven
i just started doing this all the time. I just get chuck roast or similar lean cheap ass beef lump. trim off the fat like your life depends on it. slice it between 1/4 and 1/8" think, put on a wire rack in a cookie sheet on your ovens lowest setting, i turn the temp slowly till it comes on. jam a wooden spoon in the oven door to hold it open a crack. bonus points if you can also supress the interior light switch. rotate the pan every two hours. mine is usually done in 4-6 hrs.

marinade advice seems to be overnight. Most internet marinades are heavy on soy sauce. which is ok, but you will end up with soy sauce jerky, its not great. i go heavy on the Worcestershire and add black and red pepper. i also have one of those tupperware quick marinade things that use a wine vaccuum pump. that shit works awesome.

>>	Airborne Ranger Infantry 88-96 !!YzkS7e9GBHQ Fri May 22 07:50:14 2015 No.6529779 >>6529610 Beer You probably think I'm joking.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 07:52:49 2015 No.6529781 >>6529779 I'd hope you were.

>>	Airborne Ranger Infantry 88-96 !!YzkS7e9GBHQ Fri May 22 08:00:43 2015 No.6529792 >>6529781 I was

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 08:02:00 2015 No.6529793 >>6529792 Okay.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 11:04:13 2015 No.6530156 File: 1.57 MB, 2808x1872, 1429989057574.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6529781 >>6529781 >>6529792 >>6529793 What's wrong with bringing beer? I was going to bring a six pack to relax/surprise friends I might meet along the trail.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 11:05:19 2015 No.6530164 Dried fruit Nuts Chocolate Maybe crackers That's basically what I subsist off of when hiking

Anonymous Fri May 22 11:07:14 2015 No.6530171

>>6530156
Beer is heavy (both the container and the beer itself) and not very nutritious. Plus alcohol innawoods is a bad idea and forbidden in a lot of parks/reserves/etc., at least in the US.
Plus imagine how bad the beer is going to taste sitting in a metal can in your pack in the sun all day.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 11:07:36 2015 No.6530173 >>6530164 I hear chocolate a lot and it confuses me. I eat chocolate as a morale thing but not nutrition. Should I suppose it's calorie heavy?

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 11:08:37 2015 No.6530177 File: 59 KB, 600x800, 1428064053658.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6530171 Obviously I was joking. I'm going to bring a little bottle of Wodka.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 11:13:51 2015 No.6530199 >>6530173 Exactly. It's filling, sustaining, inexpensive, and light. Plus it keeps spirits up. So it's basically the best hiking food.

Anonymous Fri May 22 12:42:37 2015 No.6530426

>>6529610
Hiked the Appalachian Trail last year.

Poptarts are probably the best bang for your buck. 420 calories per 2 tarts and cheap as fuck. Oatmeal is also great, cheap, and calorie dense. Make two cups of oatmeal, crumble in two poptarts and you have yourself a cheap 1100 calorie breakfast. If you have a lid on your pot, you can flip that upside down over your heating source and make pancakes with jiffy mix too.

Lunch is usually a light meal /out/side, because who really wants to cook at lunch. Peanut Butter is a great calorie dense food, plus you'll get dat dere protein you desperately need. Soft Taco shells are great, and you can spread a PB+J mixture on them for a quick and easy lunch. Another lunch idea is bagels and cream cheese. Very calories dense and the cream cheese lasts about 4 days when stored in your pack during the summer. I usually just went with tried and true power bars for lunch, but those are a little more expensive. As others said, jerky is also a great resource to snack on.

Dinner you can do many things. Ramen is a favorite for most hikers, due to being calorie dense (380 calories/package) and cheap as fuck. Rice, re-fried beans, packaged chicken/tuna/salmon (get the foil packages so you don't have to deal with cans), mashed potatoes, stuffing mix, noodles are all lightweight things to make a combination of recipes. Of course, you can literally bring anything for a night or two if you just resupplied in town and don't mind the extra weight until you get to camp for the night.

Anonymous Fri May 22 12:44:55 2015 No.6530435

>>6530426
Also, for snacking and to keep energy levels up, candy is fucking amazing throughout the day. You know those little front pouches on you hip belt? Yeah, put candy in there. Skittles, swedish fish, starburst. No need to stop hiking just snack on that shit when you feel low energy or low morale. When you're hiking 25+ miles a day, calories only matter to make sure you're getting enough.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 12:58:22 2015 No.6530472 File: 80 KB, 900x720, adamsandler.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6529738 >for men and dogs

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 13:24:52 2015 No.6530555 >>6530472 Some pemmican has raisins in it. Raisins are more deadly than chocolate for dogs.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 13:26:48 2015 No.6530559 >>6530555 >dried grapes >bad for dogs [citation needed]

Anonymous Fri May 22 13:33:49 2015 No.6530584

>>6529625
Dried lentils (variety dependent) don't generally require soaking and are every bit as nutritional as beans. I'd also suggest bringing some dried fruits/vegetables.

>>6530559
Grapes are poisonous, but the quantity of grapes you'd need to kill a dog is higher than the quantity of raisins. Either way a lot of people don't know of the dangers of those to cats and dogs and will still feed them it as a treat. There's a bunch of flyers in my vet's office about common things that are deadly to cats and dogs, including grapes.
http://www.petmd.com/dog/emergency/digestiv/e_dg_grape_raisin_toxicity

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 13:35:55 2015 No.6530589 >>6530584 http://www.petmd.com/dog/emergency/digestive/e_dg_grape_raisin_toxicity Fucked the link up.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 13:36:53 2015 No.6530591 >>6530559 fruit isn't for dogs and cats. i thought that was blindingly obvious.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 13:38:45 2015 No.6530599 >>6530584 oh man, they should give you like a pamphlet when you buy a dog i only knew onions are bad cause of Good Eats

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 13:45:30 2015 No.6530631 >>6530599 Best thing to do is stick with regular dog food or food you 100% know is okay for animal to eat.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 13:47:23 2015 No.6530638 >>6530631 This, and to do research anyway. Both on the kinds of pet food you buy so you can make sure it's of good quality, and on the kinds of things that are poisonous to them so you can be extra vigilant about keeping it away.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 23 02:35:06 2015 No.6532097 File: 628 KB, 172x192, 1429996058897.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] You guy's ever hear about Vegans putting their pets vegan diets. I find it hilarious.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 23 02:38:29 2015 No.6532104 >>6532097 >animal abuse >hilarious >>>/b/

>>	Anonymous Sat May 23 02:40:46 2015 No.6532107 >>6532097 Vegans don't generally own pets. I'm sure you've nitpicked enough info wars articles about this though

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