$15 laxatives

I'll be thru-hiking come March until the end of Spring.

I cannot eat this dehydrated shit. It fricks with my stomach and gives me furious bum wee.

I'm looking for alternatives, and I don't care about weight. Whether it's rice, beans etc. The cheaper the better.

Share food recommendations and recipe ideas.

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >thruhiking
    >I don’t care about weight
    You will.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Weight of my gear? Yes. Pack weight of food that doesn't make me soil my pantaloons? No.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        You're not a real thruhiker unless you just piss and shit as you hike and then rinse everything out every time you pass some water.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      lmao just get stronger

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >t. never been PrepHole for more than 48 hours

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Why not do both?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Wasn't really expecting this

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            The picture that destroyed PrepHole. A majority of the board is dead set against:
            >trail runners
            >HMG pack
            >trekking poles
            >actually going outside
            >thruhiking

            But he checks a bunch of stuff off of the PrepHole poser meme checklist. These are things PrepHolegays only day dream about, or hold in very high regard.
            >was in the military
            >former forest firefighter
            >huge legs, “just get stronger”

            Didn’t know he was a maladapted social excluded and isolated reject like Anon posted. Basically this guy should be our guy.

            I'm pretty impressed with how he's framed what he wrote. Most people would be lacing it with mental health buzzwords like 'trauma' and chasing clout. But it reads like he's just making peace with who he really is.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          The picture that destroyed PrepHole. A majority of the board is dead set against:
          >trail runners
          >HMG pack
          >trekking poles
          >actually going outside
          >thruhiking

          But he checks a bunch of stuff off of the PrepHole poser meme checklist. These are things PrepHolegays only day dream about, or hold in very high regard.
          >was in the military
          >former forest firefighter
          >huge legs, “just get stronger”

          Didn’t know he was a maladapted social excluded and isolated reject like Anon posted. Basically this guy should be our guy.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            A majority of the board is dead set against:
            >e-celebrities
            >hero worshiping

            FIFY

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Most people on thru hikes don’t have time or the inclination to actually cook food at the end of a day of hiking. Food weight matters, as does fuel. There’s also the matter of time, though that’s minor. Shelf life and packability come into play as well.

    Since you said it was a thru hike and specifically singled out freeze dried meals, I’m guessing you haven’t looked too much into what people are actually eating. They’re not eating ready made freeze dried stuff. Think of it this way: where do you generally resupply on a thru hike, and do those places sell free dried meals? Walmart is about the only exception, but generally you’ll be in a small town grocery store (or a gas station or Dollar General or something, depending on the trail and logistics).

    Pic is true for thru hiking in the US. It’s mostly junk but that’s what people are bringing. The sodium content is fairly high, but you’re not eating this while sitting on the sofa. And f you’re on a popular trail every third or fourth day you’ll be in a town and can buy actual food.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Won't pepperoni, salami etc go bad within a day or two without being refrigerated?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Dried, smoked and heavily salted sausages keep pretty well. At least for a couple of days in the heat.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        buy the stuff that's not refrigerated at the store. even look at gift packs, foods not the best tasting but they last

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        No. In fact some grocery stores don’t even stock pepperoni in a refrigerated case, but just on a regular aisle. Same with various hard sausages and summer sausage. Of course they will eventually go bad after they’re opened, some faster than others, and all depending on ambient temperature.

        Cheese is probably the worst. I bought extra sharp cheddar a few times on hikes where I had to resupply, and I could never finish the entire 8oz block before it started to look too funky (it gets soft, oily, and a little discolored). Maybe if I was going further in cooler weather it would have made sense, but it was always warm and only 4 or 5 days until resupplying.

        I never had any issues with sausage or pepperoni, even on a 7 day stretch in Alabama. Pepperoni does get kind of brittle (compared to when it’s fresh), and it sweats a little, but I’ve never had it stink or get rancid or anything. Same with summer sausage, but I’m not a big fan. The artisanal sausages and salamis you can sometimes find in larger stores hold up well too, but they’re not widely available like the pleb tier stuff.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous
      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >uses a buzzword
        >offers no alternative from experience
        See:

        Half of it is people talking about goyslop, saying he should prepare his own meals beforehand, or to cook real food. Basic nonsense from people just talking out of their asses.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        goyslop is a dumb buzzword of the national anarchist movement which is basically a moronic hybrid of anarchism and white power.

        So politically, most white supremicists will hate you and most anarchists will hate you as well. Congrats, everybody fricking hates you. Even the cashier at Whole Foods as you tell them that GMO foods are a plot by the j3w$.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Short note. If its an option and you have stomache issues, go for high fiber or wholegrain options.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      would be sick if someone made a pastebin with recipes people post here, would be much better than spamming this meme on every food related thread

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >processed garbage
      Do you want bum wee?
      Because that's how you get bum wee.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    What brands have you tried?

    Most of the normie tier stuff like Mountain House is full of junk fillers, salt, the cheapest ingredients possible. I don't know the one in your pic though.

    Anyway there are some that use much higher quality ingredients. Heathers Choice, Stowaway Gourmet, and PackIt Gourmet are ones I know. They do not give me bum wee like the cheap ones do.

    In any case if you don't want to screw around with trying just buy grocery store just add water packets like grits or oats or rice a roni or pasta salad or stove top stuffing.

    That shit is all goyslop but the marketing department and the food scientists have made sure it is the most middle of the road gastrointestinally non-challenging stuff possible. Even boomers can eat it.

    Toss in a few cans of chicken or tuna or dines and hit the fricking trail bro.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >cans
      Thanks for letting us know the totality of your experience with long distance hiking (none).

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >a few thin steel cans collectively weighing seven ounces will meaningfully affect your performance
        There are more than a few people who've thru-hiked the AT, PCT, or CDT eating nothing but canned food as a meme, LARPlet. If you were actually happy with your $15 bag of dried goyslop, you wouldn't have to cope and seethe every time anons mention eating literally anything else on the trail.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Most canned stuff isn’t even very high calorie, so not only is it heavy, it’s pretty worthless comparatively

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Why get the cans over the pouches though

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            It really depends on what's inside. Tuna is the worst waste because it's like 100kcal a can. However stuff like potted meats, spam/ham, fish in oil isn't too bad. Sausage and jerky are always gonna win out in the protein category for the most part but a couple extra grams to change up the trail diet is far from the worst thing. Sometimes it's worth your sanity, especially if you know there's a section you can get away with it.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Tuna packed in oil is 230 calories per can. That is on par with Ham wiener, which is 297 calories for a bit larger/heavier can.

              >cans
              Thanks for letting us know the totality of your experience with long distance hiking (none).

              Ha no, the can weighs very little. It isn't like these are big heavy cans from WW1. As long as the contents are all calorie providing stuff (not water like the imbecile in thinks), the weight of the can is about the same as the plastic bags all that other shit comes in.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Forgot those exist. I never consider the oil packed tuna because I can't get over the taste but would be better yes.

                [...]
                >canned tuna
                No one buys canned tuna while hiking. You know why? Because it comes in foil pouches which pack easier, don’t require a can opener, and weigh less. Pouches of tuna (rather than cans) are a thru hiking staple. How do you guys not know that?

                Correct, which is why I said canned tuna (in water) was a waste. I don't particularly like the tuna packets either to be honest though. It's protein but it the whole packet is like 80kcals and dry as hell on its own. It works to add to things but if you do the math most of the packets (including packaging) are very close in calorie density. I'd rather have a can of chicken spread or corned beef over the equiv in tuna packets personally.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >whole packet is 80 calories
                >dry
                Oh ok

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >$15 freeze dried
          Again, you’re showing that you have zero experience. You can’t easily find stuff like MH meals on a thruhike. Those are for shorter trips with no resupplying.
          >b-but people used to bring canned foods!
          LARP harder you absolute mongrel

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >m'lady

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Depends, the can itself doesn't factor in much. Calorie dense food like deenzand tuna in oil absolutely make sense while hiking. Soup not so much.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Tuna packed in oil is 230 calories per can. That is on par with Ham wiener, which is 297 calories for a bit larger/heavier can.

          [...]
          Ha no, the can weighs very little. It isn't like these are big heavy cans from WW1. As long as the contents are all calorie providing stuff (not water like the imbecile in thinks), the weight of the can is about the same as the plastic bags all that other shit comes in.

          >canned tuna
          No one buys canned tuna while hiking. You know why? Because it comes in foil pouches which pack easier, don’t require a can opener, and weigh less. Pouches of tuna (rather than cans) are a thru hiking staple. How do you guys not know that?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I don't buy it while hiking because there are no stores where I hike.

            But I do take it along on hikes, having previously bought it at a store. I refer cans because they are more durable than pouches, the weight is pretty much the same, and I already have a P38 can opener which also weighs almost nothing.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              OP is hiking from March until the end of spring.
              >just carry all of your food with you!
              The durability of tuna packets isn’t an issue, but losing your can opener could be. It doesn’t matter though because I don’t believe any of your bullshit.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Could always just buy new food

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >I don't buy it while hiking

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >he cant make chicken a la king on the PCT
          neva gunna make it

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >grits
      dont frick with grits if you have a gluten allergy, they give you instant diahrea

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    On my thru of the AT last year, I loved eating ramen bombs with spam singles.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I have the same issue. I'm based in Europe, but you should be able to get everything in a flyover land convenience store as well.

    What you need is fibre. Oatmeal is pretty rich in fibre, lightweight, cheap and easy to prepare. I eat it once a day. Dried fruit like apples, figs or plums are also great. Don't get the half dried stuff because it tends to go bad. If you buy pasta, get whole wheat pasta (smaller size cooks faster, so less fuel). Granola bars work too but often they have too much sugar for me. And whenever you are in town, got some fresh vegetables, fruit, canned lentils, beans or chickpeas.

    Minimize processed carbs like white bread, cookies, ramen, ect..

    Happy shitting, anon.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    lurk more

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >yet another photo of over-packaged, overpriced, highly processed corporate junk food filled with grease, sugar, salt, and chemical additives
      That looks more like my niece's snack stash than actual food. It's the kind of food consumed by people with limited palates who can't cook a hot dog and who eat fast and convenience foods 24/7. Since you sad bastards insist on posting this "real hiker food" rubbish on the regular, here's a blow-by-blow analysis.

      >muh sleeves of rice, beans, and spices
      Buy the rice, beans, dried chilis, spices, etc. from a Mexican market, package various blends yourself with a vacuum sealer, and save 90% of the cost, produce less packaging waste, enjoy less bulk (all this shit is designed to be shipped and retailed), and enjoy much better taste and quality. Start the beans soaking separately morning, midday, or overnight.

      >muh candy bars and power bars
      Fricking LEL. Shit filler ingredients galore. Literally hundreds of quality breakfast bar/energy bar recipes online, most are easy and easily tweaked and don't require master baking skills. Again you save a ton of money and waste, and end up with better nutrition and taste, and the same or higher calories.

      >muh Jack Link's, haha sasquatch commercial
      What kind of absolute moron can't find or make higher-quality sausage and jerky than these plastic-coated McCorporate grease and chemical preservative straws?

      >muh flavored individual packets of oatmeal
      Holy fricking shit. Buy oatmeal, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cardamom in bulk and literally just bag it yourself. Mix in some powdered milk if desired.

      >muh liquid condiment packets
      Just fricking bring dry spices and ground dried chilis. All this crying about water weight and here you are wasting it on salty ketchup, you absolute child.

      >fish, nuts
      These are cool. Still moronic and expensive purchasing and packaging choices, though.

      >Jif TO GO!
      Get or make actual peanut butter and package it yourself.

      Picrel: Baked my breakfast for the week.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >b-but I don't have time to do all that!
        Bull fricking shit. Yes, you do have time. You have time to plan your provisions, but you chose to spend that time browsing Reddit, watching TikTok, vaping, and playing mobile games. You had time to purchase and prepare them, but you spent that time shitposting on PrepHole, jerking off, browsing outdoors gear online for hours, playing Minecraft, and writing McCandless fan fiction.

        On top of consuming supermarket bargain bin junk food on the trail, you actually think it's the smart thing to do and that everyone else is dumb. I'm glad Baby Boomers ruined this planet for you, zoomers. I hope coloreds and gays show up in all your favorite PrepHole spots.

        Picrel, the pistachio marzipan cake with Genoa sponge I baked for a special someone's birthday this weekend. That reminds me: Have sex, incels.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >and writing McCandless fan fiction.
          My sides are in orbit.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >just prepare your food in advance
        Yeah, people do use food drops at post offices. The logistics are a pain in the ass, as post offices have limited hours and are often closed on the weekends. I think they changed the tile and will only hold it for 30 days now, so you’d need support.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Yeah, people do use food drops at post offices. The logistics are a pain in the ass, as post offices have limited hours and are often closed on the weekends. I think they changed the tile and will only hold it for 30 days now, so you’d need support.
          Same guy here. Thru-hiking is a different animal, and I understand that. Planning and preparing five or six months' worth of food in advance would be somewhat insane, let alone the logistics; and almost no one loves anyone enough to drive food slightly further out to them each week. You could easily plan and mail off for your first month's worth, if you're sure of where you'll be from week to week.

          Thing is, I sincerely doubt that more than a very few of the people posting these pics of junk food are thru-hikers. They're eating this shit on day hikes, weekend hikes, and week-long hikes.

          But yeah, if your goal is to teabag Katahdin, by all means eat nothing but straight salted butter, avocado oil, Slim Jims, Mars bars, gummi worms, Emergen-C, and rolled oats for all I care. A thru-hike supersedes "normal" concerns.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Did you miss the first post? It’s a thread about thru hiking food.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >Did you miss the first post? It’s a thread about thru hiking food.
              No, the thread is about $15 bags of dried food. Thread title: "$15 laxatives," then 90% of the post is just asking for alternatives. That he's thru-hiking is a relevant detail, but not the only detail.

              And regardless of what the thread is nominally about, I don't for one picosecond believe that even a single person who's ever posted a "hiking food supermarket sweep" pic in PrepHole has ever done a thru-hike. Each year, perhaps several dozen people actually complete a successful thru-hike of a major US trail, whereas millions go hiking in to lesser extents. We're talking about fractions of 1% here, and even though the proportion may be much higher here on PrepHole, it's still below 1% of us.

              So YES, you are technically correct, but also: stop being silly.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >reads the title
                >ignores the post
                pic rel

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        https://i.imgur.com/HMa5RTN.jpg

        >b-but I don't have time to do all that!
        Bull fricking shit. Yes, you do have time. You have time to plan your provisions, but you chose to spend that time browsing Reddit, watching TikTok, vaping, and playing mobile games. You had time to purchase and prepare them, but you spent that time shitposting on PrepHole, jerking off, browsing outdoors gear online for hours, playing Minecraft, and writing McCandless fan fiction.

        On top of consuming supermarket bargain bin junk food on the trail, you actually think it's the smart thing to do and that everyone else is dumb. I'm glad Baby Boomers ruined this planet for you, zoomers. I hope coloreds and gays show up in all your favorite PrepHole spots.

        Picrel, the pistachio marzipan cake with Genoa sponge I baked for a special someone's birthday this weekend. That reminds me: Have sex, incels.

        Frickin based. I’ve recently started actually reading the ingredients of the things I buy and it’s horrifying. I’d not food any more, it’s just poison aka goyslop. Why the frick does everything contain palm oil and or S O Y lecithin? If you’re lucky it may contain actual sugar but more often than not they’ve somehow managed to include an even more shit substitute for that. How did it end up like this? It’s maddening.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          yeah, its why i avoid all sugar free alternative products too (would rather drink water or tea anyways), probably has some crazy bad long term effects, reminds me of when they used lead acetate as a sweetener kek

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        A logical post. We forgot how to cook and corpos abuse us by dosing out overpriced pre-packaged bullshit.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          That post is complete garbage in the context of OP question.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >That post is complete garbage in the context of OP question.
            This is a bullshit cope. Every other thread about food on this board ends up with the very same supermarket sweep junk food pics posted all down the page, and none of the people posting them have ever done a thru-hike. But this OP claims (key word) he'll be attempting (another key word) a thru-hike, so it's totally different.

            But yeah, someone daydreaming about doing a thru-hike is getting advice about hiking food from day hikers who also only daydream about thru-hiking, so THIS time it's totally different than the last time you all posted the same pics.

            It's the context, though. Yeah, that's totally it. It's not that you know I'm right for 99.9% of hiking purposes (including the first weeks of a thru-hike) and need any excuse to soothe your seethe.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        You're an obnoxious homosexual and you should have a nice day

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        https://i.imgur.com/rWLEIrq.jpg

        do you people actually read the label you fricking 'package=bad' morons
        >"oh noes, celery salt and sodium, I will die"
        >the thing with the most actual ~~*seed oils*~~ is literally the crackers
        >~~*MREs*~~ legit have more s0 y content

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      they dont make tortilla stuffers anymore but these work if you need some meat paste from a packet

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Holy shit. I went camping last summer and bought a dehydrated shepherd's pie (threw some corn nuts in for extra crunch).
    Well the next day my stomach spent about 4 straight hours gurgling. It sounded like someone was boiling a soup if tar and tomato sauce. Thank god one of the group wanted to head into town for snacks. I grabbed a ride and had them drop me off at a gas station where I could commit my war crimes.
    First it was the fart. 2 solid minutes of warbling tremolo'd trumpet blares flapping out of my sphincter and then the three gorges dam finally broke. Had to have been an entire gallon of hot liquid turd painting the bowl with all the force of a super soaker.
    I shat enough of my innards out of that I visibly lost weight. Frick these things

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >First it was the fart. 2 solid minutes of warbling tremolo'd trumpet blares flapping out of my sphincter and then the three gorges dam finally broke.
      You're a wordsmith.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      My sides just exploded.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    you guys arent just drinking pure olive oil days on end during hikes? you know it has the best kcal/oz of any food right?

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Peanut butter.

    My family offered to pay for me to through-hike the entire AT on the condition that I film it or do some vlogger bullshit. I've been considering it, but having to film every day just sounds like a huge pain in the ass.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Get a go pro and hold your phone horizontally. Pay someone to make an epic edit

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I considered doing a chest cam thing, but honestly having to charge whatever camera every 2-3 days would be a huge pain in the ass if I just want to stay out on the trail.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    you can eat hard tack guaranteed to not give you diarrhea

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >hiking for 5 days
      >get to Smalltown, Southern USA
      >population: tiny and cozy
      >Walmart is 6 miles away
      >Piggly Wiggly is 8
      >check Walmarts website
      >they don’t sell hard tack
      >no one picks you up while hitchhiking because you’re a guy and you look and smell like absolute dog shit
      >finally get to the Piggly Wiggly
      >they don’t have hard tack either because it’s not a mid-19th century grocer reenactment
      What now?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Hey dumbass you cook it in an oven

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >gets to Walmart after 5 days of hiking
          >buys his hard tack ingredients
          >nearest available stove is his parents house, 5 states away
          Get a better plan, Friend.

          Boo hoo 5 pounds why don't you hike your pimply ass to Walmart when you need more Get some corn and fresh meat while your at it

          Holy shoi you’re right. Literally everyone who’s done a thruhike has been doing it wrong, and could have just been taking potatoes (at a solid 30 calories per ounce). Is that what you did for the long distance hikes you completed? You’re truly a visionary. Why hasn’t anyone ever thought of this? It’s remarkable in its simplicity and a genius option, as evident by your vast knowledge and experience.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            OK consider this when you eat your over salted slop and it claims 500 calories but it all slides out your ass when walking how many calories did your body uptake? And no in my long distance hikes I eat flat bread and sausage, but my point is you better be getting natural inputs not that shit american food people keep posting in infographics where you know 100% they are gonna litter that plastic all over the place.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Why are Europeans so clueless? How did this even happen?

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    all this high sodium process food ITT what you're experiencing is osmotic diarrhea. why don't you bastards hike with a dozen potatoes and a clove of garlic instead.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Because a dozen potatoes is only about 2,000 calories and weighs about 4.5lbs.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Boo hoo 5 pounds why don't you hike your pimply ass to Walmart when you need more Get some corn and fresh meat while your at it

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    DIY MREs.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Dehydrate your own food.
    Simple as.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      This. it's really not that hard. in fact you don't even need to dehydrate entire meals. Just dehydrate some ground beef or turkey and add it to macaroni or something.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I often see people recommending minute rice, but no one ever mentions how they measure it. If you’re off by just a little, your rice could be watery or not cooked. Soup and pasta don’t matter, but it’s kind of important for rice.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      no the frick it isnt

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Way to add to the conversation. Thanks.

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    How about onions? Can you functionate on this?
    https://drinkmana.com/pages/faqs

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I could give you an advice that works but I don't think you will want it, I have no faith in this board anymore I think it's just a bunch of bots, larpers and advertisers.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Based. For everything post that’s insightful there’s half a dozen that are just dumb. Differing opinions can be expected, but “lol just bring a sack of potatoes for a thru hike” is just dumb.

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Picrel. Cheap, lightweight, just need water. Its strength will depend how long you steep it. Hasn’t failed making me blast everything out of my ass yet.

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    >(no one is this moronic).
    I have bad news, friend.

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    One thing I've realised lately is that jalapeno cheddar (or any cheddar with things added like blueberries etc.) will last a LONG time while PrepHole. Just as long as it's not a hot day.

    The vegetable matter obviously remains moist and that stops the cheese from drying out. I have had a decent-sized block with me for 4 days before and it not only stayed edible but actually very enjoyable.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I don’t know anything about cheese but I do know people ate it long before air conditioning existed. Interesting about the pepper cheddar.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      excellent recommendation, thank you anon

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    photo releated this what i can recommend

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Cant you get some powdered fibre and chug some water mixed with it in?

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Lmao the tru hiker diet has already been figured out you can either bring a stove do cold soak or do no cook/no cold soak.
    Dont have time to read the whole thread

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Half of it is people talking about goyslop, saying he should prepare his own meals beforehand, or to cook real food. Basic nonsense from people just talking out of their asses.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Agreed. /our/ isn’t the best place to go for good information, even on the basics. Reddit is unironically a better place for this kind of thing.

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Get a dehydrator and make your own is all i can suggest, i do that for camping stews and snacks

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    When I did a large part of the pct I mailed myself packages to post offices/ski areas/etc. at my parents house I made individual flat rate usps boxes and loaded them with food but didn’t seal them so extra requests could be added (ie batteries, spare shoes, spare socks etc) only when I needed them. I had a schedule of when I needed the things put in the mail to get there in time (some places don’t hold mail indefinitely), which I called and modified based on my pace.
    I bought most of my food from Costco because the bulk quantities make the membership worth it.
    I ate about 8,000 calories per day and burned 10,000 (was losing 2 lbs/wk). I had a bear can I wanted my food to fit in so I needed to maximize my calories/volume AND my calories/weight. (As I recall my biggest leg between resupplies was around mt hood, 5 days, which didn’t totally fit in my bear can). I think about half my calories were candy- mostly nutty candy like snickers, peanut m&ms etc. I liked the candy-rich diet because instead of waiting 30 minutes to cook food and eat it you could literally eat the candy while walking, then sleep immediately at the end of the day. This extra 30 minutes per cooked meal is equivalent to about 1.5 miles, which can really add up over many weeks.
    Candy is the ideal mix of fat, protein, and sugar, and it’s tasty enough I never got sick of it. I ate enough regular food (jerky, gorp, rice, beans, pasta, tuna, pb&j, etc) that I wasn’t worried about micronutrients so having a nice mix of macros in candy was fine. I also augmented when I came across stores/restaurants for fresh food like ice cream, fruit, cheese, beer, etc
    I brought exactly zero freeze dried anything because it’s extremely expensive and bulky and low calorie. The highest possible calorie food is pure fat (I had olive oil that I sometimes added to everything to bring up the calories in some foods like Mac and cheese substantially).

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Also, the monotony of food *texture* is real. A game changer for me was making instant pudding- a package of instant pudding and a package of instant milk, in a ziploc bag with very cold purified stream water. Close the bag and massage it for a few minutes til it’s combined and hardens. Then cut a small corner off the side of the bag and squirt it directly into your mouth. It’s not ice cream, but the cold creamy consistency is so different from most other foods you have it will be an amazing dessert. And there’s no dishes, which is a nice plus.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Mountain House meals are generally over 100 cal/oz, and the Propaks are vacuum sealed to save on bulk. They are pretty expensive though. It’s fine for a weekend but that would really add up over time. I find them a little too salty though.

      Also, the monotony of food *texture* is real. A game changer for me was making instant pudding- a package of instant pudding and a package of instant milk, in a ziploc bag with very cold purified stream water. Close the bag and massage it for a few minutes til it’s combined and hardens. Then cut a small corner off the side of the bag and squirt it directly into your mouth. It’s not ice cream, but the cold creamy consistency is so different from most other foods you have it will be an amazing dessert. And there’s no dishes, which is a nice plus.

      I was thinking about this the other day, when I was making pudding at home. Does it mix well? What temps were you trying it in? I’m worried it may not set correctly if it’s too warm.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Although some freeze dry is denser than others it’s all pretty bad- rough approximation is “does this float”. A bag full of freeze dried food would be a good life preserver, a bag of candy not so much. I fit most of 100,000 calories in my bear can for my Pct leg near mt Hood, you’d have a very hard time getting anywhere near that with freeze dried.

        Snickers are like $.68/lb and mtn house are $2.55/lb, a pretty big difference, especially when you’re going to consume around 2.5 million calories (my mileage averaged 20 miles per day, but I started really slow because I did almost no training, but by the end was doing at least 30 miles per day in the extremely mountainous northern cascades). My consumption stayed around 8,000 calories per day the whole thing regardless of distance and elevation

        For the pudding, just put on your gloves and massage the bag for like 5 minutes. Most of the streams are snowmelt on the pct (so temps close to freezing) and even the springs are still probably around 50 degrees. I wouldn’t use warm lake water for it (but that water tastes bad anyway)

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Take lots of nuts and some freeze dries fruits rhe fiber will help u shit make sure to drink plenty of water

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    pemmican

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      See:

      https://i.imgur.com/APmMZIu.jpg

      >hiking for 5 days
      >get to Smalltown, Southern USA
      >population: tiny and cozy
      >Walmart is 6 miles away
      >Piggly Wiggly is 8
      >check Walmarts website
      >they don’t sell hard tack
      >no one picks you up while hitchhiking because you’re a guy and you look and smell like absolute dog shit
      >finally get to the Piggly Wiggly
      >they don’t have hard tack either because it’s not a mid-19th century grocer reenactment
      What now?

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Besides olive oil for pumping up the calories on savory food, I also had a large jar of peanut butter to augment sweet foods. I’d add a dab to oatmeal, spread it on clif bars, snickers bars etc.
    peanut butter is an ideal food because:
    >>it’s shelf stable
    at any temperature (won’t get gross frozen or hot)
    at even really podunk places
    >>it’s cheap
    >>it has a nice mix of all three macronutrients
    with a lightweight, strong container that’s waterproof and immune to rodents and insects

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Coucous with spam and dehydrated veggies is the bee’s knees. I lived off of that for 6 days on a pretty strenuous thru hike a couple years ago.

  29. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Trail mix clif bars tuna and peanut butter gets old so fricking fast, dont eat the same thing day after day, I cant stand the taste of limp cold tortillas anymore

    >knoors simple sides/pasta
    lods a carbs
    lods a salt
    >instant coffee
    regular tea/coffee is a pain in the ass in any backpacking and not "camping"
    and you can still dissolve instant coffee in luke warm water
    >simple greens/ some other vitamin/magnesium supplement
    avoid the lysine contingency and getting the insatiable desire to rush into a gas station and start chugging chocolate milk
    >carrots and spinach keep for 4 or so days before welting
    >so does hard cheese like cheddar
    >a sweet treat
    MREs usually have a candy in them to boost morale
    take a candy for each day
    gummy worms skittles etc
    >dehydrated veggies/mushrooms, cut up dried meat/sausage sea weed, +
    rice and some seasoning
    a less sodium filled cousin to ramen bombs
    get either instant rice or the bagged "fortified" rice, you dont have to wash those like you do with regular rice
    not very calorie dense and too many carbs can run you ragged, but it packs easy and if you have a seperate hydroflask/mini thermos you can stuff 1 cup rice, add your fixins with 2 cups boiling water in a 1 liter water bottle in the morning when youre making breakfast and you have a hot cooked meal when its lunch time, you dont have to set up your stove (then again, muh weight)
    >seasoning
    not really relevant in thru hiking
    but you put it in weekly pill containers
    badfia/adobo "complete seasoning" is teh best
    and tony chercheres
    >gatorade/propel koolaid/mio packets
    you can make snocones and they wash out the taste of iodine tablets, though no one uses those
    >powdered eggs, to add awful farts to your aloe plant/Basil BO
    ova easy is the best egg powder, but 4x more expensive than real eggs (until recently)

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Super Secret Homemade granola recipe from lakota/white earth NDN ex

    1 cup rolled oats by weight
    1 cup butter by weight
    1/4 cup sugar or brown sugar/honey
    1/4 cup sweetened condensed milk
    1/8 cup(2table spoons) Molasses or Maple Syrup
    optional
    scoop of whey protein powder
    1/8 cup bacon bits with the oatmeal
    sprinkling seasoning or nutritional yeast on it when cool

    melt butter in pot, add in condensed milk and sugar
    add in oats/powder and stir until mixed
    put into wax papered covered baking tray
    level out granola
    bake at 200F for 20min or for other elevations just pull it out immediately right when it starts to turn color
    let cool to room temp, then freeze/put in fridge over night/until stiff enough to slice into 4 oz bars, wrap in wax paper and shove 4 in a mylar food bag

    >Is it healthy?
    frick no
    but its the most calorie dense thing next to eating lard/drinking oil
    its 150 calories per oz, 600 a bar, it kicks a clif bars ass while being a fifth of the price (clif bars can frick right off and walk a cliff after getting rid of carrot cake, theres only 2 edible flavors now)
    >does it taste better than gas station food?
    eh, at least its not pemmican
    its inoffensive/non-tiring, easy to chew even in december and tastes good, you can shovel down 600 calories in mere seconds with 0 fricking around with starting a fire/jetboil, 2 bars gives you almost the same calories of an entire whole ass MRE, this is good after a day of hiking when you sometimes get weird "im not hungry" moods and can end up not eating at all, going to bed hungry is fine when its warm, but its a no no where its cold
    >is it shelf stable
    in MN where its -20F/-28C plus winchill even in the city, yeah
    in a hot/humid backpack, idk???? itd definitely smell bad if its gone bad

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      1 cup of minute rice
      1 bouillon cube
      3oz dry chorizo sausage
      1oz sun dried tomatoes

      Pros:
      Pretty tasty. Has good calorie density and balanced macros. Doesn’t need a lot of water (8oz). Tomatoes are probably healthy but I don’t know.

      Cons: a little prep work with cutting sausage and tearing tomatoes. Taste better with a little Italian seasoning and tomato powder rather than sun dried. Have to be careful with rice to water ratio. Sausage isn’t as common as the rest of the ingredients.

      >bake at 200F for 20min
      Another guy who hikes with an oven.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Another guy who hikes with an oven.

        It should be obvious that he bakes it before setting out on the trail

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Read the OP instead of just looking at the picture.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            What's stopping him from having someone mail it to different locations along his route? You know that people who hike the entire AT don't carry peanut butter and summer sausages with them the entire way, right?

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              You know small town post offices close at like 3pm, right? You know they’re not open on the weekends, right? You know that packages get lost all the time or arrive late, right? You know that logistics are never in your favor, right? You know they only hold packages for 30 days, right? You know the trail doesn’t pass right in front of the lobby, right?

              Most people don’t use mail drops because they’re a huge pain in the ass. It’s how I know you’re just blabbing about things you’ve never done.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Somehow the AT thru-hikers I talked to last year made it work for them. But hey, some random know-it-all posting on PrepHole from his mother's basement knows better than an actual thru-hiking couple who hiked from Georgia to Maine.

                You know there are other places where you can ship packages, right? Many businesses that accept packages are open 7 days week.

                Also, you also know that you don't have to get 100% of your food that way, right? Pre-preparing your food supply is just another option that has its benefits over always buying crap like

                https://i.imgur.com/rWLEIrq.jpg

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >I talked to a guy
                It would have been impossible on my Pinhoti hike, but whatever. I’m just posting from my moms basement, which makes me less knowledgeable than someone who talked to some people.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Also:
              >1 cup by weight
              You’ve never actually made this, have you?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                its 1lb oats to 1lb butter
                I cut it in half to make it easier for people to scale

  31. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I did not see anyone mention soup mixes. For example, Bear Creek Country Kitchens has a nice selection of soup mixes. The directions tell you to bring 8 cups of water to a rolling boil and mix in the soup mix.
    The soup mix is packaged in Mylar bags and the Cheddar potato one I am looking at has 8 servings with 180 calories per serving.
    Water availabilty is not a concern in most of Appalachia so I do not even have to carry much water.
    Bear Creek Country Kitchens is not freeze dried and is inexpensive especially when you are comparing to freeze dried items.
    I do not understand why people have not suggested soup mixes.
    Thank you. I am truly blessed to be in my Appalachian hideaway and wish the best for you all..

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I didn’t think people liked them, mostly because no one talks about them. They be taken them on weekend trips, pre-measured and in quart ziplocks. The directions said to simmer for 8 minutes but really I just mix, slowly bring to a boil, boil for a minute, then let it sit long enough to cook off so I can eat it.

      I think the cheddar broccoli pairs well with tuna but I’m a weirdo.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Thank you for your insight.
        I enjoy building a fire and cooking outside but I thought maybe the soup mixes were more hassle than what many people want to go through.

  32. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Just bring cans of baked beans. That and peanut butter have gotten me through some long hikes.

  33. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    OP here.

    I appreciate the constructive posts. Work has been demanding, but I'm looking forward to quitting in March.

    I'll get back to you anons tonight.

  34. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    i dont get why hikers love eating food that has almost no nutritional value. you could cut up some boiled eggs eggs or make some jerky

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Define nutritional value. It just sounds like a buzz rod. People who actually go hiking (ie, not you) worry manly about caloric density, with macros being a close second. And even then the macro balance will lean heavily toward carbs for immediate energy.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        nutritional value; such as having adequate amino acid content, bioavailable micro nutrients, and of course high calorie density. a high fat intake is superior since the short bursts of energy from carbs is not worth the eventual crash you'll have later. i can go a long time on a higher fat and protein intake relative to carbs. not to say carbs are bad or anything. but they should be a side to what really matters

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Carbs aren't an essential part of anybody's diet.

  35. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I'm at the point where I just make my own good meals at home and then freeze dry them myself. I can be a little more selective with the ingredients. For hiking food I don't worry about it being shelf stable for 25 years, so I can focus on flavor.

  36. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Just make pemmican

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