Trail Food

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Trail Food
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Car Camping (surfing, climbing)

• Breakfast backpacking stove food
• Lunch backpacking type
• Dinner individual foil cooking over open fire
• Scout Advancement
• Tenderfoot (help prepare meal)
• 2nd class (cook over backpacking stove, cook over
  open fire, make fire)
• 1st class (plan a menu for a day and lead the
  cooking)

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Dutch Oven

• Cook time 30min to hours
• Fuel charcoal briquette
• Stews, meats, desserts
• Inexpensive brands of pots are fine
• Good for car camping, especially for cold weather

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Foil Cooking

• Everyone makes own meal
• Cook time 20 min
• Fuel wood coals or charcoal
• Great for 2nd class cook over an open fire
• Great for last meal before a long term backpack

2 kinds of meat (5 scouts/lb) 5 kinds of veggies
(5 scouts/lb) 3 kinds of condiments 2 kinds of
spices Salt / pepper Optional tortillas, bread,
raw garlic, onions
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Philmont Triangle
Wheres the bathroom ??
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Bear Canisters

• Required in Most Areas of the Sierras
• Designed to Hold Food for a Week
• Worth Their Weight in Food
• Never Lend a Bear a Quarter

2.75 lbs 614 in3 (10,000 ml)
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Backpacking Rules of Thumb

• Bring what scouts (and leaders) will eat
• Practice on training hikes and KEEP SCORE
• Fit the trip
• Cooking, eating, and clean-up Speed
• Size
• Water
• Taste
• Perishable
• Durability
• Energy
• Stove and cook kit type

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Food types stores

• What to EAT ??
• Fresh Fruits Vegetables
• Canned
• Retort
• Dry
• Freeze-Dried
• Dehydrated

• Where to Buy IT
• Ralphs
• Costco
• Trader Joes
• REI
• web

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Breakfast
Meals
Lunch

• Cook eat in dark and cold
• Lots of Non-Suger carbs to last until lunch
• Warm food OR drink
• Some sugar to start day
• Not too much fats

• Usually non cooked
• Be sure to include enough calories
• Some fats, sugars

Dinner
Snacks

• Start with soup
• Dessert on about 1/2 dinners
• Hot drinks
• Eat and clean up in dark

• High Fats Sugars

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Breakfast

• Packaged oatmeal
• (maple and brown sugar, strawberries cream)
• Breakfast burritos
• (tortillas, REI eggs, taco bell sauce)
• Eggs Hash Browns
• (REI eggs, REI or Smart Final hash browns, taco
  bell sauce)
• Pancakes and Syrup
• (from Ralphs, takes 3 hours, great on layover
  days)

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Lunch

• Salami String Cheese
• (non Nitrate Salami at trader joes)
• Peanut Butter Jelly on crackers
• (jar of PB squeeze tube of Jelly, strong
  crackers)
• Tuna Cheese Crackers
• (7 oz bag of tuna, cheese in wax, strong
  crackers)
• Cook dinner type meal (eat trail lunch at night)

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Dinner

• Tortilla Soup, Spaghetti, Garlic Bread
• Bear creek minestrone soup handful of TJs
  tortellini's, REI Spaghetti, French rolls,
  butter, garlic seasoning
• Tacos
• Frozen hamburger or dried taco tofu, tortillas,
  fresh grated cheese, taco bell sauce, fresh onion
• Traditional
• Top Raman REI (mountain house) bag food
• Thanksgiving dinner
• Can turkey, bag of stuffing mix, cranberries, in
  single pot, add gravy to suit

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Snacks, Dessert, Drinks

• Trail Snacks
• Payday, Tootsie rolls, Starburst candy bars
• Dried fruit from TJs (pineapple circles, apples,
  etc)
• Trail Mix from TJs, Ralphs, Costco
• Jerkey
• Drinks
• Gator Aid, Kool Aid, Tang, powder mix
• Cocco, Spiced Apple Cider, Coffee (bags, brewed,
  french press)
• Desserts
• Instant Pudding, Oreos, Rasberry Crumble
  (Mountain House), Chocolate Bar

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Efficiency
Energy
Cal
Energy Efficiency
Weight
Oz
Table source Mountaineering The Freedom of the
Hills, 7th ed
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How much food do you need ?
Hard hiking day Winter
4000
100cal/oz
150 cal/oz
75 cal/oz
3000
Hard hiking day
Calories
2000
Easy hiking day
1000
8 oz 16oz 24oz 32oz 40oz
Weight
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Rookie Lessions Learned

• 1. Carrying more food than you need.
• 2. Not planning all your meals.
• 3. Carrying food in original packaging instead of
  repacking in lighter zip top plastic bags that
  compress easily or can be used to store trash.
• 4. Taking junk foods that have little or no food
  value along.
• 5. Packing canned drinks. You will have to carry
  the empty can around after your done.
• 6. Putting a loaf of Wonder Bread in your
  backpack.
• 7. Thinking Bear Canisters are only to keep bears
  away from your food.
• 8. Trying to carry all the water you will need on
  a trip.
• 9. Not knowing how long it will take to cook each
  meal.
• 10. Wasting fuel by letting the water boil too
  long.
• 11. Not making sure some morning meals are quick.
• 12. Not testing meals with your scouts on a short
  outing or at Camporee.
• Purchasing a heavy mess kit when all you really
  need is a plastic cup, bowl and spoon. Remember
  you are already carrying a knife in your ten
  essentials.
• Drinking directly from a stream or lake.

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