food

Instant pudding: win

September 3, 2009

As some of you may know, getting enough calories on the trail is very important. I told someone recently that now food is more like firewood to me, and I don’t care about the taste very much. One way backpackers judge which foods to bring is by caloric density–the ratio of weight to calories. My [...]

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Portrait of my life on the trail

September 2, 2009

My life on the trail: a lot of Ramein, peanut butter, wet boots, wet socks, graham crackers, and hairy legs.

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No one’s in the kitchen with Dina

August 31, 2009

I’ve decided to go no cook, which is to say that I have decided that my trail life should match my home life. No cook hikers don’t bring stoves and subsist largely on powerbars and poptarts. You can end up carrying more weight than other people because you don’t have the freeze dried dinners. But [...]

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Mountain House freeze dried dinners: win

August 22, 2009

Mango Mamma brought some freeze dried meals with her for our trip in Maine, and I have to say they won me over from being a skeptic. Normally, I hate to cook, in part because the most options for cooking are too much food for me and in part because I am lazy, but these [...]

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Planning food

May 20, 2009

I’ve just finished reading The Appalachian Trail Food Planner. It’s a helpful little book with instructions on how to plan your food for the trail. Most people either have their friends send them food or they use a bounce box. A bounce box is a package filled with extra supplies, like food, batteries, undies, that a hiker sends to herself in one town, where she takes what she needs and then sends the remaining supplies to the next town. It’s a great way to avoid carrying too much weight.

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