| Weight is always a concern with
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| | body needs for energy, and you keep it
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| backpacking food you'll be carrying
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| | light. I usually plan for about 3000
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| everything on your back. Some will tell
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| | calories a day. This isn't quite enough
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| you to find your weight savings in other
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| | (I'm 6'3", 160 pounds), so I'll lose a
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| areas, and argue for the necessity of
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| | pound or two on a weekend trip.
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| healthy, meaning heavy, food. My
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| | Bringing high-calorie foods like mixed
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| experience, however, tells me that we can
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| | nuts (2700/pound) and tortilla chips
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| enjoy lighter loads and worry less about
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| | (2100/pound), I can get by with about 20
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| healthy food on short trips.
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| | ounces of food per day. For a four day
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| In the Sierra Nevada I ate more than 60
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| | trip I'll carry around 5 pounds. Eat a
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| granola bars in five days with no ill
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| | big meal before you go, and you can carry
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| effects. No stove meant a lighter pack,
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| | less food (although you'll carry it
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| and it was very convenient to not cook.
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| | inside you anyhow). You can cut weight if
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| Of course, I usually supplement my
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| | you know which berries to eat along the
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| backpacking diet with berries and other
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| | trail. I've eaten an entire meal of
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| wild foods, so it probably wasn't all
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| | rasberries during one break while hiking
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| that unhealthy.
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| | in Colorado.
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| Different Foods For Different Backpackers
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| | Healthy Backpacking Food
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| Each of us is unique. I don't suffer when
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| | For a healthier trip, try this: Eat a
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| I have no cooked meals, but you may.
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| | large salad right before you leave, and
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| There isn't a one-size-fits-all solution
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| | right after you get back. If you also eat
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| to the backpacking food question. You
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| | berries and herbs along the way, you can
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| have to balance the weight/health/taste
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| | concentrate on bringing only light
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| cost issues in your own way. Consider the
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| | backpacking food, and your health won't
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| following points, though, in making your
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| | suffer.
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| choices.
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| | A more obvious alternative is to spend
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| The lightest food is that which has the
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| | some money. Enough money, and you can
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| most calories per ounce. Pure fat wins
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| | feast on nutrition-packed, calorie-rich
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| the contest (oils), followed by high-fat
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| | foods the whole time you are hiking. Try
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| foods (nuts), low moisture carbohydrates
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| | bee pollen, spirolina, raw nuts and
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| (granola bars), proteins (beef jerky),
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| | seeds, molasses, dried papaya - I could
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| and then bread, fruit, veggies, etc.
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| | go on, but you get the idea.
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| Nuts, for example, because of their fat
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| | Finally, don't forget the freeze-dried
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| content, have 50% more calories per pound
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| | meals and other traditional backpacking
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| than pure sugar.
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| | foods. They are not necessasrily healthy,
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| Look at the lables. Choose foods you
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| | and can be very expensive, but they sure
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| like, but choose the ones that are higher
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| | are convenient and tasty. You can always
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| in calories for their weight. In that
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| | pack ramen noodles if you want cheap
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| way, you get what you want, what your
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| | food.
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