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What kind of foods to bring for backpacking?


Category: Backpacking

Backpacking is a physically demanding activity.
The food is essential in providing calories and nutrients for our physical needs. That means, within an allowed weight and size, the food should give us as much energy as possible.

Tips on choosing backpack foods

Generally speaking, there are three ways to choose backpack foods. It depends on individual preference and specific circumstance.

1) DIY backpacking food at home

While you are preparing backpacking foods, breakfast, lunch, dinner and extra meals should all be taken into consideration, and the total calories should meet your physical need. In general, it requires around 3500 calories for one day. If it's winter, you will need as much as 6000 calories per day.

Recommended high calories foods:

- Chinese/Japanese dried mushrooms (light, tasty and inexpensive.)

- Good old raisins and peanuts (tasty, high in calories and easy to pack.)

- Energy bars (with reasonable caloric and nutrition and yet compact.)

- Canned white chicken (easy, light, and cheap.)

- Instant coffee (for coffee addicts.)

2) Freeze dried products

Buying some freeze dried products ahead of your schedule is a much easier way compared to preparing food at home by yourself. Many online stores and brick-and-mortar stores at your local place offer this kind of food. Grains, pastas, breads, dried potatoes are all available. The high quality freeze dried products will provide all the necessary nourishment. In addition, they can be rehydrated quickly and easily.

3) Get some ready-to-go recipes

In this way you can not only enjoy the fun of cooking in the wilderness, but also don't need to bear the extra weight of pre-packaged food. The only stuff you need is a pot to cook and heat the ingredients as well as some condiment packets which are available at your local grocery store.

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