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Posted by WildeGeek on April 19, 2008 at 4:42:17 pm EDT
In reply to Ultralight backpacking...good foods to take? posted by gsdavis on April 13, 2008 at 10:05:07 pm EDT

Favorite lunch: Whole grain "Ezekiel Bread" tortillas, raw fresh-ground peanut butter from a tube, and dehydrated banana leather (jerky?) strips. Roll-em up, chomp while hiking.

I second the "olive-oil-in-almost-everything" advice. It never hurts to add it to whatever you're cooking.

Todd22, the advisability of foraging depends on where you're going. In the highly populated and impacted national parks and forests in California, any kind of foraging is illegal, because it reduces the food supply for the animals who live there full time.

second gear, I've found that dehydrating anything high-fat doesn't keep very long. I sent ahead some home-made jerky, which I made at home and really loved, in a vacuum-packed bag in a resupply on the JMT. After going through the mail system, it sat around for several weeks before I got to it. By then, the fat had gone rancid and I got sick for over a day from it.

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