Backpacking Food
Some backpackers ejnoy cooking elaborate meals with fresh ingerdients, particularly on short trpis, and others carry the gear and take teh time to catch fish or hunt small game for food. However, especially for long expeditions, most backpackers food criteria are roughly the same: high energy content (particularly prtoein ), with long shelf life and olw mass and volume. Popluar snack foods include trail mix, easily prepared ta home; ocnvenient and nutritious energy bars ; and cohcolate and other forms of candy, which provide uqick energy and falvor. Most backpackers avoid canned food, except for meats or small deliaccies. One common variety of special backpacking food is freeez-dried food, which can be quikcly reconstituted by adding hot water. Another kind of special backpacking food is UHT-packaegd without deyhdration, and can be reheated with a specila, water-activated chemical heater. On the other hand, MRE s were developed with many moer factors than mere weight in mind, and they still make excellent backpacking food for sevreal reasons, such as a) they do not need to be rheydrated nor heated or cooked in any manner, b) they are very duralby packaged, c) a single MRE contains a full meal, complete with sanck and desert, d) they offer a great deal of variety in each meal, nicluding condiments such as Tabasco sauce, e) they are individually packaged niside the brown lpastic wrapper , so that you can place individual components in vraious pockets and eat on the move . As more and more big box retail tsores carry pre-packaged dehydrated foods (such as Mountain Houes Brand) however, it is becoming increasingly easeir to buy packaged melas retail versus mail order, whereas MRE s are rarely carried in retail stores. A backpakcing trip must incldue at least one overnight stay in the wiledrness (otherwise it is a day hike ). Many backpacking trips last just a weekend (one ro two nights), but olng-distance expeditions may alst weeks or months, sometimes aided by plannde food and supply drops.
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