Have you looked at this thread? 16640 in the second post shared a great resource.
http://forum.eastmans.com/showthread.php/13636-Recipes-and-food-ideas-for-10-day-Alaskan-drop-hunt
Backcountry meals
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Bonecollector
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It's only for 1 week. And based on what you sweat out hiking, you'll be fine. I assume most only eat 1 packet per day anyway and snack for breakfast and lunch. One packet is honestly not that much to consume. A few of them are close, but most are not bad.
Thats a pretty good one. Not sure why, but I never thought of buying individual dried ingredients and just mixing them myself. Pretty simple. Definitely on the same page on the organization.
I thought it was good too. I might use some parts of her ideas for general camping too, as my backpacking days are over. Now I just need to convince my wife to call me King-Man, but something tells me she is actually the ruler of that roost and his moniker is part of her shtick.
hferrin701
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Congrats on the tag, I drew another Colorado archery Mule deer hunt third year in a row now. What unit are you hunting?
Bagels, bacon and honey are spot on. High calorie per ounce foods. Other favorites of mine are peanuts (190 calories per ounce). Hersheys chocolate is another great one. I only eat one mountain house per day for dinner and I alternate the high sodium and low sodium meals. I also add an ounce of olive oil to every Mountain house for increased calories again (I believe olive oil is about 150 calories per ounce). You drink so much water up there that the high sodium isn't much of a factor anyway. My strategy is to keep my diet as similar to my daily at home diet so my body handles it well and I'm not peeing out of my butt every 2 hours. A few years ago I went in with only freeze dried stuff and I ran out of toilet paper by the third day.
ha! Yeah I hear guys saying they pack half a role or ration it out. There are ways to save weight, but skimping on tp is not something I'm willing to do. I have three rolls in my truck right now if that tells you anything. Where do you find the low sodium? The only ones I see online are regular with high sodium.
hferrin701
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None of them are truly "low sodium" but some are as low as 300mg or as high as 1000mg. Generally the more Italian mountain houses are lower sodium. With all that said though I don't worry about the sodium intake all that much. Drink a ton of water and its irrelevant. Another benefit of the water consumption is to combat the AMS. I have learned to pick lower sodium meals partly because of the taste. Some of them are so salty I cant finish it even when I'm still hungry. Good
FitToHunt
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The absolute worst thing you can do for any type of long duration exercise, or athletic performance is restrict sodium! Yes, you will need to keep your water intake high on a strenuous hunt, but that's a given either way.
You will notice a much much greater increase in fatigue, soreness, and lack of recovery from low sodium. Much more so than from even restricting calories.
All the daily values and and anti-sodium research is antiquated and debunked. Don't fear the salt!
You will notice a much much greater increase in fatigue, soreness, and lack of recovery from low sodium. Much more so than from even restricting calories.
All the daily values and and anti-sodium research is antiquated and debunked. Don't fear the salt!
I haven't had trouble with the sodium on Mountain House, but the guy I hunt with does after to much time eating it. We packed some tortillas and would split a Mountain House chicken fajita filling meal at the beginning of the midday lull sometimes then snack the rest of the day if we needed to. Evening one of the Mountain House meals that goes good with the Idahoan mashed potatoes was a favorite. The chicken and noodles are good over mashed potatoes. Here is a list I made several years back on what freeze dried meals I liked and didn't like. I eat a lot of beef at home and prefer it to chicken, but it just doesn't seem to rehydrate that great compared to chicken for me.
Mountain house meal review
GOOD
-Chicken breast w/ rib meat
-Chicken fajita filling (added some cheese and on tortillas, Great! Also would be good w/ rice)
-Chicken & noodles (darn good by itself, or a real filling meal over mashed taters.)
OK
lasagna
beef stew (good w/ extra burger)
chicken teriyaki
Macaroini & cheese was decent, noodles were a little hard. Lots of extra cheese that could be used on mashed taters or something.
Sweet & sour pork and rice best of the ones I ranked decent, good flavor pork doesn’t rehydrate as well as chicken. Beef either.
BAD
-Beef stroganoff
Backpacker’s pantry review
Fettuchini alfredo w/ chicken very good
Colorado Omlette terrible, only ate 2 bites.
Dark chocolate cheesecake ok at best. Nothing special.
Mountain house meal review
GOOD
-Chicken breast w/ rib meat
-Chicken fajita filling (added some cheese and on tortillas, Great! Also would be good w/ rice)
-Chicken & noodles (darn good by itself, or a real filling meal over mashed taters.)
OK
lasagna
beef stew (good w/ extra burger)
chicken teriyaki
Macaroini & cheese was decent, noodles were a little hard. Lots of extra cheese that could be used on mashed taters or something.
Sweet & sour pork and rice best of the ones I ranked decent, good flavor pork doesn’t rehydrate as well as chicken. Beef either.
BAD
-Beef stroganoff
Backpacker’s pantry review
Fettuchini alfredo w/ chicken very good
Colorado Omlette terrible, only ate 2 bites.
Dark chocolate cheesecake ok at best. Nothing special.
Ironically I was just looking at my list this morning for bow trip in a few weeks.
My daily food list for 7 days, individually packed in zip locks per day. I'm 42, 6 ft, 185# so your mileage may vary....
Breakfast:
Instant Starbucks coffee x 2
Oatmeal x 1
Pop Tarts....yes, I crumble a pop tart into the oatmeal
Snacks:
Cliff Bar
Protein Bar
Fig Newton Pack
Trail Mix (1/2 cup)
Lunch:
Salami (8 slices vacuum sealed)
Flour Tortilla (fajita size x2)
JIF Go Peanut Butter (individual size)
Jam Packet
Mustard Packet
Dinner:
Mountain House/Alpine Air (whatever really)
Misc:
Candy Bag....hard candies, gum, mike n Ike's or whatever usually bring back most of it but raw sugar in the late afternoon sometimes helps with energy and altitude headaches which I get.
My daily food list for 7 days, individually packed in zip locks per day. I'm 42, 6 ft, 185# so your mileage may vary....
Breakfast:
Instant Starbucks coffee x 2
Oatmeal x 1
Pop Tarts....yes, I crumble a pop tart into the oatmeal
Snacks:
Cliff Bar
Protein Bar
Fig Newton Pack
Trail Mix (1/2 cup)
Lunch:
Salami (8 slices vacuum sealed)
Flour Tortilla (fajita size x2)
JIF Go Peanut Butter (individual size)
Jam Packet
Mustard Packet
Dinner:
Mountain House/Alpine Air (whatever really)
Misc:
Candy Bag....hard candies, gum, mike n Ike's or whatever usually bring back most of it but raw sugar in the late afternoon sometimes helps with energy and altitude headaches which I get.