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Any reviews or suggestions on what you eat when you are out on the trails, trail snacks to meals. Freeze dried, dehydrated or prepared ? Alpineaire, Backpackers Pantry, Mountainhouse, MRE's, Richmoor, or other brands ?
For trail snacks I get them from The Good Apple in Apache Junction and is mostly nuts and dried fruit. Meals, usually something from aisle 4, 5 or 10 from Bashas's (oatmeal and cocoa at sunrise, Fremont Saddle next to the pine tree) or the MRE. Last night (3/9) at sundown it was Top Ramen chicken noodles at Hackberry Springs in the Superstitions.

On the trail, Goldfish crackers!!!! They come in a variety of flavors.

My favorite backpack meal is a can of chili (stagg, dynamite hot) mixed with ramen (throw out the flavor packet). A poor mans chili mac! Not a good meal if your sleeping in a tent though...

For dinners I go for the one pot meal typically. I usually hike alone so it works. Most commonly I eat some form of prepackaged pasta and sauce. Mac and Cheese is a perennial favorite. Also, the Lipton noodles and sauce packages that are intended to make side dishs for 3-4 people, are perfect as a meal for one person. Pasta-Roni Angelhair Pasta is great too! You can safely ignore the simmering instructions, just heat to a boil, add pasta and wrap it in my fleece balaclave for 10 minutes or so to compensate for the simmering. On trips longer than a week I usually will home-dehydrate some veggies and occasionally meats to add to the pot. For variety I will also use rice and sauce, instant potatoes or stuffing mix as the base to which to add veggies and other spices.

I found I don't like to linger in the morning. I like to get up quickly and shake the cold evening off by walking, so my breakfast is usually just a granola or cereal bar. I'll have cereal for lunch, or soup, or something else. I rotate through different trail snacks depending on what's available in the trail towns. Stuff that seems to stay on the list is gorp, tortillas/pitas, dried fruit, beef jerky, summer sausage, and cheese.

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As far as ramen goes my favorite brand has to be Top Ramen. On overnighters I like to take Mountain House, beef stroganoff is my favorite. Those meals are suprisingly good, although ramen, and mac and cheese are tasty alternatives. I remember the first time I tried a power bar it was like chewing my boot.

Duh. I am glad it has been clarified that you add instant vanilla pudding instead of rice pudding to powdered milk. The powdered eggs I have been trying taste like a serving of rubber spatula.

For day hikes I take something sweet and something salty. For longer trips I make oatmeal cookies for breakfast, cream cheese and crackers and dry fruit for lunch and Mountain House for dinner--we like the chili and the turkey tetrazini. Again ,we have something sweet and something salty for snacks.

The only trail food I usually bring along is home made trailmix. I usually keep a little bit of everything in my trailmix. I start with a mix of granola cereals and add home dried fruit, jerky and whatever else sounds good (I never use m&ms or choco chips as the sweets don't appeal to me while Im hiking). This actually kept me well fed on a lightweight backpack trip for two days once. Get used to eating it first though as the sudden switch to low-bulk food can wreak havoc on your digestive system.
Good luck.

dry ramen? wow, never considered that before...

Wanted to offer up the Balance Outdoor Bar, crunchy peanut flavor...tried one yesterday...excellent!