The food on my last 3-day section hike was so boring I thought I’d gag on the last day of my trip. I was lazy and brought along the same food for several days.

So this week, I’ve worked out 4-day freezer bag backpacking menu for my next hike that has an enormous amount of variety and very little repetition. In addition, I’ve created a menu that is lightweight and quite calorically dense, at 109 calories for every 1 oz. of food weight.  In general, anthing above 100 calories per oz. is great.

Here’s my menu, broken out my meal and by day. Can you think of any other foods I should try on future hikes? 

Day Item Grams (g) Calories
       
  Breakfast (cold)    
1 Organic Pop Tarts 104 420
2 Fruit & Nut Granola 90 420
3 TJ’s Granola Snack Clusters 114 580
4 TJ’s Granola Snack Clusters 114 580
  Lunch    
1 Ritz Crackers and Gouda Cheese 199 670
2 Ritz Crackers and Gouda Cheese 199 670
3 Whole Wheat Crackers and Honey Almond Butter 139 680
4 Ritz Crackers, Tuna in Olive Oil 251 675
  Dinner (hot)    
1 Annie’s Microwave Mac & Cheese 244 920
2 Refried Beans and Tortilla Chips 238 1010
3 Potato Leak Soup and Chorizo Sausage 256 970
  Snacks    
1 Dried apricots 120 270
1 Walnut halves 60 400
1 Snickers bar 59 280
2 Smokehouse almonds 56 340
2 Cheese-its 90 480
2 TJ’s Spicey Buffalo Jerkey 92 190
3 TJ’s Candied Crystallized Ginger 84 300
3 TJ’s Chili Spiced Mango 90 330
3 TY’s Flattened Dried Bananas 80 360
4 TJ’s Australian Licorice 120 360
4 TJ’s Dried Mango Slices 114 360
4 TJ’s Trek Trail Mix 86 420
       
  total 6.69 lbs. 11,685 cal.

 

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