Pack Snacks

[WapitiTalk1]

As a follow up to the main meal thread, whaddya you cats carry for your pack snacks for the day?  I pre-pack all my daily snacks (including an Erin Baker Bfast cookie) in a quart zip lock before season and just throw one in my pack each night for the next day's hunt.  Probably gonna try some new stuff this year but last year I carried a combination of the following in the zip lock:   

MRE style bread with Jif to go PB packet and Honey or Jelly packets X 2, or, Tuna Creations packet
Plastic spoon to spread gunk on bread
Three (one of each) Luna bar, Honey Stinger, Sweet and Salty granola bar (the luna bars were getting pretty old by the end of SEPT)
A few packs of snack crackers (cheese, PB, etc.) and/or cookies
Six or seven little snickers bars

Whaddya you guys carry for your day snacks in your pack?

Here's my basic load to cover all my hunts for last season.   

[quadrafire]

Looks like you are on an eating trip, not a hunting trip 

I'm good with a snickers and some Jerky, maybe a bit of trail mix

[Jonathan_S]

I carry a lot of homemade jerky on longer trips.  Got to have carbs in the backcountry though or you feel like you're wasting away 

Granola bars, cheese crackers, anything reasonably tasty with lots of calories and I'll eat it.  Cliff bars, almonds, candy bars etc.  Those little Tiger Milk bars hit the spot too.

[bearhunter99]

Homemade Jerky!!!!!!

I'll usually pack some trail mix, dried apples or pears, Nature Valley dry granola bars (best place to eat them is outdoors because of the damn crumbs!) and some type of cracker sandwich thing for carbs.  Sometimes I steal some of my kids fruit snacks too 

[kentrek]

My snacks include just the basics but since diversity is the spice of life I tend to mix them up with each other

Spam
Bbq Pringles
Stinger waffles ( honey & chocolate )
Stinger energy shots ( honey & chocolate usually  )

With that il make...

Spam & Pringles 
spam & honey energy shot
Spam & honey waffle sandwich
honey waffle & chocolate energy shot sandwich (or vise versa ).....

Or i eat them separately

That's typical September, October & November I ditch the energy shots & spam and start packing homemade jerky & pepperoni


 

[splitshot]

clif bars, 2 per day, they don't melt.  also nature valley peanut bar, they do melt.  don't like sugar or chocolate.  mike w

[Jonathan_S]

Meat snacks will fill you up but when you have two drainages to navigate to get to the elk, it's nice to have a couple candy bars and a Clif Bar 

[vandeman17]

I am constantly eating when I am out hunting so probably half of my pack weight is food. 

My typical gallon ziplock bag has:

-2 cliff bars
-fruit snacks
-pbj
-shredded chicken wrap
-sunflower seeds
-jerky
-small fruity candy like starbursts or jolly ranchers. I like these because when I am hiking a steep hill or something, they help me from getting cotton mouth and drinking all my fluids.

[Fl0und3rz]

Powerbar Harvest - Apple
Homemade Trail mix - Mixed nuts, pistachios, pecans, cashews, dried blueberries, dried cherries, extra salt (I sweat a ton).
Homemade Jerky or Sausage
 

[Jonathan_S]

In the NE, whenever I find an apple tree I usually waste about 20 minutes eating the sour little things.  Something about the taste of a fresh wild apple, even the sour ones I can eat a bellyful. 

I'll fill a pack with those when afforded the opportunity.

[swift]

 Great thread as I'm always looking for new ideas on snacks !

[swanny]

My snacks tend to vary but mostly right on with what everyone else has said. For any sandwich or bread type items, I pack bagels. They can get smashed and not make your sandwich explode in to a giant mess when I pull it out of a Ziploc

[vandeman17]

My snacks tend to vary but mostly right on with what everyone else has said. For any sandwich or bread type items, I pack bagels. They can get smashed and not make your sandwich explode in to a giant mess when I pull it out of a Ziploc

When I am making a regular bread sandwich, I toast my bread before I make them so that it helps keep it from getting soggy as well as keeping its structure in my pack.

[Fl0und3rz]

I just take a hoagie roll and stuff it with meat and cheese.  It's going to look like it sat in the bottom of your pack eventually. 

 

[vandeman17]

I just take a hoagie roll and stuff it with meat and cheese.  It's going to look like it sat in the bottom of your pack eventually. 

 

That's why I use wraps. Not to mention after eating so many squished sandwiches out of my pack, just the thought of a regular bread turkey and cheese sandwich makes me want to