Pack Snacks

[Jonathan_S]

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. 

 

I like that too.  No sauces/vegetables to get all slimy and nasty

[WapitiTalk1]

I also appreciate my sand in the shape of a sand  .  I carry spreadables (tuna creations, Jif to Go PB and honey/jelly packets, etc.) and spread it onto MRE bread when it's time for the big mid day meal.  The MRE bread isn't that bad, particularly the wheat bread. With the exception of long lasting salami or something of that nature, I do not have perishables at hand for many/most of my hunts (ham, cheese, roast beast, chicken, etc.) so it's all pre-packaged, lightweight, no cooling required, backpack friendly foods.   

 http://www.thereadystore.com/mre-wheat-snack-bread

[Stein]

I don't pack a ton of carbs, just like I don't eat high carbs at home.  If your body is adjusted to burning fat, it isn't an issue.

I also don't eat much backcountry, I just don't seem to have the appetite and am always busy doing something else.  For snacks, I would usually have some type of protein bar, jerky and salty nuts.  The added bonus is that they are energy dense, don't weigh much and don't take up much space.

I used to try to get 2-3k calories a day, but you end up hauling a 7-11 up in the woods and I ended up bringing half of it back.

[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. 

 

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 

Salami and pepper jack.  FTW.  No mess, packs well, travels well, eats like a filet mignon after a day of tromping around in the cold and wet.

[vandeman17]

I don't pack a ton of carbs, just like I don't eat high carbs at home.  If your body is adjusted to burning fat, it isn't an issue.

I also don't eat much backcountry, I just don't seem to have the appetite and am always busy doing something else.  For snacks, I would usually have some type of protein bar, jerky and salty nuts.  The added bonus is that they are energy dense, don't weigh much and don't take up much space.

I used to try to get 2-3k calories a day, but you end up hauling a 7-11 up in the woods and I ended up bringing half of it back.

That is me but I usually end up wishing I packed more and rationing my last few snacks in the late afternoon evening. Darn metabolism. 

[Kittman]

Good ideas to choose from in this post.  For me my gallon bag has at least one of the following menu items in it, all stuff that I can keep in my camper pantry for a while:

- (Meat) Beef Jerky, Vienna Sausage, Kipper Snacks, or Sardine can (hard to find ketchup sauce or tomato one anymore?)
- (Carbs) Combos or dollar store crackers, chicken, vegetable, cheese, etc., Ritz cracker roll, sandwich crackers
- (Drink) Kool-Aide packets for 16 oz. container of water and/or Emergency packet
- (Candy) Hot Tamales, Snickers type bars
- (Other) beans and weenies can, Smokehouse almonds nut can

Also take a genuine MRE with heater pack as well, but usually do not need it for one day outing.

[fillthefreezer]

quest bars, lara bars, kind bars, snickers, butthole sammich, pepperoni, salami and cheese tortilla roll up, pb/cheese crackers, shot blocks, sunrype fruit strip. occasionally ill throw a fit crunch or metrx colossal in there as well.

[Andrew]

My daily routine is as follows:
0-dark thirty coffee and a granola bar
10:00 Granola bar or energy bar
1:00 potted meat wrap
8:30-9:00 back at camp eat freeze dried meal

Last year I made wraps using potted meat with sirracha (not quite sure what the hell potted meat is made of...pretty sure I don't want to) and put in vacuum bags.  The potted meat is decent, loaded with salt, calories, and fat (all that you need when out in the back country).  The vacuum bag kept them fresh however the flour tortilla became a little mushy but not bad (goes in almost the same as it goes out  ).  This year I'm going to roll them, toast them in a pan, chill and bag'em.

As for other stuff, I bring nature valley bars, coffee (starbucks instant packs), energy bars other than cliff...suckers become bricks if it gets cold out!  Besides I can only handle the taste of them for one day after which I prefer eating bark.

Similar to the author of this post I vacuum bag everything per day so that I don't have to worry about open food and it is easier.

[vandeman17]

I have never thought about vacuum sealing my bags for each day but i might start doing that. Be nice to just grab and go and know it won't spill in my pack

[Labs07]

I eat trail mix and dried fruit for snacks along with jerky

[xXLojackXx]

Typical day of food for me elk hunting would be 2 packs oatmeal for breakfast, quest or power crunch bar and cashews about 9am, jerky and home made protein bars (ingredients below) with yogurt covered raisins for lunch, another bar and dried fruit about 4pm, and this year will be home made freeze dried meals for dinner (1200 cals, 15-20g fat, 100g carbs, 60g protein.

Homemade bars ingredients:

-Peanuts
-Cashews
-dark choc chips
-dried cranberries/cherries
-orange or lemon zest
-honey

Chop in a food processor, pack into wax papered pan and freeze for 30 mins. Flip pan upside down onto a cutting board and cut bars to size, vacuum pack into 2 bar packs.

[ridgefire]

Breakfast is a peanut butter bacon and honey muffin or a couple breakfast bars for the trail. Throughout the day i snack on jerky trail mix fruit snacks mini snicker bars Lara bars. Dinner is typically mt house meal.

[Stein]

Salami and pepper jack.  FTW.  No mess, packs well, travels well, eats like a filet mignon after a day of tromping around in the cold and wet.

Salami and cheese are the bomb.  Every time I eat it in the woods, the only thing I can think about is that it must be one of the absolute top ways to attract bears.  I can smell that stuff on my hands for the rest of the trip.

[gilroym]

this year will be homemade jerky and fruit leathers will also take trail mix. To drink I just keep my camel pak full of water.

[rtspring]

Ask anyone who has hunted with me, I live on snickers bars while hunting.

Crazy thing is thats the only time of year I eat them.