Hike Food is Done

 
The food for my upcoming hike of the Knobstone Trail is done. 10 days of food. The link below takes you to the post about this project from 2 years ago on my Midland to Mackinac hike, which covers my philosophy of meals. I'm not going to type the same thing all over again.

You know the drill. Here are all the little packets, labeled and spread out. I will have one food drop in the middle of this hike. Five days worth is a reasonable amount to carry at one time.



What I will show you this time is the top of my spreadsheet. I've circled the critical number in red. This is the pounds per person per day. For me (and Marie when she is with me) we've found 1.2 ppppd is good. Although for the last couple of years I haven't been eating quite that much, so I'm perfectly secure in the 1.1 ppppd that it calculated to.



I make up the little packages, weigh each part (in case I want to switch something later- and for future reference) and the spreadsheet tallies it all up and generates the labels on another page. Although, the entries you can see in this sample only have the totals, because they were leftover packets I had in the freezer all made up. Not breaking those out- I just entered the total.

Here are the menus, just for fun. Peanut butter and cheese go with all the cold meals with crackers

HOT MEALS
	gravy bacospuds, olive salad, tootsie rolls
	pizza bowl, macaroni, elderberry plops
	turkey tetrazzini, spaghetti, veggie plops
	buttermilk dill soup, flatbread, fruit mix
2X	glop, macaroni, fruit mix
	All Tuckered In, sauaage, tootsie rolls
2X	Dirty Rice, Rice, date log
COLD MEALS
	Stone Wheat crax, veg plops, tootsie rolls
	Stone Wheat crax, veg plops, pistachio pudding
	Stone Wheat crax, broccoli salad, banana blue hawk
2X	cous cous, fruit mix
	pita crax, salsa, cherry torte
	pita crax, salsa, fruit mix
	Saltines, broccoli salad, banana blue hawk
	Saltines, cole slaw, granola bar
	Saltines, meat stick, nut log
	Stone Wheat crax, mushroom sandwiches, nut log
BREAKFASTS
	Cherry Torte
2X	Apple Oatmeal Yogurt, pecans
3X	Paul Bunyan Bar, spotted applesauce
2X	Hot Grapenuts, Citrus Slices
2X	Rhubarb Granola
SNACKS (per day)
3X	gorp, trail shake
2X	honey mustard pretzels, trail shake
	savory leather, trail shake
2X	sweet potato chips, trail shake
2X	nut log, trail shake

There is not other news. I know this isn't like doing a roof or digging dirt, but I'm beat, nevertheless. Tomorrow I'll clean up the kitchen.

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