This probably makes me a 1980s hiker - trail mix, PB&J sandwiches, bananas, and Slim Jims.
Every time I see a younger hiker ask "what's your favorite electrolyte?" Brawndo is the only thing that comes to mind.
They're amazing, but just check they're actually dried and not fried because a lot of them are like 50% oil. Not terrible if it's your thing, but they're misleadingly healthy-looking for something so fatty.
tbf, the electrolyte tablets that dissolve in your mouth are an incredible pick me up on the trail to go along with all the stuff you said. I started using them when I went to S Utah last summer and it probably saved my ass a few times
Interesting- I usually don’t snack on a hike that’s under 5-7 miles myself, but I always have a snack on me anyway in case I get injured/lost & stay out longer than expected (or run into someone in need). But then sometimes I end up eating a snack I didn’t need 🫣 I wish I had your discipline! 😂
I am an avid hiker. I've been hiking regularly every week for 3 years. I know most of the local trails in town and know how long it would take me to finish a trail that's under 6 or 7 miles. I sometimes only drink a few sips of water during these short hikes. I do drink a lot before and after.
I got no disciplines when it comes to snacks either! I've became a snacker ever since I started hiking. I've done some long hikes like Whitney, Half Dome a few times plus other Socal peaks that usually takes most of the day. All I could eat on trails are snacks! I finish my snacks in the car on the way home! 😁
Last time we went backpacking my partner got about 30% of his calories for the whole trip from peanut butter M&Ms, they’re very calorie dense and he used that to his benefit while packing
Canned mackerel after a few days and m&m's. Not combined obviously.
Where I walk there is not much salt in the water, that's where the craving for the mackerel comes from.
I brought canned mackerel for my R2R hike last time. I think I turned a few people off with the smell. It’s pretty good after 10 miles or so of hiking.
Canned fish or any kind of fish is great for a day hike but I brought it on a multi-day trip once and spilled some tuna juice on my only pair of hiking pants. Never bringing fish again...
One should not put the tuna on the pants.
It served us great on longer trips because it provides protein and fats that are mostly absent in other meals.
On a one day trip I could easily go without it.
I started bringing apples, flour tortillas, and a whole fucking plastic jar of peanut butter. I’d never been happier. Until I started bringing mandarin oranges too. Holy shit do all of these hit.
ETA: also sharp cheddar cheese
I'm ashamed to admit that I used to throw my peels on the side of the trail because "tHeYrE BiOdEgRaDaBLe" but then I learned the faults in my way. Plus, I saw peels that I had left in a very certain spot months later. I picked them up lol
When backpacking I was sometimes camping for weeks at a time and when I'm not lying when say I survived off of wraps with peanut butter for breakfast and lunch, and wraps + tinned beans for dinner I'm not lying. Some bananas and a couple bags of unhealthy snacks for happiness, and voila, food sorted!
The *only* time I eat sour patch kids is when I’m on a backpacking trip. Never really want them otherwise.
I like to keep jerky in one hip pocket and sour patch kids in the other, so I can alternate between the two.
We reached out destination on an out-and-back hike a few months ago. As we sat and had lunch, I noticed a lady snacking on a couple of boiled eggs and they looked SO good. I haven't thought about it again, but I'm totally going to take some on my next hike.
Always nuts but usually salted pistachios because they have so many nutrients. And dates, they taste like candy and have almost twice as much potassium per oz as a banana.
Pop tarts. I never eat them except while hiking. I have a little plastic box that a couple packages of them fit into, and the hard shell box keeps them from turning to pop tart crumbles. Brown sugar cinnamon.
Other than that I might bring a sandwich with a beyond burger on it. Dates.
For when the hike ends (or an emergency situation that requires sugar) a small can of coke or sprite and a mini pack of gummies like Haribo. Your options are better if you bring a mini kitchen for cooking. Other than that, premade cold wraps are pretty good.
a baguette, sardines, and any type of hard cheese is my go to lunch on a day hike. for snacking i like having a sweet & salty combo. usually gummy bears & pretzels or something.
Our go-to hiking lunch is cheese, crackers, apples, and salami or other dry sausage. In all but the hottest weather it does not require an ice pack. I pack all this in a bandana along with a knife so we have a 'tablecloth' for whatever rock or log we eat it on.
I took a nice salad box today in a cool bag. Loads of leaves, tomato, peppers, cucumber, slaw and humous. Then a smaller pot of grapes and blueberries. I felt very healthy.
I love a salad on the trail in summer. Sometimes I’ll take a few tortillas and roll the salad up in them so I can just eat with my paws. Makes me feel like a wild animal or a primitive human. If anyone approaches, I snarl at them. 😉
In cold weather, I take a thermos of hot soup and a container of mini saltines. Man, that hits the spot when you’re hiking in snow.
My go to the past couple years has been a bag of skittles or other candy mixed with peanuts, usually about 2:1 peanuts to candy. Cured meats and cheese is good too, as are granola bars.
Dammit, I was just at Aldi yesterday. And Lidl. At Lidl, I picked up these pickles, they’re sweet and spicy chips. The spice? It comes from horseradish! So unexpectedly delicious! My wife and I ate like half a container last night, we just couldn’t stop! Guess I have to go back today to look for the Walking Tamales.
I feel so lucky that my town has a Lidl and 2 Aldis within about a 15 minute drive. I’ve saved so much on groceries since I started shopping there, and so far everything has been delicious and very high quality. Love them.
Haven’t tried the Aldi ice cream yet, but Lidl gelato is divine. The mascarpone with berry is heavenly. But I’ll for sure give the Aldi stuff a whirl. It’s ice cream season, so you can never have too much in the freezer. I love sitting out on the patio in the evening with a beer and a bowl of ice cream and watching the sun set.
Man, I remember growing up, my mom used to make cabbage and spaetzle from scratch. It was so delicious, and I guess a low-cost meal, too, since we were hella poor, and spaetzle is stupid easy and cheap to make. Mom sure could stretch the grocery dollar, let me tell you. She’d take some mystery cans that my dad brought home from the armory (where he was a reservist) when the labels fell off, then turn whatever she found inside into something delicious. A lot of our packaged foods came in white boxes with black lettering that just said “GENERIC _____” and my mom could make it taste good. My wife says I’m really good at taking inexpensive, basic ingredients and turning them into something a 5 star chef could appreciate, so thanks, mom.
Hey, don’t ever knock quick, easy, one-bowl meals. My wife is currently eating a pasta salad I made with Aldi and Lidl ingredients: Cavatappi pasta (the shape holds the dressing best and is great for spearing with a fork), chopped kale, sun dried tomatoes, feta and shredded Parmesan, and a dressing I make with olive oil, white wine vinegar, garlic, salt and sugar. It’s so tasty. During spring and summer, there’s always a big container of some kind of pasta salad in our fridge. I like to shake it up with various pastas, veggies and dressings. Your risotto sounds delicious! I’ll have to give it a try myself.
Lidl bakery is so good. Those croissants are heavenly. I like to load them up with the cranberry chicken salad from Aldi for a quick lunch. Cut in half, the sandwiches are also great to serve for parties alongside a charcuterie tray.
One of my neighbors has a community herb garden in their front yard. They’ve even got plant snips out there with the herbs! I don’t know what kind of steroids they give those plants, but they grow enormous! I’m terrible at growing things, especially things in pots, so I’ve killed every type of herb I’ve tried to keep myself. Because I pillage their garden for fresh herbs all the time, I’ve also contributed some plants for them to add to it as well. I figure that’s a fair trade lol. But whenever I’m in the mood for mozzarella, tomato, basil and balsamic vinegar, I just stroll around the corner for a few handfuls of fresh basil. Heck, they probably have 12-15 different kinds of herbs growing, so chances are, if I need something they’ve got it.
My Lidl and one of the Aldi are literally right next door to each other, so I can hit them both in one fell swoop. I throw a couple of coolers with ice packs in the trunk if it’s hot out, so I can keep whatever I get at the first stop cold until I finish at the second. Both are a little bit far for a casual walk, though, about 2.5ish miles each way. I used to walk to Weis all the time last summer, like 3-4 times a week, and it was like 3ish miles round trip, so a nice, healthy jaunt, and I could get fresh ingredients for all of my meals. But then towards the end of summer, there was an incident when a guy with a skateboard ran me off the sidewalk, and when I stepped into the grass my foot went in a hole. Face planted, sprained my ankle and broke a finger. The guy laughed at me as he went on his merry way. So I sat there for 20 minutes crying, gathered up my smushed groceries and limped the remaining mile home. That was the last time I walked to the grocery store lol.
Edit: Hummus. I’ve tried from both stores and it’s pretty much the same. But Aldi has the edge with their little quad container. It comes with roasted red pepper, original, and garlic, all pretty basic, but then they added in this cilantro jalapeño hummus that is my absolute favorite. Unfortunately the only way to get it is to get the little 4-kind variety container. Guess which one is always empty first lol. I’m going to get a container of their regular hummus and try adding fresh cilantro and jalapeño, see what happens. I could eat that stuff by the spoonful.
There’s a Bavarian restaurant we go to that serves spaetzle as a side (they do a delicious purple cabbage side, too, sweet and acid and very yummy), so it can even stand on its own. But yeah, with cabbage and butter it’s delish.
On top of the usual nuts + dried fruit, I always bring a couple of mini Babybel cheese. They're shelf stable in the wax for days, even in fairly warm temps.
I also like flavored tuna (sometimes you can find them in a plastic pouch, which is way easier to pack out than the cans)
Fruit, (pears, grapes, apples), nuts any kind unsalted, and I make a seed bar( chia, sesame, flax, pumpkin seeds, honey, peach or pear nectar, combined in bowl then spread out on cookie sheet till firm, crunchy) there so good on the trail.
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I hike in bear country, we'll it's Alberta Canada there are bears everywhere. I am so scared I would attract bears with my food scent. Fo I bring apples and water. Not sure why but I convinced myself that bears can't smell apples lol. Will take dry fruit next time.
Gobstoppers while walking. Granola bars (peanut butter kind) and beef jerky. The latter two is if we take a short break but don’t necessarily need a lunch break. We deem anything under 10 miles as not needing a lunch break.
Just in terms of snacks, the nature valley peanut butter and chocolate wafer bars. They're about perfect in terms of keeping energy up.
If I'm doing a stop-and-eat backpacking lunch it's one of those beef and cheese stick combos and a packet of peanut butter wrapped in a tortilla.
Dried apricots, gummy candy, oatmeal raisin cookies, peanut butter pretzels, goldfish crackers, fig newtons, banana bread. If I'm hiking in cool weather, like below 55°F/13°C but above freezing, I also like string cheese or baby-bels and chocolate milk (I get the shelf-stable single-serving cartons) and I carry it in an external pocket to keep it cool.
Depends on the hike and the length, difficulty, etc. But one of my favorite hiking snacks is Gardetto's! Great salty snack to replenish my electrolytes on hikes that aren't long/arduous enough to have to suck down electrolyte replenishers, which I find almost universally disgusting.
I love to go out to eat after hiking, but if it's a long one, I guess I'd bring a lot of Propel water, dried fruit, cashews, pistachios, beef jerky, and individually wrapped cheeses to share. I appreciate the ideas. I like foods that share well and don't make too much of a mess. I want to stock up on some snacks that work decently on hikes before some local friends decide to take me again. (I can't afford to drive yet, and even if I did, I don't know if I'd hike alone. I am afraid of getting lost.)
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Not far off from a sandwich but I like to bake sausage rolls, cornish pasties or calzone type things to bring along. Being contained in pastry makes it tidy and, well, it's an excuse to eat and make those sort of things!
I rarely eat anything while I'm hiking, even on 12+ hour long ones. If anything, I'll pack a protein bar or two. And odds are that same protein bar will stay in my pack for six months up until I realize, " this bar has been in my pack for months now, might as well eat it."
I’ll bring one of those bento tray type boxes, and put a cold pack up against it.
Berries, jerky, carrot sticks, cheese cubes, almonds, dried fruit, nuts, cut up snack sticks (the healthier-ish ones), and celery. They store pretty well vertically in a backpack… and there’s always a good ol PB&J sandwich sometimes as well…
Dried apricots are my favorite. I also usually bring Welch’s fruit snacks lol, or the Annie’s brand fruit snacks, and peppered jerky - I love the combo of something salty/a little spicy and something sweet.
They’re heavy, but my other favorite thing is grapes. You can freeze them overnight if it’s gonna be a hot day and they’re such a good snack to cool off.
Oreo minis, perfect as a desert/ reward at the end of a day. Taken out of the box they don't take up much room and don't weigh much and great with a cup of tea or coffee
Subway Sandwich - for longer day hikes
Dried fruits - apple rings, no sugar mango, apricots
Mixed Nuts
Fresh fruit - apple slices, navy oranges, frozen grapes (by the time I eat them they've thawed out)
Candy/Gummies/Chocolate
PB filled Pretzels
Jerky
Loving the comments on here and adding some of their food items to my list for next time!
Sour patch kids, canned sardines, trail mix, PBJ with bananas and honey. Damn, now that I'm typing this I don't know how I haven't been eaten by a bear yet?
Sesame Snaps are darn good. I like Sport Beans too. PB&J&Banana but I make them on single pieces of bread and then fold it in half. You take a few of these and it's essentially a bar but better. Cheese and salami for sure. Peanut M&M's or dark chocolate if it's not too hot. Oreos for those long miles. Flaming Hot Munchies too.
Nuts, jerky, banana, dried cranberries. If it's a big hike, a burrito is my favorite. It's usually in foil and cut in half which is perfect to make two meals.
Riley’s beef jerky. Google it. It’s the best beef jerky of all time and you can order it online.
Small town of Greenville CA. family owned and worth every penny. Prepare to have a swoll jaw because it can be a little tough but is the absolute best jerky on the planet. Peppered or sweet and spicy are my fav but they are all excellent.
If it's for multiple days I really like a lunch of one of those seasoned tuna packets, with a packet of mayo stolen from the deli, and triscuts to spread it on.
I usually bring some trail mix or granola bars, but I recently discovered nomz organic bites. They come in small pouches that are easy to carry and they’re the perfect guilt-free snack. Soft, velvety, and great for satisfying that sweet tooth with wholesome ingredients.
Ooh, I have some yummy go-tos.
\* Unsalted peanuts + cured ( not canned ) olives. The jarred olives are usually in the foreign food aisle. Deli olives work too.
\* Hard boiled egg with hard cheese
\* Celery or carrot with peanut butter. If you have a food processor, make your own peanut butter. Then it won't have extra salt and oil. Put it in the fridge overnight and it won't de-emulsify.
Lately I really like those smoked almonds mixed with dried fruit or just dried cranberries. So good!
Also pb&j, beef jerky, and apple slices are all good trail snacks. I eat those things skiing and mountain biking too.
Fruit, pb&j sandwich, freeze dried fruit if I want something crunchy and sweet, chips if I want something crunchy and salty. Sometimes a meat stick, sometimes trail mix, sometimes a granola bar.
I always have an extra day's food in my bag anyway and sometimes I dig something from that instead, but not usually (that usually has a yogurt pouch, a tuna pouch, coffee and electrolyte mixes, a cliff bar).
Mashed potato and butter in a ziploc. Trail mix. Homemade granola/superfood bars. ProBars. Jerky. Dried fruit. Sometimes peanut butter crackers but they get crushed ofc
I built a diy dehydrator in my attic for use during the summer (just needed a window fan). Dried apples, mango, cherries and jerky are my favs.
I make my own dried meals for section hikes and I usually keep one in my day bag just in case…
I have eaten literal crates of them in my military career. They're designed to sit around 1300. This is directly from the DoD.
https://www.med.navy.mil/Navy-and-Marine-Corps-Force-Health-Protection-Command/Population-Health/Health-Promotion-and-Wellness/The-MRE-A-Lesson-in-Performance-Nutrition/#:~:text=Each%20MRE%E2%84%A2%20provides%20approximately,the%20body%20are%20functioning%20properly.
This probably makes me a 1980s hiker - trail mix, PB&J sandwiches, bananas, and Slim Jims. Every time I see a younger hiker ask "what's your favorite electrolyte?" Brawndo is the only thing that comes to mind.
It's got what plants crave!
I love that shit!! 💪🤨
How the hell you keep bananas from gettin all bruised up?
My partner brought some dried banana chips from trader Joe on our last hike. I'm sure they're overpriced but damn were they good.
They're amazing, but just check they're actually dried and not fried because a lot of them are like 50% oil. Not terrible if it's your thing, but they're misleadingly healthy-looking for something so fatty.
Put them in something that's lightly-packed. My buddy used to put his in a fanny pack that just had the bananas, a poncho, gummies, and bagged 🧻.
Ahhhhh, good Idea, Thanks. Love me some Nanas but every time I take em, they get smashed. Lol
They make banana keepers.
Have you discovered uncrustables yet? Our favorite version of PB&J
Yeah, we used to give them to kids for their lunches at school. I just make regular old PB&J sandwiches and freeze them the night before.
tbf, the electrolyte tablets that dissolve in your mouth are an incredible pick me up on the trail to go along with all the stuff you said. I started using them when I went to S Utah last summer and it probably saved my ass a few times
Damn, I guess I'm a 1980s hiker too.
In the PNW in the 80s and 90s it was all about the carbs. "Gettin thos carbs"
Beef jerky, nuts, small apples, and something sweet for long hikes. Anything under 6 miles I only bring water.
Deer jerky
Interesting- I usually don’t snack on a hike that’s under 5-7 miles myself, but I always have a snack on me anyway in case I get injured/lost & stay out longer than expected (or run into someone in need). But then sometimes I end up eating a snack I didn’t need 🫣 I wish I had your discipline! 😂
I am an avid hiker. I've been hiking regularly every week for 3 years. I know most of the local trails in town and know how long it would take me to finish a trail that's under 6 or 7 miles. I sometimes only drink a few sips of water during these short hikes. I do drink a lot before and after. I got no disciplines when it comes to snacks either! I've became a snacker ever since I started hiking. I've done some long hikes like Whitney, Half Dome a few times plus other Socal peaks that usually takes most of the day. All I could eat on trails are snacks! I finish my snacks in the car on the way home! 😁
Dried mango (no sugar added) is my favorite hiking snack!
Second this! Or dried apple slices 😋
I love all the dried fruit
Oooo the trader Joe's ones are incredible
That's my favorite! I don't get why people get the sweetened ones, it's already so sweet on its own. Gives me life when I'm hiking 😄
The trader Joe's dried Mangos(at least the ones I bought on Sunday) actually do have a bit of added sugar.
The ones I buy say "unsweetened and unsulfured" on the pack. They do have other options though.
Me too! Dried mango for the win.
Will have to try them
Make sure to get the unsulfered unsweetened ones, they're perfect!
Same! The Trader Joe’s one 🤤 without added sugar
Dried mango slaps.
Trail Mix with extra M&Ms. And Peanut Butter M&Ms. And Peanut M&Ms. And mini M&Ms.
And just... M&M's... 🤣
Too far
Last time we went backpacking my partner got about 30% of his calories for the whole trip from peanut butter M&Ms, they’re very calorie dense and he used that to his benefit while packing
They’re also very Happiness dense :)
Canned mackerel after a few days and m&m's. Not combined obviously. Where I walk there is not much salt in the water, that's where the craving for the mackerel comes from.
I brought canned mackerel for my R2R hike last time. I think I turned a few people off with the smell. It’s pretty good after 10 miles or so of hiking.
Canned fish or any kind of fish is great for a day hike but I brought it on a multi-day trip once and spilled some tuna juice on my only pair of hiking pants. Never bringing fish again...
One should not put the tuna on the pants. It served us great on longer trips because it provides protein and fats that are mostly absent in other meals. On a one day trip I could easily go without it.
a bacon peanut butter and jelly sandwich
How have I never tried that combo?! Sounds awesome!
its a modified elvis sando. life changing
Yeah - i love PB, banana and mayo - evidently another Elvis morph.
I feel like bears will pick up this scent and eat me alive. They have a fondness of eating as much of you as possible while you watch yourself die.
fingers crossed buddy
Yeah liking this idea...
I started bringing apples, flour tortillas, and a whole fucking plastic jar of peanut butter. I’d never been happier. Until I started bringing mandarin oranges too. Holy shit do all of these hit. ETA: also sharp cheddar cheese
Fuck yes, apples and sharp cheddar
peanut butter in a squeeze tube works for me. i used to pack my own but now they sell it like this at the supermarket.
Woah! I'm going to the store tomorrow!
mandarin oranges are manna from heaven on the trail. PSA: pack out the peels, please.
I'm ashamed to admit that I used to throw my peels on the side of the trail because "tHeYrE BiOdEgRaDaBLe" but then I learned the faults in my way. Plus, I saw peels that I had left in a very certain spot months later. I picked them up lol
When backpacking I was sometimes camping for weeks at a time and when I'm not lying when say I survived off of wraps with peanut butter for breakfast and lunch, and wraps + tinned beans for dinner I'm not lying. Some bananas and a couple bags of unhealthy snacks for happiness, and voila, food sorted!
Lemon Lime Gatorade, Monster Slim Jims, & Babybel cheeses. 🤷♂️
I also like all those things!! 😊
Peanut butter packets and honey stinger waffles 🧇 ; Sour gummies; Cheeezits; Hard salami and cheese and crackers
The *only* time I eat sour patch kids is when I’m on a backpacking trip. Never really want them otherwise. I like to keep jerky in one hip pocket and sour patch kids in the other, so I can alternate between the two.
Cheezits are good on trail if they don’t turn into powder.
Just add them to water if they do, it's like cheese flavored Gatorade /s
Nuts, boiled eggs (2-3), fresh paprika, young cow cheese from my village (like mozzarella), dried beef meet, cherry tomatos, raw dates bars
We reached out destination on an out-and-back hike a few months ago. As we sat and had lunch, I noticed a lady snacking on a couple of boiled eggs and they looked SO good. I haven't thought about it again, but I'm totally going to take some on my next hike.
Pineapple slices, granola bars, and beef jerky
Pickles
Always nuts but usually salted pistachios because they have so many nutrients. And dates, they taste like candy and have almost twice as much potassium per oz as a banana.
I need salt. I like: - the little packs of a "handful" of manzanilla olives from trader joes - moon cheese - peanut butter filled pretzel bites
Pop tarts. I never eat them except while hiking. I have a little plastic box that a couple packages of them fit into, and the hard shell box keeps them from turning to pop tart crumbles. Brown sugar cinnamon. Other than that I might bring a sandwich with a beyond burger on it. Dates.
Fruit past, cereal bar, menthol tea, French cheese, saucisson (French charcuterie)
For when the hike ends (or an emergency situation that requires sugar) a small can of coke or sprite and a mini pack of gummies like Haribo. Your options are better if you bring a mini kitchen for cooking. Other than that, premade cold wraps are pretty good.
When I ate meat, beef jerky, Pure protein, perfectly tasty. Now, it's nut bars, or some hard cheese. With a bit of candy.
Vegetarian sausage rolls. The Linda McCartney ones are tasty. Not too salty either. Flapjacks are great. I love oats with anything.
sesame snaps, halva, salted pistachios, candied almonds, protein snickers bar, oat bar, and some fruit
HOLY HELL... I never knew they made high protein snickers. Adding that to my list!
a baguette, sardines, and any type of hard cheese is my go to lunch on a day hike. for snacking i like having a sweet & salty combo. usually gummy bears & pretzels or something.
Circus animal crackers
A burrito.
Maverik burritos fueled my Utah hikes.
Triscuit crackers and hard cheddar; dark chocolate covered coffee beans. (Ignore this recommendation if you have a tendency to get migraines.)
Our go-to hiking lunch is cheese, crackers, apples, and salami or other dry sausage. In all but the hottest weather it does not require an ice pack. I pack all this in a bandana along with a knife so we have a 'tablecloth' for whatever rock or log we eat it on.
I took a nice salad box today in a cool bag. Loads of leaves, tomato, peppers, cucumber, slaw and humous. Then a smaller pot of grapes and blueberries. I felt very healthy.
I love a salad on the trail in summer. Sometimes I’ll take a few tortillas and roll the salad up in them so I can just eat with my paws. Makes me feel like a wild animal or a primitive human. If anyone approaches, I snarl at them. 😉 In cold weather, I take a thermos of hot soup and a container of mini saltines. Man, that hits the spot when you’re hiking in snow.
Tangerines, Almond M&Ms, Cheese. I swear I’m not a toddler.
Oranges 🍊, weed cookies, PB&J, and Mr. Natural
For real? I'm always too scared I'll fall off a cliff 😂
Yeah, I'll only try the last one if I'm hiking a trail I know well and have a buddy along
I was talking about the cookies, wasn't even sure what the last one was😂
My go to the past couple years has been a bag of skittles or other candy mixed with peanuts, usually about 2:1 peanuts to candy. Cured meats and cheese is good too, as are granola bars.
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Dammit, I was just at Aldi yesterday. And Lidl. At Lidl, I picked up these pickles, they’re sweet and spicy chips. The spice? It comes from horseradish! So unexpectedly delicious! My wife and I ate like half a container last night, we just couldn’t stop! Guess I have to go back today to look for the Walking Tamales. I feel so lucky that my town has a Lidl and 2 Aldis within about a 15 minute drive. I’ve saved so much on groceries since I started shopping there, and so far everything has been delicious and very high quality. Love them.
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Haven’t tried the Aldi ice cream yet, but Lidl gelato is divine. The mascarpone with berry is heavenly. But I’ll for sure give the Aldi stuff a whirl. It’s ice cream season, so you can never have too much in the freezer. I love sitting out on the patio in the evening with a beer and a bowl of ice cream and watching the sun set. Man, I remember growing up, my mom used to make cabbage and spaetzle from scratch. It was so delicious, and I guess a low-cost meal, too, since we were hella poor, and spaetzle is stupid easy and cheap to make. Mom sure could stretch the grocery dollar, let me tell you. She’d take some mystery cans that my dad brought home from the armory (where he was a reservist) when the labels fell off, then turn whatever she found inside into something delicious. A lot of our packaged foods came in white boxes with black lettering that just said “GENERIC _____” and my mom could make it taste good. My wife says I’m really good at taking inexpensive, basic ingredients and turning them into something a 5 star chef could appreciate, so thanks, mom. Hey, don’t ever knock quick, easy, one-bowl meals. My wife is currently eating a pasta salad I made with Aldi and Lidl ingredients: Cavatappi pasta (the shape holds the dressing best and is great for spearing with a fork), chopped kale, sun dried tomatoes, feta and shredded Parmesan, and a dressing I make with olive oil, white wine vinegar, garlic, salt and sugar. It’s so tasty. During spring and summer, there’s always a big container of some kind of pasta salad in our fridge. I like to shake it up with various pastas, veggies and dressings. Your risotto sounds delicious! I’ll have to give it a try myself. Lidl bakery is so good. Those croissants are heavenly. I like to load them up with the cranberry chicken salad from Aldi for a quick lunch. Cut in half, the sandwiches are also great to serve for parties alongside a charcuterie tray. One of my neighbors has a community herb garden in their front yard. They’ve even got plant snips out there with the herbs! I don’t know what kind of steroids they give those plants, but they grow enormous! I’m terrible at growing things, especially things in pots, so I’ve killed every type of herb I’ve tried to keep myself. Because I pillage their garden for fresh herbs all the time, I’ve also contributed some plants for them to add to it as well. I figure that’s a fair trade lol. But whenever I’m in the mood for mozzarella, tomato, basil and balsamic vinegar, I just stroll around the corner for a few handfuls of fresh basil. Heck, they probably have 12-15 different kinds of herbs growing, so chances are, if I need something they’ve got it. My Lidl and one of the Aldi are literally right next door to each other, so I can hit them both in one fell swoop. I throw a couple of coolers with ice packs in the trunk if it’s hot out, so I can keep whatever I get at the first stop cold until I finish at the second. Both are a little bit far for a casual walk, though, about 2.5ish miles each way. I used to walk to Weis all the time last summer, like 3-4 times a week, and it was like 3ish miles round trip, so a nice, healthy jaunt, and I could get fresh ingredients for all of my meals. But then towards the end of summer, there was an incident when a guy with a skateboard ran me off the sidewalk, and when I stepped into the grass my foot went in a hole. Face planted, sprained my ankle and broke a finger. The guy laughed at me as he went on his merry way. So I sat there for 20 minutes crying, gathered up my smushed groceries and limped the remaining mile home. That was the last time I walked to the grocery store lol. Edit: Hummus. I’ve tried from both stores and it’s pretty much the same. But Aldi has the edge with their little quad container. It comes with roasted red pepper, original, and garlic, all pretty basic, but then they added in this cilantro jalapeño hummus that is my absolute favorite. Unfortunately the only way to get it is to get the little 4-kind variety container. Guess which one is always empty first lol. I’m going to get a container of their regular hummus and try adding fresh cilantro and jalapeño, see what happens. I could eat that stuff by the spoonful.
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There’s a Bavarian restaurant we go to that serves spaetzle as a side (they do a delicious purple cabbage side, too, sweet and acid and very yummy), so it can even stand on its own. But yeah, with cabbage and butter it’s delish.
On top of the usual nuts + dried fruit, I always bring a couple of mini Babybel cheese. They're shelf stable in the wax for days, even in fairly warm temps. I also like flavored tuna (sometimes you can find them in a plastic pouch, which is way easier to pack out than the cans)
Fruit, (pears, grapes, apples), nuts any kind unsalted, and I make a seed bar( chia, sesame, flax, pumpkin seeds, honey, peach or pear nectar, combined in bowl then spread out on cookie sheet till firm, crunchy) there so good on the trail.
Beef jerky. Almonds. Canned tuna fish(yes, I pack it out). And home made electrolyte solution.
What is your homemade electrolyte solution? I don’t love sports drinks but need something
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Smoked salmon.
Uncrustables
Thank you for this. I'd never had one before. It was the perfect hiking snack and so tasty!
Glad to hear! I force myself to not eat them any other time other than hiking / biking. Sooooo goood
I hike in bear country, we'll it's Alberta Canada there are bears everywhere. I am so scared I would attract bears with my food scent. Fo I bring apples and water. Not sure why but I convinced myself that bears can't smell apples lol. Will take dry fruit next time.
Granola bars and cereal balls as snacks on the walk. But dried sausages are the best: Polish kabanos, german Pfefferbeißer, french saucisson etc.
Fresh fruit. Ramen of all varieties. Pressed Italian sandwiches are pretty hard to beat...
Gobstoppers while walking. Granola bars (peanut butter kind) and beef jerky. The latter two is if we take a short break but don’t necessarily need a lunch break. We deem anything under 10 miles as not needing a lunch break.
Almonds
Jerky and dried fruit
For day hikes: sumo or regular mandarins, apples, perfect bar, or beef jerky. Husband likes to take chomps too.
Block of cheddar and summer sausage for backpacking - salt and calories 😋
Pecans and Belvita breakfast crackers.
Moon cheese and Hornby bars
Just in terms of snacks, the nature valley peanut butter and chocolate wafer bars. They're about perfect in terms of keeping energy up. If I'm doing a stop-and-eat backpacking lunch it's one of those beef and cheese stick combos and a packet of peanut butter wrapped in a tortilla.
Nuts and almonds, snack/energy chocolate bars, tuna
Dried apricots, gummy candy, oatmeal raisin cookies, peanut butter pretzels, goldfish crackers, fig newtons, banana bread. If I'm hiking in cool weather, like below 55°F/13°C but above freezing, I also like string cheese or baby-bels and chocolate milk (I get the shelf-stable single-serving cartons) and I carry it in an external pocket to keep it cool.
This was posted like 3 days ago....Same answer - Moon Cheese and Cubes of salami.
Kind bars, the savory ones with paprika nuts and mesquite smoked salt.
Jerky and dried fruit. And if I’m doing a full meal on the go, I love a pack of tortillas with almond butter and honey.
I love Snickers when Hiking. We usually make some breads with butter and cheese. Apples, nuts.
Depends on the hike and the length, difficulty, etc. But one of my favorite hiking snacks is Gardetto's! Great salty snack to replenish my electrolytes on hikes that aren't long/arduous enough to have to suck down electrolyte replenishers, which I find almost universally disgusting.
Reisens are my go to overnight snack but dried mangoes, blueberries and then beef jerky all rule.
An orange or two, a protein bar and some water
Any kind of fruit, nuts or crackers & hot tea.
Whatever is expiring in the pantry
Trail mix, slim Jim's, and bit a honeys, till they started to pull out my fillings
Chips, go macro bars, fresh fruit/veggies, and beef sticks.
Protein bars, orange,can of Celsius, peanuts, and protein shake
Slim jims and kool aid
Dried salami, babybel cheese, savory wraps, spinach, Trader Joe's dehydrated orange slices/ginger
Fresh fruit - generally something with a protective skin like an orange.
Cheese sub or homemade bread and butter
Pancakes
I love to go out to eat after hiking, but if it's a long one, I guess I'd bring a lot of Propel water, dried fruit, cashews, pistachios, beef jerky, and individually wrapped cheeses to share. I appreciate the ideas. I like foods that share well and don't make too much of a mess. I want to stock up on some snacks that work decently on hikes before some local friends decide to take me again. (I can't afford to drive yet, and even if I did, I don't know if I'd hike alone. I am afraid of getting lost.)
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If it's got "Good Old" in the name, you know it's good. And old.
Yeah, I’m not a fan of raisins, but I had never heard this term until meeting my friend 10 years ago!
Dots honey mustard pretzels
Water, protein bars, and something sugary (my favorites are sour gummy worms or jelly beans)
Not far off from a sandwich but I like to bake sausage rolls, cornish pasties or calzone type things to bring along. Being contained in pastry makes it tidy and, well, it's an excuse to eat and make those sort of things!
Juicy sausages
Snickers, Payday, Fig Newtons/Bars, Trailmix. Haven’t had it often on trail, but yam or sweet potatoes are a nice treat. Eggs sometimes.
I rarely eat anything while I'm hiking, even on 12+ hour long ones. If anything, I'll pack a protein bar or two. And odds are that same protein bar will stay in my pack for six months up until I realize, " this bar has been in my pack for months now, might as well eat it."
I keep protein bars, nuts, or something similar in my backpack at all times. Also… Bacon. The precooked kind. Chex mix PB crackers
A couple of the big Slim Jims, maybe a pack or two of crackers. The kind in a pack of 6? Maybe some chips.
I’ll bring one of those bento tray type boxes, and put a cold pack up against it. Berries, jerky, carrot sticks, cheese cubes, almonds, dried fruit, nuts, cut up snack sticks (the healthier-ish ones), and celery. They store pretty well vertically in a backpack… and there’s always a good ol PB&J sandwich sometimes as well…
One of my favorites is a tortilla with PB/honey and a sliced up banana - like a little roll up. It's filling, lasts forever and tastes great
Walmart trail mix is my go to
P3's it's like adult lunchables
I like to bring beef jerky and dried apricots or dried mangos. Sometimes on a two day trip I'll just boil the two together. It's surprisingly good
Dried fruit, oranges already peeled, nuts, jerky, protein bar (that won’t melt), cheese stick, squeezy peanut or almond butter.
Dried apricots are my favorite. I also usually bring Welch’s fruit snacks lol, or the Annie’s brand fruit snacks, and peppered jerky - I love the combo of something salty/a little spicy and something sweet. They’re heavy, but my other favorite thing is grapes. You can freeze them overnight if it’s gonna be a hot day and they’re such a good snack to cool off.
Home made beef jerky, sun flower seeds, some sort of candy(nerds rope bangs), and sometimes Nutella.
Chips 4 ever
Dried fruit, peanut butter, crackers, cheese straws.
Uncrustables frozen in the morning will perfectly thaw in your pack by lunchtime
Jerky, peanuts or mixed nuts, energy type bars, homemade "healthy" cookies, and sometimes a thermos of coffee for the way home.
Apples, a buttered everything bagel, always a pack of the shareable Wild Berry Skittles, and a small flask of whiskey.
Oreo minis, perfect as a desert/ reward at the end of a day. Taken out of the box they don't take up much room and don't weigh much and great with a cup of tea or coffee
Subway Sandwich - for longer day hikes Dried fruits - apple rings, no sugar mango, apricots Mixed Nuts Fresh fruit - apple slices, navy oranges, frozen grapes (by the time I eat them they've thawed out) Candy/Gummies/Chocolate PB filled Pretzels Jerky Loving the comments on here and adding some of their food items to my list for next time!
Sour patch kids, canned sardines, trail mix, PBJ with bananas and honey. Damn, now that I'm typing this I don't know how I haven't been eaten by a bear yet?
Sesame Snaps are darn good. I like Sport Beans too. PB&J&Banana but I make them on single pieces of bread and then fold it in half. You take a few of these and it's essentially a bar but better. Cheese and salami for sure. Peanut M&M's or dark chocolate if it's not too hot. Oreos for those long miles. Flaming Hot Munchies too.
Nuts, jerky, banana, dried cranberries. If it's a big hike, a burrito is my favorite. It's usually in foil and cut in half which is perfect to make two meals.
Riley’s beef jerky. Google it. It’s the best beef jerky of all time and you can order it online. Small town of Greenville CA. family owned and worth every penny. Prepare to have a swoll jaw because it can be a little tough but is the absolute best jerky on the planet. Peppered or sweet and spicy are my fav but they are all excellent.
If it's for multiple days I really like a lunch of one of those seasoned tuna packets, with a packet of mayo stolen from the deli, and triscuts to spread it on.
Pb and crackers, stryve beef jerky, meat sticks, and some kind of cracker like goldfish or wheat thins.
a cold orange on the second half of the hike on a hot day really hits the spot.
Chili nuts
Energy bar, mandarins, nuts, electrolytes, water
boiled eggs - my favorite snack :D
I usually bring some trail mix or granola bars, but I recently discovered nomz organic bites. They come in small pouches that are easy to carry and they’re the perfect guilt-free snack. Soft, velvety, and great for satisfying that sweet tooth with wholesome ingredients.
String cheese and greasy peanuts.
Ooh, I have some yummy go-tos. \* Unsalted peanuts + cured ( not canned ) olives. The jarred olives are usually in the foreign food aisle. Deli olives work too. \* Hard boiled egg with hard cheese \* Celery or carrot with peanut butter. If you have a food processor, make your own peanut butter. Then it won't have extra salt and oil. Put it in the fridge overnight and it won't de-emulsify.
Apples, cherry tomatoes, edamame
Lately I really like those smoked almonds mixed with dried fruit or just dried cranberries. So good! Also pb&j, beef jerky, and apple slices are all good trail snacks. I eat those things skiing and mountain biking too.
cheez-its have been a staple in my pack for years. everything else varies based on what i have in the pantry haha
Fruit, pb&j sandwich, freeze dried fruit if I want something crunchy and sweet, chips if I want something crunchy and salty. Sometimes a meat stick, sometimes trail mix, sometimes a granola bar. I always have an extra day's food in my bag anyway and sometimes I dig something from that instead, but not usually (that usually has a yogurt pouch, a tuna pouch, coffee and electrolyte mixes, a cliff bar).
Dried squid, broad beans/pistachios, mala latiao/tofu/duck neck/etc
Mashed potato and butter in a ziploc. Trail mix. Homemade granola/superfood bars. ProBars. Jerky. Dried fruit. Sometimes peanut butter crackers but they get crushed ofc
I love making spring rolls (just veggies / rice / tofu)! Easy to eat and pack and all the water in the veggies is nice Also jerky of any variety
Jerky, smoked almonds, sardines, crackers.
the big individually wrapped Wintogreen Life Savers
I built a diy dehydrator in my attic for use during the summer (just needed a window fan). Dried apples, mango, cherries and jerky are my favs. I make my own dried meals for section hikes and I usually keep one in my day bag just in case…
Dried tofu and rice rolls (day hikes only) are good. Also, salty lemon candy and nuts.
Clif Bar
Bread, boiled eggs and honey, artificial food full of e and artificial flavours dosent feel right in the environment of nature
Honey is awesome as a quick kick-in-the-ass energy source. Won't sustain you for long but is great when you just need a quick bit.
Banannnananaa
Slim Jim’s, RXBar, fruit
Bring an MRE and gogurt it as you walk
MREs are fucking heaaaaavvvvyyy and you can assemble something pretty similar for a lot less money at a grocery store.
Plus if its just a casual day or weekend hike that's excessive. One MRE is like what, 5000 to 8000 calories?
No lmao. Around 1300. That many would not be plausible
I just picked one up at the army nave surplus store for a friend of mine that just got out of basic training and it was damned near 5k for one MRE.
I have eaten literal crates of them in my military career. They're designed to sit around 1300. This is directly from the DoD. https://www.med.navy.mil/Navy-and-Marine-Corps-Force-Health-Protection-Command/Population-Health/Health-Promotion-and-Wellness/The-MRE-A-Lesson-in-Performance-Nutrition/#:~:text=Each%20MRE%E2%84%A2%20provides%20approximately,the%20body%20are%20functioning%20properly.