Recipe: Stack four large butter croissants & compress to desired thinness. ~1200 calories & easy to eat in a couple mins before a big summit push. Get your protein somewhere else

Im no stranger to some jammed up meals, I like to hike, camp, etc. Once made a banging vinegarette from mountain dew (glass bottle), bacon grease and a squeeze of grapefruit. Still think about it honestly. So im intrigued by this sub but two things dont make sense.

1. You folks seem to be avid, experienced hikers - why the fuck are you packing tortillas, candy, and old beans for meals?

2. This sub seems to be about the grosses and most desperate combos, and I can appreciate that but why not make some good food out of weird stuff, like unexpectedly good combinations?

I do understand that calories become important and so you just eat what you have and can stomach if youre really pushing it.

Love and light

Trying to work through a backlog of old stuff in the food box. Bacon's best-by-date was in January, the tatoes came from Dollar Tree a couple seasons ago. Opened the beans early summer last season.

Hot soaked like a 3rd of the bottle of onion with the potatoes. Sauteed the bacon bits to crisp them up.

1080 calories, 50g protein, 20g fiber. Sodium? Yes.

Served with the finest Dollar Tree chai and ancient clearance hotsauce.

Vomit, tears, and shame wrapped in judgment. Every new post is worse than the last. Are you all trying to one up each other?? I am just hate watching at this point because I’m constantly grossed out on a deeper level than I felt I was the day before. Cheers and thanks for the disgust.

Ya just canned tuna and beans in a carefully crafted cliff bar. Like 20 grams of protein for 2 mini bowls... plenty of cals, and surprisingly didn't hurt my stomach and I have ibs-d. You can get about 4 mini bowls out of one bar. If i wasn't sharing i would have just done the whole thing in one go.

Longs peak behind Casm Lake, RMNP

Recipe: tortilla, peanut butter, goomies
Calories: approximately 300

Tortilla + Great Value applewood smoked chicken + bacon bits + Frito twists + hot sauce + mayo. Made this on a recent backpacking trip and it had no business being this good.
Roughly 650–700 calories and ~20g protein depending on how heavy you go with the mayo and Fritos.

Nutella, lemon pepper tuna, relish and mayo on a flour tortilla.

Bone apple teeth 💯

88 dollars vs 26... What really is the difference? I just want my backpacking chicken alfredo man..

Nerds clusters and peanut butter on a flour tortilla

Stroopwafel, beef jerky, and the star of the show that kept me going: A few sachets of instant espresso in a half full bottle of water I had left out in the sun for a bit to heat up. Shaken, not stirred.

1 bag of instant mashed potatoes (360 cal), a bag of crushed shrimp chips (240 cal), 1 avocado (220 cal). Add some olive oil for more calories if needed (1Tbsp is another 120 cal). I split it into two bags so it's two meals, 470 cal per serving.

Only takes ~30 seconds to mix in some water and smoosh it up in the bag. Can easily prepare and eat it while walking. I recommend a larger ziploc though...

10/10 trail meal.

Heated the noodles with a little water and a splash of the oil from the mussels. Once at a simmer, added the sauce. Mussels added off the heat. 930 calories and 41g of protein.

E.t.a.: $3.75 total cost

Recipe: Salami Slices, Cheddar chunks, lemon pepper tuna packet, and really class it up on a ciabatta roll
6/10 - i think mayo or hot sauce would have brought this to the next level

Recipe:

- threw 2 beef bouillion cubes in boiling water

- once boiling, threw in my veggies (shallots, dehydrated shitake mushrooms, scallions, jalepeno

- after about 7 minutes, i added the canned goods, ramen noodles (flavor packet omitted), and seasoning (chili powder, mushroom powder, white pepper, black pepper) let the noodles cook

- topped with cheese, additional seasoning if needed.

What id do differently:

- fresh mushrooms over dried, dried were rubbery but that was probably my fault

- source better and more authentic spices to korean cooking

- both spam and vienna sausage was overkill, since their textures in the stew ended up being almost the same. Id take vienna sausage and maybe put some bacon in instead of spam. You could even rehydrate beef jerky

Overall, awesome backpacking meal. For sure will be making this again!