One of the perennial questions hikers are asked is about food.  Here’s a post about my own food choices. I’ll post a photo of typical breakfast, lunch, and dinner fare. This could be breakfast:

On the bottom left is instant grits with some powdered “Ova Easy” eggs; above that is granola. I would have either but not both. On the right bottom is a square of a high calorie quick bread Ann baked and dehydrated for me. Top right is peanut butter in bags (since the jars are heavier and don’t compact as they are emptied). This and water usually make up my breakfast.

Then there’s lunch:

Here, on the left, is the bread and peanut butter combo again. On the right are a bag of shelled pistachios (top) and mixed roasted nuts (bottom). I’m showing several days’ supply here. There’s no way I’d eat that many nuts just for lunch.

And dinner:

This looks pretty skimpy when I look at it this way, but this is what it is. Top left is a commercially dehydrated soup that Ann’s fortified with either whole wheat cous cous or instant brown rice. Below that is cheese (cheddar in this case, but I also enjoy asiago or parmesan … all of which keep for several days without refrigeration). And on the right are more nuts.

My snacks during the day are mostly the nuts, sometimes mixed with perhaps sesame sticks or a fried corn snack Ann has sent for variety.

All taken with water, lots and lots of water. The only “cooking” I do is to boil a cup or so of water and pour it into the plastic bag containing the grits or soup (or several interesting dehydrated “salads” that Ann’s found at our organic grocery, based on quinoa, or rice, or noodles). Let it sit a few minutes and it’s mealtime. It’s pretty quick, filling, satisfying, nutritious, and not too heavy.

Here, by the way, is my little Sawyer brand water filter, and a 32 ounce bag of water just collected from the stream ready to be filtered. The filter screws on top of the bag, which is then inverted and squeezed so the drinkable water comes through the filter. Fresh, cold, clean water whenever I find a spring, stream, pond or whatever. [Thanks, Jill !!]

And that’s about that.