Here is what we eat while on the trail. The bottom row is our breakfast which consists of an oat/chia/protein mix or a dehydrated egg/cheese/potatoe mix or a savoury dried bean mix. We create the mixes ourselves and are perfecting the recipes as we go along. The bag is enough for the 2 of us and along with some instant coffee, and 1 multivitamin and 2 fish oil capsules per day, we are good to go.
The middle row is our day food from which we consume something every 2 hours. We have a bar each, a vitamin drink, a protein/greens shake, a sesame crepe, another bar each, tofu or salmon jerky shared, tea/coffee, and a post workout drink when we finish. On longer days or if we feel like we are dragging our asses, we take a caffeine pill midday instead of afternoon tea/coffee.
The top row is dinner which consists of equal parts CARBS (instant pasta or dried quinoa or couscous or instant rice), dried VEGGIES (some veggies are better in the freeze dried forms), and PROTEIN (dried beans or texturized vegetable protein or freeze dried chicken), made into a stew for quick cooking.
We have roughly figured this daily amount equals 3200 calories each with the macronutrients sitting approximately at 55% Carbs-25% Protein-20% Fats.
Over the recent years we have added more electrolytes into our vitamin drink with good results as Zip no longer has restless legs and Jobie has fewer cramps.
Food is essential on the trail as it is anywhere and we keep tweaking this menu to meet our needs.
Zip and Jobie Go Hiking 