McAfee, looking NW
Hiking heavy now, with food. I had to laugh. That clearly insane idea I had in late March that I would eat 5000 calories/day was ... an underestimate. Typical food stuffsack for me:
Food - Cal/serving - serving size - hiker serving - Notes
Summer Sausage - 190 - 2 oz - 2 - 4.5 servings, 6" log
Chedder Cheese, medium - 110 - 1 oz - 2 - 1 inch cube
Oatmeal, Instant Brn sugar/maple - 160 - 1 pk 43 gms - 2 - 2 for breakfast
Breakfast essentials - 130 - 35 gms - 1 - mix with water or milk (230 cal)
Poptarts, frosted - 200 - 1 pastry, 50 gms - 2 - 2 pastries/envelope, 4 envelopes/box
Chewy Granola bar, Chocolate - 90 - 24 gm - 2 - 10 bars/box
Fig Newtons - 110 - 2 cookies - 2 - 13 servings/box
Peanut Butter nabs - 200 - 39gms - 1 - 8 servings /box
Raisins - 130 - 1.5 oz/ 42gm - 1 - six boxes/container
Semisweet chips, chocolate - 70 - 1 T/14gm - 2 - 340 gm bag
jello pudding, instant, coconut creme - 100 - serving - 4 - 4 servings / box, add dried milk, 160 cal
jello, raspberry - 80 - serving - 4 - 4 servings / box (85gm)
chef boy ar dee ravioli - 230 - serving - 2 - 2 servings / can (15oz)
hormel chile, chunky beans - 260 - servings (1 cup) - 2 - 2 servings /can
tuna fish in oil, sm can - 70 - serving - 2 - 2 servings /can
progresso creamy mushroom - 120 - serving - 2 - 2 servings
chicken noodle, campbells - 60 - serving - 2 - 2.5 servings/can
mac cheese - 250 - serving - 3 - 3 servings /box (7.5 oz)
creamy knorr pasta dinner - 220 - serving - 2 - 2 servings /bag (2 cups)
knorr alfrado noodles - 220 - serving - 2 - 2 servings /bag (2 cups)
tortillas, 8 inch - 120 - serving - 2 - 10 /bag
refried beans - 90 - serving - 4 - 4 servings (1/2 c /serving)
mexican rice dish, dried - 230 - serving - 2 - 2 servings
gatorade - 50 - serving - 4 - mix
bushs baked beans - 140 - 1/2 cup - 4 - 4 servings / can
manderin oranges - 90 - serving 1/2 c - 2 -
mashed potatos, dried - 110 - serving 1/4 c - 2 - 2 servings / bag
slim jims - 160 - 32 gms - 1 - 4 very small pieces / serving
beef jerky - 80 - 1 oz / 28 gms - 2 - munchies
trail mix, fruit nuts - 130 - 3 T / 30 gms - 2 - handful after handful
peanuts - 160 - 1 oz / 28 gms - 2 - handful after handful
snickers - 160 - 34 gms - 1 - whats not to love
peanut M&Ms - 220 - 42 gms - 2 - 8 servings /bag
peanut butter - 190 - 2 T / 32gms - 3 - 16 servings / jar
honey bear - 60 - 1 T / 21gm - 2 - 16 servings / bear
advil - 0 - 1 500 gm tablet - 8 - nutritionally useless, pain management
tabasco / garlic / s&p - 0 - 1 clove/shot - 1 - good on anything, delightful with bugs
tea / sugar - 16 - 1 tspn - 1 - one a day generally
hot chocolate - 150 - 35g (1 pouch) - 1 - 8 pouches/box
This wasn't THE stuffsack. Rather, my shopping list. The food stuffsack averaged 16-18 pounds full. I'd never carry more than one or two canned items a week, except tuna that went with me more often. Canned foods were eaten first up almost every opportunity, just to lighten the sack and free up sack space. That also meant the can trash could be pitched at the first available road crossing with a scenic view trash can (or local house/gas station obliging the same).
I listed a lot of individual ingredients for the gorp: peanuts, raisins, chocolate or butterscotch baking bits, M&Ms, sometimes cheks cereal, cheerios, partymix. Most days, somewhere around 5000 calories were consumed, not counting what might get eaten if one was passing through a town with an all-you-can-eat buffet, or 2-fer specials on McDonalds cheeseburgers, Wendys salad bars, or the Taco Bell 6pack soft taco supreme special. The heavy liquids like apple juice or V8 rarely made it out of the supermarket parking lot -- good to eat, lousy weight to carry.
As for the Advil or other 'Vitamin I' drugs, well, we'd eat far more than the daily recommended maximum. Pain management mattered. Yes, the first day of my toxicology class, we wrote down the only important axiom: 'The dose makes the poison.' Pain was a hike killer. It wasn't quite like tylenol poisoning, acetaminophen is far less forgiving to a liver. But we - or I - ate more vitamin i than I should. Vitamin i = ibuprofen.