Regular Food list
Saturday eat breakfast prior to meeting then as follows:

Trail snacks
Lunch
Trail snacks
Dinner item
Dessert
Breakfast item granola or a dehydrated meal/ coffee/ hot chocolate/ tea
Trail snacks
Lunch at car or in Monterey

FOOD IDEAS
We aim for about 2000-4000 calories a day depending on their age and level of activity. For an 8–10-mile hike. On average women need about 2,400 calories a day and men about 2800 calories.

•  Coffee (Starbucks Via)

• Tea

•  Electrolyte packets

•  Protein powder for after the hike

•  Bars (Larabar, Clif Bar, ProBar, Ivan Bar, Luna, Kind, Bobo’s)

  Pop-Tarts, Granola & Cereal (Bear Naked)

•  Powdered Milks

• Breakfast Drink Mix Packets

  Trail Mix

Nuts and Seeds (Almonds, peanuts, etc.) Almond Butter Packets (Justin's)
Peanut Butter Packets (Justin's)
Instant Oatmeal (Quaker)

Lunch

Tuna and crackers or tortillas
Bagels or Tortillas (Thomas Bagels, Mission Tortillas)
Hummus
Hard Meats - Salami, Summer Sausage, etc. (Applegate)
Hard Cheese - Parmesan, Romano, etc.
Almond Butter Packets (Justin's)
Peanut Butter Packets (Justin's)
Jelly or Honey packets
Tuna or Chicken in foil packets (StarKist)
Dried Pork Packets (Meat Shredz)
Small Condiment Packets - Mayo, Mustard, Relish, Hot Sauce, etc. Supplement with other snacks

very small bottles of Tabasco

Freeze Dried Dinners (Some of our faves: PEAK REFUEL | REI Co-op Instant Mashed Potatoes (Idahoan)
Bacon bits
Ramen (Maruchan)

Instant Soups

• ●  Stuffing

• ●  Instant Mac & Cheese (Velveeta)

• ●  Pasta and Rice Sides (Knorr)

  Chicken Packets (StarKist)

• ●  Tuna Packets (StarKist)

• ●  Dried Pork Packets (Meat Shredz)

• ●  Dehydrated Vegetables (Just Veggies

  DESSERT

  CHOCOLATE / RICE CRISPY

  Or whatever you want they do make backpacking desserts

  Then repeat for Sunday morning breakfast and trail snacks with lunch at the car or wait until you get to Monterey.

  VEGAN FOOD IDEAS BREAKFAST
  Oats
  Dried fruit

  Nuts and Seeds [Macadamias have the highest calorie count ] Cacao
  Chia seeds
  Dehydrated alternative milks

  LUNCH
  Tortillas or Pita
  Dried Hummus mix with water
  Vegan crackers
  No bake energy balls no-bake energy balls Vegan protein bars
  Lentils

Dried coconut

Dried Chickpeas

GLUTEN FREE
Oatmeal w/ GF oats, chia seeds, hemp hearts, coconut milk powder

Skip the Sugar Crash Trail Smoothie

Gluten Free Snack/Lunch Ideas

• ●  Bars: GreenBelly, GoMacro, Kind Bars, Picky Bars, Lara Bars, RxBars, Trail Nuggets, Taos Bakes, ProBar meals and Base protein bars, Kate’s Real Food Bars

• ●  Tuna/Chicken packets

• ●  Jerky/Meat Bars like Wild Zora bars, Mighty Beef Sticks, Chomps, or

  Tanka

• ●  Summer sausage

• ●  Nut butters like Trail Butter, Justin’s Nut Butter, Rx Nut Butter, Yum

  Butter, 88 Acres Seed Butter, Barney Butter... or just get a 16oz plastic

  jar of whatever’s local (avoid added seed oils if possible)

• ●  Vegan jerkies (Louisville, Jack and Friends)

• ●  Quinn Snacks Pretzels (some grain free, some filled with almond

  butter!)

• ●  Jackson’s Honest tortilla chips, sweet potato chips (some grain free,

  made without inflammatory seed oils)

• ●  Mary’s Gone Crackers

• ●  Rice crackers

• ●  Nut crackers like Blue Diamond

• ●  Dried fruit, banana chips (Trader Joes or Natural Grocers are good options for this stuff)

• ●  Nut and Seeds such as almonds, walnuts, macadamia nuts, sunflower seeds, etc.

• ●  Home-made trail mixes w/ dried fruit, nuts, seeds, coconut flakes, etc.

• ●  Dark Chocolate

• ●  Moon Cheese or Cheddar Whisps

• ●  Store bought trail mixes like Gorilly Goods

• ●  Homemade paleo granola or something like Supernola

• ●  Fruit leather or fruit bars, like Pure Bar

• ●  Seaweed Snacks

  Dinner

  My approach to dinner is to start with a protein (meat or beans), add a carbohydrate (beans, noodles, rice, etc), add healthy fat (olive oil or coconut oil), add veggies, add spices.

• ●  Instant hummus

• ●  Instant black beans, refried beans

• ●  Dehydrated veggies

• ●  Rice noodles, like Lotus Foods

• ●  Coconut wraps

• ●  Corn tortillas

• ●  Instant quinoa

• ●  Minute Instant rice

● Freeze dried meats

Additional Gluten Free Ingredients

• ●  Protein powders: collagen or plant-based

• ●  Cheese powder

• ●  Whole milk powder

• ●  Butter powder

• ●  Coconut milk powder

• ●  Olive oil packets

• ●  Coconut oil packets

• ●  Mustard packets

• ●  Hot sauce packets

• ●  GF tamari packets

• ●  Avocado mayo packets

  Drinks

• ●  Instant coffee

• ●  Instant tea

• ●  Electrolytes: EmergenC, Nuun, Replenisher, LMNT, Bumble Roots

• ●  GF Hot chocolate

Pre-packaged Options for Gluten Free Hikers

• ●  Food for the Sole

• ●  Heather’s Choice

• ●  Outdoor Herbivore

• ●  Patagonia Provisions

• ●  Fresh Off the Grid

• ●  Next Mile Meals

• ●  Wild Zora

• ●  FirePot

• ●  Mary Jane’s

• ●  Good-to-Go

• ●  Nomad Nutrition