Not your daily rations: but the snack food that you eat as you walk, ride, canoe along during the day in-between meals.
Trail food
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Mixed nuts and dried fruit. the odd choccy bar. marzipan when climbing as its loaded with engery.
Home made flapjack when I have it (It never seems to last very long 
) Shop bought flapjack or Twix. Sometimes raisins or sultanas. Plenty of smokes and a bottle of drink *LOL*
Wayne... you can consider yourself completely and utterly free of any chance of a Longstrider snog if you've been climbing. Marzipan?... EEEuugh !!
) Shop bought flapjack or Twix. Sometimes raisins or sultanas. Plenty of smokes and a bottle of drink *LOL*Wayne... you can consider yourself completely and utterly free of any chance of a Longstrider snog if you've been climbing. Marzipan?... EEEuugh !!
I'm partial to parched corn, honey, berries, nuts, dried apricots, fresh fruit, granola, rasins and a combo mixed into a trail mix of sorts. On occassion I'll carry venison, buffalo or turkey jerky. I will sometimes have a bow with me and with luck, will kill lunch (quail or rabbit) and spice it up with pepper, sea salt, cayenne, garlic or whatever else I might happen to have in my pack at the time.
As a trail foods, I carry salted sunflower seeds, almonds, salted peanuts; dried raisins, cranberries, apricots. I also include fresh apples, bananas and oranges in season.
Dried fruit and nuts here as well, though the mix tends to change week by week depending on what we have in the cupboards at home.
Ed
Ed
Fruit apple or banana and cereal/energy (granola) bars. I always have at least one such bar in a pouch I keep on my rucksack hip belt, ready for a quick nibble while walking, climbing or whatever, along with paper tissues, SAK/Leatherman etc.
i like a pocket full of Jerky when i go out for a while, i make my own, its quite easy, you can make it in the oven or in a de-hydrator, i have just been to Tesco and they have a reduced price bin, in it tonight was turkey breasts, so thats my jerky for the next couple of weeks, slice the breasts across the grain, and then put it in a bag with your marinade over night, then when i get up in the morning i will set the machine working and by teatime ill have loads of beautiful turkey jerky 
yours Den
yours Den
Its got to be lots of chocolate for me,for energy you know, (and spots). I do like to find wild food though like wood sorrel, hazel nuts and sweet chestnuts (if the squirrels have not got them first), blackberrys etc etc. That homemade flapjack sounds good too...............Jon
bambodoggy
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Snickers (Marathon) bars, the big supersized ones, and plenty of them... I'd just eat the toffee and caramel but having the nuts in there too makes me feel like I'm at least making an effort to do the right thing and eat healthy
Quite like those Frys Cream Bars too, in peppermint or orange.
Fruit pastles are good to suck while tabbing up a hill and I'm not overt to the odd pack of Opelfruits (starbust indeed! ).
Then if I'm going to stop on the trail to snack and brew up then it's a Terry's chocolet orange (whole one but without the outer packaging) and then rasberry jam filled dougnuts to dip in the coffee or hot chocolet (anyone see a pattern forming here?
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That lot should see me though until lunch....mmmmmm hungry now....I made an apple and blackberry crumble yesterday so I'm off to eat the other half of it now...warmed and with cold Jersey double cream on it...mmmmmm
Bam.
Quite like those Frys Cream Bars too, in peppermint or orange.
Fruit pastles are good to suck while tabbing up a hill and I'm not overt to the odd pack of Opelfruits (starbust indeed!
).Then if I'm going to stop on the trail to snack and brew up then it's a Terry's chocolet orange (whole one but without the outer packaging) and then rasberry jam filled dougnuts to dip in the coffee or hot chocolet (anyone see a pattern forming here?
).That lot should see me though until lunch....mmmmmm hungry now....I made an apple and blackberry crumble yesterday so I'm off to eat the other half of it now...warmed and with cold Jersey double cream on it...mmmmmm
Bam.
bambodoggy said:Snickers (Marathon) bars, the big supersized ones, and plenty of them... I'd just eat the toffee and caramel but having the nuts in there too makes me feel like I'm at least making an effort to do the right thing and eat healthy
Quite like those Frys Cream Bars too, in peppermint or orange.
Fruit pastles are good to suck while tabbing up a hill and I'm not overt to the odd pack of Opelfruits (starbust indeed!
Then if I'm going to stop on the trail to snack and brew up then it's a Terry's chocolet orange (whole one but without the outer packaging) and then rasberry jam filled dougnuts to dip in the coffee or hot chocolet (anyone see a pattern forming here?
That lot should see me though until lunch....mmmmmm hungry now....I made an apple and blackberry crumble yesterday so I'm off to eat the other half of it now...warmed and with cold Jersey double cream on it...mmmmmm
Bam.
Howz ya teeth 
andyn
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
LOL...sounds like Bam has as sweet a tooth as I do. I was pretty much banned from eating fruit pastiles (although swmbo cant see what i buy when im at work ) as i get through a whole tube in just a few minutes.
Yum.
Strangley through I havent got any teeth problems and no fillings.
) as i get through a whole tube in just a few minutes. Yum.
Strangley through I havent got any teeth problems and no fillings.
Not that I've tried it as a trail food yet but I will be!! Tried it for the first time on monday and have eaten almost two packs of it now! haha.. It's awesome..
Will have a go at making my own but not so sure about leaving the oven on all night......
Oh and for the trail...it's "gotta be a snickers"
Will have a go at making my own but not so sure about leaving the oven on all night......
Oh and for the trail...it's "gotta be a snickers"
macadamia nuts are the best but damned pricey 
salted peanuts mixed with chocolate chips are lovely till the choc chips melt in your pocket. I get funny looks for licking the plastic bag to get the choc off...
quite like a pepperami or two as a snack now and then. Prefer to cut them up to go in with noodles for lunch tho.
salted peanuts mixed with chocolate chips are lovely till the choc chips melt in your pocket. I get funny looks for licking the plastic bag to get the choc off...
quite like a pepperami or two as a snack now and then. Prefer to cut them up to go in with noodles for lunch tho.
bambodoggy
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
clipper said:
Lol....not too bad thanks Matey....but then again even if I did loose them all..out of all the stuff I like it'd only be the peanuts that wouldn't melt in the mouth anyway! lol
I do understand it's not the right thing to eat and I should know better...but I'm affraid when it's a choice between a supersized snickers or a bag of dry musli at the end of a cold winters day....well, the snickers dips in the coffee better lol
