Growing up we either ate really well backpacking or else food just tastes so much better when you are tired, hungry, and there's not any other option. Here's a menu of what we ate. We brought Karen along who is the best cook I know, so we ate better than ever!!
Day 1:
breakfast at home
lunch: Roadburgers, home grown peaches, and raw broccoli in the parking lot.
Roadburgers are ground beef mixed with cream of mushroom soup served on a roll or bun. We have this awesome travel cooker called a Rock Pot. Sorry, they are not made anymore, but you could put the meat in a thermos or something to keep it warm.
dinner: We bought sandwiches and salads in a grocery store in Moab and just packed them in.
Day 2:
breakfast: Karen's homemade granola and whole wheat berry muffins
lunch: mini bagels with pb (I stole a bunch of pb packets from a hotel earlier this year), homemade raspberry jam, mandarin orange cups, and apples. Since we had to carry in all our water anyway, I splurged on the mandarin orange cups. They were a huge hit!!
dinner: Ground beef, Lipton rice packets with dried peas all rehydrated with the backpacking stove. The kids cooked up seconds on this meal and ate all of it!!
Day 3:
breakfast: instant oatmeal and hot cocoa/ leftover bagels from lunch the day before
lunch: Chicken salad pitas (canned chicken mixed with mayo, craisins, nuts, etc)
dinner: we were out by about 2pm so we stopped and got dinner at our favorite hamburger joint in Green River, Utah. Ray's Tavern! Best hamburger ever! They are so big I usually split a meal with someone!
We supplemented with granola bars, jerky sticks, fruit leather, fruit bites, trail mix, candy, etc. (Some of the links on this post are affiliate links)
