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- salami - Backpacking Light
Don't worry about taking some salami or summer sausage into bear country The bears will be happy to help you take care of it The problem will be after you eat some of it, and you will have salami odor around your camp, and you will have it on your fingers Fine You can wash up, but the bears will smell it after you don't anymore
- Beef jerky, tuna in foil packets, salami - Backpacking Light
Now this was un-sealed salami, not in factory-sealed plastic I suspect factory-sealed or home-vac-packed with the outside carefully cleaned would be very low-odor Just like I have a particular sequence through the grocery store, bears develop habits around where the most careless people have the tastiest food
- Caloric Density Spreadsheet - Backpacking Light
2) FATS and OILS should make up 40-50% of your caloric intake Chocolate bars, olive oil, parafied butter, salami, pepperoni, dried hot dog bits, etc…Anything that has a high percentage of fat in them is a candidate for packing Often, these same foods do not dehydrate well, soo, look to the deli counter
- Trail Mix Fatigue - Backpacking Light
Slice of each salami; Piece of gruyere and parmesan cheeses; Small serving of one of the above trail mixes; Lunch every day tasted great I left the salami and cheeses in plastic bags out on my counter-top, only cutting out a small serving each day Even at day 7, the salami and cheeses looked, tasted, and smelled fine
- Your favorite low no water requirement foods - Backpacking Light
Early in a trip, I bring foods that aren’t much different than what I might eat at home Because (1) I don’t carry the first day’s food very far (better to have super-light and no-fuel foods at the end of a trip because that stuff gets carried the furtherest) and (2) I like to transition over a few meals from around-town food to trail food – I get fewer lower-GI issues if my diet doesn
- How much gorp trail mix is enough? - Backpacking Light
The cheese thing comes up frequently Lynn did a nice experiment where she coated some cheese and salami in wax After 6 weeks sitting on the counter at room temperature it was still good Cheese was invented as a preservative after all I think the modern warnings are more of a CYA type thing
- dehydrating and calorie counting - Backpacking Light
For instance, pretty much any cooking oil has the same energy density as olive oil For fruit leather and jerky, the values above should work If you like jerky as a luxury food, that's cool, but its energy density is pathetic; hard salami is much more dense
- refrigerate after opening. . summer sausage? - Backpacking Light
Summer sausage packs I see on Amazon (for eg: the Jack Links brand) has the words "Refrigerate after opening" I need them for 5 - 6 day trips I
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