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Anonymous Thu 16 May 2013 20:51:41 No.116516 View View Reply Original Report

Hey /out/.
I am going camping/hiking in a few weeks with a couple of friends. Our goal is to walk as much as we can within the day, then stop,eat, sleep and repeat. This for around 4 days.
What foods do you recommend to bring with me? I'll only have a gas cooker with me. I'm mainly interested in some quick and easy to make protein filled goods.

>Pic related, its my gas cooker.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 May 2013 20:53:14 No.116519 Report

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>>116516
Ramen noodles and beef jerky.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 May 2013 21:12:53 No.116554 Report

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chorizo, pasta and cheese
If you are taking that make sure your friend 1 carrys all the food and friend 2 carries the tent.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 May 2013 21:15:23 No.116558 Report

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OATZ

(also lentils)

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Anonymous Thu 16 May 2013 21:18:51 No.116559 Report

Quoted By: >>116567 >>116631 >>116654 >>116693

So... backpacking? Well, remember to pack light, obviously. Good backpack is necessary. Your stove looks light enough, but my best advice is to make your own MRE's

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 May 2013 21:19:42 No.116562 Report

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fresh ravioli

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 May 2013 21:24:34 No.116567 Report

Quoted By: >>116571 >>116584 >>116654

>>116559

I fucking HATE that infographic

MRE means ready to eat

R E A D Y

Those things aren't ready to eat ffs

/endrant

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 May 2013 21:25:59 No.116571 Report

Quoted By: >>116584 >>116591

>>116567
It's just a layman's term. And technically, you can eat top ramen without cooking with it.

Also, OP has a stove, if you forgot

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 May 2013 21:45:28 No.116584 Report

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>>116567
>>116571
Because if you just called them "bags of food" then everyone would realize that it's a pretty stupid thing to have an infographic for.

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Anonymous Thu 16 May 2013 21:50:12 No.116591 Report

Quoted By: >>116646 >>116674 >>118455

>>116571
>OP has a stove, if you forgot

Which will be needed to prepare the not READY to eat Meal Ready to Eat *which is not a layman's term)

Technically you can eat ramen uncooked? Great. Tastes worse than normal I'll bet & isn't recommended. Even then you still have multiple packets to open & combine to create your "meal".

>inb4 accusations of autism

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 May 2013 22:36:17 No.116625 Report

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>Our goal is to walk as much as we can within the day, then stop,eat, sleep and repeat.
I assume you put a bit more thought into this?
Like, you thought about maxima and minima and have variants for each case in terms of lodging, etc?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 May 2013 22:38:27 No.116628 Report

Quoted By: >>116633

>>116584
It's not just bags of food. It's "carbohydrate rich bags of food with as little water as possible and enough protein and vitamins to avoid deficits". And that pretty much already sums up what you should bring to long tours.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 May 2013 22:39:45 No.116631 Report

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>>116559
>pic
>humanpetfoods.jpg

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 May 2013 22:42:22 No.116633 Report

Quoted By: >>116636

>>116628
>bags of food with as little water as possible
but to which you need to add water
>enough protein and vitamins to avoid deficits
hahahahaha no

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 May 2013 22:45:10 No.116636 Report

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>>116633
>but to which you need to add water
well yeah, obviously. The idea is that you will require a steady source of water on your tour anyway, so it's best to carry as little as possible with your food.

>>enough protein and vitamins to avoid deficits
>hahahahaha no
Care to elaborate on this? Am I doing something wrong?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 May 2013 22:58:17 No.116646 Report

Quoted By: >>116674

>>116591
>>ramen uncooked? Great. Tastes worse than normal I'll bet & isn't recommended.

Ramen noodles are already 100% cooked then dried.
When you add boiling water, you are just rehydrating them.
They actually taste pretty good dry.
I sometimes break them up and add them to salads.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 May 2013 23:05:29 No.116651 Report

Quoted By: >>116670

>>116516
I love those little stoves, had one in my dorm room.

this is an interesting read:

http://www.tune-in-tokyo.com/2009/04/portable-gas-cookers/

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Anonymous Thu 16 May 2013 23:11:34 No.116654 Report

Quoted By: >>116655 >>116666

>>116559
>>116567

molot0v !CocKTAILBg

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molot0v !CocKTAILBg Thu 16 May 2013 23:14:26 No.116655 Report

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>>116654

I thought I recognized that thumbnail.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 May 2013 23:32:12 No.116666 Report

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>>116654
These actually are ready to eat but the other graphic is equally valid. Pre-planning your meals and organizing them into sealed waterproof units is a good idea for a number of different reasons

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Anonymous Thu 16 May 2013 23:35:22 No.116670 Report

Quoted By: >>116757

>>116651

another pic to go along with the link

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 May 2013 23:44:49 No.116674 Report

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>>116591
Autist

>>116646

I've done that, and it makes a mean salad.

I usually Save the flavoring for later

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 May 2013 00:19:05 No.116693 Report

Quoted By: >>116750

>>116559
>pack light
>MREs with tons of plastic wraps

Yeah.

Buy things in bulk, pack it yourself in tough plastic boxes that will be even lighter, and even more practical.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 May 2013 01:40:57 No.116750 Report

Quoted By: >>116992

>>116693
>>plastic boxes that will be even lighter

Are you saying that a plastic box will be lighter than a vacuum sealed plastic bag?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 May 2013 01:52:08 No.116757 Report

Quoted By: >>116764

>>116670

She's hot.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 May 2013 02:04:32 No.116764 Report

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>>116757
>>She's hot.
iseewhatyoudidthere

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 May 2013 02:11:33 No.116773 Report

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ramen straight from the bag is just as good as cooked ramen.

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Anonymous Fri 17 May 2013 08:12:08 No.116977 Report

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>>116516
>>Pic related, its my gas cooker.

If you must but there are plenty of lighter weight ones. Those are for car camping. I have seen a group take pic related hiking once. We thought they were nuts.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 May 2013 09:19:37 No.116992 Report

Quoted By: >>117002 >>117105

>>116750
When you've got that much plastic bags, yeah.

And vacuum sealing it won't help with the weight; I mean, removing air won't make it lighter.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 May 2013 10:02:26 No.117002 Report

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>>116992

but it will make it easier to pack / keep it out of the way for collapsable water containers

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 May 2013 15:43:58 No.117105 Report

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>>116992
Man, you're crazier than a Bessie bug, a plastic box will be 150 times as heavy as a vacuum bag if not more. Plus vacuum bags are 100 percent waterproof even with extremely rough handling. You can fell a tree across one and it still won't leak, try that with ANY box.

The reason you remove the air is to shrink it to the smallest possible size and increase it's shelf life not to make it weigh less.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 May 2013 21:32:32 No.117331 Report

Quoted By: >>117342

>>117105
You should weight some plastic boxes one day. They really aren't that heavy. And you really seem to underestimate the weight of plastic wraps; I know that when I take the trash out, it's not exactly light.

Also if a tree fell in your face, I think you'd have greater problems than worrying about how air tight your food is.

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Anonymous Fri 17 May 2013 21:54:25 No.117342 Report

Quoted By: >>117350

>>117331
mfw
>>plastic bag full of trash is heavy
therefore
>>plastic bag is heavy

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 May 2013 22:01:48 No.117350 Report

Quoted By: >>117377

>>117342
Unless you're assuming I'm a complete retard, you should have understood that when I'm talking about trash, I am, indeed, talking about plastic wraps solely.

There's a thing known as "selective sorting of waste". It's a great way to adequately compare the weight of different materials. You should try it.

You're seriously overestimating the weight of plastic wraps. And you can believe me, I'm an ultralight backpacker, I weight down every single fucking thing I carry.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 May 2013 22:15:54 No.117354 Report

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Ooh, that sounds really fun. I've always wanted to do that, too bad my friends(the few I have) are mostly wimps.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 May 2013 22:54:39 No.117377 Report

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>>117350
not that guy but i work in a dry ice warehouse where everyshipment of raw ice comes with 5mil sheets of plastic covering the container, we do 10 shipments a day so at the end of the day there is about 30 tarp size sheets of just plastic that lumps up the size of a small horse, that yours truly has to take to the dumpster, and even this ridiculously large lump of plastic isnt all that heavy. i dont know what kind of plastic bags you think that guy was talking about. and im assuming youre talking about rubbermaid/tupperware type boxes. bot no plastic bags, will never be heavier than a box designed to carry the same weight. sorry.

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Anonymous Sun 19 May 2013 15:17:25 No.118455 Report

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>>116591
confirmed for /out/ism

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 May 2013 10:45:58 No.119180 Report

Quoted By: >>119992 >>120019

>>117377
Yeah large amounts of soft plastic aren't exactly heavy. But you know, you could carry the exact same volume of tupperware type boxes.

I think you're too quick in your comparison and would assume that hard plastic is heavier than soft plastic; kinda like one pound of feather being lighter than one pound of lead, amirite?
When you carry several MREs with a thousand wraps, well, all that plastic weight equals the amount of plastic boxes to store that stuff. A single box is heavier, but its capacity is much grander. Do the math.

I spend my time weighting every single thing in my pack, and believe me, for moderate amounts of food, I've learned to drop plastic wraps and switch to boxes instead. Of course this implies storing food in bulk, not separate for each meal. Which was the point of this discussion in the first place.

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Anonymous Tue 21 May 2013 05:34:00 No.119992 Report

Quoted By: >>120014 >>120092

>>119180
There's just no way to 'splain things to some people...

Vacuum bag thickness is measured in mils or THOUSANDTHS of an inch. the bags I use are 5 mil or .005 inch thick

How thick are your imaginary Tupperware containers?
1/8" ? that's .125 inch

The fact that you say you weigh everything in your pack and "discovered" that thick plastic boxes are lighter than exponentially thinner bags just shows that not only have you never weighed anything in your life, but that you also probably don't even HAVE a pack and also lack the basic understanding of a 9 year old.

Admit it, the sum total of your outdoor experience consists of walking through the sporting goods section of K-Mart and watching 2 seasons of Bear Grylls.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 May 2013 06:09:24 No.120014 Report

Quoted By: >>120019 >>120200 >>120564

>>119992

And now we play the "I'm more /out/ than you" game.

The guy can't even make an arguement without resorting to insulting his opponent. Five bucks says he's a self important hippy shitheel.

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Anonymous Tue 21 May 2013 06:15:53 No.120019 Report

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>>119180
>>120014
samefag

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Anonymous Tue 21 May 2013 09:24:16 No.120092 Report

Quoted By: >>120105

>>119992
So I guess my weighing scales are off then?

>>120019
No.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 May 2013 09:52:31 No.120105 Report

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>>120092
>>So I guess my weighing scales are off then?
>>my weighing scales
>>weighing scales

No man, sadly it's your brain that must be off.

By any chance, were you home schooled by Tea Party Creationist Climate Change Deniers?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 May 2013 13:48:08 No.120200 Report

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>>120014
>The guy can't even make an arguement without resorting to insulting his opponent. Five bucks says he's a self important hippy shitheel.

HA.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 May 2013 17:04:22 No.120347 Report

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Anyone else think OP's pic was a hard drive at first glance?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 May 2013 22:21:26 No.120564 Report

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>>120014

btw - it's "argument" you fuckin' hillbilly

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