MREs (Meals Ready to Eat) are really not bad. They taste the equivalent of canned food. MREs are precooked and can be eaten directly from there package or can be heated. There is quite a variety of menus including a few vegetarian and kosher items. You can buy full MREs (main course, side dish, and dessert) or just the main course.
Full MREs will cost about $5.00 if you buy a case and the main course can be purchased for about $2.00.


Jay



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MRE's. heh. Three lies for the price of one

What's a rusk?

Please don't eat this on a commercial flight, especially if you're sitting next to me. The smell....

Not to worry. All of this travel is going to be done on a private plane, in the company of a group of people who are probably going to smell worse than a packet of tuna after five days wandering around Siberia...

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I get really really sick of trail mix, jerky, and power bars after a while.

Variety is your best bet. Bring a few packs of each, and rotate them as your taste buds change.

Also, Japanese wasabi beans are fun. Fruit Roll ups are a quick energy boost as well as give you that sweet satisfaction. I love the thin as well as the thick fruit strips, which are pretty fulfilling.

If you are doing some hard camping / hiking, jerky is going to fulfull that hunger best, along with some good liquid drink.

If you need ideas, go to Trader Joes and see what they have. Sometimes you may surprise yourself.

Commercialised stuff maybe. The traditional native american stuff is meat dried with a coating of berries (I think cranberry or blueberry or som other Vaccinium species.

I have traveled with the tuna in the foil packs. I've learned the hard way to take along some small plastic bags to wrap up the ramains so that I don't have to live with the smell in my room. I don't eat my tuna on flights. I understand what the smell can do to others, especially hungry others.

Are you quite sure? Native Americans were looking for maximum energy, not healthy eating.

1 pound of jerkey, 1 cup of lard:

http://www.nativetech.org/food/ChokecherryPemmican.html

I remembered this from my Boy Scout days and Google seems to bear me out...

http://w4.lns.cornell.edu/~SEB/pemmican.

Making fat optional seems to be a modern refinement, although I won't rule out local tribal preferences.

Ah, pemmican!

You dry the meat out first. Then you grind it to a powder, add equal parts of animal fat that is rendered, and a handful of dried cherries.

The enemy of pemmican is moisture. If you dry the meat out and render the fat, it will keep basically forever.

Pemmican is perfectly balanced. You can live on it.

I'm more accustomed to eating muesli soaked in fruit juice than eating muesli with milk. So take along some juice boxes and some paper or styrofoam cups. Pour the muesli in the cup and pour some juice over it, and let it sit for a few minutes. Take along some plastic spoons, and there you go.

I'd skip the Wonder bread (mostly because it is inedible to me) and pack flatbread - maybe like Swedish rye crisp type stuff. (Oops - I read what you said about rusks - maybe Swedish rye crisps are too similar to that!)

Consider taking some smoked salmon (I don't think this is the time to go for the cheapest options). How about some milk that has been treated with high temperatures and comes in packages (or just powdered milk?).

Nuts, seeds, dried fruits, and trail mix are a good idea. Go to the health food store and look for some types of combo bars that are much more appealing than the standard meal-replacement types. If it were me, I'd want some excellent-quality dark chocolate along - for quick bursts of energy. No need to eat much - just an emergency ration thing.

If I were in your situation, I'd consider writing out a complete list of meal plans for every day you are gone. You don't have to follow it, but at least you can see if your plans look tolerable overall.

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Try not to write off nuts. You need some fat in your daily diet, and it not only helps to stave off hunger pangs but if you're physically active on this trip you'll need the energy. Pistachios are a good choice.

When I was in construction management, I had a contractor who had not 1 but 2 employees that ate canned dog food for lunch. So, that's my vote, 6 cans of KenLRation and a can opener with no sharp ends....Look at it this way,....no one will want to "share" your food....

Nasty.....I wonder if it's any good. I knew this kid that used to eat dog biscuits.

IIRC, clif makes a new sort of savory bar, so you could take some of those sweet bars and mix them with the savory ones for a change.

Everyone has made great suggestions.

I would go with turkey jerky, tuna, clif bars, some sort of fruit roll up, granola/gorp,tortillas (they have an amazing shelf life), peanut butter and raisins.

I would also make sure that I had access to sterlized water.

Having just spent 5 days on an island with UHT milk, I realized how bad it tastes, but how nice it is to have it with my coffee. I know you can get it in little cup sized tetra packs.

lala