The trek walk useful for the body and for the state of the soul. And still very informative. Who walked not in camping mattress long distance knows that a good steward in this case - its weight in gold, so you go long and far, and the food must be optimal in order to maintain your strength at the required level to cover all your energy costs, but still very desirable that it was tasty and useful.
Of course, after 7 days in the mountains and you stew a bit of sugar with bread seems a delicacy, but if you nice to have the opportunity to diversify your diet and it does not weigh down your backpack and not worth it miss.
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Frankly, I myself was on the march once, and it was enough to me in full. We made an unforgivable mistake for beginners - go camping for 9 days with the heavy backpacks (mine weighed about 14 kg), due to the necessary amount of food in a not very favorable season. But the only thing we still did the right thing - distributed into the corners of the bags with spices and dried herbs, plus sweet and salted nuts and dried fruits (raisins and apricots).
Brian Greene (Brian Green), An avid camper with great experience, considers such a mixture of nuts and dried fruits of one of the best snacks that are good to take with you on camping trips, especially those that include more and mountaineering. Because it is easy (by weight), tasty, healthy and nutritious breakfast or a snack.
There are many different recipes and components like starters and everyone chooses it according to your taste (favorite nuts, sweet or salty, with dried fruit or not, etc.). Brian shares his favorite.
Roasted cashews (lightly salted)
Walnut
Golden raisins (raisins from seedless)
dark raisins
Semisweet chocolate chips
A pinch of salt
Sex cup of this mixture (86 g) contains approximately 333 calories, 22 g fat, 33 g carbohydrates, 22 g of sugar and 5 g protein 4 g fat.
I can only add that for a change, you can take with muesli, milk, and soy goulash matzah. Milk powder and soy may not be very useful, but light in weight and will help to diversify your diet. For long trips it is of great importance, since every extra gram by the end of the day slowly turns on the sensations in kilograms.
I want to offer you a few simple recipes of appetizers from a mixture of nuts. The campaign is, of course, do not cook, but what's stopping you prepare this in advance and take it with you?
spice blend
What do you need. A mixture of 200 g of nuts (choose any of the taste) 1 teaspoon of melted butter, 3 tablespoons brown sugar 1/2 teaspoon teaspoon ground cinnamon, 3/4 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper (or any other red pepper), 1 1/2 teaspoon of honey and 1 teaspoon of sea salt.
How to cook. Toast the nuts in the oven or in a pan without oil. In a small bowl, mix the melted butter, honey, spices and sugar. Then add to warm nuts and salt, stir well to completely covered with a mixture of nuts. Then put them on the tray and sent to an oven 18 minutes at 180 degrees Celsius.
Get, cool and divide. Such a mixture can be stored in an opaque plastic container with a tight lid for about a week. You can change the ingredients themselves and their servings, depending on your taste.
Honey-spiced almonds
What you need to do. Almonds, 2 tablespoons olive oil, 1/3 cup honey, 2 teaspoons paprika, 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon, 2 teaspoons cumin, 2 teaspoons cayenne pepper, 2 tablespoons of salt, 4 tablespoons of the seeds sesame.
How to cook. Fry in a frying pan over medium heat in olive oil almonds for a minute, then turn down the heat to low and fry the nuts for 5-7 minutes. Then add to the pan honey, spices, salt and sesame seeds. Mix well, and we shift from the pan on a baking sheet. Ship in the oven (180 C) to as long as honey does not solidify (10-15 minutes).
All these recipes are pretty high-calorie both because of the nuts, and because of the honey. Therefore, after they should not forget to brush your teeth well. Since the diseased tooth during the campaign - not very pleasant event.
And how do you make variety in your diet camp, especially when going on a long hike with a big height difference?