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Any Paleo backpackers out there?

I'm going on a 4 day wilderness portage canoe trip in August. Now that I've switched to a paleo diet, am not sure how to eat during 4 days of non-stop exercise with no refrigeration. Typically I eat 200g of meat 3x per day, plus tons of fresh veggies. Pre-paleo I would have gotten a lot of energy from grains, pasta, canned beans, dried beans, and dried fruit. Even if now I resort to canned salmon/tuna/sardines, that will be a LOT of canned fish to eat for 4 days...YUK!

As I will need to carry all my food, gear, and the boat several times per day, weight is a consideration.

Suggestions for my menu?

When Paleo backpacking, does that mean I'd have to make weapons from scratch and use them to kill my own game, skin it, quarter it up, and rub sticks together for fire to cook it? And grow my own veggies and stuff?

I am neither a backpacker nor a camper, but what about jerky and dried fruit. Or get some Paleo Kits.

I think paleohacks.com is a great site for asking questions to the Paleo community also. I usually get some helpful answers when I post there.

Nivek saidAny Paleo backpackers out there?

I'm going on a 4 day wilderness portage canoe trip in August. Now that I've switched to a paleo diet, am not sure how to eat during 4 days of non-stop exercise with no refrigeration. Typically I eat 200g of meat 3x per day, plus tons of fresh veggies. Pre-paleo I would have gotten a lot of energy from grains, pasta, canned beans, dried beans, and dried fruit. Even if now I resort to canned salmon/tuna/sardines, that will be a LOT of canned fish to eat for 4 days...YUK!

As I will need to carry all my food, gear, and the boat several times per day, weight is a consideration.

Suggestions for my menu?

Bring a hunting knife and a fishing kit. Kill and eat along the way. You won't have to worry about packing in/carrying out.

GAMRican said
Bring a hunting knife and a fishing kit. Kill and eat along the way. You won't have to worry about packing in/carrying out.

Killing things in the wilderness....then eating them??? That doesn't sound Paleo to me. Paleo is paying 8 dollars for two organic cucumbers at Whole Foods and then going online to buy a lb of Almond flour so you can make cupcakes that can technically fall under the confines of Paleo available foods.

Dried meats/jerky from a natural food store, nuts, fruits might be your main sources.

Nivek saidAny Paleo backpackers out there?

I'm going on a 4 day wilderness portage canoe trip in August. Now that I've switched to a paleo diet, am not sure how to eat during 4 days of non-stop exercise with no refrigeration. Typically I eat 200g of meat 3x per day, plus tons of fresh veggies. Pre-paleo I would have gotten a lot of energy from grains, pasta, canned beans, dried beans, and dried fruit. Even if now I resort to canned salmon/tuna/sardines, that will be a LOT of canned fish to eat for 4 days...YUK!

As I will need to carry all my food, gear, and the boat several times per day, weight is a consideration.

Suggestions for my menu?

Now wouldn't a true Paleo diet call for doing your own hunting and gathering with a spear and nets?

waccamatt said

Nivek saidAny Paleo backpackers out there?

I'm going on a 4 day wilderness portage canoe trip in August. Now that I've switched to a paleo diet, am not sure how to eat during 4 days of non-stop exercise with no refrigeration. Typically I eat 200g of meat 3x per day, plus tons of fresh veggies. Pre-paleo I would have gotten a lot of energy from grains, pasta, canned beans, dried beans, and dried fruit. Even if now I resort to canned salmon/tuna/sardines, that will be a LOT of canned fish to eat for 4 days...YUK!

As I will need to carry all my food, gear, and the boat several times per day, weight is a consideration.

Suggestions for my menu?

Now wouldn't a true Paleo diet call for doing your own hunting and gathering with a spear and nets?

Cavemen didn't have string for nets.

Pemmican

jim_stl said

waccamatt said

Nivek saidAny Paleo backpackers out there?

I'm going on a 4 day wilderness portage canoe trip in August. Now that I've switched to a paleo diet, am not sure how to eat during 4 days of non-stop exercise with no refrigeration. Typically I eat 200g of meat 3x per day, plus tons of fresh veggies. Pre-paleo I would have gotten a lot of energy from grains, pasta, canned beans, dried beans, and dried fruit. Even if now I resort to canned salmon/tuna/sardines, that will be a LOT of canned fish to eat for 4 days...YUK!

As I will need to carry all my food, gear, and the boat several times per day, weight is a consideration.

Suggestions for my menu?

Now wouldn't a true Paleo diet call for doing your own hunting and gathering with a spear and nets?

Cavemen didn't have string for nets.

I guess I was thinking more like Gilligan's Island.

Agreed. ^^^

Jerky, nuts, dried fruit, and pemmican. Also, food keeps longer than people realize. Everyone is sort of paranoid these days. But I would bring cooked meat and veggies for the second day.

Was already planning on bringing a fishing pole and a small tackle box. Plus I think I'll go to the Hungarian butcher shop around the corner and ask about all the dried sausage they have hanging from the ceiling. Maybe that stuff would come in handy.

Nivek saidAny Paleo backpackers out there?

I'm going on a 4 day wilderness portage canoe trip in August. Now that I've switched to a paleo diet, am not sure how to eat during 4 days of non-stop exercise with no refrigeration. Typically I eat 200g of meat 3x per day, plus tons of fresh veggies. Pre-paleo I would have gotten a lot of energy from grains, pasta, canned beans, dried beans, and dried fruit. Even if now I resort to canned salmon/tuna/sardines, that will be a LOT of canned fish to eat for 4 days...YUK!

As I will need to carry all my food, gear, and the boat several times per day, weight is a consideration.

Suggestions for my menu?

I want to go. Mix it up. Dried fruit, freeze dried veggies, nuts, seeds, jerky. Sardines are pretty much my staple on trips like that but only once a day. Bring a filter for water. Mountain House turkey tetrazzini is my favorite. Indian food in pouches that do not need refrigeration is the econo way to go .

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Shawnathan saidPemmican

Yum, there's a few saskatoon berry bushes around here that i've been scavenging, so i could theoretically make some pemmican if i could get and then dry the meat.

organic seeds (sesame and pumpkin) and sprout-able green peas and chick peas. Raw nuts also keep longer. Peas start to sprout after soaking for 6-8 (after draining water). A mature coconut can have 300-400 calories. Coconut oil is also an excellent/efficient source of energy (lauric acid) - your body burns it quickly. Someone mentioned jerky - if you eat meat.

Camping could be an opportunity to slim down and cleanse. In which case, psyllium husk can substitute for a meal. Just fill up the stomach and clean out the intestine.... result: force the body to burn stored fat... resulting in a ripped body.

xybender saidCamping could be an opportunity to slim down and cleanse. In which case, psyllium husk can substitute for a meal. Just fill up the stomach and clean out the intestine.... result: force the body to burn stored fat... resulting in a ripped body.

You think I can do this while burning lots of calories doing hard work? We will be paddling across lakes, then carrying the canoe and all of our food & gear to the next lake, and doing it all over again repeatedly for 4 days.

I keep seeing 'paleo barebacking'

7Famark saidI keep seeing 'paleo barebacking'

Well, cavemen didn't have condoms....

7Famark saidI keep seeing 'paleo barebacking'

It will be me with 3 hunky straight guys half my age. Potentially frustrating. Maybe my next wilderness excursion should be with hunky gay guys instead.

Nivek said

7Famark saidI keep seeing 'paleo barebacking'

It will be me with 3 hunky straight guys half my age. Potentially frustrating. Maybe my next wilderness excursion should be with hunky gay guys instead.

I'd say sign me up but I like carbs way more than sex

Nivek saidWas already planning on bringing a fishing pole and a small tackle box.

Went on such a trip north of Grand Marais into Ontario, Canada years ago. With little effort, we had fresh fish every night. That was in early June - though I don't know if the fishing would be worse in August when the waters are warmer.

Nivek said

7Famark saidI keep seeing 'paleo barebacking'

It will be me with 3 hunky straight guys half my age. Potentially frustrating.

Nothing like a wilderness camping trip to test the limits of "straightness." Even "straight" guys get hard with a good massage.

Now if Firebrand reads recipe posts, there would soon be a YCYL post here.

You could hunt, kill and cook your food like they did back in the Paleolithic?

coconut oil(acceptable for paleo diets as far as i understand), almond butter, dates, raw honey(not necessarily paleo but its a good source of sugars), hemp seeds, couple scoops of a multi greens powder blend, and dried fruit of your choice. mix the ingredients together and press into a baking dish refridgerate so coconut oil is solid and the cut into bars and wrap in plastic wrap. email me if you want anymore ideas.