What do you pack for food?
06-18-2008, 08:37 PM
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What do you pack for food?
Just going to start a four day trip and I forgot to buy some energy bars for this trip. Just wondering what everyone packs to eat on their trips. Sucks getting into a hotel with no food around at 12am and your hungry.
06-18-2008, 09:31 PM
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Candy bars, energy bars, hot tamales, wheat thins(tomato&basil flavor) and then home cooked meals that my wife freezes for me in those glad lock containers, chuck em in the nuker at the hotel and although they may not look real good they taste like fresh(almost) home cookin, then a pack or two of ramen if things get dire! I know alot of guys figure they spend as much at the grocery store as they do going out to eat but my wife is fixing food for my kids anyway so my potion just goes in the freezer. It works out really well for me.
06-19-2008, 02:01 AM
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Here is what I do because I am cheap. I end up spending typically max of 5 bucks on a four day on food unless the crew goes out for dinner.
I bought a vacuum sealer and my wife will make a ton of food from lasagna to chicken and rice to meatloaf or pasta. The vacuum sealer keeps it not only fresh but it makes it compact. I typically take enough for two meals per day although I usually eat less because of the schedule. I freeze those meals and they act as there own ice packs until I can freeze them at the hotel during the night.
I also pack some cliff bars and some basic granola bars to hold me over if I cant get any time to eat a real meal during the day and dont want to gain ten pounds per week by running to mcdonalds.
For beverages I buy a ton of propel fitness water individual drink powder mixes as well as crystal light etc. They are all zero calories and are typically clear or near clear so I cant make a mess of myself. I pour them into the liter and a half bottles and do that for most of the day. Of course sodas are on the companys dollar.
I bought a vacuum sealer and my wife will make a ton of food from lasagna to chicken and rice to meatloaf or pasta. The vacuum sealer keeps it not only fresh but it makes it compact. I typically take enough for two meals per day although I usually eat less because of the schedule. I freeze those meals and they act as there own ice packs until I can freeze them at the hotel during the night.
I also pack some cliff bars and some basic granola bars to hold me over if I cant get any time to eat a real meal during the day and dont want to gain ten pounds per week by running to mcdonalds.
For beverages I buy a ton of propel fitness water individual drink powder mixes as well as crystal light etc. They are all zero calories and are typically clear or near clear so I cant make a mess of myself. I pour them into the liter and a half bottles and do that for most of the day. Of course sodas are on the companys dollar.
06-19-2008, 04:44 AM
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propel packets for me too
On the warm side: spam, precooked/packaged rice, hormel meals
On the cold side: two sandwiches, 1 or 2 lunchables, pineapple clunks, orange cups, 2 slimfast type chocolate shakes
On the warm side: spam, precooked/packaged rice, hormel meals
On the cold side: two sandwiches, 1 or 2 lunchables, pineapple clunks, orange cups, 2 slimfast type chocolate shakes
06-19-2008, 05:32 AM
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Originally Posted by powrful1
propel packets for me too
On the warm side: spam, precooked/packaged rice, hormel meals
On the cold side: two sandwiches, 1 or 2 lunchables, pineapple clunks, orange cups, 2 slimfast type chocolate shakes
On the warm side: spam, precooked/packaged rice, hormel meals
On the cold side: two sandwiches, 1 or 2 lunchables, pineapple clunks, orange cups, 2 slimfast type chocolate shakes
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