Foods for travel.

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It isn't just hiking.  Having to drive, cross country, for one reason or another?  Hiking, of course, if you could even do that, but... let's just say you could, or had to, hike... camp.  Well, and to be honest, for right here at home.  Summers are hot.  Usually.  And, even if delayed, it will be getting hot at some point.  I don't think we are quite to zero summers.  Yet.

I have chia.  And I am slowly collecting other things.  I also have shredded, unsweetened, coconut for example.  I don't have cacao nibs, but they are on the list.  Hemp hearts are on the way.  There are other things I am looking into.  Currently, I am using chia seed for hot breakfasts, but have been thinking about making cold breakfasts, or general meals, with them.  In yogurt, kefir, even sour cream, soaked overnight, with hemp hearts, coconut bits, etc.

Hippie food?  Maybe.  I... don't care who invented it, or is known to use it, as long as it is nutritious in truth, edible simply, and such.  The goal is some sort of reasonable satiety, a nutritional return reasonable for cost, lighter weight as possible, and such.  Keto is the idea, but won't be completely possible as calorie requirements rise.  Still, that... is more the goal than not.  Though with powdered fats, such as cream and butter coming into radar range, and being found reasonable, more fats than carbs is looking more viable.

How much food, how many calories, is needed?  It really depends.  On the trail, this video provides an idea.  No, this guy is... sort of a big boy.  But, at six inches shorter, and a hundred pounds lighter?  If he is calling it at 3,500, I'd need 1k to 2k more.  And, if out of shape, possibly a bit more than even that.  Why feed a fatty extra?  Because, if out of shape, he will be needing repair materials... extra extra food.  Then again, not sure that much food could be carried, or eaten.  Initially, it might not work.  Still, I'd definitely suggest about 5k calories for one my size.

And, to have it mostly fat?  That would actually lighten the load a bit.  Carbs are 4 calories per gram.  Fats are 9 calories per gram, much denser, lighter to carry.  So...  Fat is at least half the pack weight of carbs.  Proteins are also 4 calories per gram.  So, for example, a thousand calories of carbs or protein weighs about 250 grams, while the same calories of fat weigh 111 grams...  Further, fat can be had in powdered form, which makes it lighter still.  Protein as well.  I suppose there is sugar, but I am not sure that is all that much lighter, and can really be used directly.

Yes, thinking.  Trying to improve my food consumption options... lower the calories, while maintaining higher proteins, with fats just covering calories and carbs being eliminated as possible... minus certain fiber.  Fiber is good for many things, from gut health to bm processing to satiety.  Anyway... just... passing on some of what I am looking at.  Perhaps it could be helpful.