What to take with you on a hike from food for 2-3 days?

Hiking is a real adventure! Many people want to go to the mountains, forests, to the lake or lay a difficult tourist route. This allows you to get to know nature better, get a charge of good mood, escape from the hustle and bustle, work, ordinary everyday days.
One of the main tasks is to think over food on a hike. Not a single person should remain hungry in the company. There are no stores in the wild, so it is better to take the entire diet with you.
A 2-3 day hike is short, so on the one hand, you can afford some gastronomic excesses, and on the other hand, you don’t have to carry a heavy backpack with provisions.

Hiking is an energy-intensive activity. To restore the spent energy, hot food is indispensable.

Hot food options:

• Kashi.
• Soups.
• Various second courses.

Products needed for cooking:

• Stew, 2-3 cans. The product keeps well, can be used for seasoning soups, cereals and as an independent dish.
• Cereals. To calculate the amount of cereal, you need to determine the maximum number of such meals. Cereals in the campaign, as a rule, are consumed twice a day.
  Flakes, such as oatmeal, rice or buckwheat, can serve as a wonderful alternative to ordinary cereals. Their main advantage is light weight and quick preparation.
• The main vegetables for dressing second courses or soup are carrots, onions, potatoes. Such products, as a rule, are not light in weight. Therefore, vegetables are a secondary ingredient in a campaign, their task is to complement the taste of cereals and soups, and not to act as a separate dish.
• Dry soups or noodles.

If it is not planned to overcome a long distance on the first day of the trip, then tourists can be allowed to cook barbecue. In this case, the meat must be taken in a minimum amount and pre-marinated. This option is most suitable for those who are going to take a cooler bag with them.

Important. When planning the preparation of barbecue, you need to take care of the necessary equipment. Lattice - a suitable option for hiking conditions. It can be placed on the log cabins of trees or stones.

Water and drinks

Going on a hike, you need to decide how things are with springs and springs along the route. This depends on the amount of water needed.
An approximate calculation of the liquid consumed during the campaign, not counting soups, is 2 liters per person.
The best option is to take 1 liter of water in a twist bottle. Further, water from drinking springs or rivers is collected in this container.

Important. In case of doubts about the drinking characteristics of water, it must first be boiled on a fire, and only then used to quench thirst.

Hot meals are also prepared using local water.
In addition to ordinary water, hot drinks should be present in the diet of a tourist: tea, coffee, compotes.
Compotes are an excellent drink if the area through which the hike passes is rich in various berries. In this case, the tourist will only need a bowler hat and sugar.

cold food

In addition to a full lunch, dinner, breakfast, no tourist can do without snacks.
Cold food, dry rations are also necessary in cases where weather conditions or lack of firewood do not allow preparing a full meal.

Snack options:

• Cereal bars are a healthy stand-alone snack or addition to tea.
• Nuts, dried fruits - will provide replenishment of the spent energy.
• Cookie. For a trip, it is better to choose biscuits or other strong cookies, this will allow you to eat it whole, and not be content with crumbs.
• Sweets to taste.

This block of products includes sausages for making sandwiches. It is better to choose dry varieties of sausages, they are well stored even at high temperatures.
Those who like fruity snacks should choose strong apples or citrus fruits.

Related products

This block includes products and spices, the main purpose of which is to improve the taste of cooked dishes.
1. Salt - in addition to taste properties, salt is a kind of disinfectant.
2. Sugar - an addition to tea, coffee or compote.
3. Pepper and other spices as desired

By the way, instead of regular sugar, you can take a small package of refined sugar. In this case, it can be considered not only an additive to tea, but also a separate sweet snack for everyone.

The listed products are the basis of camping provisions. Everything else is optional.

When thinking through the grocery program of the trip, you should follow a few rules:

1. Products must not be perishable and must not require special storage conditions.
2. The number of products must strictly correspond to the number of meals. Excess food is additional weight that makes the road heavier.
3. If you want to try the gifts of the forest during the hike, you need to do this only if you are completely sure of their safety.