GETTING ON TRACK
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The Menu

Hiking food on the Bicentennial National Trail

I planned to be unsupported on the trail. By this I mean I didn't have a support team or vehicle to meet me at any predesignated spot with food and supplies.   As I needed about 50 food drops along the way, and I was carrying all of my own supplies, weight and size was a major consideration in the planning.  

With that in mind, I came up with the menu below following a lot of research online around typical trekking food and in considering resupply options along the trail.  I  added a sachet of spices to my food parcels to add a little more flavour and interest to my meals, but I knew for sure I'd be pigging out on pub & takeaway meals at every opportunity. 


Picture
Breakfast
Museli 
Powdered milk
Snacks (trail mix)
Cheese sticks
Museli bars
Chocolate
Cashews
Banana chips
Almonds
Macadamias
dried apricot, mango or pineapple
Wasabi Peas
Snakes
Lunch
Tortillas/soft wraps or Saladas
Vegemite
Dinner
Beef Jerky
Salmon
Cup a soup
Parmisan Cheese
Potato
Peas
Cous Cous
2 min Noodles
Multi-vitamins
Totals
g
50
35
-
20
31
57
30
30
30
30
30
25
25
-
59.4
20.7
-
71.4
100
25
14.3
18
14.3
100
72
<1g
888
kj
790
758
-
271
480
654
768
645
771
917
337
410
355
-
676
144
-
923
423*
394
347
330
44.7
616*
1250*
n/a
11053
qty
7
7
-
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
-
7
7
-
7
1
7
7
7
7
3
4
7
Total kj
​5530
5306
-
1897
3360
4580
5376
4515
5397
6419
2359
2870
2485
-
4732
1008
-
6461
423
2758
2429
2308
313
1848
5000
n/a
​
Total kg
​0.350
0.245
-
0.140
0.217
0.400
0.210
0.210
0.210
0.210
0.210
0.175
0.175
-
0.416
0.145
-
0.500
0.100
0.175
0.1001
0.125
0.100
0.300
0.288
0.030
5.03kg
* Daily total adjusted to reflect an average over seven days
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