[pct-l] Fish Salad, Variety, Hummel strategy

[Bighummel at aol.com (Bighummel@aol.com)]

I'm uncharacteristically lurking.  This is the best advice that has 
consistantly come from so many who have hiked the trail over the past three decades;  
VARIETY is the spice of satisfying your palate over 4 to 6 months on the trail. 
 Don't count on meals at your resupply points to add enough variety to 
overcome the same stuff over and over for your meals.  GoForth recalls correctly; I 
had just seven menus for dinners, all dehydrated, on rotation, splitting a 4 
man dinner two or three ways in order to keep supplying sufficient calories for 
my rather large size.  I originally thought that this would be enough variety 
and quickly found out that it was not.  

I might suggest that you have 10 to maybe even 20 different menus that you 
either rotate individually or rotate groups of five so that something new is 
coming up periodically.   

I'm a rather bland eater also, i.e. I don't typically require a lot of 
variety in my diet, and so, of course, your palate may/will vary. 

Back to lurking,

Greg 


In a message dated 1/18/2004 2:50:24 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
goforth@cio.net writes:
The very best advice that I can give on planning and making resupply boxes
is that you use a VARIETY  of everything (and try it out). I think it was
Big Greg Hummel that ended up trading his entire set of meals for somebody
elses entire set because he only had 7 menus, and by northern California,
he craved something else, anything else.  Hummel are you there???