Dietary Advice on a Multiday Trip

Fruit leather isn't a processed food imo. It's dried and pressed fruit. No added preservatives or sugars and no "processes" that inherently change the nutritional value of the product.

Like cereal?

Hard cheeses and butter... Not sure your problem with these either, they're made from milk, salt, and in the case of cheese, enzymes are in there as well.

Salt is a preservative. So, in addition to eating processed foods, you eat preservatives. That's good, because preservatives will keep food safe and palatable on long backpacking trips. I don't have a problem with cheese or butter. But I'm not a hippie. Google "processed foods". Did you notice something? Was it cheese? So, by the definition of everyone who isn't a hippie, cheese is a processed food.

So I'm confused.

I know! You can't even decide if you like processed foods and preservatives!

What is your definition of hippie?

If you'll show me empirical evidence that your hippie "alternative medicine" treats any disease, I'll define "hippie" for you.

Because last I checked cheese and dried fruit is a pretty common staple and both have been eaten for literally hundreds of years.

Yes, they are pretty common processed foods. And like most other processed foods, they're wonderful.

Are you bashing my inclusion of cheeses and butter because they contain dairy?

I'm not bashing your inclusion of cheeses and butter. I'm saying that only a hippie would say she doesn't eat processed foods, then say she eats processed foods. And say she doesn't eat preservatives. Then say she eats preservatives.

What would you suggest?

I suggest you turn your hippie dial about 30 degrees counter-clockwise and eat more processed foods with preservatives. Particularly on long backpacking trips where you lack refrigeration.

If i couldn't eat anything that required the smallest amount of prep that'd be pretty annoying.

Hippie annoy me, too.

again I say go fish

Do you mean smoked fish that without added preservatives or sugars and no "processes" that inherently change the nutritional value of the product that has been eaten on long backpacking trips for LITERALLY HUNDREDS OF YEARS? Sorry, hippies can't have smoked fish because its a processed food with preservatives.

Are you interested in learning new tactics for eating on the trail?

Do you have any non-hippie suggestions?

Saw you deleted your original post...

I like the emotional attachment you have formed and the importance you place on my comments. I delete all my comments after a day. In the future, take screen shots of the ones that you want to curate.

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