Meal Types: Walking Food and Sit Down Food

Picture this. You are out in the wilderness and the scenery is terrific. Your Lightning Access Backpack™ is so light it’s a joy to just be walking, and your day’s worth of food in all its variety is at your fingertips. You can pull out what you want to snack on without taking off your backpack or even breaking stride. Your hydration system makes sipping water easier than having a glass at a table. This is the time for walking food.

Walking food is food that you can eat while walking. It is food that doesn’t require preparation, and is easy to hold in your hand.

Backpackers will eat walking food at all times of the day. Walking food can be eaten in place of breakfast, lunch or dinner.

Walking food can be the same food you would eat for a meal, just in a different form. For example, the only difference between peanuts and peanut butter is extra chewing. (Peanuts also don’t require a special container, and can’t spill and make a mess in your pack.) So, peanuts, raisins, and crackers are the walking food equivalent of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

When you go backpacking with a group, it is important to agree in advance which meals of the day will be walking food meals. Otherwise, the person packing hot oatmeal for breakfast, a cup of soup for lunch, and stew for dinner, will be needing to stop when everyone else may be wanting to be on the move.

Read on to learn basic meal ideas for your backpacking Walking Food.

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