[pct-l] How To Eat

[Charlie & Nancy Zapp]

I agree whole heartedly with Erik the Black, it is calories that are  
needed on the trail.  The healthy stuff you can get in town.  I am  
normally a vegetarian but when on the trail I fall right off the  
vegetarian wagon.  I just can't get enough calories on a veggie diet.   
I have found that calorie dense "foods" like summer sausage, in which  
almost all of the calories come from fat.  Carbs and proteins have 4+  
calories per gram while fats have 9+ calories per gram.  Without fats  
(of which peanut butter is a mainstay) I could feel my energy sagging  
in the afternoon.  With the fats you can go a long ways.  I worried  
about not refrigerating the sumer sausage, but they are so full of  
preservatives that it didn't seem to be an issue.

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