[pct-l] How To Eat

[At Rerunner]

i seem to remember that there is at least one Triple-Crown hiker who
hiked as a strict vegetarian....perhaps this person belongs to the
list and will offer an opinion. I started the only long-distance hike
that i've completed as a vegetarian, and surrendered to
bacon-cheeseburgers very early on :(

fenu

On 2/9/09, Charlie & Nancy Zapp <cnzapp at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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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