[pct-l] Caustions about no-cook-food

[Scott Williams]

On the PCT I cooked every night and ate all the junk food I could get my
hands on, off and on trail, and lost 35 lbs over the summer.  On the CDT I
precooked and dried all my own food.  It was highly nutritious with no
processed foods at all and I did not carry a stove, just soaked all my
meals.  I lost only 6 lbs over the summer and hiked with energy I never
dreamed of.  I was much healthier overall but attribute that to the quality
of food I was eating, not wether it was hot or cold.  It had been cooked
before drying.  I would guess that the article is talking about raw versus
cooked foods, not the benefit of just hot versus cold.  Raw foods are
different in what we can get out of them nutritionally.  I can't imagine
that a precooked dried meal is any different nutritionally wether it is hot
or cold.

The only difference is that Yoshihiro makes the most delicious hot soups
every evening that I've ever tasted on trail, and he's spoiled me.  I may
be carrying a stove on the AT this year for the first time in several
years, just for that!

Shroomer


On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 12:37 PM, marmot marmot
<marmotwestvanc at hotmail.com>wrote:

> This is not scientific but using freeze dried food reconstituted with cold
> water wasn't a good idea for me. I ended up weighing 94 #s by the end of my
> PCT hike. I switched to dried food for the CDT --still with cold water --
> lost less weight. I just had gotten sick of stoves.  Now I have one hot
> meal at night and use esbit tabs. Can't get any easier than that. Food is
> veg and usually vegan. I buy everything at health food stores so anything I
> eat has a high food value.  Marmot
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Nov 6, 2013, at 10:51 AM, "Brick Robbins" <brick at brickrobbins.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 3:58 AM, Yoshihiro Murakami
> > <completewalker at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Some hiker put food into a zip lock pack, soak with water and eat it .
> It
> >> may be a rational technique of weight reduction, but the absorption
> rate of
> >> nutrition will become low.
> >
> > I do not think the article on cooking applies in this case, because
> > generally, the "no cook food" is really "pre cooked food"
> >
> > BWTFDIK
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