[pct-l] Calorie Content

[Tom Rogers <tfrogers@san.rr.com>]

Thanks for the inputs.  Boy, I was making that way too hard.  It looks
like 100 calories per ounce is a good thumb rule for almost everything I
carry (and take the extra calories in high fat foods as a bonus).  The
only trick is to estimate my burn rate in calories per day, which I
recognize will rise as I deplete my body fat and increase daily
mileage.  Then, using an assortment of dry foods that will satisfy
nutritional and esthetic needs, weigh out enough food, in ounces, to
cover my daily burn divided by 100, times the number of days to the next
resupply.

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