Food Prep (and so it begins...)

Food prep post one of only two, I promise! I can't wait until we get out on the road so I can start posting pictures and other stories about things besides food and clothes!

But! The prep is all part of it. The food prep has been interesting and at times, has made me laugh. The sheer amount of food that gets all stacked up is amusing to me for some reason. I guess it just seems so ridiculous. We are prepping 28 days worth of food and about tripling the calories we would normally consume in a day. It ends up being a lot of food!



I found many gluten free items on Amazon for a cheaper price than I've found at Woodman's. I was able to sign up for Amazon Prime for free and get free shipping on pretty much everything! Those orange boxes (6 in total) are 72 bags of gluten free "ramen noodle" type soups!

Gluten Free Noms, All Ordered on Amazon!

REI was having their annual sale over Memorial Day weekend, which included a discount savings on Clif Bars, I ordered 30!!

Clif Bars, Gluten Free Bars and Drink Mix Packets

I think I kind of over did it on purchasing drink mix packets...I was thinking I'd want a few packets per day since I'm not sure how the water will taste on the trail, but they take up too much space and add too much weight. Instead of having 3 or 4 per day, I'm bringing 1 per day.

This weekend David and I will be buying the rest of the food we need and repackaging it, then sorting and packing it into our resupply buckets. Pictures and last post about food to follow!


Other things we've been doing to prep for the trip include training at the gym! I think I might do a whole post on training... We started working with Jim from the gym last week. He's helping to get us strong and fit for our trip. Using a combination of strength and VO2 max work, Jim's plan will have us strong and our muscles using and storing oxygen efficiently. Sorry Jim, I probably said that backwards or something, but I think that's what increasing your VO2 max is...? I forgot what you told us :)  The workouts have been super intense- neither of us has ever actually "trained" like this before- but they have been awesome. We make a lot of try hard noises during the workouts and we're sore for several days afterwards, but we're feeling strong! More to come on this in a later post. Maybe I'll even post a video of us working out on Instagram (ksuesbackpacks), if I can figure out how to do a video.

We've been continuing to do training hikes as well as going to the Red. They all contribute to our base fitness and have helped with continued test driving of our gear. At this point, we're all set! I even got to try out my rain pants a couple weeks ago when we got rained on at Lapham Peak! They were great!



Other things we're continuing to do to prep- reading! Blogs and backpacking articles and a big thank you to Grant from my work for lending me these books for Montana and Wyoming! Can't wait to dig in and read them...just need to find the time!