Hot meals are always welcome, and far nicer than cold in my opinion. As such, we have prepared a menu for the trip with 3 hot meals a day supplemented by snacks and tea/coffee. So far, we are dehydrating and vacuum sealing all of our meals ourselves at home.
The plan is to have 3 Ration Sets. Our first Ration Set is for Stage I; that is, for the hike to the glacier and the canoe back to Jasper. Our main supply will be waiting for us at Jasper to be collected on the way through along with our long-term equipment, and will contain 85kg, 100 days’ worth of food. Our only re-supply (that we will have prepared beforehand) along the way will be at Norman Well, where we will be sending one package of approximately 30-32kg containing over 30 days’ worth of food and extra’s (spare batteries, etc.).
Our totals below are works-in-progress, and are based upon our experience up to know with testing recipes and weighing each meal as we dehydrate it for a camping trip. We have not weighed all of our chosen recipes yet, but will update accordingly as we progress. Before we dehydrated any food, our weight was almost 190kg, so gaining an understanding of dehydrating has dropped the weight immensely!
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Rations based upon 140days (8 extra), 2 people.
Staple
Dehydrated meals:
Breakfast (Brk): 21kg (150g avg. per day)
Lunch (Lun): 30.8kg (220g avg. per day)
Dinner (Din): 30.8kg (220g avg. per day)
82.6kg
Snacks
Jerky: 8.4kg (60g per day – 16 strips)
Trail Mix (Trl Mix): 22.4kg (160g per day)
30.8kg
Beverages
Coffee 1.4kg (4 cups per week -10g per day)
Hot Chocolate 0.7kg (1 cup per week, 5g daily)
Tea 2.1kg (840bags – 6 per day – 15g, 2.5g each)
4.2kg
Condiments
Salt/Cayenne Pepper 100g (10:1 ratio)
Black Pepper 50g
Brown Sugar 100g
Powdered Milk 1kg
Honey 1kg
2.25kg
Total weight: 119.85kg (<120kg permitted)
Rations Per Set
Ration set 1) 7 days, 150km. Sunwapta Falls – Jasper
5.88kg Staple: Brk 1.05kg/ Lun 1.54kg / Din 1.54kg /
Snacks: Jerky 0.42kg / Trl Mix 1.12kg
Beverages: 42 Tea bags 0.105kg / Coffee 0.07kg / Hot Chocolate 0.035kg
Ration Set 2) 55 days, 1421km. Jasper – Fort Smith
75.465kg Staple: Brk 5.5kg/ Lun 33kg / Din 22kg
Snacks: Jerky 3.3kg / Trl Mix 8.8kg
Beverages: 330 Tea bags 0.825kg / Coffee 0.24kg / Hot Chocolate 0.495kg
Condiments: Salt 0.8kg /Pepper 0.05kg /Sugar 0.07kg /Milk 0.8kg / Honey 0.8kg
Awaiting us at home in Jasper.
Ration Set 3) 42 days, 1410km. Fort Smith – Norman Wells
56.465kg Staple: Brk 4.2kg/ Lun 25.2kg / Din 16.8kg
Snacks: Jerky 2.52kg / Trl Mix 6.72kg
Beverages: 252 Tea bags 0.63kg / Coffee 0.195kg
Condiments: Milk 0.1kg / Honey 0.1kg
Posted to Fort Smith (location in town to be determined – probably Post Office)
Ration Set 4) 34 days, 840km. Norman Wells – Tuktoyaktuk
45.72kg Staple: Brk 3.4kg/ Lun 20.4kg / Din 13.6kg
Snacks: Jerky 2.04kg / Trl Mix 5.44kg
Beverages: 204 Tea bags 0.51kg / Coffee 0.13kg
Condiments: Milk 0.1kg / Honey 0.1kg
Posted to Norman Wells (location in town to be determined – probably Post Office)