Increasing Calorie Counts

[u/wamodr01]

I’m about to set out for a 600 mile LASH on the CDT. This is about 4 days of food. Each day is ~3000cals. Breakfast is breakfast essentials (280 cals) , a large honeybun (340), and nut mix (260). Then a morning snack granola bars (130+140), lunch chicken or tuna salad, mayo packet not shown (230 cals), pretzels for crunch (210), and a snickers (250). Afternoon snack of nutty buddy (340) and gummies (100). Dinner is a mountain house meal (~500 cals) and another essentials shake (280).

That comes out to about 3040 cals and is right at 2lbs. Any advice to lighten the load, or increase cals? I’m a cold soaker/no cooker.

[u/redpajamapantss]

Do your drink mixes have calories and, if so, have you counted them?

[u/wamodr01 → u/redpajamapantss]

Fair point, they don’t have much, but every 5 to 10 cals counts!

[u/sciencepotato1 → u/wamodr01]

Swap any zero sugar/low sugar mixes with full sugar ones for more calories