Your Favorite Climbing Foods

For breakfast I eat large amounts of whatever is available. Sometimes it's eggs, or yogurt, cereal, whatever. Lox bagels are a favorite
Lunch is usually a combination of hummus and cheese wraps, bits of vegetables, and some beef jerky or summer sausage. For longer days I usually up the carb intake as well.
Dinner in the field is usually various combinations of rice, couscous, veggies, tuna, cheese, lentils etc. Freeze dried meals are an absolute last choice due to the cost:calorie ratio.

I use a more psuedoscientific and unprovable approach to eating. It's also lazy.

My theory is that hunters and gatherers were at their best when they needed to make a kill but weren't yet starving. Based on this, I eat breakfast, bum a few almonds and half an orange during the day, and gorge myself for dinner.

It's not that I'm just too much of a slacker to bring lunch, it's that I need to be hungry to have the fire.

Christian George wrote:What ever my partner brought is fine. Japanese tour buses are an excellent source of protein. Families can be convinced to just walk away from what's left of their pizza at the deck. Bear boxes aren't usually locked. Supermarkets throw out tons of food in the dumpters out back. And you guys call yourselves climbers.... Pfft.

Awesome

highaltitudeflatulentexpulsion wrote: need to be hungry to have the fire.

No joke. Eat too much lunch and Im ready for a nap.

grog m wrote:Fritz, To be blunt, your diet is disgusting.

I love the condescending attitude some people have about food & diets.

Dude, they're not forcing you to eat what they eat.

Also funny how the OP climbs (or suggests he does) about as hard as the patronizing climbers...

Cool, we get it, you're better than him. Move on.

grog m wrote:Fritz, To be blunt, your diet is disgusting.

My diet was far worse when I was thru-hiking the CT in twenty-four days ...

Came here for a pissing match? Urine luck!

Avacadoes. Just don't let them explode in your pack. Also, you finally get to use that knife you stashed in your chalk bag.

Backpacker Pucks, the best trail bar there is. Great for alpine starts, mid day trail snacks; good with wine and coffee, separately that is.

www.backpackerpucks.com

Disclaimer: this is my buddy Matt. He gives me free pucks to eat at the crag for advertising their awesomeness. If the pucks sucked, I would tell him, and you, the truth.

Also, Cajun crack, available at WF. Spicy, candy coated peanuts, crunchy stick thingies, and so much more.

Super sticky, oily, salty, savory and loaded with carbs and fats:

Everything bagel
+peanut butter
+olive tapenade
+a slice of Monterrey jack cheese

I've been hooked for a couple years on this beautiful creation. Don't knock it until you try it.

Lunch becomes optional.

I am gluten intolerant, and allergic to peanuts . I cant digest much when I am climbing, cliff bars make me really sick. I can digest power bars and gu. I go for chocolate milk asap after climbing(recomended by my pt guy) .

Cuties/clementines are amazing for a quick pick me up. It feels like injecting liquid sugar straight into your veins. Plus they're compact, cheap, and travel ok without getting too beat up.

I usually have PB&J, cliff bars, apple sauce and maybe some Jerkey for long days or multi pitch.  Also, usually some type of sugar with me just in case, like a snickers

Triple decker pb+j, sometimes butter and melted cheese added.  Poptarts.  Hot ramen in thermos with fried spam added.  Apple sauce (metal lid is folded into a spoon) and cup-o-fruit type stuff.  Fruit snax. The gnarliest cheapest meat byproduct stick snack i can find.  I love bananas but have yet to get serious about protecting them for transport, luckily i have a rather high bruise tolerance.  This diet makes u absolutely levitate up climbs yall. 

Multipitch: I am stunned no one has mentioned Pearsons salted nut roll. King size is 450 calories and won’t melt in your pocket. And please. Do not talk about paydays. They are garbage. It is all about the salted nut roll. Available at mavericks. Also spring energy makes a “gel” that is actually real food- get the speednut flavor has 150, yes 150 mgs of caffeine. Spendy but worth it. Have to go to a running store or online to get these. Also the “fuel for fire” smoothie packs you can get at sprouts by the baby food. They give you fruit plus protein. Come on people you aren’t carrying freakin bananas and apples up multipitch!  No fuss with any of this stuff. Grab and go. Combine for balanced diet. Use LMNT drink powder in your water for max cramp prevention. This is The Way. 

simplyput . wrote: Brekkie: muesli/granola, yogurt, fruit 1qt h2o with salt and lemon. Poor mans Gatorade. Lunch: PB+J (or some variation), apple Snacks: trail mix ( I make my own and it is the shit: Cashews, dark chocolate chips, wasabi peas, jumbo flame raisins and those red spicy Japanese rice cracker things. nuts for fat and protein, sugar for quick energy, salt to help metabolize water and spicy for delicious). Kind bars are good. Camp Dinner: pasta with tomato, garlic, tinned fish, lemon and herbs.

Dialed 

PBH & B sandwich 

Breakfast: chunky PB, honey, bananas, on whole wheat. Tea or coffee.

Snacks: bars, apple, jerky, nuts/trail mix in random pockets, another banana.

Ride home: whatever is left over.

Rare treat: Mexican Coke

I should really eat more on long days. Maybe more salt too.

Colonel Mustard wrote:

PBH & B sandwich 

add some chia seeds and you’re goated

On ice climbing days, I always pack a toasted english muffin with a couple slices of sharp cheddar cheese in between the halves. I usually forget to eat it, but it makes a nice snack on the drive home, especially when I let it warm up on the dashboard with the defroster blowing hot. <chef's kiss>

Eggs