How to Find Cheap/Light Backpacking Food at the Grocery Store

If you are going on backpacking trips that are longer than 3 days, it is possible that your food weight is actually more than your base weight!
This video will give you an easy and simple way to tell which foods are calorie dense enough and cheap enough yo keep your food weight under $20 per day and under 2 pounds per day while backpacking.
0:00 Intro
0:48 Keeping your weight down
4:08 Keeping your cost down
6:22 Budget Killers
7:39 A great resource

[@shawnr6117]

Asian egg noodles are a good option. You can find them in a normal grocery store for about $2 or less and they cook in approximately the same time as ramen. No flavouring but you get multiple servings.

[@BACKPACKERish]

Absolutely!

[@bobellamy7120]

If you don’t bring twizzlers and a bag of chips your missing out. The trick is to not pull them out till day 3-4 on a longer trip.😊

[@BACKPACKERish]

But if we both pull out twizzlers on day 4 again we have to eat both family size bags in one day! lol.