Quantity
That completes the most elaborate grub list I should care to recommend. As to a quantitative list, that is a matter of considerably more elasticity. I have kept track of the exact quantity of food consumed on a great many trips, and have come to the conclusion that anything but the most tentative statements must spring from lack of experience. A man paddling a canoe, or carrying a pack all day, will eat a great deal more than would the same man sitting a horse. A trip in the clear, bracing air of the mountains arouses keener appetites than a desert journey near the borders of Mexico, and a list of supplies ample for the one would be woefully insufficient for the other. The variation is really astonishing.
Therefore the following figures must be experimented with rather cautiously. They represent an average of many of my own trips.
Grub List
ONE MONTH'S SUPPLIES FOR ONE MAN ON A FOREST TRIP
| 15 lbs. flour (includes flour, pancake flour, cornmeal in proportion to suit) |
| 15 lbs. meat (bacon or boned ham) |
| 8 lbs. rice |
| ½ lb. baking powder |
| 1 lb. tea |
| 2 lbs. sugar |
| 150 saccharine tablets |
| 8 lbs. cereal |
| 1 lb. raisins |
| Salt and pepper |
| 5 lbs. beans |
| 3 lbs. or ½ doz. Erbswurst |
| 2 lbs. or ½ doz. dried vegetables |
| 2 lbs. dried potatoes |
| 1 can Bakers' eggs. |
ONE MONTH'S SUPPLIES FOR ONE MAN ON PACK HORSE TRIP
| 15 lbs. flour supplies (flour, flapjack flour, cornmeal) |
| 15 lbs. ham and bacon |
| 2 lbs. hominy |
| 4 lbs. rice |
| ½ lb. baking powder |
| 1 lb. coffee |
| ½ lb. tea |
| 20 lbs. potatoes |
| A few onions |
| 2 lbs. sugar |
| 150 saccharine tablets |
| 3 lb. pail cottolene, or can olive oil |
| 3 lbs. cream of wheat |
| 5 lbs. mixed dried fruit |
| Salt, pepper, cinnamon |
| 3 cans evaporated cream |
| ½ gal. syrup or honey |
| 5 lbs. beans |
| Chilis |
| Pilot bread (in flour sack) |
| 6 cans corn |
| 6 cans salmon |
| 2 cans corned beef |
| 1 can Bakers' eggs |
| ½ doz. Maggi's soups |
| ½ doz. dried vegetables—beans and Julienne. |
Don't Figure Grub List too Closely