Originally Posted by
Miele Man
I've often carried canned goods on my Northern Ontario, Canada logging/mining roads tours because there are NO places to resupply.
That makes for a very different set of priorities than I (and probably most tourists) have when packing food. In those conditions I can see your approach. Still, in those conditions, I'd probably carry food as if I was backpacking and try to use mail drops every 4-6 days if there were post offices anywhere along the way. For me that would mean trying to keep food weight to 2-2.5 pounds per day, like I do while backpacking. If there were no available mail drops I'd definitely limit weight of packed meal as much as possible. Heck I'd even consider eating those horrible Mountain House meals if I had to carry two weeks of food at once. More likely I use a lot of dried stuff and bulk freeze dried stuff from Honeyville Farms.