Grocery shopping

As a hiker, one of the most exciting trips I make while in a town is to the grocery store. At the beginning of my trip it was a continuous game of trial and error to distinguish what I needed versus what I wanted to eat on the the trail. A few weeks back I got moused, a term we use when a mouse eats through a food bag and thus renders the food bag less useful. The food bag I lost was much smaller than its current replacement, and as such I have been buying more food. Hiker hunger hit me light a freight train and that little bag was just not cutting it anyway. The problem that I am now facing is the weight of my bag overall has gone up significantly. Without water and with the minimal amount of food I a carrying at the beginning of the trip, I was under 30lbs. With water and then all the food and extra snacks I have to carry, I am now something closer to 40lbs. While a lot of heel go people I hike with have a much lighter pack the weight does not bother me. When you need something as a hiker your body learns to adjust quickly. 

Now back to grocery shopping... The trips to the grocery store are both the most exciting and most difficult decisions for me to make. I have to take a trip down every aisle just to make sure I am not missing anything, and at the ffont of the he store I have to sort through what is reasonable to carry and what are hungry impulse purchases and cut the latter. 

Just so you have an idea of what I eat on the trail

Snickers bars 

Pay days 

Pasta sides 

Easy Mac 

Peanut butter 

Sandwich rounds 

Sleeves of tuna 

Oatmeal bars 

Oatmeal 

I swear after this trip if I have to eat any more peanut butter or oatmeal I might die...