[pct-l] alternative to bread?

[giniajim]

I'm a big cracker hound.  I wish there were some good, whole-grain and dense 
(!) crackers out there on the market.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Thibault" <dthibaul07 at gmail.com>
To: <pct-l at backcountry.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 12:15 AM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] alternative to bread?


> I also found rice cakes to be a poor choice - too much volume with no
> calories.  I did find that I could take a box of Ritz crackers and just
> shove them in my pack without giving it any thought and never break them.
> The key is to leave them in the flimsy cardboard box they come in.  I 
> think
> it is the way they they are stacked that they hold up really well.  By the
> time I've eaten the last cracker the box looked like it went through World
> War III but the crackers never broke (okay I think in about 10 boxes I may
> have broke 2 or 3 crackers).  I still can't believe how well these hold up
> on the trail.
>
> Day-Late
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>
>> .
>> One of the poorest packing densities is with puffed rice cakes.  They are
>> fine only if Calorie density isn?t a problem.   Considering their
>> inefficient shape and their low density,  just imagine how many
>> Calories-worth of rice cakes can be packed into a bear ?can.
>>