Food
Trek Meals
Over the years we have used a variety of ration packs (army, emergency services, dehydrated, etc) and found that this was the most common form of complaint from our trekkers. They believe life is too short to have to endure ration packs of any kind!
We now provide canned and fresh food for the three main meals during the trek and while this costs us a couple of extra carriers it is well worth the investment. A typical menu for each day is:
Breakfast: Cereal (weetbix, muesli), milk, biscuits, tea, coffee, hot chocolate
Lunch: Pasta/noodles accompanied with dry biscuits, luncheon meat/corned beef/tuna, cheese, etc - tea, coffee, hot chocolate and sweet biscuits.
Dinner: A variety of canned meat/fish and vegetables served with rice and potatoes, tinned fruit, tea, coffee, hot chololate.
Our meals are supplemented with fresh fuits and vegetables from village gardens along the track
We engage a 'boss cook' and and assistant to prepare and serve all of your meals.
We now receive outstanding accolades for the quality of the meals we now provide during the trek.
Trek Snacks
We recommend you prepare a daily snack pack to nibble on during the day. A suggested list would include some small packets of fruit/nut mixes/sultanas, biscuits, glucose lollies, chocolate bars, jelly beans, etc. Keep your snack-pack as light as possible (around 150 grams per day) as you will be required to carry them - unless you employ a personal carrier who will carry them for you.
Make a separate snack-pack up for each day and clearly mark your bag with your name. You will carry four days with you and the remaining snack pack will be sent to Naduri village - about half-way along the track. You will therefore need to pack these in a seperate bag and mark it clearly with your name. Deliver it to your trek leader in the hotel lobby prior to your departure (you could include a treat in this bag - perhaps a large tin of chocolate, self-saucing pudding with a tube of condensed milk for example - as a reward when you reach the half-way point).