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Re: Food deliveries?

Humphrey, are you sure you're not a stalker? How do you know where I live?!?

On another note - if our paths cross on the challenge, will you cook me up some salmon :smile:

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Ulla - your home-town is listed on the Challenge Details!

Don't know about our ages on the Details - maybe we should list our BMI (Body Mass Index) instead!

Happy to cook you up some salmon. Last year I stopped into Morrisons (supermarket) in Inverness and bought salmon, asparagus and samphire - glasört - this is a plant that grows on the salt-marsh - saltsumpmark . Delicious.

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As a first time Challenger from overseas I understand the hesitation to plan re-supplies through only local stores. I have decided to split the difference and order Mountain Trails dinners for camp nights sent to several resupply points, then buy groceries for breakfast, lunch, and snacks. Since I spent my first decade in the UK and can't get it in the US, my diet may be about 30% Primula Cheese, supplemented by meat pies! I won't worry about the pack weight - just eat more the first day or two of each leg!

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For me part of the outdoor experience is the discipline if eating healthily combined with no trace
Camping and overall respect for the journey and everything related. I suffer from inertia but try hard to make the TGO part of a wonderful healthy experience. Example - I have dropped packages oatmeal I. Favour of 60gms of oatmeal
With 25 gems of powered milk plus some series blueberries I’d fruit. Healthier by far and a pleasure. Peace as we all try to find what will make the trip special.

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Dara are you suggesting Primula cheese and meat pies are not a healthy way to go? Seriously, your menu sounds tasty and healthy...and:grinning: more like my usual trips in the US. This one is as much like a pilgrimage and homecoming for me as a backpacking trip. It's the memories growing up that were lost and coming back now as it gets closer, including the food. Hope to see you along the way... Ill be the one taking antacids as a trail snack!

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I need to learn to control my imogees...he was supposed to go at the end of the reply!

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Humphrey, I didn't think about the Challenge Details =) My post was a joke, I hope you got that. Though I did have 2 stalkers when I was in my teens :anguished:

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Heh heh Ulla! Watch out for The Werewolves of The Upper Dulnain!!

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Peace and Love, Sister!

Ulla - you growl, we howl ! :wolf:

Eimar Woolf
Clan Chieftainess,Werewolves of The Upper Dulnain

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:smiley_cat: I just meow :smiley_cat:

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With the availability of some food along the way (I start in Mallaig) i calculated my food at 400 gms per meal average. Starting in Mallaig I only need 15 meals to get to Aviemore where I pick up my drop box I will be sending to the bunkhouse I think. The second stage needs 13 meals total 5.2Kgs. Given the load is lightening each day of consumption I should be ok. I used the post office in Glasgow the last time to send food on and it was reasonable and fast.
Safe hiking!

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I gave up on parcels a few Challenges ago due to late deliveries. Normal delivery times go awry in the Highlands.

Am happy to shop wherever the opportunity arises, thus supporting the economy and ending up with some creative meals from some unexpected foodstuffs!

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Andy, I would love to do the same, but not being used to what's available at UK shops I feel unsure of whether this will work for me! Maybe, if I return for a second challenge, I can trust to find what I need that time!

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Point taken Ulla. If you're going somewhere with a good size supermarket (Kingussie, Newtonmore, Aviemore, Inverness, Pitlochry), then choice would not be a problem. I will be shopping at smaller shops this year (Spean Bridge & Braemar) but I know that I will find most of what I need - I'm also not that fussy! It's all part of the fun for me.

Andy