Tortillas

Tortillas are magical in every way. They really are. They are the perfect hiking food as they hold just about everything and can stand up to just about any weather. My favorite things are to roll up peanut butter and jelly in them, or those little packets of cooked chicken breast with cheese and that irradiated bacon that is precooked and supposedly survives for months without refrigeration. You can use them with tuna or if you get some lettuce while in town, you can make all kinds of wraps with whatever you like. But on the trail, a 10 pack of soft tortillas offers a wide variety of options for keeping your meals interesting since just about every type of food that hikers carry can be wrapped inside them.

The only problem with tortillas is that they aren't available all the time. Occasionally, the tiny market which you often come across in trail towns will have tortillas, but generally they are limited to larger supermarket chains. Sometimes you have to buy packs of the small ones, sometimes the large ones or whatever you can find. But when you do find them, it always heralds a week or so of quick, convenient and inexpensive meals.

They may just about be the perfect food.

Muddyshoes