When planning your meals while in the wild, does anyone take into account the nutritional value of the foods, especially the caloric values associated to them?  

I started thinking about this when I was reminiscing a Philmont trip with the scouts long ago. The meals we could choose from there to pack for our trip were picked out especially to help fuel us for the 10+ days of hiking we did.

As a runner I always do the carb loading to help prepare for races, but haven't really applied it to trips to the Q. This year that will change however.

I was just curious to see if anyone else thought about this to get the maximum amount of energy out of their foods.

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