Our goal every year is to loose food packs as we eat our way through the trip. So our food is packed in cardboard banker boxes. We use a heavy contractor garbage bag to prevent the box from getting wet. (Not that it would matter a great deal to the food since all our food is vacuumed sealed.)

All of our food was then vacuum sealed in meal size portions. Last year for example, I vacuumed sealed instant mashed potatoes, oatmeal, pancake mix, and tortilla shells. (Wax paper was used to separate shells.) We eat a lot of hamburger helper type meals and these too are vacuum sealed together. (We don't open season packets, but we probably could.)

I still vacuum seal items with sharp ends, but I add a simple piece of computer paper to help protect the bag. I would say it works about 85-90% of the time.

Finally I use stuff sacks to separate like items. TP, shovel in one sack, Spices in another sack, and dishes in another sack.

Things I am considering this year; is vacuum sealing drink mixes and then transferring them to the one plastic container as needed. Appropriate size fish batter vacuum sealed pouches. Finally, I plan on putting identifying tape on the vacuum seal containers for ready identification in the pack.

We developed this method for a group of six. Last year, we started with 2 duluth #4 packs (I think that is the size), and 1 smaller ruck sack of food for a 9 night trip. After 4/5 days we lost one duluth pack. The rucksack was tucked away by day 7. Not sure how much a solo person or smaller group would gain doing it this way. When we used the containers it seemed that we had a great deal of wasted space in the packs by the end of the trip.