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When you are out in the wilderness and your stomach starts gurgling for some sustenance, sometimes you may ignore it and begin to feel fatigued other times you may eat a grotesquely unhealthy snack. Eating unhealthy snacks may at first seem to satisfy you, but after a moment you are going to be hit with two things: guilt and empty calories.
The guilt is going to come because you know that this food is garbage, and when you eat garbage you feel like garbage. Everybody knows that eating grubby food is going to cause diabetes and make you gain weight but still people do it anyway, but not without regretting it after their heartburn and hyperglycemia kick in.
Apart from the psychological and emotional stress of cheating yourself with garbage food, your body is going to be sending you a clear message that what you did is not cool. When you eat garbage your body tries to let you know that it is garbage by sending signals like stomach aches, perhaps a quick drain of energy, heart burn, and other ways too.
So instead of eating gross foods that won't do you any good, prepare yourself for the wild outdoor adventures of your life with some good old fashioned trail mix. Trail mix is a great high energy healthy food that is easy to store and carry on adventures.
If you are going out into the middle of the woods just fill an entire backpack with trail mix and you could live out there for weeks. If you want to be really smart about it, make your own trail mix and exclude all the salt from the recipe, the chocolate is still good though.
Salt is going to cause you to be dehydrated and will make you want to drink too much water, so get unsalted peanuts when mixing your mix. Chocolate chips are going to provide a quick burst of energy and flavor, while the body works to break down the proteins in the peanuts.
If for any reason, you need to trek a great distance and you are worried that there may not be food along the trail, fix a mix and set sail. Trail mix is the mountain man's number one preparedness food.
If you have vacuumed sealed buckets of peanuts and raisons then you can make it any time, without ever driving into town for ingredients. Even if you are not an outdoor adventurer then just keeping trail mix around the house in a big bowl as a snack is going to be a lot healthier than keeping a candy jar. Destry Masterson is a health and nutrition expert. She publishes articles for http://www.foodinsurance.com and recommends them for food storage.
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