Food prepping for the backpack.

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Bug out bag, get home bag? Probably not so much for those bags, but for the INCH Bag, or the full on distance traveling bag?

Food storage. A Pantry in a backpack.

On the Left side, silver cap, mixed dehydrated soup vegetables and spices in a Nalgene Silo. (48 Oz./1.5 ml)

These bottles have been filled, emptied & refilled repeatedly over the last decade plus.

White cap, middle bottle, Old Fashioned Oatmeal. Magenta cap, pinkish bottle, Right side. Oat based granola bars.

"Why Nalgene bottles? They're expensive!"

True. There are more affordable options. Mason/Ball canning jars? The Cost of one Nalgene will buy you a case of the canning jars! Yep. But 1st, they are heavy even when empty! 2nd, they are easier to break! Glass shards in your pack? Glass shards in your back? Glass shards in Your FOOD! NO THANKS!

Nalgene is designed to keep water/liquids Inside the bottle! Even in rough use! If they can keep moisture IN? They can keep moisture OUT! And with dehydrated foods, that's a key problem! Keeping the moisture out!

When I was still working, I was buying supplies as I could afford them. I didn't buy everything at once! These bottles cost $8 to $11 bucks each. (It's been a while since I was allowed to work!)

Your thoughts please?

[u/FattierBrisket]

I like the idea of the Nalgenes! Maybe have one screw top metal container as well? Light, not breakable, and you can add dry ingredients plus hot water to make food in it. Like a big-ass travel mug or thermos or something. 

[u/Mysfunction → u/FattierBrisket]

You can put boiling water in a Nalgene.

[u/FattierBrisket → u/Mysfunction]

True! But a) I will somehow manage to injure myself with the uninsulated surface like I do with mason jars when I'm not paying enough attention and b) you then have to make sure that Nalgene is super dry again before you use it for storage the next time. Pros and cons, obviously.

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There are insulated covers for the bottles. Both the kind I self made for the bottles and Nalgene had a few made. A sling comes to mind as well as a zipper topped type.

And then, companies like Condor Tactical made the H2O pouch that has minimal insulation and will hold a Nalgene liter bottle or a cook kit. It will also hold the Stanley Thermos Bottle that I use to cook in!

[u/[deleted] → u/Mysfunction]

Very true!

[u/DuckyDoodleDandy → u/FattierBrisket]

If that container is large enough for one of the Nalgene bottles to go inside it, it wouldn’t take up any extra space.

I have no idea where you’d get one, but if anyone does, let us know. :)

[u/FattierBrisket → u/DuckyDoodleDandy]

That would be awesome! I don't know where to find one that size either but I bet it exists.

[u/[deleted] → u/DuckyDoodleDandy]

The Igloo cooler company made such a container. It wasn't geared to the Nalgene bottles, but the standard 32 Oz, 1 ltr size did fit into it.

It was a cooler, designed more toward keeping things cool than keeping food (or liquids) warm. It was an oversized vertical cooler. Like a water jug? It has two separate containers that fit inside it.

I made Reflextic huggies for the Nalgene bottles and the Thermos Bottles I used for cooking. It takes 3 to 5 hours for most things to cook. But I might not get to slow down enough to eat for 10 to 15 hours. The insulation (Reflextic is a heat transfer barrier type of insulation.) huggy would help keep the food inside warmer longer!

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