as I mentioned, it depends if you look at max weight or average. You're correct for any sane number of meals I believe, about the average.. There's good reasons to care about both - the average for obvious reasons, but the max to know what you're gonna carry on your heaviest days. By the time I'm at day 7 I care less about the fuel burn because I've eaten so much food out of my pack that I'm practially levitating down the trail (tie a string to me and float me in the macy's parade.... woot!)



I budget the same, although I wouldn't call it "generous" when starting with water that's usually a couple degrees above freezing even in august. I find that number matches my practical in field use with a penny stove.. Your starting water temp matters a heck of a lot

But in any case we digress - I still carry alky on almost all my trips - I'm paranoid - I don't even trust the stupid lindal valves on the canisters not to ruin my trip