I just packed my Garcia Machine canister with nine days of food to make sure it will work before starting my trip later this coming week. Last weekend, I just set most of my food in the canister and the bag of jerky was sticking way out of the top and I still had three dinners and some bars to add. Yikes! Tonight, I repacked all the dinners, ramen also and put all the bars on end at the bottom. On the down side, I don't even have 2,000 calories a day, but plan on taking the first days food out and adding some dried fruit and a few more energy bars as a few of my days will be hard, hiking off trail up over some ridges in SEKI on a loop trip. I only have around 15,000 calories now. On the plus side, I try to make my days destination before lunch. If I was putting in some big miles, I would really be dying by the time I made my destination. Almost forgot, I need to add some Gookinaid to sip on, on my hard days. Next gear purchase, a Bearicade I guess if I do any more long, hard trips.