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Others have sodium sensitive blood pressure and have to rigidly control sodium (table salt, msg and sodium nitrates and nitrites for example) in their diets. And, some, myself included, suffer from migrane. Many food items can serve as a migrane trigger and must be avoided.

So, if you can backpack on a steady diet of Cheeztos and Gatoraide count yourself lucky; diet planning need not be a large element of your trip planning. Others, however, are not so fortunate and need to know, exactly, the composition of every food item that goes in their pack.


You said exactly my views! As some know here, I can get god awful migraines as well, so I avoid MSG, artificial dyes, flavors, preservatives, nitrates, etc.

I tell you, if there is one thing I truly miss is a big bag of Cheetos. They are so nasty, yet so addicting <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> My son and husband gleefully eat food that is bright red, orange and blue <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> I recently found decent fake M&M's with nothing bad in them.....then they ate them! <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />
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