Food

People ask us what we are doing for food on our cross country trip.
All 3 of us are on a Yankee budget and so mostly buy groceries each day for the next day.
For breakfast, we usually have granola or cereal or muesli with powdered milk. For lunch we have almond or sunflower seed butter on tortillas or flat bread or cheese and cucumber or pepper sandwiches. We brought 2 Snowpeak backpacking camp stoves and make OreIda flavored potatoes mixed with ramen noodles OR Knorr pasta dishes for supper. Little did we realize that it would be impossible to find the disposable propane/isobutane canisters that our stoves require in Montana, North Dakota, or Minnesota...so we were eating sandwiches twice a day for a while till Shirley brought us some fuel from an REI in Arizona.
(I asked a clerk in ND if anyone ever went backpacking in her state-she smiled and pointed out that there really weren't any mountains to backpack on...)
Anyway, we also eat a lot of Clif, Odwalla, Performance bars and pretzels for snacks. And nuts and sunflower seeds...
A treat is to go to Subway and get a $5 sub. Fred and I can split one and feel full.
And although I could count the times I have gone to McD's one one hand in the past 30 years, we have gone there quite a bit for their 50 cent "Senior" coffee and free WiFi.
All 3 of us have lost a little weight...but all 3 of us needed to so that's a bonus!