Tea And Cookies – No Camper Should Be Without Them!

I thought long and hard about my afternoon tea and cookie routine before I left to go on my camping trip to Zion. Ultimately I decided that no camper should be without them so I packed accordingly.

Jen thought I was a little crazy, but even more so when I suggested we pick up a pie at Costco the night before we were to meet up with our camping group.

Pie on top of the mountain… Wouldn’t that be a treat!?

But as soon as I had the enormous {nearly 5 pounds!} Costco pie in my hands I decided that carrying an extra 5 pounds up a mountain was sort of crazy. 🙂

So we ended up just packing it in the van the next morning and had it for dessert at the camp site two nights later with our fellow campers. It was a welcome treat at the end of a hard day of hiking, that’s for sure. Normally on Monday’s I share about what groceries we bought and I ate the previous week.

This past week I was on the trail… So the food looks a wee bit different. 

The first morning we met up with everyone and ate breakfast at our designated hotel. Lunch was premade turkey wraps {they were delicious!} and chips.

Other than my tea and cookie rations, I think the thing I was most worried about while I was preparing for my hiking trip was how much water I’d consume {and have to carry}.

It was suggested that each person should carry 100 ounces of water each day so I had packed 6 bottles of water on our first day of hiking.

By the end of the first day, I had drunk almost 4 bottles of water, a thermos full of tea and 1 fizzy water. {The fizzy water came from a cooler at the end of the day that our guides had in the back of our van}.

This was sort of a relief because it meant I probably really only needed to pack 4 bottles of water {instead of 6} and so that’s what I did each day for the rest of the trip.
You wouldn’t think 2 pounds would make much of a difference in a backpack… But it does!

I tried a new snack on my trip. Taos Bakes Bars. Holy cats these are good! Have you tried them?

Each day before heading out on the trail each of us selected 4 treats from an enormous tub our guides brought.

I think over the course of the 5 days we were hiking I tried 4 different kinds of bars and the coconut vanilla bean one was my favorite. If you see these somewhere, try one. I bet you’ll love them as much as I do.

The first night of our trip we stayed near the base of Zion National Park so our group went out to dinner. Which after a long day of hiking was AWESOME!

The Spotted Dog in Springdale, Utah. I highly recommend it. 

The first night of our trip was in a hotel, after that… It was all trail food and campground meals. 🙂

With temperatures dipping down to 39 degrees at night, the Selk bag came in handy!!!

Chicken salad with goldfish crackers… Trail dining at its finest.

There were also pickety bits!

It was probably my favorite meal of the entire trip. 

The guides did a great job of keeping us fed on our trip, that’s for sure. I was amazed at how much food we were eating {probably twice or even three times as much as I would normally eat}.

Fresh salad, pulled chicken, beans {and gas station Zingers}.

Tea and cookies at 7,000 feet. 🙂 

Jen and I even treated ourselves to In-N-Out at the end of our hiking adventure. It was a great week! We ate like lumberjacks, slept in the dirt, challenged ourselves physically and pretty much just had a great time.

The trip was a 10/10 in my book.

I’ll share some more pictures and tell you all about it in the coming days.. But for now, I’m just happy to be home.

~Mavis

Total Spent Last Week On Groceries $79.51 {sorry, no picture}

January $229.38
February $260.86
March $433.46
April $369.57
May $110.69
June $448.14
July $134.63
August $240.70
September $364.07
October $79.51