Originally Posted by SlimRider (Post 15009825)

On your budget, you will need a 2-person pup tent (for sleeping only), complete with a sleeping bag and blanket. You should also have a small pot large enough for a small chicken. You will survive off of a variety of nuts, dried fruits, cereal, vegetables, and whatever you can hunt with a pellet pistol, during the week. You shouldn't exceed $7/day. On Saturdays, rent a hotel room near a supermarket. Do not exceed $80 for the room. Purchase a whole cooked chicken and stock up on more nuts, dried fruits, and cereal for the week. Consume the chicken along with cheese and some of the fruits and veggies purchased at the market, while in your room. You should also carry a folding or collapsible fishing rod, just in case you're ever near water.

On a few days out of a month, you'll need to stop in order to get out of the elements (bad weather). Sometimes, you'll just need to stop and regroup. You'll need to center yourself...

Plan your trip, taking mostly southern routes during the cooler seasons.

Originally Posted by stevepusser (Post 15017016)

Nuts? Dried fruit? A whole chicken? Hunting varmints with a pellet gun? OK, maybe in remote mountain trips, but mosst places one can stop at stores or farm stands and get fresh fruit. Breakfast: with a popcan stove, oatmeal, granola, or muesli is quick and easy to make, as are baggie omelets or hard-boiled eggs, plus that fruit is also good for any meal. Don't turn up your nose at ramen, mac and cheese, bargain bagels and cream cheese, danishes, concentrated frozen fruit juice, and so on. One can buy frozen bag veggies, quick-thaw them in tap water, then add them to boiling ramen or pasta. If you really think about not splurging, you can eat healthily and well for less than $5.00 a day in "settled" areas; prices in remote general stores will of course be higher.