Healthy Trail Snacks on a Dollar Store Budget – Revisited

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🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Aaron returns to the show to share her expert insight as a licensed nutritionist and founder of Backcountry Foodie, focusing on how hikers can fuel their adventures with healthy, ultralight snacks—without overspending. Drawing from her extensive experience creating trail-tested meal plans, she offers smart, affordable picks from dollar stores and discount chains that deliver real nutritional value and stand up to the demands of the backcountry. This episode was inspired by a suggestion ...

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0:00.0	What happens when a listener or YouTube viewer contacts me and ask a question? Let's find out.
0:19.0	Hi everybody. Welcome back to Papa Bear Hikes. I have a special guest with me here today that was
0:23.3	inspired by a question I received from Alex Hernandez. Alex had watched a YouTube or a series of
0:29.1	YouTube's I had put together on food when I was doing my Adirondack hike. And in those, I was talking
0:36.0	about snacks.
0:40.4	Alex had asked me about healthy snacks.
0:42.3	He did not want to buy junk food.
0:44.3	He didn't want to live on junk food, preservatives.
0:49.0	So I have with me a very special guest returning, our friend Aaron Owen Mayhew,
0:52.9	who we're going to talk about snacks and healthy snacks in particular.
0:54.0	Aaron, welcome back.
0:54.5	Yeah, thanks.
0:55.0	It's always a joy to be here and chat about food.
0:58.4	Yes, yes, that's one of the things hikers always
1:00.6	love to talk about is food.
1:04.0	So Aaron, that's a dilemma I think a lot of people
1:06.6	have, especially through hikers,
1:08.9	is how do you find healthy snacks? Instead of just loading yourself
1:13.1	up on junk food, how is it that you find healthy snacks? Well, and I want to preface it, too,
1:20.3	it's not even just healthy, but snacks you look forward to eating. So because like bars, there's
1:25.4	plenty of healthy bars out there, the cottage brands that don't use the preservatives and they're kind of thing.
1:30.1	But if you don't necessarily want to eat those, then they're not doing you any good.
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