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In a bug out situation, grams per kcal may also be important. When I hiked coast to coast across Scotland the other year I took freeze-dried products (much lighter than MREs because you add the water at the time of cooking - although you do have to cook them). I took a mixture of supermarket stuff and commercial backpacker meals. The supermarket ones were cheaper, and in many cases nicer, but the problem was the calories. I was burning in excess of 3000 per day and was finding it difficult replacing them. Lost a stone over the two weeks, which was welcome, but not an ideal situation. The specilised backpacking meals were much higher in calories.