Grub lists

Packing and Portaging, Dillon Wallace:

Two weeks for two men, canoeing:

Bacon, 6 pounds

Salt pork, 2 pounds

Canned ham or meats, 5 pounds

Egg powder, 1 lb (equals four dozen eggs)

Milk powder, 1 1/2 pounds

Grease, 3 pounds

Fresh bread, 2 pounds

Flour, 12 pounds

Corn meal, 1 pound

Rolled oats, 1 pound

Rice, 1 pound

Baking powder, 1/2 pound

Potatoes, dehydrated, 3 pounds (equals 21 pounds of fresh potatoes)

Carrots, dehydrated, 3/4 pound (equals 3 pounds fresh carrots)

Onions, dehydrated, 3/4 pound (equals 3 1/4 pounds fresh onions)

Cranberries, dehydrated, 1/4 pound (equals 2 1/2 quarts fresh fruit)

Beans, 2 pounds

Peas, dehydrated, 1/4 pound (equals 1 1/4 fresh peas)

Coffee, ground, 2 pounds

Tea, 1/2 pound

Cocoa, 1/2 pound

Sugar, 5 pounds

Preserves, 1 pound

Lemons, half dozen

Limes

Prunes, 1 pound

Raisins, 1 pound

Salt, 1 pound

Pepper, 3/4 ounce

Standard Hudson's Bay rations, per man per day:

2 pounds of flour and 1 pound of salt pork, or

1 pound of pemmican and 1/4 pound of hardtack

Book of the Forest, Stewart White:

Provisions per man, one week:

flour 7 lbs.

pork 5 lbs. pork

tea 1/5 lbs.

beans 2 lbs

rice 1 1/2 lbs.

prunes and raisins 1 1/2 lbs

lard 1 1/2 lbs

sugar 1 1/2 lbs

oatmeal 1 lb

baking powder

pepper

salt

"This will last much longer if you get game and fish."

Paul Provencher (author of "The Last Courier du Bois)

bannock

bacon

fat (ghee)

salt

pepper

tea

flour

sugar (honey)

onions

Edna Calkins Price's (author of "Burro Bill and Me"):

two people for one month:

flour, 50 lbs

cornmeal, 10 lbs

beans, 20 lbs

honey, 10 lbs

coffee, 2 lbs

sugar, 2 lbs

oil, 1 gallon

salt

soda

onions

cocoa

dried apricots

salt pork

canned milk

canned bully beef

"When times were hard":

flour

coffee

sugar

grease