Food packing ideas

Learn to make your own meals. There are numerous resources on line, either combining prepared ingredients or dehydrating your own meals cooked at home. With severe nut allergies, you'll always be better off with your own food. ( And pack epi pens and benadryl)

I think you’re really only a little limited to high calorie mid day snacks like bars, nut butters, etc. Processed foods that were made in a facility that also processed nuts, legumes, etc I assume also may be an issue? A couple of thing that I can think of top of my head for snacks that work with those restrictions would be honey stronger waffles. They aren’t too expensive and are a solid 150 cal/ounce. Fritos would be another good bet and are also around 150 cal/ounce. Then there’s always chocolate.

Otherwise, for breakfast, instant oatmeal is always an option. No, you can’t add nut butter to it, but you could enrich it with things like powdered whole milk, powdered oat milk, powdered coconut milk, ghee, brown sugar, dried fruits, chocolate/cacao nibs, and coconut. I know you mentioned seeds, but is chia out of the question?

For dinner, I think there are so many options, both freeze dried and off the shelf store bought options. Or, as the other poster mentioned, making your own food (whether dehydrated or using off the shelf instant and freeze dried ingredients) can be a great way to go if you enjoy cooking.

I pretty much live off instant ramen when I’m backpacking, it’s lightweight cheap and really easy to cook. I treat it like spaghetti usually and bring different sauces as well to switch things up

I'm only allergic to tree nuts so I usually opt for pretzels, cheesy popcorn, and meat sticks for my trail snacks. I also eat rice cakes with peanut butter but maybe oat, soy, or pea butter would work for you! (My sister is allergic to nuts and seeds so she likes Wowbutter the best) I also think Biscoff makes a cookie butter that is nut free.

I understand the struggle tho

Breakfast: oatmeal

Lunch: wraps with hard cheese and cured meat. I also go to fast food places and get sauce packages

Snacks: bars, dried fruits, jerky

Dinner: Instant ramen, powdered mashed potato (sold at any grocery store), canned tuna/chicken/ham, minute rice, instant soup. If you have the budget just buy freeze dried meals from outdoors stores.

All those expensive bars are a scam anyway. Just bring candy and snacks (I like dark chocolate, sour patch watermelons, poptarts, ritz crackers and cheez its), packets of instant oatmeal and poptarts for breakfast, blocks of cheese and cured meats with crackers or tuna packets for lunch, and I’m sure there are dehydrated meals you can buy that are allergy-safe. Also for dinner can do instant mash potatoes w some cured meat in it or can do kraft mac and cheese (boil with just barely enough water, topping off as needed if it soaks in and then add the powder directly to the noodles without draining the starchy sludge off—extra points if you brought butter but not needed)

Edit: ramen and beef jerky also good

How bad are your allergies?