Do you ever buy trailmix thinking "this will be good for me". Nuts, raisins, and some sort of bird seed look a like. Two day's later only reaching back into the bag to discover all the little chocolate smidgens have somehow gone missing. All interest in said trailmix evaporated.
I will probably bring trailmix camping this weekend. There is no other food you can incorporate into all others. It's breakfast, lunch, and dinner. It's also a perfect boredom snack. You can organize all ingredients. You can organize by flavor, color, or texture. You can throw it at friends, you can try and catch them in your mouth, you can put them on mellows and grahams if you don't' want to buy an entire smores size package of chocolate.
I will also probably bring Pumpkin beer camping. Tis the season for fall colors, fall flavor's, and reason's to eat things like pie. I once brought an entire apple pie camping. I didn't bring it, my friend Matt hiked 2 miles through the snow with the damn thing so we could have dessert after our baguette and jelly sandwiches. We were going to cook steak but we somehow forgot there would be no dry wood for fires in a forest covered with snow. Yeah, we were in high school. Spontaneity won over clarity everytime.
Speaking of HS, Katy St Clair - the food, opinion, writer of all things interesting for the SF Weekly, wrote a humorous piece this week about her HS reunion.