energy food

Your guide will be eating locally available food.
Your porters will be eating locally available food.
The other climbers will be eating locally available food.

Kilimanjaro is just a slow hike and does not require anything special.

Take some chocolate powder & sugar to stick in the maize porridge.

I found there was plenty of food availble at each meal stop. The porters really do a nice job of preparing the meals.

thanks
i was told to bring stuff to snack on between meals , thats why i was asking.I tend to get a lot hungrier than most of my mates while hiking
the choc's a good idea
larry

I see you're from the USofA, so I assume you have access to the same products I do. I suggest bringing a variety of stuff. Sometimes I like to bring instant hummus and eat it with snack crackers. I put a single-serving size of hummus in a small ziploc bag. When I'm ready to eat, I add water and squish it around. It's light to carry and sticks to your ribs. Sometimes I bring individual peanut butter packets. Skippy makes 2 oz. tubes -- kind of like otter pops but not frozen. It goes well on crackers. Nuts aren't that heavy, but I stick to lightly or unsalted nuts. Most dried fruit doesn't go down well for me, but I like dried bananas. My porters truly enjoyed koolaid, but be sure you double bag it since spilled sugar is so sticky. It's nice to have something you can share. My trekking partner brought cigarettes and lighters for all the porters. He had fun watching them try to figure out the child safety feature. Not everyone smoked, but they all took a lighter, and they had a nice moment of communications-without-a-common language while around the cooking fire in the evening.

Don't forget ear plugs, sunscreen, and a few tablets of your favorite analgesic. The descent can be hard on the knees.

Try St John's bread...carob beans. They contain as much energy as a Mars Bar. They are available all around the middle east, mostly as powder, but the pod is sweet when chewed (spit out the fiber) from its natural sugar. Let it soften in your mouth first before breaking off a bit, its hard on the teeth.