Introduction: W-Trek food
Bringing your food means that you will carry it. Fresh water can be found in the park and in the shelters for free, but food is much more expensive. Yet you can find some there. Grey and Paine Grande have nice minimarkets while Frances and Chilenos ones provide basically survival stuff.
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Where to buy the w-Trek food
In Puerto Natales, there are plenty of places to buy food. The biggest supermarket is UNIMARC but the best for us was SUPERMERCADO SUPERFRUT. They are both located on the main street in the city center of Puerto Natales (Manuel Bulnes avenue).
We found that SUPERMERCADO SUPERFRUT has more choices. You can also find peanut butter here which is a hiker staple.
On a side street of the main one, there is also one little store selling nuts on measurement.
On the map below:
- Unimarc
- Superfrut
- Main street
- Bus terminal
- Our AirBnb
- Nuts store
Buying the food
We withdrew 200 000 CLP in order to have enough for the food and the park but we ended up being short of cash. We will talk about that in another article.
Here is what we spent in grocery
- Grocery at Unimarc: 41 500 CLP
- Fruit & Veggies: 3450 CLP
- Nuts: 3000 CLP
- Grocery Superfruit: 10 235 CLP
- Plastic cutlery: 2900 CLP
- 2 Vegan Calzones: 20 000 CLP
We didn’t ask for the price of the calzones and it was too late to cancel… better get some sandwiches, hehe.
Sandwiches
We made 8 sandwiches of folloing ingredients:
- 1 packet of toasted bread
- Tomatoes
- Stew: Red peppers, onions, tomatoes
- 16x Vegans steak
What we brought we us:
- 2x 160g packet of peanuts without salt
- 3x packets of cookies
- 2x packets of crackers
- 1x packet of 250g of cheese
- 1x packet of Japanese peanuts
- 1x Jar of 350g peanuts butter
- 1x Jar of 200g Dulce de leche (DDL)
- 12x bananas
- 2 packets of cereals
- 2x packets of toast breads
- 6x apples
- 250g of jam (membrillo – quince paste)
- 1x cucumber
- Some cranberries
- Some raisins
- 2x vegans’ calzones
- 8x vegans’ burgers
- Bags of coffee (like tea bag)
Day 2
- Breakfast: Banana, bread, peanut butter, dulce de leche, coffee bags
- Lunch: Vegan sandwich with vegetable steak and cooked veggies with half pack of cookies and DDL
- Afternoon snack: Bananas
- Dinner: Vegan sandwich with tomatoes and soja steak plus 160g peanuts
Conclusion
What we brought was in the end enough and we wouldn’t change much about our food list. Only the calzones, they were delicious though 😀
Also, instead of using fresh tomatoes for sandwiches go for cucumbers or peppers (tomatoes release too much water).
“Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” – Ray Bradbury
Looking where to Stay before and after?
Unique Stay near the Park
- Lodge: Cabañas Lago Tyndall
- Tiny House: Torres del Paine
- Lodge: Konkashken Lodge
Or in Puerto Natales:
- Budget: Puma House
- Mid-Range: Toore Patagonia
- High-Range: Hostal Boutique Factoria Patagonia
