Here's what they said about the food Beorn gave the travellers in The Hobbit:
"...he would lade them with food to last them for weeks with care, and packed so as to be as easy as possible to carry--nuts, flour, sealed jars of dried fruits, and red earthenware pots of honey, and twice-baked cakes that would keep good a long time, and on a little of which they could march far."
Maybe Bilbo picked up packing secrets from Beorn and taught Frodo?
I think the flour could be interesting. I know in the Little House books they would do things with salt pork and flour. Maybe they had salt pork at the beginning of the journey at least.
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Date: 2004-05-15 03:57 am (UTC)"...he would lade them with food to last them for weeks with care, and packed so as to be as easy as possible to carry--nuts, flour, sealed jars of dried fruits, and red earthenware pots of honey, and twice-baked cakes that would keep good a long time, and on a little of which they could march far."
Maybe Bilbo picked up packing secrets from Beorn and taught Frodo?
I think the flour could be interesting. I know in the Little House books they would do things with salt pork and flour. Maybe they had salt pork at the beginning of the journey at least.