The food you take in your pack will need to be more than you need. Take extra food, providing for having to remain out overnight unplanned.
If hiking, take sufficient food. Next, start to think about the weight and number of trail meals. How many extra meals might you need, worst case? Overnight? Enough for a thunderstorm to clear? Or snowstorm?
Now, are you backpacking, yet? If you plan for overnight, a weekend, or more, you are a backpacker.
What food items are carried by backpackers? Here are several web pages to help answer that question.
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