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Looks like we all like health food!!

Sandwiches ham or chicken with bacon, protein chocolate flavored bars from Costco, Cherry fried pies and filtered water.

Homemade cookies. I think my wife likes me out of the house.

I like a good apple or some deer jerky.

Ketchup packages. When I lived in Colorado, dad and I would never hit "the hills" without several small packets of ketchup stuffed in our packets and pockets. Would eat them off and on all day. Kept cramps and fatigue away. Cut down on thirst too so we would schedule water drinking stops. (Dehydration in the mountains is a bad idea.) Myself I would also carry a large baggie of cashews/m&m's.
Here in Missouri where I hunt from an elevated stand I've had everything under the sun in the blind with me. Always bottles of water though, with accompanying jug.😉

That got a legitimate laugh out loud of me!

I have recently found that I'm more content and less restless if I hunt on coffee only, up to noon or so. I do like to have something to snack on when boots hit the ground and my circulation gets going again. I am convinced that the deer will smell anything I eat on stand unless I'm in a box blind so I limit my options and resist snacks.

Summer sausage all day

Every hunting season I make up a big batch of trail mix. Dried bananas and apricots, raisins, peanut M&M’s, almonds, cashews, and peanuts. I always have a quart freezer ziploc bag full in my pack. If I’m in the woods all day a thick deli meat sandwich, or in cold weather, a small thermos full of hot pork and beans with three or four hotdogs chopped up in it.

I love to take bacon&egg sandwiches. They hold up pretty well with toast, and if it's really cold they reheat over a fire pretty well too! I only take those if it's cold enough to keep them cold....my wife is a food-safety-nazi. Then along with that I'll usually take some trail mix or dried fruit and maybe even a candy bar (for a quick pick me up while dragging).

Not hunting related, but still pertinent maybe......after I nearly suffered heat stroke after an NRA Highpower Rifle match I talked to some long time shooters as well as my Dietitian wife and changed my game plan for nutrition surrounding matches. My family doesn't typically eat a lot of junk food, but the day before a match I'll make sure I'm not overdoing it on salt or sugar, and I will drink constantly. A national champ told me that I should be drinking enough the day before that you have to get up 2-3 times per night to pee (no old man prostate jokes please) ....and when you wake up to pee...you drink more. Day of the match you continue drinking and focus on lean protein/plant based proteins, as well as fruits and veggies...keeping added sugar to a minimum.

This has really helped me to endure long matches on hot days.

i take a lunch in hard containers in my pack for a all day sit ,sometimes i just take a MRE and water but always 2 diet cokes for all day. and i never leave home without T.P. and a gallon pee jug if in a stand or blind..