At 09:16 AM 14/12/2006, you wrote:

>I have never gone for this many days before so in the past weight and
>room have not been as much of a problem but after preparing the pack
>on the weekend I discovered the food takes up most of the room in the
>middle section of my pack (pack is 80L) and weighs 10kg, not counting
>pack weight of 3.3kg.

Hi ?

A common rule of thumb for food is around 750 g to 1 kg per person
per day. At 750 grams you should have food around 13.50 kg + so it
seems you have got your food weight down pretty reasonably.

Andrew