camping food
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The Best (and Worst) Backpacking Meals Reviewed
I’ve been backpacking for over 20 years and have written two backpacking guidebooks, so I’ve eaten a lot of meals in the backcountry. In this post, I’ll review all of the pre-packaged backpacking meals I eat on my trips. Sometimes I home-dehydrate my backpacking meals. And sometimes I save some…
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16 Backpacking Breakfast Ideas
The first time I went backpacking, I discovered that I hated oatmeal. But it’s probably the most common breakfast on the trail so for a while I suffered through. But over the years I’ve come up with lots of alternative backpacking breakfast ideas that are just as easy as oatmeal.…
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Dehydrating Food For Backpacking: A Beginner’s Guide
When I started backpacking during university, I didn’t have much money and was appalled at how much packaged backpacking meals cost. So I decided to learn how to make them myself. In this post, I’ll teach everything I know about dehydrating food for backpacking. I’ve backpacked a lot over the…
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Grocery Store Backpacking Meals for Cheap
Have you seen the price of prepackaged backpacking meals lately? I can’t believe how expensive they have gotten. It is so much cheaper to make your own grocery store backpacking meals. It takes a little bit of planning to put together your own hiking dinners, but I think it’s worth…
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How to Choose the Best Backpacking Meals
There are so many moving parts to planning a backpacking trip: permits, weather forecasts, gear packing… And of course the meal plan. It can be tough to figure out what to eat in the backcountry. You’ll be exhausted at the end of the day and you want something delicious and…
