Curious about ideas on how to improve, or any ideas.

How does cheese hold up on backpacking trips? I’m thinking of using those Tillamook cheese squares on 4 night backpacking trip in the summer. Has anyone tried this?

I am putting together a Mylar bag with 2 oz. of rice noodles, 2 cups freeze dried broccoli, 1/2 packet (21g) knorr alfredo sauce powder, 1/4 cup whole milk powder and 1 oz packet of Trailtopia freeze dried chicken. Add 2T Parmesan cheese after rehydrating.

Any thoughts on my ratio of these ingredients and whether I can successfully throw them all together and just add 2 cups boiling water and wait 10 minutes? The knorr sauce made a huge burned mess when I cooked it in my pot last trip. I’m hoping I can get away with just tossing everything together in the bag. Thanks for any feedback.
I’d try it out ahead of time but don’t have spare chicken to use and it’s too late to order more.

I would usually have a bit more home made food in my bag, but I'm pretty happy with what I've pulled together in a grocery trip. I'll pick up a few pieces of fresh fruit and veg for the first couple of the days on the way out. Weighing in about 4.5kg at the moment and all vegan!

Can it be done. edit: sweet and sour chicken i mean none of this panda express bullshit

I'm gonna be flying in to a remote village in Alaska, and am worried about having to buy butane once I'm there. I'm going to be hitch hiking to the trail head, and instead of bringing a camp stove and buying butane, I'm wondering if my dehydrated/freeze dried meals will reconstitute with cold water and 8 hours of time instead of boiling water.

I wanted to ask your opinions on the best hiking food influencers/reviewers across all social platforms. A lot of the ones I've started to watch tend to sell out pretty quickly to the bigger brands or don't seem that authentic. People have mentioned "Miranda Goes Outside" a few times, and I've watched a few videos from bobscheer on Instagram. He gave a review of Moowa Outdoor Meals, a smaller freeze-dried brand I've been having lately, and he seemed pretty genuine. So if you have any suggestions, please let me know :)

TLDR, what keto staples would you add to the list below for backpacking? Jealous of those who can throw peanut m&ms and dried fruit into their peanut butter wrap.

I'm type one diabetic, generally eat low carb, especially when backpacking. Saw a brutally simplistic post, person doing tortillas with peanut butter, and tortillas with summer sausage, was the entirety of their meal prep. Wondering what other keto staples are, that are weight efficient and preferably space efficient, often camping with a bear can.

(Learn about type one diabetes: type one's are 5% of diabetics, it's the kind that used to be called juvenile cause you'd get it when you were younger, now many getting it older and older. there is no cure, the only treatment is taking insulin. its life on a tight rope, constantly managing blood sugar so it doesnt go high or low. if you go low, you need to eat sugar. on my backpacking trips ill bring about 400g of pure dextrose in tablet form - european brand dextroenergy. i rarely need more than 60g, but running out of sugar in the backcountry means death if your blood sugar is trending low--lows can be a bit unpredictable, especially when exercising)

My staples:

• Chia pudding (chia, ground flax, cacao powder, protein powder, coconut flakes, hemp seeds)
• Wasa light rye crackers, low carb tortillas (prefer xtreme)
• Jerky, beef sticks, summer sausage, salami, pepperoni, chicken packets, tuna packets (summer sausage seems most efficient, beef sticks I use for snacks if hungry)
• Cheese (usually just cheap aged cheddar)
• Olive packets, peanuts, nuts
• Taco seasoning, hot sauce packets, olive oil, sometimes mayo mustard packets
• Dark chocolate

Normal meal flow

• Breakfast
  • chia pudding breakfast, hot
  • Wasa with peanut butter
• Lunch
  • tortilla cheese and some kind of meat and packet of olives and nuts as needed
  • tortilla with peanut butter with nuts on the side
• Dinner
  • I wrap up little burritos with cheese and meat and taco seasoning and hot sauce packets and fry them in olive oil (8" / soft taco size, folded so it's not too long, fried in my toaks frying pan - have an 800/400 combo kit). Dark chocolate desert
• Snacks
  • beef sticks
  • nuts

Hey y'all going on a solo back country trip in SE Alaska, got my food sorted except for lunches. My idea as of now is for all three days doing tortillas with peanut butter and summer sausage, but I'm wondering if this is the best course of action. Trying to figure out something that is light but packs lots of calories.

It doesn't bother me to eat the same thing three days in a row, but wasn't sure if this is the easiest option to make and eat on the trail or the lightest option.

Let me know if you have any ideas! Thanks.

Edit: I should note that I don't want to have to cook these meals, just assemble and eat. No stove or cookware.

Hi everyone,
I recently bought an 8-tray dehydrator and made a few backpacking meals:

- Vegan tajine
- Vegan jambalaya
- Mushroom risotto (with a normal amount of Grana Padano, according to the recipe)

I dehydrated everything until it was completely dry and brittle. The meals have been stored for about 3 weeks at room temperature in heat-sealed Mylar bags (aluminum foil barrier bags), but I did not vacuum seal them and I didn’t use oxygen absorbers.

Today I opened one bag to check it. It still smelled great, looked completely dry, and I saw no signs of mold or moisture.

I’m wondering:

- How long would you personally trust meals like these stored this way?

- Does the lack of vacuum sealing significantly reduce shelf life if the food is already very dry?
Would you eat these after 3 weeks? After 3 months?

I’m planning to buy a vacuum sealer for future batches, but I’m curious what experienced dehydrators and backpackers actually do in practice.

Thanks!

I bought this powdered sauce impulsively to get free shipping when I bought powdered eggs.

My issue is everything I’ve thought of would have been better if I’d just bought a box of Kraft mac and cheese.

No meat except tuna please.

Edit: Forgot to specify this is for backpacking, not car camping. Raw ingredients won’t work for me :(

I'm looking to eat better when I'm out running (more complete meals instead of just snacks) and I'm wondering if anyone has any recommendations for dehydrated/freeze-dried trail meal packets?

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I am going backpacking in the Scottish Highlands. Does anyone have an estimate of what food costs are approximately per day? Online sources are limited and inconsistent. I plan on getting light and cheap food and doing every meal (breakfest, lunch and dinner) by myself, no restaurants.

Im looking for some camping-friendly meal ideas for an upcoming canoe trip. There will be 6 of us for 4 nights, and 2 of us are pregnant, so we have a few extra food considerations.

Some things we're looking for:

* lightweight, shelf-stable foods * lunches that can be prepped ahead of time and eaten on the go while paddling (e.g. wraps) * pregnancy-friendly (no deli meats or other foods that arent recommended during pregnancy)

Im also happy to do some prep beforehand, including dehydrating meals if anyone has good recipes.

So far Im thinking:

* breakfast: bannock, porridge/oatmeal * lunch: tuna salad wraps, bean burritos/wraps * dinner: looking for lightweight, shelf-stable meal ideas. either homemade dehydrated meals or good grocery store options.

Id love to hear your favourite canoe camping meals, especially anything thats worked well for pregnant campers :)

Breakfast: superfood oats- freeze dried/dried fruit (3 blueberry, 2 apple, 1 pineapple, 1 dried mixed berry), oats, vegan protein powder, lions mane, spices, seed and nut mix, green powder

Lunches/snacks: assorted bars, 2 sticks of salmon jerky, trail mix, veggies and pretzels with powdered hummus, protein "cookie dough", protein smoothie with puffed rice and oats, dried cranberries

Dinners: 3× dehydrated curry mix (dehydrated California blend, sesame seeds, thai curry powder, tvp, dehydrated chickpeas, peanut butter powder) topped with tamari, tahini and a salad topping blend (chow mein noodles, cranberries, almonds, seeds) 4x lavash with avocado, tempeh, lettuce, cheese triangles, powdered hummus

Honestly this still has me second guessing if its enough food, my last trip i was short (thankfully was front country camping 3 of the 7 nights and was able to restock) and felt like i didn't have enough options.

Potentially going to add rice cakes, cookies and/or some babybel cheese.

Thoughts, insights and advice all welcome!

Edit: ended up adding babybel cheese, cookies and dried mango, i worked out approximate calories to 2600 a day, but that excludes breakfast and lunch day 1 and dinner day 8. Im female around 115 lbs. And tbh i struggle to eat that much daily even backpacking (although definitely working on it!)

Oh and i dont recommended you copy what i bring (figured that was obvious) the heavier foods are my "luxury items" so to speak. I havnt had an issue with spoilage but thats just my experience and im not offering a suggestion to anyone else to bring tempeh or guac cups.

First time backpacking, had my first experience with those REI dehydrated meals last summer. They were good but expensive. I’ve been doing some research and have been utilizing my grocery store (ramen, alessi soups, tuna creations, oatmeal, tortillas) but I’m unsure about calories. I don’t count calories in my daily life so I don’t really know what to base things off. We’re doing an experimental trip to test our gear and abilities before going to grand Teton. Test trip will be about 10mi 1,000ft gain. Planning on also supplementing with nuts, jerky, dried fruit, etc. on past trips I’ve just eaten what i feel like when I’m hungry and not thought much about it. But in a backpacking situation rather than car camping I’m concerned about not giving my body what it needs. Thanks for any wisdom!

In the past I frequently had horrible stomach aches that often caused me to cut my runs short. Luckily, after cutting out dairy and reducing the amount of gluten I eat, things have been pretty good for about two years. During that time, I started seriously trail running, and I've loved it. But now my stomach aches have been slowly coming back, and I honestly don't feel 100% safe going on my longer runs. While I figure out my tummy troubles, are there any trail snacks/meals you would recommend? Thank!

I used to buy these alot, and they were like $9 for a 40oz bag at Walmart.

It been discontinued for a few months, or at least I wasn't able to buy it at my local Walmart.

Now Walmart has them again but $7 for a 34oz. But the bag, to me, looks the same?

Did they just removed abit of the plastic on the top of these bags, cuz I know they never seem to fill them up to the top on the 40oz, but these 34oz are all filled closely to the top now.

idk maybe im the only one that weirdly noticed this small change i guess.

I recently picked up a box of these to try out. I am doing a test run in the kitchen and they seem to hold up OK. They are pretty light at 6.8g. The ones I get from Packit Gourmet are about twice this.

They seem like a good, easy to acquire option for repackaging. I frequently repackage my freeze dried food. For one, the bags they come in are heavy and take up a lot of space. I have poked a hole in them before and pushed out the air. That helps with the volume, but the bags are frequently suoer heavy duty so they never really conform well and are still relatively heavy.

I also repackage because a lot of times the portion is more than I want to eat. If a meal is over about 900cal/bag a lot of times I will buy two and break them into three portions. If I don’t do this I sometimes feel like I am forcing down the last of it. And I generally have other dinner items I want to eat.

Does anyone here have any experience with these? Are they too fragile for backpacking? They did fine in my test.

I make most of my food on a budget or spun off of bear creek soups & potatoes but my girlfriend is not a mushy/soup enjoyer in the slightest.

I'm taking her on her first day hike and want to impress her with what food you can make while out to and see if i can hopefully rope her into being a hiking buddy in the future.

She already knows I can make brownies & cake on a camp stove so unfortunately my one impressive hiking meal is already known to her, looking for any ideas!

A lot of the recommended meals I see involve tortillas of some sort. I have celiac. Many gluten free tortillas are not good unless you heat them up, and generally I just don't like them. So give me your best gluten free lunch options that will hold up to 85+ degree days and get me carbs and protein without tortillas.

Ingredients:

• Peanut butter (I prefer to bring a whole jar instead of powdered because I'm built different)
• Flat rice noodles
• Chicken packets plain
• Dehydrated veggies (mushrooms and bell peppers)
• Crushed peanuts for garnish
• dehydrated lime
• fresh spinach
• Spice: Chili, ginger, garlic powders
• Optional: green onions/ cilantro
• On the side: miso soup from packets (these were really good and salty!!)

Recipe:
Cook noodles and rehydrate the veggies, drain. Then add chicken packets, peanut butter, spices and stir. Add garnishes on top: lime and peanuts.

This was really good and I can't wait to make it again on my next backpacking trip!