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Meal Planning for Backpacking

July 14, 2023

The key to meal planning for backpacking is to bring food that is calorie dense and lightweight. Backpacking is hard work, so it’s important to provide your body with enough to sustain you without weighing down your pack.

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Dehydrating Ingredients for Making Your Own Backpacking Meals

July 1, 2022

Not only is dehydrating your own ingredients a great way to save money on backpacking food, it’s also a good method for controlling the quality of the items used in meals.

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Sourcing Ingredients for Making Your Own Backpacking Meals

June 29, 2022

This is a list of dehydrated or freeze-dried ingredients that can be used for making your own backpacking meals – a great way to control the quality and eliminate the additives and preservatives found in most commercial meals.

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Review: Bushka’s Kitchen backpacking meals

May 16, 2019

Finding good meals for backpacking is not easy, especially if you are a picky eater like me. I tried two meals from Bushka’s Kitchen and found both to taste fantastic.

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Backpacking Recipe: Ginger Almond Berry Oatmeal

May 1, 2018

Instant oatmeal is easy enough to make, but doesn’t keep me fueled for very long, so I make my own oatmeal mix with almonds, chia seeds and coconut milk powder for protein. 

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