Top 5 Backpacking Meals of All Time
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ก.ค. 2024
- Backpacking meals can get a little...stale...especially if you're solely relying on the dehydrated versions that you find at your local outdoor store. But never fear, I'm here to tell you that there IS a way to eat well on the trail - and it just involves a trip to your local grocery store! In this video, I'm showing you my top 5 backpacking meals, the ones that are tried-and-true and have accompanied me on many a backpacking trip.
What's your go-to backpacking meal? Tell me in the comments!
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Beef ramen, curry powder, cayenne, garlic powder, coconut powder - spicy beef coconut curry!
That's a delicious recipe!
Sounds delicious, my little brothers will love it.
Bringing that many spices sounds exhausting...
I could eat ramen for breakfast lunch and dinner! 🍜
@@ChimRichalds34 I would assume it was premeasured into a bag with the ramen, so nothing to think about, other than adding water.
I make my own Lara Bar knock-offs - great for a healthy infusion of calories mid-morning or mid-afternoon. half cup of Medjool dates, 1 cup of dried strawberries, 1 cup raw almonds, quarter cup of dried blueberries. Toss it into a food processor for a couple minutes until it looks like a paste. If you pick up a small amount and it sticks together when you press it in your fingers, it's done. Dump it into an 8x8 pan, compact it tightly, chill for at least 30 minutes, and cut into 8 bars. Lasts a few weeks in the fridge or several days in your pack if properly wrapped. 215 calories per bar.
Heck yeah! That's great. I love the homemade options. Sounds delicious!
My Ma and I like to make homemade cocoa and package it in ziplock bags for the trail. 4 cups Powdered milk, 2/3 cup each of powdered coffee creamer, sugar, cocoa and 1/4 tps salt. Wisk it together and 3-4 tablespoons to a mug of warm water, not boiling. It really hits the spot on a cold night. Even better in the morning with a tsp of instant coffee mixed into the hot chocolate.
Oooh, I like this a lot! Great idea!
Annie's Mac and Cheese plus dehydrated hamburger and ghee butter (both shelf stable and high cal/oz) plus some jalepeno salt was my favorite meal over and over again on the Colorado trail. Not as fancy but lighter and great as UL food.
dehydrated meals only save weight when you have water sources. On hikes where there aren't water sources you can expand your menu quite a bit to include fresh fruits and veggies that last a few days, and boil in the packet meals like Tasty Bite, Loma Linda, or 60second rice packets since you already paid the weight penalty of hauling the water.
yeah if there isn't going to be water near you, then you don't really save much going freeze dried.
@BackpackingTV ...if there isn't water near you then how are you staying hydrated? Rehydrating meals doesn't require much water anyway.
Cream of mushroom soup powder + mashed potato flakes + lentils (pre prepared in tetrapak) is one of my faves
Sounds good!
Pre-cooked bacon crumbles make everything taste better and are very calorie dense. They generally keep at least a week once opened. Find them next to the croutons and salad dressings, if the Hormel Black Label is available do it, way better than Oscar Meyer. For veggies add a spoonful of Knorr dried vegetable mix to anything that gets cooked with hot water. It’s mainly onion, garlic, and carrots.
My suggestion would be to buy some freeze dried vegetables. I know that they don't add calories, but they are very lightweight, and they add flavour, fibre and a strong sense of eating a real meal. Also, some are relatively coarse, so they add texture as well. You can add them to any meal by first soaking them in boiled water according to the recipe and then add things like instant mashed potatoes, that mac and cheese or noodles. Or, depending on the recipe, you boil them together with those other ingredients.
Good tip! Any idea where to buy these in the UK?
@@syrus3k Just do a google search and you'll find some companies that sell them.
personally my favorite is mangos I love them so much
@@syrus3kgo to the store
Great ideas! My fave easy meal is stove top stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravey packet. Sometimes iadd a pack of chicken.
Sounds delicious!
when your favorite backpacking meal is essentially a poor trailer dinner.......
hits home hard
On my overnighter last weekend, dinner was 1 cup of rice cooked with a half packet of vegetable soup mix. That was more than enough to shared with my friend. I had it with a steak, but add in some jerky, sausage, beans or lentils and you've got additional protein mixed in for a one pot meal.
Perfect timing, I just rewatched every food episode you’ve ever done
Awesome! (hush hush secret: there's more coming....)
Always good video!thanx to share!! I like to bring pre mixed pancake in zipploc bag and eat it the first morning!!with a little maple syrup
mmmmm.... Nice! I've been digging the Kodiak Cakes pancakes lately.
Great ideas ill have to try it out
Nice video. I used similar sausage, mashed potatoes, soup mix and noodles for a patagonian hike evening meal. Porridge for breakfast and fruit & nut/flapjack for lunch/snacks.
Sounds delicious!
Awesome channel! I just discovered it this week and I am hooked. Thanks for the video.
Hey glad to hear it!
Thank you!
Bear Creek meals , all of them are good. Don't want to carry Tomato Paste then get some dehydrated Tomato powder from Harmony House Foods. There are a lot of different dehydrated foods (Vegetables & Meat ) from commercial outlets and even grocery stores. With some imagination you can do your own and basically have the same meals you have at home , all it takes is thought. You would be surprised what you can find ( & put together ) at your local grocery.
Totally! A little creativity and you can do just about anything with your food. Good call on the tomato paste!
Love the thumbnail. Great work.
Wow 🤩
Thank u for the help
Great selection, love it! (newly subscribed to your channel a couple of days back and going through your videos so maybe a little bit late to comment here but couldn't keep my mouth ...)
So, just to say it - if you are not always on the spicy side, peanut butter sauce is also easily done with peanut butter, ketchup and soya sauce, and some water. If you add a spoon of wild blueberry fruit spread (that jam with half cooked berries in it) it even tastes like prepared by a 5star Michelin chef ... ;-)
And else: if you are not so happy with the taste of whatever instant meal you prepare it is almost never bad to add simply some pieces of dried mushrooms ... even cheapest packs of macandcheese or other noodles can taste suddenly much better if you give some small pieces of dried mushrooms in the water whiles boiling it up. Use whatever cheap dried mushrooms you get for that hack, e.g. shitake or oyster mushrooms or so. The cheap mushrooms from farms are even better than wild ones since there is also without washing them guaranteed no sand in it - they are usually grown on saw dust or straw or something like that ;-)
And finally: since many years, my number one backpacking meals are noodle soup packages from Wai Wai (often also spelled waiwai) in chicken flavour - originally these noodles are from Nepal and since years also widely available here in India, and afaik these noodles are meanwhile also available in the US, at least online. They are precooked and prefried and can be eaten raw as snack, what makes them already ideal for travels and backpacking, and prepared with boiling hot water (simply pour it over them and let them rehydrate for a couple of minutes) they are just great. Here in India they are available for 12 Rupees per pack (=0,16 USD) what makes them maybe the cheapest backpacking meals ever. Of course they give a nice stand alone meal but very often I combine them with tuna and ketchup or scrambled eggs or sausages or dried mushrooms, enjoy them with peanut butter sauce, or put them on top of toast or chapatis/tortillas etc. If you pinch a small hole in the pack and crush the noodles in your hands, the volume shrinks to approx. half of the original size, means you can save quite some volume in your rucksack.
thanks for the great ideas
Welcome!
I’m doing a overnight on the approach trail with my grand uncle and second cousin tomorrow thanks for the vid
I don't know if you can get them in the US, but I've genuinely enjoyed freeze dried meals from Adventure Food. Not cheap, but they certainly have a nice taste and some texture as well. Converted from euros, they should be around 7 US$ and typically are 600 kCal. One of my favourites is pasta al salmone. They also have vegetarian (vegan?) options.
One of my classic meals is the uncle ben ”mexican rice” Just throw in a couple teaspoons of water and some black beans and its delicious! Potato salad is also always tasty both cold and warm.
That's a solid option!
Potato salad also seems like it could be heavy for its volume right? I guess you could just eat it on your first night, but what if its a week long hike? I'm going on a 5 day hike next month! Wish me luck lol
@@nicksshitbro Yeah potato salad is unfortunately quite heavy but its just so good! Goodluck on the hike!
For my 3 days hike i use dehydrated meal plus my own made dehydrated meal. Plus dry fruits mix. Some energy's snacks and bananas
How long will those sausages hold up in a pack?
I do tuna packs, homemade jerky, mini chocolate bars, cliff bars (and others) and kraft dinner, and fruit leather.
Typically, Annie’s mac and cheese is prepared with milk and butter. Do you pack those ingredients or do you use substitutes? Thanks!
Ive been trying what im calling peanut butter pudding.
Its a mix of 2 tablespoons creamy peanut butter, a teaspoon of chocolat instant breakfast mix, a teaspoon of powdered sugar and a dash of cinnamon powder. You put it in a screw closed container to repeat until its full. Lots of protien and vitamins and such.
I am currently on a 2 days gear testing trip and eating at camp right now while watching this video... 😋
Nice! What are you gear testing?
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New sleep system, NeoAir Xlite regular wide and my new Feathered Friends Swallow 30 which I love sooo much, slept like a baby...
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A tad below 2 pound for my new setup
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Stowaway Gourmet is kind of new (to me at least) to the dehydrated backpacking meals, but they are some of the best that I have tasted.
Nice! Gotta try those!
Thanks for the inspo!! What do you do to keep the sausage cool when backpacking as they’re meant to be kept refrigerated?
He doesn't. Backpacking isn' usually for the overly sensitive/rigid people. It prob says "refrigerate" b/c that preserves them longer, Doesn't mean they get bad after 12h if room temp. Maybe it cuts an allready long expiration date in halv let's say.. these things are not black/white. Commercial companies also have an incentive to err on the side of caution. Meats that are smoked and relatively heavily salted, should keep for a wile, these were go-to preservation techniques in the old days. One can just apply the smell test, and check for oneself, even at home. When spoiled the smell will change noticeably with meat.
Exactly what I needed... unluckily with Europe available foods, but still a great video
Ketchup packet packed out with town food suitable substitute for tomato paste in Chili mix
Ketchup packets! totally!
This here is a Darn good video!
Heyo! And thank you.
Get some dehydrated tomato powder. It stores for a really long time and forever in the freezer.
You can buy sachets of flavoured cous cous here in UK that are amazing for camping. You only need to boil a few ml (I guess like 5oz) of water and you have a LOT of food. Add tinned tuna or fresh spring onion 👨🍳
Great idea!
I always carry some scallions even if I'm eating dehydrated
We have different packets of couscous here as well in USA
Love the Good to Go Thai Curry.....it is better than some curry meals I have had at restaurants.... always a goto
It's a classic!
Do you have to simmer the bear creek chili or can you just rehydrate it the same way as a mountain house? How do you prepare it on the trail?
Foood!
Aren’t some of these perishable / refrigerate after opening? How do you manage?
I was wondering the same thing. I’ve seen so many videos that say to bring aidells sausages but they say “keep refridgerated” right on the package. I’m so confused.
The food "danger zone" is 40-140F where bacteria becomes active. It's a bell shaped curve so the middle of that range is the peak. So, in cool weather, you shouldn't have any problems straight out of the fridge.
But the best way, esp in warmer trips, is to freeze that sausage and pack it in the center of your backpack surrounded by all the insulating items we normally bring, like your sleeping bag, puffy jacket, etc. Most of the time, it wouldn't be completely defrosted yet even by dinner time the first night. (Eat your heaviest foods the first night of course, including that sausage)
As for veggies, although convenient to pre-chop, best storage is to simply keep them whole. An onion will sit happily in your pack for days, provided you don't squish it, etc.
@@louisng7539 awesome thank you!
How long does the sausages stay good? And once open do you just throw them in a zip lock bag?
Depends on conditions of course, but in mild temps 2-3 days is fine. And yes, ziplock em up!
👍thanks
So just getting into backpacking. Why don't backpackers carry fresh produce like carrots, potatoes, celery? Won't last weeks, but can definitely work for a 2-3 night hike.
Check out Basecamp Chris, he cooks up some nice meals on his overnights, and tells good stories!
How do you take the sausage backpacking without refrigeration?
Yeah but how do you keep the sausages from going bad?
Quite the gourmet
Chilli, burritos, curry, pad Thai and Mac and cheese.
Close to my favorites: chilli, curry, couscous salad, pesto pasta, guac and chips, spring rolls and lastly Minestrone (yes, soup. Just cut everything nice and finely and boil for a few minutes. Ad a bouillon cubes of you want to. Filling, tasty, healthy. Best with fresh bread)
How do you store the sausages in your pack?
I'm curious how long the sausage will keep unrefrigerated.
Another tip: use nuts as a long shelf life alternative for meat: high in protein and ultra high in calories. For example: noodles with red curry and cashews.
Question, if I’m backpacking and being minimal how do I keep the sausages cold?
A recent recipe that worked well is Knorr Rice side herb and butter flavor, with a foil packet of cooked smoked salmon. You add a little less boiling water than called for, right into the knorr package, then after 10-15 minutes, stir in the salmon. Three Knorr rice packages seem to work better than the pasta ones of you are adding hot water to the package. The pasta ones seem to truly need to cook in your pot to get the pasta fully cooked.
Excellent! Sounds delicious.
The Knorr ‘Taco’ rice is excellent, the pack is too big will serve 2, I usually split in half, add an oxygen absorber to each bag, and you are good-to-go. You can use it as a side dish, or add freeze-dried vegetables & meat for a whole meal….scrumptious!
How do you prepare the chili out on trail? I feel like I remember the package calling for like a 25 minute simmering time.
How do you keep addeles. Meat from going bad in the back country with refrigerator?
How do you get past the refrigeration for the adels sausage
Wondering the same...
Thinking the same thing
The sausage is precooked. It would take a couple days before it spoiled. Just eat it early in the trip and maybe don't take it backpacking in Death Valley in the summer. I've done this many times!
Yeah they're precooked like hot dogs. As long as they dont SMELL spoiled, they're probably ok. We get these weekly from Costco- trust me you'll KNOW when they're off
@@tdillard947 i did food inspection in the Army. This is still taking a big risk
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1st night! Always a home made pasta bolognese in a zip lock bag re-heated ❤️ then I'd go for your mack an cheese but I always chop an onion on camp I'd be concerned it'd get all sweaty pre chopped. Thanks for the instructions never thought of queszdillason camp will be definitely giving that a go 👍
how many days would you carry around the sausage before you consume your last link?
Mystery ranch has backpacks featured in Tarkov, they're the best backpacks as far as i'm concerned xD
Fist bump.
Does the sausage need to be cold?
I recommend a folding titanium cheese grater
I just did my first overnight, (going big and going long by end of summer), and I literally used that mac n' cheese and that chili, mixed them together for chili mac, it was so good, anyone who doesn't try it is wasting good food for nothing.
Pad thai is super easy, ramen noodles, chicken or plain, soy sauce and penut butter packets. Done.
I freeze a steak with peppers and onions. It's usually cool out when I pan fry a steak. I'm thinking frozen hamburger with peppers, onions, and Anne's. I cook away from camp, and I'm mindful of smells. It did smell good, and I thought I heard a purring cat in the middle of the night. It was worth every bite.
How would you keep the veggies cheeses and sausage cold without a cooler???
How long can the sausages last in your pack
colby jack cheese sticks and salami rolled up in a tomato basil or spinach tortilla
Wait, those Aidells sausages need to be refrigerated. How do you make that work?
Who do you keep the sausage cold while hiking?
That video thumbnail made me LOL hard.
Thank you for all the great ideas!
What's the longest you've kept the aidells sausage not refrigerated and did not regret it? Haha
Thank you!
Hey Greg, longest I've kept Aidells has been four days, using one per day from the package. I've done that quite a few times actually.
@@BackpackingTV thank you :)
Emeril Lagasse reference, nice.
How do you take sausage backpacking? I can see for the first dinner maybe but wouldnt it spoil after that. I am a total newbie so please tell me because better food options is all that keeps from spending every weekend on the trail.
Ik I can see no answer , I asked the same thing
Can of Salmon, Instant mashed potato, and instant gravy. good lord is it incredible
We are more kayak campers, curious about the aidelles, is this found on a shelf? I see in coolers at store but wouldn’t see how you back pack with it?
I was wondering the same. I love those at home but how do you take them in warm weather, cheese also?
Wow I was the 1000th thumb up!!! Sweet
this is great, thanks. dehydrated meals suck
they get hard to stomach after a while!
Do you have any issues of Aidells sausage not being refrigerated? Love this sausage, many good choices with different flavors. Thanks for your video and simple meal plans.
This is also my concern...food poisoning lol
As long as I eat the Aidells within 2-3 days, I've never had a problem. They're precooked so they will last some time.
I have packed frozen raw cubed beef thoroughly packed and insulated, still cold (but thawed) after 7-8 hours of hiking and ready to make kebabs.....
@@BackpackingTV Same. I also get the precooked meatballs. They go well with any pasta / noodle deal.
how can the sausage be left open and un refrigged?
Erics got more shoes than my wife
How many shoes do you have dude?
Never enough!!! Also, I have way too many pairs.
How do the sausages stay good while backpacking if not refrigerated?
precooked sausages will stay safe for 2-3 days if you keep them out of the sun.
how do these sausages not go bad?
You just cant beat a dutch oven if your not hiking sun up till sun down after the big mile days!! For me I like the casual 10 mile day on easy terrain because I enjoy being there not just walking threw there! So dutch oven gets my number one vote!!!
Thai Curry 💚
Hold on how long dose cheese last not cold?
Coming from a gram weenie
Food is never extra weight.
Food is life!
Packing more than you need can be a problem but when it comes to weight vs taste or verity, ill take heavy ingredients over lightweight & boring anyday...
You end up eating it anyway so it's fine. 😁
Tuna wrap, pouch tuna, mayo packet, some cheese and a tortilla. Also, get the single serve packets of pizza sauce, some cheese, thinking one of those sausages on a tortilla and boom, backpack pizza
Great idea! Love the backpackers pizza.
I'm new to this so I don't understand how the meat and cheese stays good. What am I missing?
You don’t have to keep the sausages refrigerated?
Dehydrated mash taters, dehydrated mixed veggies. Pack of Sunkist chicken and chicken gravy packet. Mmm
Ok I have to ask the dumb newb question? Is it safe to carry sausage or cheese around in a bear canister in the summer?
That is good only for a weekend trip when there are no bugs. Otherwise, it is not very practical. You can dehydrate your own meals and not be bored with them.
Do you eat the aidells sausages as is or do you cook them?
They are much better when you cook them, even though they are pre cooked. But yes sometimes I’ll throw them into a burrito without heating them up and they’re still good.
@@BackpackingTV thanks!
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Just wish the prepackaged dehydrated meals were not a mega ripoff
Yup! Super pricey.
Freeze dried packs are loaded with salt.
Most every meal I put in a burrito it’s my food tube.
Burrito is the ultimate friend, never lets ya down.