Backpacking Food Articles & Videos

• What Are Backpacking Foods for Teens?

  Before your teen hits the trail, pack her nutritional snacks that won't crumble from the abuse they will take in a backpack. Foods that don't spoil are essential as well as lightweight snacks since your teen will be carrying other gear as w… read more

• Wilderness Backpacking: What Food to Bring

  Backpacking is a strenuous activity that requires stamina and energy. Making healthy, practical food choices is essential to your physical health and well-being while out on the trails. The best backpacking nourishment consists of calorie-p… read more

• Best Food for Backpacking

  The best food for backpacking must live up to two criteria. First, it must be lightweight and calorie-dense. Backpackers need to carry all their gear and supplies with them and cannot afford much in the way of fresh vegetables or canned go… read more

• The Best Tasting Backpacking Food

  Opinions about the best tasting backpacking food vary, however it is not difficult to create some of your favorite meals in the back country. Dry foods are easily carried in a pack and should be considered for the majority of meals. Dehydra… read more

• How to Pack Food for Backpacking

  Planning your food for a backpacking trip isn't as simple as loading up your favorite snacks and meals. There are a lot of variables to consider, including the weight of the food, the space in your backpack and the area you will be travelin… read more

• Bear-Proof Food Containers for Backpacking

  Bears need not deter you from bringing quality foods into the backcountry. Camping in bear country requires knowledge and specialized equipment such as bear-proof canisters to prevent larcenous bruins from eating your lunch. read more

• Is Trail Mix Healthy?

  Trail mix has long been an essential snack of outdoor enthusiasts and city-dwellers alike. Because trail mix is so customizable, the nutritional value of each batch varies widely. Like so many things in life, you get out of trail mix exactl… read more

• Easy Backpacking Food

  One of the best rules to follow when it comes to outdoor gear is K.I.S.S. (keep it simple, stupid). This also applies when you're thinking about what foods to take on the trail with you. The best backpacking foods are light, nutritious, dur… read more

• Backpacking Food

  Packing for a backpacking trip largely depends on how long you will be gone and the terrain you will be covering. Before packing food for your trip, you need to consider how many calories you will expend daily. Many companies specialize in… read more

• Backpacking Food List

  Outdoor enthusiasts are active, and replacing the calories expended by a full day in the outdoors isn't always easy. Backpacking food has a tall order to fill. It needs to be calorie-dense enough to satisfy an appetite charged by an active… read more

• Food for Backpacking

  Part of what makes backpacking enjoyable is eating a good meal after a long day of hiking. Planning a menu takes time, and it is a balance between nutrition and weight. You don't want to carry too much weight when hiking, as it will slow yo… read more

• Backpacking Food Review

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• Backpack Food Recipes

  Camping in the backcountry is an adventure and a challenge. You must deal with weather, wildlife, and technical terrain. Additionally, when backpacking, it's important to carefully plan for meals, as you'll be expending more energy than you… read more

• Homemade Backpacking Foods

  Preparing good meals at home for backpacking is neither difficult nor expensive, and it saves the trouble of grocery shopping at outdoor retailers or online. It requires, though, a particular mind-set. read more

• Easy-to-Prepare Backpacking Food

  Backpacking is all about simplicity, but choosing food for a multiday trip can be mystifying. The best approach is to simplify--keeping your meals simple can cut weight and take the stress out of cooking. read more

• How to Backpack With Healthy Food

  It is easy and fast to pack your backpack with a slew of prepackaged food items, but you may not be nourishing your body in the best way. With only slightly more effort and planning it is possible to eat healthy food while on a backpacking… read more

• Uncooked Backpacking Food Ideas

  It happens: You run out of fuel for your stove, the stove breaks, or you just don't want to take the time to sit down and cook. But you're hungry. That's when having some ready-to-eat backpacking food that does not require cooking is most i… read more

• Ideas on Food for Backpacking

  A long backpacking trip doesn't have to mean subsisting solely on gorp. But it does mean striking a balance between weight, food safety (raw meats don't make for good backpacking fare because they must be kept cool) and convenience. Even so… read more

• Backpacking Food Planning

  One of the most important considerations when planning a backpacking trip is the food you'll be putting into your pack. Since you'll have to carry all of your supplies, a well-conceived plan will help lighten the load. read more

• Backpacking Foods

  Backpacking and long-distance hiking necessarily mean everything that will be needed for the trip must be packed and carried. The "inn treks" of England and "teahouse trekking" of Nepal are far from the norm, and setting out on a hike such… read more

• Backpacking Food Made Simple

  When backpacking, it is a good idea to pack as efficiently as possible to make camp life as simple as it can be. This includes the food you bring. Fortunately, there are many choices for selecting lightweight food items that are healthy, ea… read more

• Backpacking Food Tips

  Cooking in the backcountry can be a chore on par with washing dishes. Complicated preparations, bad portioning and insufficient meal planning can contribute to an ineffective backcountry kitchen. Take extra time in planning your next outi… read more

• Backpacking Breakfast Foods

  Breakfast sets the tone for the rest of your day. When you are backpacking, you especially want to start the day off right with enough calories, nutrition and flavor to keep you going strong. Many backpackers my be reluctant to get up and o… read more

• Backpacking Food Examples

  Backpacking food has to work hard. It must be lightweight, easy to prepare and nourishing. Although many outdoor companies make ration-like dehydrated meals for hikers, there are older, time-tested meals that will keep you going in the ba… read more

• Dehydrated Backpacking Foods

  When backpacking, every ounce and cubic inch count. Careful planning to balance calories and bulk against weight and pack capacity can enhance a trip in which you tote everything on your back. Use each item as many ways as possible. Pack no… read more

• How to Eat Healthy While Traveling

  Traveling usually coincides with eating out and eating out often equals fatty foods and nutritionally unbalanced meals. But it does not have to be that way. Just because you're traveling does not mean that you have to eat unhealthy. With a… read more

• Backpacking Foods for Kids

  Enjoying the great outdoors with kids is a wonderful family activity. Backpacking introduces children to the surrounding areas of their cities or vacation spots without having to rely on a car. Of course, backpacking is an activity that is… read more

• How to Make Protein Bars With Nuts Grains & Chocolate

  There they are, a whole slew of protein bars. Dozens of brand names, hundreds of health claims and lots of raids on your pocketbook. Making a protein bar is simple, healthy and probably tastier than what you would buy from the store. Th… read more

• The Lightest Backpacking Food

  Cross-country, overnight backpacking means taking everything with you. Just getting to many of the more remote and worthwhile trekking destinations requires humping it out for 15 or more miles a day over demanding terrain, and that requires… read more

• Preserving Food While Backpacking

  Your food is one of the most important things you'll carry on a backpacking trip. Packaging your food properly can help to preserve your food longer and prevent it from being contaminated. Packaging your food correctly can also help to keep… read more