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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 little bit of preplanning and wise menu choices, you can eat healthy while on a trip. read more
Healthy Camping Food

The same criteria for selecting healthy household foods applies to camp foods. When you're camping, try to avoid foods high in sugar or empty calories, and look for nutrient-rich foods that are free of preservatives and artificial ingredients. read more
What Types of Food Can One Travel With on an International Flight?

With newer, more strict regulations on international flights from the United States, travelers are often confused about what items can be carried onto the flight. read more
How to Dehydrate Food With an Oven for Backpacking

People have dehydrated food as long as there's been a need to preserve it. Before electricity and modern appliances, food was salted and dried in the sun. An oven works better because the temperature and environment can be controlled to yield the best results. When you remove moisture from fruits, vegetables and meats, bacteria lack the conditions needed to… read more
What Is the Best Food for Camping?

Many people think that even a car-camping trip necessitates reliance on processed, pre-packaged foods. This kind of food is convenient and easy to prepare, but it is hardly the only option or even the best one. A variety of tasty, nutritious foods are convenient for both backcountry and developed, "frontcountry" camping. Ultimately, however, the campers' pal… read more

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How to Choose Energy Foods

Choosing high energy foods will provide you with satisfaction, stamina and good nutrition. It is important to pack enough to get you through strenuous activity, such as an outdoor hike. Count on needing to eat a mini-meal every couple… read more
Using a Food Dehydrator to Make Healthy Meals for Camping

Healthy meals for camping are essential to providing the nutrition and level of energy necessary to enjoy the many outdoor activities possible during your stay. Because storing food in coolers on ice is not always possible for one rea… read more
How to Make Dehydrated Food for Backpacking

Preprocessed dehydrated ingredients and complete meals for a backpacking trip are easy to find. They're not as good as home-cooked meals but they weigh less and occupy little space. They're safe in extreme conditions but can include pr… read more
How to Dehydrate Food for Backpacking

Instead of buying pre-measured packages of dehydrated food for your next backpacking trip, dry it yourself. The most reliable way to dehydrate is in a food dehydrator you build or buy. With that appliance in your kitchen, you can buy f… read more
How to Dehydrate Food for Camping

Dehydrated foods, such as fruits and vegetables, have most of the moisture removed from them using heated, dry air to create a low moisture environment. Dehydrated foods are useful for camping and hiking because they are lighter and l… read more
Non Perishable Food for Camping

That a bar of chocolate tucked into your pack will last almost forever. The boost of fat and sugar energy is handy to have in an emergency or on a chilly night; but there are many other nonperishable foods well suited to a camper's nee… read more
Camping Trip Foods

Camping is a time to enjoy the outdoors and a good meal around the campfire or grill. Camp cooking allows us to try our hand at roughing it and being one with Mother Nature. While many of us still want to eat regular foods from home,… read more
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 tha… read more
Food To Take On A Camping Trip

Going on a camping trip is a great way to take the great outdoors experience to its fullest, but it does present the issue of what food to take along. If you aren't very familiar with camp cooking, figuring out what the best food choic… read more
Brazilian Restaurants in California

Whether you're just returning from a Brazilian hiking adventure, or you simply want to enjoy the traditional Brazilian feast, you're in luck. There are plenty of Brazilian restaurants in California. From its signature "meat parade" to… read more
Vegan Restaurants in Cannes, French Riviera

Known for the International Film Festival that occurs each May, Cannes also is home to beautiful beaches and a vibrant, cosmopolitan sailing community. A perfect day in Cannes may include exploring the city's seaside markets for fresh… read more
Foods to Take When Camping in an RV

RV camping allows more options in food choices than backpacking or tent camping. Having the luxury of a stove, refrigerator and storage space means you can prepare most of the same meals you cook at home. Take the amount of people you… read more
Vegan Trail Mix Recipe

"Trail mix" is appropriately named, since the classic trail mix combination of nuts, dried fruits and chocolates is calorie-dense, packing a lot of energy into a small package. For the backpacker, ever mindful of how many supplies and… read more
Healthy Recipes for Trail Mix

Trail mix is a classic food source for backpackers because the contents are lightweight, preserved and calorie-dense foods, such as nuts, dried fruits and vegetables and chocolate. While a hungry backpacker hauling 50 lbs. or more over… read more
How to Make Freeze Dried Food

In commercial freeze drying, foods are flash frozen and dried in a vacuum to convert internal moisture from a solid to a gas without passing through the liquid state. This process preserves nutrients in the food and makes it hard to te… read more

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