New Backpacking Food Articles

See what we ate on a 3-day hiking trip at Cloudland Canyon, with easy DIY dehydrated meals rehydrated at our cabin or on the trail.

Make Smoky Mountain Beef Skillet, a hearty backpacking beef recipe loaded with vegetables.

Learn how to make a zesty apple bulgur cold-soak salad for backpacking.

Learn how to cook, dehydrate, and rehydrate bulgur for backpacking meals.

A 4-day camping meal plan at Cloudland Canyon State Park featuring homemade dehydrated meals.

Cloudland Canyon Chili recipe for outdoor adventures.

Please see this important notice about a recall of Thermos Food Jars.

How to make buttermilk biscuits and gravy for a hearty backpacking breakfast, plus instructions for dehydrating biscuits and sausage-seasoned ground beef.

This creamy chicken soup recipe turns leftover chicken into a soul-warming pot of comfort with potatoes, carrots, celery, green onions, and garlic.

Try these backpacking chili recipes: Portable Pepper Sauce, White Bean Chili, 4-Way Chili, Gluten-Free Chili and Mr.

Chicken with Creamy Spinach Sauce recipe is a favorite backpacking meal that combines dehydrated chicken, spinach, and penne pasta in a parmesan-based sauce.

Dehydrating spinach is a fast project whether you dehydrate raw spinach leaves or cooked frozen spinach.

Traditional Hoppin John recipe features black-eyed peas, rice, ham, and greens, which symbolize prosperity and resilience.

This stuffed turkey loaf recipe has the stuffing baked right into it.

Hearty lentil bolognese made with veggies, herbs, and protein-rich lentils.

Recipe for apple fruit leather has the perfect mix of pumpkin spices; cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves.

These backpacking desserts satisfy your sweet tooth while boosting nutrition with dried fruits.

Goodbye Pop-Tarts and instant mush.

How to make ratatouille that’s extra saucy & perfectly seasoned.

How to dehydrate nectarines and make nectarine fruit leather that you can turn into fruit smoothies and puddings.

How to make granola and granola clusters.

Dehydrating Apples: Sliced, Grated, Baked, Stovetop & Blended.

Demonstration of pretreatments to prevent apples from turning brown during dehydration, including lemon juice, ascorbic acid, and blanching.

Create delicious dehydrated soup recipes with dried vegetables, beans, meats, starches, and homemade dry soup mixes.

Precooking & dehydrating pasta makes rehydration in trail meals fast & efficient.