Most everybody who backpacks seems to be very interested in food and recipes to pack along.
Suggested Foods to Take on a Backpacking Trip
- 5 minute rice
- dried nuts and seeds
- coffee or hot chocolate
- granola bars or oatmeal
- chocolate bars
Rice is a backpacking staple. Nothing weighs less than rice. Five minute white rice takes less fuel to cook than the brown or long grain varieties. Bring along gravy mixes and butter and other seasonings to give the rice more flavor.. A nice option is dried tomato soap, which you heat and pour over the cooked rice.
Dried nuts and seeds provide nourishment while on the trail, and insure that you won’t go hungry if your stove breaks. You can buy unsalted nut and seed mix at the grocery store, in the bulk food bins. Of course, you can buy ready-made backpacking mixes at outdoor stories. These can be expensive and require you to pack their trash containers out, and they often don't taste any better than home made alternatives.
Cold mountain mornings are a pleasure with your fingers wrapped around a coffee or hot chocolate. Chocolate bars make a good reward for having the desire and fitness to get up to the high mountains, and for working so hard that you don’t need to worry putting on any pounds except in muscle.
Other little additions to spruce up breakfast meals are oatmeal or granola bars, or even some canned turkey.
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