French Lentil Salad – Dehydrated Trail Meal – Cold Soak Friendly
This French lentil salad, adapted as a dehydrated backpacking meal, was the result of a chance visit to a tacky tourist shop on a road trip last summer. We were …
Main Dishes
Thai Peanut Noodles [Easy Backpacking Meal]
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Veggie Chili Mac [Dehydrated Trail Meal Recipe]
Chili is one of my all-time favourite trail meals (see my recipe for black bean and sweet potato chili), and chilli mac takes it one step further by adding extra carbs …
Veggie Lentil moussaka: Easy TrayBake + Dehydrator instructions
Traditional Greek moussaka is a labor of love — layered with aubergine, meat (often lamb), sometimes potatoes, and if you’re really fancy, béchamel sauce. This vegetarian version, where lentils replace …
Easy Lentil Dal – The Perfect Dehydrated Trail Meal
This lentil dal is ridiculously simple to make (just six ingredients!) and endlessly delicious. We make a batch at least weekly, be it for Indian feasts at home or as …
Veggie Paella – Dehydrated Backpacking Meal
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Camping Quesadillas
Quesadillas are one of the most rewarding meals you can make while wild camping. They’re quick, customizable, and incredibly satisfying after a long day on the trail. Best of all, …
Kimchi Rice – Dehydrated Backpacking Meal
If you’ve read my guide to homemade dehydrated backpacking meals, you may have noticed that rice features in a lot in my trail recipes. And with good reason: Top tip: if you’re …
Aubergine and Mushroom Cassoulet with Garlic Breadcrumbs [Vegetarian Dehydrated Backpacking meal]
Here’s my recipe for the classic French stew adapted to be (a) vegetarian / vegan and (b) dehydrator-friendly. One of the best parts of road trips through France is the …
Backpacking Soba Noodles with Miso & Ginger Panko Breadcrumbs
This is a delicious and easy backpacking soba noodle dish that is lightweight and super portable, perfect for wild camping and backpacking adventures (or perhaps a quick desk lunch at …
Dehydrated refried black beans
Mexican food is my ultimate comfort food, especially when camping, and these dehydrated refried black beans totally make my day. Forget that homogenous store-bought gloop that you can buy in …
Portobello Mushroom Campstove Fajitas
These campstove fajitas are based on Erin Baker’s wonderful portobello mushroom fajitas recipe in her book The Veg Table. I’ve adapted it for the camp stove so that you too …
Red Lentil Dal [Dehydrated Backpacking Meal]
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Campstove Shrimp and Grits
Shrimp and grits is a dish that hails from America’s “low country”. It’s filling, delicious, wholesome, and easy to make with a camp stove. This is perfect comfort food after …
Tarka Dhal
Indian dhals (or dals) are a great dehydrator option for wild camping meals. They dehydrate well, pack down nicely, and rehydrate very quickly at camp. Whenever I make dhal, I …
Lentil Ragu with Kale and Parmesan
This lentil ragu with kale and parmesan is hearty, healthy, and full of deep umami flavour thanks to the inclusion of parmesan rinds during the cooking process. In case you’re …
Sweet Potato and Black Bean Chilli
Veggie chilli has to be one of my all time favourite camping meals and I’m constantly inventing new variations. This sweet potato and black bean chilli is the one I …