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Routes Recipes and Wild Experiences from the West Coast of Scotland
This wild camping food guide offers some guidelines and ideas for what to eat on a backpacking trip. Specifically, what to eat if you want to eat well. This guide avoids processed prepackaged foods and focuses on real food high in both flavour and nutrition. I wrote this for people like me who want to …
This dehydrated red lentil soup with carrot and cumin is easy to make at home and quick to rehydrate on the trail. I’ve gotten into pureed soups like this for lunches on my backpacking trips, particularly on long arduous days. An afternoon break for something hot and wholesome can provide a welcome boost in both …
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 a long day’s hike when all you want is something hot, tasty and substantial. I first discovered shrimp and grits during a summer I spent …
This recipe for dehydrated spring greens works for any robust leafy green vegetable: curly kale, cavolo nero, collard greens, spinach, and chard. This is a great way to get green vegetables into your wild camping meals, adding nutrients, flavour and variety to your existing repertoire. Or if you’re like me, they simply satisfy the psychological …
I’ve experimented with lots of energy bar recipes for hiking and backpacking trips and I’m pretty sure these are the very best! They’re essentially a slightly-sweet granola bar made with good-for-you ingredients including rolled oats, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, walnuts, almonds, banana and dried fruit. No sugar, no weird stuff.This energy bar recipe combines everything you …
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 make a huge batch – some I freeze for lunch leftovers or quick meals, the rest I dehydrate for my next adventure. This Tarka Dhal …
One of my favourite all time uses for foraged nettles is this recipe for nettle spanakopita. This Greek filo pie is traditionally made with spinach, but we’ve used nettles which work amazingly well here.To make this spanakopita you’ll need quite a lot of nettles, so involve your friends in the picking if you can, or …
If you want to try your hands at baking bread outdoors, this campfire flatbread recipe is a great place to start. No fancy wilderness oven required; the flatbread gets cooked straight on the coals! Seriously, cooking bread on coals is a game changer. The char adds the most delightful smoky flavour. And it’s not hard:This …
This sprouted buckwheat dehydrated granola (literally and figuratively a mouthful) might sound like hippy food – which it kind of is – but also happens to be super tasty and a great camping breakfast option for those who happen to be gluten free. Despite containing the word “wheat”, buckwheat is a actually a seed, not …
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 not already saving your parmesan rinds, now is the time to start! When added to soups or stews, parmesan rinds elevate the flavour – like …
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 come back to over and over again, both as a dehydrated backpacking meal and for healthy at-home eating. The recipe includes cinnamon and cocoa alongside …
I make these sweet potato brownies to take on big hikes or wild camps but to be honest they are equally good whilst relaxing on the sofa with a cup of coffee! They feel like a treat but are full of the good stuff including oats, almonds, and sweet potatoes. Plus no refined sugar to …
Here’s a few tasty recipes for making your own homemade Larabars (or Laraballs depending on the form factor!) In case you’ve never seen them, Larabars are raw snack bars made with dried fruit and nuts (there are loads of these on the market now but I always think of Larabars as the original!). It’s a …
Most granola is filled with lots of carbs and sugar that make it anything but a health food. This high protein granola uses Pulsin Whey Protein Crispies combined with jumbo oats to pack a protein punch and an awesome crispy texture. If you can’t get hold of the protein crispies, try a puffed grain such as puffed wheat or …
Easy and versatile, these no bake protein bars are perfect fodder for experimentation. Try amping up the spices or adding different dried fruits, nuts and seeds. Be creative! I like a combo of Willie’s 100% Cacao, cranberries, and pecans, with a coating of cacao nibs. Sometimes we even add chilli (dry or fresh). Credit to my CrossFit Cirencester …
As part of my 2015 Adventure Goal to complete the Ridgeway this year, I’ve been experimenting with raw snack bars to power me through the miles. This is the latest, receiving a 10/10 rating from my walking buddy. I make these in my Froothie Optimum 9400 which does a great job of grinding the nuts into a fairly …
I first became acquainted with Agen prunes when I went to Gascony in 2012. As my friend Mardi (the venerable blogger at eat live travel write) puts it: “if someone thinks they don’t like prunes, give them one of these and they’ll change their mind.” It’s totally true. Agen prunes (pruneaux d’Agen) have been developed …
Here is a brownie that ticks all the right boxes – raw, vegan, gluten-free, paleo… – and they taste delicious too. The classic raw brownie is made by blitzing dates, nuts and cocoa in a food processor and mushing the mix together into a ball or bar. Though tasty, those raw brownies are also very …
For a sweet treat on the trail try making your own homemade fruit leather. My fellow Americans know fruit leather as “fruit roll-ups”, which when purchased from the shop are full of sugar and other crap. But if you start with real fruit, puree it and dry it yourself, you’ll find the fruit needs little sugar …
