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Red Lentil Dal - Dehydrated Backpacking Recipe

Red Lentil Dal

This red lentil dal is one of my favourite recipes of all time and one of the first dishes I turned into a dehydrated backpacking meal. I relish the flavours …

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Wild Camping Food: What To Eat On a Wild Camping Trip

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 …

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Red Lentil, Carrot & Cumin Soup

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 …

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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 …

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Dehydrated Spring Greens

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 …

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The best homemade energy bars for hiking and backpacking

The Best Homemade Energy Bars for Hiking and Backpacking

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 …

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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 …

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Nettle Spanakopita

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 …

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Campfire Flatbread Cooked on the Coals

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 …

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Raw Sprouted Buckwheat Granola made in the dehydrator

Sprouted Buckwheat Dehydrated Granola

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 …

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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 …

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Sweet potato black bean campfire chilli

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 …

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Sweet Potato Brownies

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 …

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Homemade Lara Bar Recipes

Homemade Larabar Recipes

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 …

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High Protein Granola, the perfect breakfast for camping and hiking

Supercharged Granola – High Protein, Low Sugar

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 …

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Andy K’s No Bake Protein Bars

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 …

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raw energy bar

Raw Orange and Cacao Energy Bars

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 …

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Homemade Raw Bars with Agen Prunes

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 …

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Double Chocolate Brownies - Vegan, Paleo, Raw

Raw Double Chocolate Brownies

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, …

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Homemade Fruit Leather - Make in the oven or dehydrator

How to Make Fruit Leather (Oven or Dehydrator)

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 …

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