One “luxury” backpacking item which can be really worth its weight is a skillet or frying pan.  Having one greatly increases the types of foods you can make on the

Not sure what to eat while backpacking? Here are some lightweight, calorie-dense backpacking meals which are also easy.  Most of them can be made with foods you find in the

Planning what to eat for a backpacking trip can be incredibly time-consuming and annoying. To do it right, you need a kitchen scale, to carefully tally up the calories of

Peanut butter is a backpacking staple because it is cheap, easy to find, doesn’t go bad and incredibly calorie-dense.  And there are actually a lot of trail recipes you can

Need a really quick backpacking lunch?  This spread is calorie-dense, takes less than two minutes to make on the trail, and can be made with the cold-soak method (no stove

If you want to get started dehydrating your own backpacking meals, pasta sauce is a good place to start.  There are a zillion ways to make pasta sauce for backpacking,

I’ve recently been trying to find more healthy snacks for backpacking.  After some experimenting, I came up with this recipe which uses carrots and fruit.  There is also coconut and

I like to experiment with dehydrating random things for backpacking.  A lot of times, they end up being complete fails (lots of things don’t rehydrate well).   But this dehydrated carrot

Instant mashed potatoes are one of my go-to backpacking foods.  Not only can you find them in pretty much every supermarket for dirt cheap, they don’t even need to be

I made a list of the best breakfast cereals for backpacking.  All of them are high-calorie and also packable so they won’t get crushed in your pack.   Or at least