Cooking is one of the best parts of camping and food always tastes better when outdoors.  But cooking can also be a major pain if you don’t plan your camp

A camping kitchen is NOT a must-have item. I usually just set up my stove and cooking items on a picnic table or directly on the ground. I always call

Cooking can be can fun task while outdoors.  However, a lot of people go overboard when it comes to camping meals. They underestimate how much effort it can take to

Don’t want to bother carrying a stove or cooking meals while backpacking, but you still want to eat delicious food? Cold-soaking is a method of making backpacking meals without a

It’s no secret that I don’t like most freeze-dried backpacking meals.  Virtually all of those freeze-dried meals for backpacking are lacking nutrients, have small portion sizes, and are very overpriced. 

While those pouches of freeze-dried backpacking food do make meal planning easier, I personally never buy them.  Why? Because there are already so many backpacking foods that you can find

For me, eating a delicious meal while I enjoy the view of a glacier lake or stunning vista is one of the best parts of backpacking.  But figuring out what

Figuring out how much food to bring on backpacking trips used to be really stressful for me. I would “eyeball” the amounts when packing food. Since I was scared that

When backpacking or thru-hiking, you need foods which are loaded with calories but still light enough to carry.  That’s why you’ll find so many hikers eating Fritos for dinner (or

I’m a bit of a nutrition fanatic – and for a good reason.  When I eat crappy food, I feel like crap.  So, I simply can’t get on board with