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,

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