I don’t view Thanksgiving as a meal, rather a weekend of fun – be it at home or out camping. Short days, long nights and cold weather and lots of good eats! Need some inspiration for meals, from easy to gourmet? Thanksgiving On The Trail is a section on Trailcooking that I have worked on [...]
Posts Tagged ‘backcountry food’
The Weird and Odd Side of Outdoor Recipes
Posted in Freezer Bag Cooking, Insulated mug method, No Cook Recipes, One Pot Meals, Trail Cooking, tagged backcountry cooking, backcountry food, backpacking recipes, FBC, FBC meals, Freezer Bag Cooking, hiker food, One Pot Meals, Trail Cooking, trail meals, trail recipes, wilderness cooking, www.freezerbagcooking.com, www.trailcooking.com on October 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Over the years I have come up with a couple 1,000 recipes for outdoor cooking. Some are classics now (you know they have become that when you see them on websites passed around so many times your name/website/book ceases to be connected to them – sigh), some are from weird periods in my life when [...]
Food Find: Wholesome Sweeteners Single Serving Packets
Posted in Food Finds, Trail Cooking, tagged agave nectar, backcountry food, Food Finds, hiker food, single serving packets, trail food, Wholesome Sweeteners on October 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We received a care package recently from Wholesome Sweeteners of various individual serving packages, but what really caught my attention were the agave nectar ones! Included was organic blue agave, organic raw blue agave and organic blue agave flavored with maple. (Costco by the way carries the regular agave by them in squeeze bottles). Each [...]
Recipes For Chilly Weather
Posted in Freezer Bag Cooking, Insulated mug method, No Cook Recipes, One Pot Meals, Other, Trail Cooking, Vegan, Vegetarian, tagged backcountry cooking, backcountry food, backpacking recipes, dayhiking, FBC meals, Freezer Bag Cooking, hiker food, insulated mug meals, Insulated mug method, kid friendly trail snacks, One Pot Meals, snacks, Trail Cooking, trail desserts, trail food, trail lunches, trail meals, trail recipes, trail snacks, Vegan, Vegetarian, vegetarian trail meals, wilderness cooking, www.freezerbagcooking.com, www.trailcooking.com on October 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Hiking and it is cold (or at least heading that way)? Out here in the PNW we are already waking up to mid 30′s for temps and in the mountains it is colder we have had snow a number of days already. Just the way fall should be So here are a smattering of recipes [...]
Nutella and Go! Packets – Tasty Trail Treats
Posted in Food Finds, Trail Cooking, tagged backcountry food, Food Finds, hiker food, kid friendly trail snacks, Nutella and GO!, trail food, trail snacks on October 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We came across these at our local Walmart – there was a display box at each check out counter: If you are like us, Nutella is one of those things that makes an awesome snack! The single serving packets one can find at Cost Plus World Market and Minimus are amazing enough but the addition [...]
Food Find: Raw Pistachio Butter
Posted in Food Finds, Trail Cooking, tagged backcountry food, Food Finds, kid friendly trail snacks, raw foods, raw pistachio butter, sngle serving tubs, trail food, trail snacks, Vegan, Vegetarian, Wilderness Poets on October 5, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Let us start this review by me admitting I have a deep fondness for nut and seed butters. I love nearly all the types out there, so much I even make my own at home. Once you start trying the “odder” ones, peanut butter starts tasting well…pedestrian. Coming across pistachio butter was one of those [...]
Food Find: Freeze-dried Cantaloupe
Posted in Food Finds, tagged backcountry food, Food Finds, hiker food, kid friendly trail snacks, trail snacks on October 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Recently I received a large array of samples from Crispy Green of their freeze-dried fruits and melons – and I love freeze-dried fruit. It is crispy, light, low in calories….perfect for snacking! And as part of the package I found 6 packets of the cantaloupe to try. Walker checking out the goodies and then running [...]





