On my youtube channel I’ve started a little once a month backpacking meal series. Just to have something that’s more nutritious, filling, and sometimes lighter than the prepackaged meals you can buy. My little ditty for the current month is this red beans and rice. I’ve been tossing this around in my head for some time, but beans … Every time I dehydrate beans it’s hard to rehydrate them in a timely manner. So on the back burner it went. Then I found some dehydrated red beans from Harmony House and decided to give those a whirl. They rehydrate like…
Bean Bark Stew – Backpacking Meal
BEAN BARK STEW INGREDIENTS 1/2 cup instant rice 1/4 cup bean bark* 1/4 cup pizza sauce or spaghetti sauce leather* 1/4 cup dehydrated ground beef* 1/4 cup dehydrated mushrooms* 1/4 cup dehydrated mixed vegetables of your choice taco seasoning, 1 pack per pound burger seasoning to taste salt and pepper to taste DIRECTIONS For each of these, the bark, leather, ground beef, and veggies, I like to make a large batch and store for future meals. To make the bean bark: Pureé a large can of vegetarian baked beans. Spread it out on your fruit roll up/plastic tray in your…
Red Lentil Sweet Potato Dal
I have another lovely, truly lovely backpacking meal that you can dehydrate or…yes…Eat it for dinner tonight! When I make food to take hiking, a few of my go-to’s are vegetarian. Meatless meals just make my body happy and they dehydrate really well. They weigh practically nothing and when you’re hiking 15, 20 miles a day, that’s a biggie. But taste counts too…alot. After hiking all day the last thing I want to do is eat rehydrated cardboard because real talk – I’m crazy-man hungry! This dal is something that I may cook for lunch or supper at home and…