Lightweight backpacking food

For my recent trip, I put together a Backpacking Meal Plan using Backcountry Foodie to see if I could reduce the weight in my food bag.

How to make and pack 7 days of healthy backpacking or camping breakfasts, lunches, dinners & snacks that fit in a bear barrel.

Trail food is a very personal choice. What you bring will greatly depend on your preferences, the nutritional value of the food, and how hard it will be to cook. Keeping your food weight down is a critical lightweight backpacking skill that will take experience to master. Hopefully these tips will help make that task a little easier.

We share the best backpacking food ideas to help you enjoy simple and lightweight backpacking meals on the trail. We have you covered for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert!

It's crunch time for the Foodie! T-minus 37 days until go time. In this post, I share quick tips for speeding up the meal prep process.

Backpackers eat weird stuff. We cut the mold off of things, ignore refrigeration labels, and ask questions like, “Would I be able to dehydrate this?” Unless you're eating only dehydrated meals, you'll probably want to mix things up next time you're on the trail. Here are 12 of my favorite "weird" foods to take backpacking. I Backpacking foods and snacks I Hiking meals

Planning a backpacking trip? Skip the specialty foods and head to your local grocery store! Here are our 100 favorite grocery store food ideas, aisle by aisle.

Easy no-cook backpacking lunches that you’re going to love! They’re simple, taste awesome, require no cooking, and have hardly any cleanup.

Here's a complete list of all the backpacking food I brought with me for 8 days while section hiking the Pacific Crest Trail.

Reduce your pack weight and ditch the cooking equipment! Try out some stoveless backpacking meals with 20+ delicious cold-soak recipes