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Reddit mentions of Backpack Gourmet: Good Hot Grub You Can Make at Home, Dehydrate, and Pack for Quick, Easy, and Healthy Eating on the Trail
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We found 3 Reddit mentions of Backpack Gourmet: Good Hot Grub You Can Make at Home, Dehydrate, and Pack for Quick, Easy, and Healthy Eating on the Trail. Here are the top ones.
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Backpack Gourmet
Specs:
| Color | Black |
| Height | 8.25 Inches |
| Length | 5.5 Inches |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Release date | January 2014 |
| Size | One Size |
| Weight | 0.39903669422 Pounds |
| Width | 0.4375 Inches |
This Chili-Mac recipe is a great one to start out with, it's very tasty and very easy to make. I bring it on all my trips.
I also recommend Linda Frederick Yaffe's book Backpack Gourmet.
When my g/f and I did the Long Trail a couple years ago I was fine eating the same few meals day in and day out, she was not. She bought a cookbook designed for backpacking and dehydrating. For a couple weeks we made meals, dehydrated and stored them ready for the hike. This method worked great, she's not a super picky eater but this method allowed her to be excited for different meals each night.
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I don't know your backpacking experience or what you know about the LT but let me tell you it's HARD. I've thru-hiked the AT and PCT, the LT is some of the hardest trail I have encountered. We planned 18 days as well, after 3 days we abandoned our SoBO of the LT. We were almost 20 miles behind schedule at that point and I didn't want to kill my g/f on a 2 week death march to complete the LT. What we did instead was spend more time in town and B&B, hitch back to the trail somewhere else, go NoBo or SoBo based on difficulty and which town we wanted to end up in next. Keep the option to yoyo around and visit small town Vermont.
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Backpack Gourmet is a good resource.
https://www.amazon.com/Backpack-Gourmet-Dehydrate-Healthy-Eating/dp/0811713474/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1557845459&sr=8-24
All the recipes I got from this Backpack Gourmet book. (Hint: you can look inside the book on Amazon and see a bunch of the recipes)
The lasagna is pretty much just a basic lasagna with some salsa added. I've made the spicy chicken pasta before and it is delicious. It's the first time I'm making the other two.
I highly recommend the book though. There are a ton of great recipes I'm looking forward to trying, especially some breakfast ones. And you can always just make them to eat at home, the don't HAVE to be dehydrated lol