Camping & Backpacking Food

Planning meals for your next backpacking trip doesn’t have to be complicated or expensive. After years of testing different meal strategies on the trail with my family, I’ve learned that the best backpacking meals are lightweight, calorie-dense, and actually enjoyable to eat after a long day of hiking. In this guide, I’m sharing 29 backpacking […]

Planning meals for a backpacking trip doesn’t have to be overwhelming. After years of trial and error on the trail with my family, I’ve learned that taking time to create a proper meal plan is one of the smartest things you can do before heading into the backcountry. A well-thought-out meal plan ensures you have

🪵 What’s a Chuck Box – And Why You’ll Love One Ever spent half your camping trip digging through bags for the can opener? Enter the chuck box — your new best friend. It’s like a portable camp kitchen: it holds your plates, cutlery, stove, cooking gear, and snacks all in one organised box. And

Unless you want to lug around a heavy pack, it’s important to choose backpacking foods which have a lots of calories per ounce.  With approximately 160-190 calories per ounce, nuts are definitely calorie dense (by comparison, dried applies only have 60 calories per ounce).

Figuring out how much food to bring on backpacking trips used to be really stressful for me. I would “eyeball” the amounts when packing food. Since I was scared that I’d end up hungry, I’d inevitably bring too much food – meaning my pack was way heavier than it should have been and I also