Backpacking Meals I Buy at the Grocery Store

A well dried, hard like a rock, sausage that is vacuum sealed can last few days easily. Making something that looks like a soup is awesome.

Perhaps you should freeze the Adell's Sausage ahead of time in the summer. I prefer to have them frozen before heating, otherwise, for me, they taste dry.

Thank you for the video!

I like these tips, but what about veggies? They tend to get really heavy and/or bulky. How do you keep your vitamins and mineral intake on a decent level?

Im hoping somebody can help me here. I see your Darn Good chilli and I like this stuff at home but have been pretty unsuccessful of making it taste good on the trail. Anybody got a step by step guide on how to make it on the trail?

I think you use the word nutrition instead of calories. Big difference.

Scout mom here… and by no means am I as good of a chef as our Scoutmaster, but last thru hike I did, I used dehydrated potatoes, a little red pepper, a butter packet I had from one of those meal services (those are fantastic for taking small sizes on seasoning and sauces like sriracha, red paste, Chulola, soy sauce, etc…), some torn up teriyaki beef jerky I got from Costco (did you know that when beef jerky is rehydrated in a little hot water it’s all meaty juicy again?), and some dehydrated veggies I got in bulk at the local store. Was the perfectly satisfying meal.

Do you leave the peanut butter in the jar?

Great ideas! This food selection is a lot more appealing to me than the dehydrated meals/snacks in the other video you made. Except for Beef Jerky, can’t go without that! Lol

Pre-cooked bacon and freeze dried hashbrowns are some of my absolute favs on the trail

I am a peanut butter fanboy. I put it on pancakes instead of syrup at home. Tuna pouches are great. I like your note on trash. In my experience i always packed too heavy and had items i never ate but thought id eat them on the trail. I was usually so tired i wanted something fast cause sleep was coming nomatter what. A good hot meal is that..... hot mac and cheese with some sausage would be 5 stars. Cause imma sleep till 3 am solid and i gotta pee. Somehow that craft mac and cheese keeps you 15degrees warmer(:

Knorrs rice or pasta packs, pouch salmon, cured no fridge bacon/ham are a few other ideas.

Spam! My favorite but it does get expensive when purchasing the SPAM Singles. Worth it if you like it

Knorr sides are also a great addition to backpacking!

They are actually selling single packs of Ragu now. I thought that would make a damn good backpacking food.

The bear creek stuff is really good. I like their potato soup as well. Some cheese and bacon bits and you've got loaded baked potato soup. Great ideas for grocery store meals. Very informative and entertaining channel!

How you keep the sausages cold yo

Do you freeze the sausages before going on your trip? Then they will be thawed by the time you need to use them?

So is your peanut butter.. powdered or real fully constituted PB

I have a dehydrator, so I make my own beef jerky or salmon jerky. I also dehydrate veggies from the garden. Then I buy Knorr's Sidekicks (or something similar) and add the jerky and the dehydrated veggies to the mix. That's just a couple of dollars for a Sidekick and it makes a complete dinner. Sometimes I add a bit of powdered milk to make it creamier. I never buy backpacking meals, I just bring stuff from the garden or the grocery store.

Preecooked polenta, canned tuna and parmesan cheese all the way

Eric, dude you’re making me hungry. Like you, I enjoy peanut butter on an outing. One can do a lot with it. It tastes even better out on the trail than it does at home.

A little Pricy...ya think...more like buy a dehydrator and do it you self

Tuna is delicious not suspicious

There are so many old time foods that are easy to make. Instead of messing with eggs on a trip . Make your own noddle and add extra eggs to the mixture. That is how people stored eggs long term before refrigeration. Homemade noddle's cook up within a few minutes. another fuel saver is using cus cus it come in fine, medium and large. Bring water to a boil throw in the cus cus take the pot off the stove and with minutes it is ready. Open a package of flavored tuna and place on top the cus cus and you have supper. I always try to have one piece of fresh fruit or vegetable in supper meal. It might be a slice of onion, an apple, etc ,. Something new in just that last few months are squeeze tubes of herbs, garlic, roasted garlic. Adds a lot of tasty fresh flavor. For desert pull out a coupled of figs or a fig bar or two or three dates. Pour hot water into your cup and add a powered instant Latte or Ginger honey drink. Very little clean up if you make a quart pot of hot water for the meal, the drink and cleanup.

Precooked sausage is like a backpacking cheat code. Makes planning food so easy and it’s super dense protein and calories

When you divide it into 2 servings how much water do you boil and how long does it take to rehydrate to eat... Surely you're not using 25 minutes of fuel to simmer

I have a meal I call the "Caribou Roll" It's nutella and salame in a tortilla. Heavy on the nutella, light on the salame. It's salty, sweet, fatty and all of the ingredients are dense and not delicate

thank you for your educational videos!

those instant oat meal pack are worhless very little oats and tons of sugar ,lust bag up regular rolled oats ! try stevia but watch out what stevia you buy some under handed companies put maltodextros( spell ?) that stuff is even worse for you than 10x sweeter and nearly no side effects of regular sugar! ,half of a doll spoon ( coke spoon )for a whole cup of coffee ( some fools will think your putting coke in your coffee )! love ramen soup egg catsup hot sauce and bacon bits and the grease ( fry your bacon and onions first in the cup then do the rest ) ! bacon grease builds cell walls good for you ! veggie oil bad destroys cell walls bad for you !

The Bear Creek chili instructions say to add 1 can of tomato paste, do you add it or do you just omit it?

Fist you need to count calories how much you body need for those hiking/camping days. You can prepare meal at home but consider what gives your right amount of colories and what is good for you. I like to think less of cooking in wilderness and less Cary of half of the kitchen but enjoy nature, so i go for dehydrate meal or my own made dehydrated meals with dry fruits/ trail snacks.

It has never occured to me until now since I like the chili too, but it is such a pain to clean up with limited water. Do you think it would be ok to heat it up by boiling it in the pouch and eating it out of it?

Absolute Best Option for backpacking food. Invest in a dehydrator. You can find a used one at second hand stores or purchase one new. You do not need to spend a lot of money on one. Brand new Food dehydrators cost anywhere from $40 on up. A food dehydrator allows you to customize your meals to your taste and dietary needs. From full blown (Mtn. House) style meals, to dehydrated fruits, leathers, & even Beef Jerkey (NITRATE FREE). It is very cost effective compared to buying freeze dried prepacked meals and snacks.

Hello 👋 Eric, thank you for sharing the backpacking meal tips. I really appreciate it. All the best to you. Stay safe out there. 🤗

Freeze them before your trip..
Then you get more time with the sausage

Thank you 😊

Because of bears (Alaska)I eat almonds (tons of fat and nutrients) and dry past with a foil stove and fuel solids and a small pot. I also have freeze dried vegan chili. And tuna packets. I carry small trash bags and a smell proof trash bin.

Are re-usable mylar odor proof bags just hype?

Minute Rice, Capellini, Stovetop Stuffing, rice noodles all make quick cooking good starch bases to add protein and sauce to for a main meal. Getting it all into a bear cannister for a multi-day trip is an issue. Flour tortillas, wraps, that sort of thing pack well conforming against the wall of a container. Summer sausage is a good long keeping meat. It's designed to be ok unrefrigerated. A big issue I have with REI sourced food is that it's rather calorie deficient for a strenuous trip.

Read Isaiah 66:14-17. Pork is still unclean. Jesus is coming soon. In our lifetime. Don’t take the mark repent and seek him.

Great! Quaker oats have too much junk IMO. Premix my own; rolled oats, milk powder, raisins, nuts, anything else. Also; instant coffee! Delicious cappuccino oatmeal😋

Unfortunately it doesn’t hep me - neither vegan nor healthy. At 70 yrs young I can no longer stay healthy eating those things 😩

Cotton is bad, eh? Then why is that the only thing your t shirts are made of? MMMMMM? Great video, by the way. Ranch flavored tuna? That one is a hard no.

Food from a grocery store?!?
Madness!

How do you keep that Sausage from going bad on the trail?

Dirty Ramen for Two:
Ingredients: 2 or 3 ramen noodles squares (leave home the little packets), 2 or 3 miso packs, jerky of some kind ripped up, hard cheese, pizza pepper/cheese packets, possibly 1 or 1/2 bouillon cube, dried mushrooms, and any extra spices you prefer.
Cooking: boil water with jerky pieces and mushroom in water, add the miso and cube when close to boil, crush up and add the ramen noodles, continue to boil, mix, and stir til noodles ready, add extra spices and crumbled cheese when serving.

For protein, I’m a fan of the turkey spam. I dry it in oven over night at lowest setting. Break that up into any of the meals you showed and would add the Cajun sausage too.

Enjoyed the video, you introduced me to at least 1 new thing I am hoping to try.

Thank you!