How to Eat Real Food While Backpacking: Cooking Delicious Backcountry Meals

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where are the calories you bout to lose hella weight my guy

This is excellent. Thank you.

Good presentation ! Don't overlook the giant refrigerator just behind you. We live and hike/basecamp along the Gila River in SW NM and have cold storage for our 1/2 and 1/2 for coffee as well as our other food. A mesh bag, zip locks and a bit of paracord. Cold and animal safe storage. thanks for your work.

Where is the non glass bottle of vino?

This in reality is meal is a style of cooking requiring one skillet or one pot that originated in the middle east several thousand years ago. One version is the Spanish paella. in a skillet or in a a pot like a Louisiana gumbo.

We do fancy Mac as well. Some mods we have : use soyrizo instead of meat - it’s definitely shelf stable and has lots of flavor, and oil, out veggies are peppers and mushrooms as they are lighter

Sub cream cheese for boursin cheese.

That food looks fantastic, and also WHERE IS THIS PLACE? BEAUTIFUL! (somewhere near Glacier National Park?)

if hikers stopped worrying about added weight maybe they wouldnt be so frail looking lol. love to see people are still cooking real food on the trail .

What do you do to keep your food/trash, from attracting bears or different animals? Does it not attract because its all in ziplock bags? 🤔

The thumbnail made me think i was watching an Andrew Neeme poker vlog

Can you do a video on how you do dishes in the back country after cooking?

I carry a frozen 9 Oz ribeye pan fried with green peppers and onions. I was thinking of making fancy Mac with frozen precooked burger and peppers etcetera. I use a modified jet boil pot support on my msr windburner for some nice heat distribution.

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Take backpack out of the title....

What is the name of this trail?

I'm happy to see people do this. I often bring real food. But then again that's my thing. I just found your channel and subscribed!

This looks soooo good! I’ll be making it for diNner to check it out- thanks so much!

Craft singles or any other cheese/product with emulsion salts. That’s what makes velvets so velvety. You can even buy the salts but that’s more involved than buying cheese slices. A couple slices of craft can emulsify the rest of the cheese. You can do a bit less than half and half I think. Check Adam ragusea for his video on smooth Mac.

I've been searching how to pack sausages on a backpacking trip but google and all the liberals tell me its only good 2hrs out of the fridge. Thank you for being a man and seeing how long you can stretch it.

We’ll work on rebuilding trust…hahahahaha

Love this, but I’d try packing some hard cheeses and make real mac-n-cheese. If you’re gonna ditch processed and dehydrated foods for fresh it’s a shame to just go ahead and use that powdered cheese stuff that comes in the box.

Ghee is my go too

This isn't backcountry cooking. You have a fridge.

You convinced me to invest in real cooking gear. Just ordered an msr pocket rocket 2 and jetboil skillet. A 750ml pot and I'm good to go on the West Highland Way.

You can also bring the non-refrigerated coffee creamers for the milk portion of that Mac and cheese. Just steal a few from an IHOP

All looks good but I would never take meat way to risky

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So the minimo has temperature control? I just ordered the flash 😐

I see alot of guys using dehydrated meats in their cooking on the trail because they usually have alot of flavor already incorporated, last forever, and lightweight

Which 2? They both look freaking good

Before I even start the video, that pan of food looks awesome!

So I seen dried beef steak at Buckees that I was thinking might work for rehydrating into a meal like the Mac n cheese. Would that work or would it just be like a mountain house?

My goal is to take 140ish pounds of food on a backpacking trip so I can be out for over 3 months without resupply.

Love seeing people cook real food when doing overnighters. Just off topic but what jacket are you wearing when cooking the Mac n Cheese?

it's alot wath i am doing when i am on like a week hike.
first night i have a feast with a steak or taco and so on with fresh meat and wegies and saus.
it makes it a good start on the trip.and the first day when the pack is full and your tired as hell, you need a booster.
if you are lucky and you go to a place when you have a good swamp to cool your meat, then you can have a great meal later when you need it

This is what I was looking i don't want to eat nasty dried "food" i want real food that keeps my belly full ...

How many days this keep in a pack during the hot summer weather?

I try to cook frozen bacon first night and mix with broccoli and rice. I let the bacon greese harden and scoop it into a old prescription bottle for cooking fat for veggies the next day.

Thanks for the recipes! I’ll try this next time! Maybe you should do a video showing how to clean the pot and pan in the backcountry?

I love the dark scenes! More… :)

I’d make those at home!

Love the van!!

You forgot to fold out the pot support legs correctly therefore you can't lock it in place on the minimo 😉

It looks delicious! If someone only backpacks a couple of times a year, then sure, dehydrated food is fine...but since being outdoors is our lifestyle, then real food is necessary. Plus, there is nothing like having an authentic meal at the end of an adventurous day! If you get to eat peppers and mushrooms by a waterfall...you're living the dream! Shout out to Chef Corso...I just kayak camped on an island of Lake Ouachita, AR. We cooked up a Corso Mediterranean dish with fresh tomatoes, cucumbers, and olives with a balsamic glaze over couscous...it was perfect!

Really good stuff here. I suppose if you want to cut down on the prep time you can just buy the pre cut bags of veggies and save a couple of steps of cutting and bagging them up?

the spicy bit with the sound effect and facial expression got me! 🤣

Hi! Wonderful video, I really enjoyed watching it. Have a lovely day my friend ☺