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    Gourmet As Heck Backpacking Dehydrator Meals: Lightweight, High-Calorie, Plant-Based Recipes for the Trail
    Gourmet As Heck Backpacking Dehydrator Meals: Lightweight, High-Calorie, Plant-Based Recipes for the Trail
    Gourmet As Heck Backpacking Dehydrator Meals: Lightweight, High-Calorie, Plant-Based Recipes for the Trail
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    Gourmet As Heck Backpacking Dehydrator Meals: Lightweight, High-Calorie, Plant-Based Recipes for the Trail

    By Diane Vukovic

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    Want backpacking food which is lighter, tastier, and healthier? Gourmet As Heck teaches you how to make delicious dehydrated trail meals which are calorie dense and easy to prepare on the trail.

    You will get over 50 recipes like Warming Moroccan Tagine, Pumpkin Chili, White Bean Pasta Sauce, and Beetroot Salami. All of the recipes have been field-tested and are accompanied by beautiful photos. The recipes were carefully created with calorie-dense, healthy ingredients. You'll be able to get your pack weight down drastically.

    Most meals dehydrate down to over 150 calories per ounce. That will give you 4,000 calories per day in just 1.7lbs! The calories and weights for dehydrated meals have been calculated for you.

    The best part about these backpacking meal recipes is that they are easy. You won't need any "weird" ingredients and most can be made very quickly. With just a dehydrator, a good knife, and some parchment paper, you can create your own gourmet meals.

    In addition to recipes, you will learn...
    •The ins and outs of backpacking nutrition.
    •Exactly how much food to bring on your trek.
    •Packaging methods.
    •How to rehydrate meals, even without a stove.

    All of the recipes in this book are plant-based and vegan. Even if you are a carnivore, you'll still appreciate this book though. It's easier to dehydrate plant-based foods and the shelf-life is longer. Since many of the recipes are based on nuts, you will definitely still feel satiated and satisfied (creamy cashew pasta sauce, anyone?). On top of that, with just two exceptions, the recipes are accidentally gluten-free.

    The author of this book is Diane Vukovic of the popular blog Mom Goes Camping. As someone who goes on intense wild camping trips, she knows how important it is to keep food weight down! But, with two young girls in tow, she also knows how important it is to have healthy, tasty meals (especially when one of those kids is a very picky eater!).

    If you...
    •Are tired of spending a fortune on backpacking meals
    •Want more diversity and flavor in your trail food
    •Care about nutrition and know that you’ll enjoy your hike more when you have healthy food to eat...

    Then this book is for you! Lightweight backpacking food really is this easy!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDiane Vukovic
    Release dateApr 23, 2019
    Gourmet As Heck Backpacking Dehydrator Meals: Lightweight, High-Calorie, Plant-Based Recipes for the Trail

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      Disclaimer and Copyright Information

      Copyright © 2019 Diane Vuković

      Unless specifically stated within the book, such as images licensed under Creative Commons, all material contained herein belongs to Diane Vuković. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, except as may be expressly permitted in writing from the publisher. Requests for permission should be sent to momgoescamping@gmail.com.

      The author asserts that the information contained in this book is true and complete to the best of her knowledge. All recommendations are made without guarantee on the part of the author. The author disclaim any liability in connection with the use of this information. By reading this book, you agree and acknowledge that the author, Diane Vuković, is not responsible for expressed or implied results or guarantees resulting to any information presented in the book.

      Table of Contents

      Intro 1

      About Me 2

      Who This Book Is For 5

      Why Plant-Based? 6

      Tools 7

      Special Ingredients 8

      Backpacking Meal Planning 10

      Nutrition 10

      How Much Food to Bring Backpacking 19

      Meal Spreadsheet 23

      Dehydrating Your Own Meals 27

      Dehydrating 101 27

      Shelf Life 34

      Packing Meals 37

      Inventing Your Own Meals 41

      How to Rehydrate 44

      Recipes 48

      Section 1: Dehydrated Add-Ins for Store-Bought Food 48

      Fruits 49

      Magic Greens Powder 50

      Dehydrated Tofu 51

      Dehydrated Veggie Sausages 52

      Vegetable Powder 53

      Dehydrated Beans and Lentils 54

      Dehydrated Pasta 55

      Gnocchi 56

      Section 2: Breakfasts 57

      Apple Cranberry Walnut Cinnamon Oatmeal 59

      Apricot Coconut Green Tea Oatmeal 60

      Blueberry Chia Coconut Milk Oatmeal 61

      Pear Cardamom Ginger Oatmeal 62

      Vanilla Strawberry Banana Oatmeal 63

      Pumpkin Spice Coffee Oatmeal 64

      Cherry Chocolate Oatmeal 65

      Pancakes 66

      Section 3: DIY Energy Bars and Balls 68

      Coconut Orange Quinoa Bars 69

      Protein Powder Cacao-Coffee Balls 70

      Tropical Energy Balls 71

      Apple Cinnamon Nutmeg Balls 72

      Oatmeal Bars 73

      Buckwheat Cherry Cacao Bars 74

      Strawberry Coconut Buckwheat Bars 75

      Lemon Almond Cookies 76

      Carrot Balls 77

      Section 4: Quick Lunches 78

      Red Pepper Zucchini Crackers 79

      Sunflower Seed Crackers 80

      Trail Hummus 82

      Walnut Taco Meat 83

      Minty Pea Dip 84

      Eggplant Jerky 85

      Chickpea Beetroot Salami 86

      Section 5: Soups, Stews, & One-Part Meals 87

      Curried Red Lentil Soup 88

      Broccoli Soup 89

      Corn Chowder 90

      Basic Tomato Soup 92

      Lentil Pepper Stew 93

      Barley Walnut Risotto 94

      Pumpkin Quinoa Chili 96

      Warming Moroccan Chickpea Tagine 98

      Section 6: Sauces & Two-Part Meals 100

      Alfredo Sauce 102

      Butternut Squash Pasta Sauce 104

      Cashew Cream Tomato Sauce 106

      Beet Cashew Sauce 107

      Spinach Cashew Sauce 108

      Eggplant Bean Stew 109

      Lentil Mushroom Bolognese 110

      Pinto Bean Pasta Sauce 111

      White Bean Gravy 112

      Creamy White Bean Pasta Sauce 113

      BBQ Lentils 114

      Sunflower Seed Bolognese 116

      Resources 118

      Intro

      A while back I saw a meme which said, Backpacking: Where you spend a small fortune to live like a homeless person.

      It’s humorous, but it’s also saddening. True, lots of backpacking gear (especially anything ultralight) is really expensive. However, you don’t need to spend lots of money on gear to get outdoors. The misconception that backpacking is expensive keeps a lot of people from trying it. So, I’ve made it my mission to show people that you don’t need fancy gear or money to get into the outdoors.

      While I can appreciate the value of an expensive UL tent or sleeping bag, I simply can’t get behind those prepackaged backpacking meals. They are convenient, but paying $5-$15 for one meal is extravagant. Since most of those meals primarily contain rice, pasta, or oats (which are ridiculously cheap in bulk), the markup is particularly high.

      On top of the cost, not everyone has access to these meals. I now live in Serbia and no backpacking meal company ships here. When people here go camping, they often lug heavy foods like salami and bread. I’ve even seen people bring canned goods on backpacking trips because they thought they had no alternative! Imagine how much lighter their packs would be if they’d dehydrated the ingredients from the can.

      I’m also vegan and a bit of a nutrition nut, so I won’t eat backpacking meals which are loaded with sodium and lack nutrients. Dehydrating gives me many more meal options for the trail.

      I hope that this book will help you learn to make your own backpacking meals which are lightweight, nutritious, and tasty. Food should not prevent you from going outdoors!

      About Me

      I’m Diane, a 30-something American expat living in Serbia with my husband and two daughters (currently 8 and 1 year old).

      I grew up in upstate New York with a woods in my backyard where I’d spend my time reading books, finding dead bugs for my insect collection, and making tree forts. From as early as I can remember, my dad would take us camping and backpacking. Some of my best memories are in the Adirondack Mountains – like the time a beaver jumped out of a tree in front of me. Who knew that beavers could climb trees!

      As a kid, I didn’t have to do any of the planning that goes into backpacking. Nor did I have to carry much of the gear. I do remember making a trip to the supermarket bulk bins to pick out candy for my trail mix (which I was responsible for carrying). But that’s about it.

      When I got a bit older, I swapped wilderness backpacking for backpacking around Europe. It wasn’t until a friend invited me to go camping with him (he’d just bought a tent and wasn’t sure how to set it up) that I realized how much I missed the outdoors. I decided to take my daughter, who was 3 at the time, on a camping trip to the Albanian Alps.

      A lot of planning went into that trip. There are bears and venomous vipers in Albania. We’d be traveling by boat for part of the trip. And there are no forest rangers to call if something goes wrong. Even I thought I was crazy!

      On top of all that, I’d be carrying all of the gear for my daughter and me. Since I hadn’t invested in any ultralight gear yet, my pack weighed nearly 40lbs when loaded with water. Considering that I am only about 110lbs, that’s exceptionally heavy. It’s generally recommended that you don’t carry more than 20% of your bodyweight.

      Even with the heavy pack, the trip was better than I could have imagined. I loved seeing nature through my daughter’s eyes. My daughter was able to run freely. We didn’t have phone calls or the Internet distracting us so were actually able to bond.

      But that pack was heavy! I needed to cut down weight before going on any more trips. So, I started experimenting with dehydrating food. I devised some really simple recipes, like adding dehydrated veggies to instant soups and making green powder to add to couscous. It wasn’t gourmet, but the food was good enough for our needs.

      Flash forward several years and I’ve remarried and had a baby. I’m stubborn as hell and wasn’t going to let having a baby prevent me from going outdoors! However, weight suddenly became a huge issue. Not only would I be carrying a backpack loaded with extra gear for the baby, but I’d have to carry the baby, too. And my baby is HUGE! At four months (when we took her on her first camping trip), she weighed 19lbs. That’s already close to 20% of my bodyweight!

      That’s when I stepped up the dehydrating game. Instead of just dehydrating ingredients to add to supermarket foods, I started dehydrating entire meals. I also started calculating calories precisely so no unnecessary food was brought along.

      The results were great. Not only did I discover a lot of healthy recipes that my picky 8-year-old actually likes (who knew she’d love pinto

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