I need to eat better when hiking.

I need to eat better when hiking.
Post your favourite meals to cook; I'm limited to a 1L cook pot, and I'll be carrying all my food in a rucksack

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Treat you better, op:
    >insects dehydrated
    >cereal bars
    >can of beans
    >sardine
    >tea

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >insects dehydrated
      Not unless they happen to be inside some dried mushrooms.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    ruckin' and frickin'
    as a gay man its all i know

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      iktf

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    3oz chorizo
    1 cup instant rice
    1 bullion cube
    1tbsp tomato powder
    1/2tsp Italian seasoning

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      To expand on this:

      >it’s delicious
      The meal is all about the sausage. You can use any shelf stable meat, but the uncured dried chorizo from Whole Foods is the best I’ve had. Regular summer sausage is a bit salty, and a few others too strong tasting. Everything can be found in a regular grocery store.

      >It’s carb heavy
      (two cups of cooked rice), but is still has substantial proportions of protein and fat (from the sausage).

      >it’s simple
      You’re not really cooking anything, and you don’t need a dehydrator. It’s only 5 ingredients. Prep work is measuring and cutting. It’s pretty cheap, now that I think about it. It also uses very little water.

      >prep
      At home, cut the sausage into quarter rounds. Store the sausage, rice, and seasonings in separate containers. At camp, add the dry ingredients to 8oz of cold water. Bring to a boil. Add the sausage and let it warm through. Turn off the heat (or remove the pot), add the rice, stir, cover, and let sit 5 minutes.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      As a Med PrepHoleist I came up with the following recipe:

      >chorizo
      >instant mash
      >grated Parmesan-type cheese
      >black olives

      Boil water, make the mash, mix in cheese to taste while hot, serve with olives and chorizo. Simple as.

      All these ingredients are available in pouches (lower weight) here, and there are mini-chorizos which means no cutting is necessary. The meal may be a little on the salty side perhaps but it's never been a problem for me. Everything except the cheese is shelf-stable, but a pouch of grated Parmesan easily keeps for a few days so no biggie there.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      To expand on this:

      >it’s delicious
      The meal is all about the sausage. You can use any shelf stable meat, but the uncured dried chorizo from Whole Foods is the best I’ve had. Regular summer sausage is a bit salty, and a few others too strong tasting. Everything can be found in a regular grocery store.

      >It’s carb heavy
      (two cups of cooked rice), but is still has substantial proportions of protein and fat (from the sausage).

      >it’s simple
      You’re not really cooking anything, and you don’t need a dehydrator. It’s only 5 ingredients. Prep work is measuring and cutting. It’s pretty cheap, now that I think about it. It also uses very little water.

      >prep
      At home, cut the sausage into quarter rounds. Store the sausage, rice, and seasonings in separate containers. At camp, add the dry ingredients to 8oz of cold water. Bring to a boil. Add the sausage and let it warm through. Turn off the heat (or remove the pot), add the rice, stir, cover, and let sit 5 minutes.

      As a Med PrepHoleist I came up with the following recipe:

      >chorizo
      >instant mash
      >grated Parmesan-type cheese
      >black olives

      Boil water, make the mash, mix in cheese to taste while hot, serve with olives and chorizo. Simple as.

      All these ingredients are available in pouches (lower weight) here, and there are mini-chorizos which means no cutting is necessary. The meal may be a little on the salty side perhaps but it's never been a problem for me. Everything except the cheese is shelf-stable, but a pouch of grated Parmesan easily keeps for a few days so no biggie there.

      https://i.imgur.com/xHmGLEX.jpg

      Any meat will do. Chorizo is good as it's both fat and rich in protein. Dehydrated mashed potatoes for carbs. Vegetables are not worth eating in general.

      keep talking about chorizo, the only kind im familiar with is mexican chorizo. little confusing. lol

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous
      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Chorizo in spanish literally just means sausage

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          its does not. It means chorizo. Sausage is salchicha or embutido
          t.spaniard

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      My dad used to make this for us but with a rice cooker and canned tomatoes.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I'd eat it

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I did

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Weird, because it’s not a recipe I got from anywhere. I just sort of experimented and put it together.

        I'd eat it

        Give it a shot. It’s one of the better light weight meals you can make with things found in a grocery store.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    You can definitely eat better, but you need to be willing to either gather or carry more fuel. For example, rice is super cheap and filling, then you can put packaged curry or something else with it. Pea soup is also very good and easy to make. Look up erbswurst, I've had some in my fridge that I cook up whenever I don't feel like cooking.
    Also maybe buy a bag of dehydrated vegetables, they can add a lot of flavor and nutrients to meals.

    Pasta is obviously very easy to make. Knorr makes a dried pesto sauce, or you can bring tomato paste and add water to make a pasta sauce.

    Meat is the most difficult to bring, and protein is important. For that you have two options, dried/preserved meats like summer sausage, jerky are the main choices. I prefer to just go full vegetarian and bring textured vegetable protein (tvp) it packs super well and comes in a wide variety of textures. It pairs well with the dried vegetables in a soup to make a good broth.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      lol good shit, now tell him how ramen is the ultimate out food

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Ramen noodles can be good, but I think you're better off bringing dried Chinese noodles instead of the blocks of ramen. They cook just as quick, but give you a little more versatility in your meals, and they pack better.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Choose good ramen,

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >not edible

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Those things are good. I drain the water and throw the spice packet ontop of noodles. Here it with brisket I smoked, onions, the works.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Love me my shin black, this time with costco rotisserie chicken.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                https://i.imgur.com/4VNERWZ.jpg

                Those things are good. I drain the water and throw the spice packet ontop of noodles. Here it with brisket I smoked, onions, the works.

                Damn that looks good

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Thanks, here's noodles I made last night. I'll get black put drunk at times and make food, don't recall making it some times, find in the kitchen and pics on my phone.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Here's a simple one. Shaved beef, onion, shin black, mora Mora Bushcraft. No clue why I included a knife.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                https://i.imgur.com/sExxMst.jpg

                Thanks, here's noodles I made last night. I'll get black put drunk at times and make food, don't recall making it some times, find in the kitchen and pics on my phone.

                your onions look basically raw.
                fry them first.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                They were sauteed to my liking. Soft enough you could break them apart easily with just your lips.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I bet your lips are a lot stronger than normal though.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I would also add a fat base like ghee to bring along to have a well rounded diet

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Correct. Ghee can be prohibitively expensive and add a lot of potentially unwanted flavors to a dish. So I usually use lard or butter, as long as the weather is cool enough to stay solid. Otherwise I use olive oil.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >textured vegetable protein
      that shit is vile worst, found some in a mountain hut once, worst shit i've ever eaten

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous
        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          You want some nut milk to go with

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        It's in many canned and frozen foods used to cut costs. I usually find it in canned chili and frozen breakfast sausage. You also weren't prepared to cook it properly, so that adds to it.

        Buy some and give it a real shot at home. It's not as good as meat, but I don't mind it in many recipes.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Pesto is dense and compact as it is, I'm not sure why you'd dehydrate it for hiked when it stored well.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Peanut butter or sharp cheddar on flour tortillas for breakfast. Cookies (mashed into crumbs) and jerky for snacks. Mountain House for dinner. Day after day, mile after mile.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    One of my life goals is to cook a cheeseburger while backpacking.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Why haven't you done this? Just freeze the meat the night before, toss it in a coolie pack if you want it last more than a day.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >One of my life goals is to cook a cheeseburger while backpacking

      You'd be surprised how long mcd ones last. They've got quite a bit of preservative in them. Get a few of them and squeeze them flatish and fry them up in a pan. Not really diet advice but it will get your mates eating dehydrated stuff drooling when they smell those. Share em around

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      brother just freeze a burger the night before and bring it in a lunch bag and put the half thawed burger in a pot and fry it, works really well, buns might get squished though

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      is very tasty

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        > Ketchup

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    MRE
    add hot water

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Bring butter it doesn't need refrigeration

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      This is damn good as well. Mix it into your other foods. A pound of butter is over 3000 calories and it enhances anything else you might be making, in taste as well as making it heartier

      Also imo long time living out of a pack or say on a yacht on a big sea crossing, is a time that vitamin tablets are not a meme. You can keep going on very simple foods but if you don't have access to fresh fruits and vegetables and meat you can easily miss out on some things that can start to have an impact

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I take nocook/precooked/dehydrated/freezedried/shelfstable and combine. Dried blueberries, mustard, and tuna wrapped in a flour tortilla is pretty good. Be adventurous, Anon.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Jars of peanuts, jerky and plenty of water. Cans of soup are easy to cook but heavy.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Protip
      Dump the can into a vacuum seal bag and seal that b***h. If you want to be even more hard-core reduce it down on med low on the stove top first than vacuum seal that b***h. Obviously add the water back when you cook it.
      You can also find dry soup mixes in most non shit grocery stores.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    lol just grill some chicken and bring some sodas chips and candybars cracka mf what u want lettuc and shit instead lmao white boy

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      This. And Real Turmat from Norway, which is like an MRE but tastes good.

      (Flere nordmenn i tråden ja?)

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Real er jævli dyrt da
        (Real is hella expensive)

        Although high quality

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Men posemat er posemat, er en grei forrett da.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    This picture is the ultimate LARPer filter.
    Only people who go outdoors will understand

    /k/ and /misc/ (bull) prepper board tourists will seethe and cope over this image

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Do you ever get tired of spamming the board with your moronic bullshit?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Pure crap

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      What is the point in going PrepHole if you're just going to take a bunch of processed foods? Might as well bring an RV.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        hiking foods have a tendency to be processed because hikers want foods with high shelf life at room temp

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Only in the US, where we somehow managed to grasp the English language better than the English, and we know that hiking is a different activity than camping.

          In Europe, people will walk 5km down a dirt road, hide out in a sliver of trees for two days, walk back, and call it hiking. It’s why they think whole potatoes are appropriate for a 4 day hike.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            > we know that hiking is a different activity than camping.
            There is nothing wrong with his English, hiking is the act of long distance walking in the countryside, and as anon said; if you're going on a hike you
            >want foods with high shelf life at room temp

            Both hiking and camping can have qualifiers in the sentence like camping in the backyard vs camping in the woods or on skidrow, or hiking all over town though common use says we all know hiking is done on a trail and camping is done in nature unless otherwise stated.
            You can use more specific terms like Tramping, Bushwalking, Rambling, Fellwalking, Mountaineering, Trekking, Climbing, Backpacking or Bushwhacking which all imply the location and style.

            But having a whinge about common use of a common word on an Indonesian fingerbox carving forum as if nobody can understand is cringe enough without adding
            >OnLy In ThE uS, wHeRe We SoMeHoW mAnAgEd To GrAsP tHe EnGlIsH lAnGuA... shut the frick up

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Tell me more about the overarching theme of British people on PrepHole consistently giving good info on food recommendations rather than canned soup and raw potatoes.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I dunno, ask someone British, I'm in the wrong hemisphere

                Love me some MTR curries and a rice pouch. Stagg chilli is the bomb too but it's about 5NZD a can last I checked

                Staggs I've only had for lazy nachos. I tried Watties canned Irish Stew and it was shit.
                Watties Hearty - Corn and Bacon Chowder is good if you do it up a little, cheese, diced onion a little garlic, pepper, spring onion.
                It's difficult to find anything that matches up to homemade but anything you bring in a thermos will only last until second night at most, less if it includes dairy.
                My biggest problem is finding long lasting meats, outside of salmon, tuna and corned beef everything is shit and those and barely good for sandwiches.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Potatoes have a long shelf life at room temp but are a terrible hiking food. Canned goods can last for years and suck even worse.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I like potatoes.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Remind us of what the OP says again.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              I was doing traffic management on a oneway bridge for the cycle leg of a crosscountry triathlon, and a cyclist came past and threw a bag of potatoes at me 🙁

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                That's hilarious + free potatoes.

                Remind us of what the OP says again.

                no one cares, this is a potato thread now.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Bread is basically a type of potato

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >will seethe and cope
      You called it, bro.

      Also want to point out that out of 24 posters I’m literally the only one who posted an actual recipe.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Also want to point out that out of 24 posters I’m literally the only one who posted an actual recipe.
        I'm an excellent home cook. I have an entire cabinet dedicated to spices, herbs, and dried chilis; I have another dedicated to baking supplies, and I bake bread and cakes of all sorts like a champ; I smoke and cure meats on the regular; I can broil a perfect tenderloin, saute perfect shrimp; can whip up every mother sauce, no problem; create and jar my own vegetable stock, bone broth, poultry stock; can cook all sorts of personal specialties like Cajun crab bisque, tamales, burritos with homemade masa tortillas and mole sauce from scratch, my own version of General Tso that beats any restaurant, lion's head meatballs, miso ramen, all kinds of curries....

        Also my own pemmican, homemade granola, venison jerky, and even hard cheese.

        I don't bother because it's lost on these people and they won't listen. Waste of time. They're 90% urban Redditors who consume social media, plastic goods, and fast and processed foods to the exclusion of l else. They genuinely believe it's some kind of expert outdoorsy knowledge to eat tortillas, crackers, pepperoni, peanut butter, and dehydrated rice, and that the only reason someone wouldn't pay $12 a pouch for dehydrated crap is that they're poor.

        Picrel: What's in my double boiler? Nabisco and Nestle paypigs don't know.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >dehydrated rice
          You mean parboiled rice, like Minute Rice? It’s literally just rice. The only thing that changes is consistency, and that’s a trade off for convenience. No one is taking plain rice backpacking
          >Reddit bad
          Only because you can’t say Black person.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          We are truly worse off in life now that you haven't shared your grand knowledge with us oh humble anon...

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Corned beef hash is a guilty pleasure of mine, but also frick eating goyslop. I wanna eat natural food while I'm in the natural world. Lots of veggies and meat are shelf stable at room temp for weeks idk what you're on.

      I would also add a fat base like ghee to bring along to have a well rounded diet

      Yeah I take a miniature 1oz glass can filled with of lard with me.

      hiking foods have a tendency to be processed because hikers want foods with high shelf life at room temp

      Pan fried whole wheat flatbread over the fire is a favorite of mine. 100x more nutritious than ramen and Infinitly shelf stable.
      I like to bring homemade dehydrated meat and some carrots and potatoes and then forage greens to make stew, but I am incredibly knowledgeable wild plants in my area compared to a lot of people.

      this guy on youtube made spreadsheets of all the common grocery store food/ingredient that's good for hiking and every freeze dried meal that exists more or less. ranked by nutritional density.
      having a look at it gives a pretty idea what food would actually be good to take from an endurance athlete perspective and what's a splurge. most people's stereotype idea of hiking food is pretty far off.
      if you wanna know how to plan meals right, good starting point, will save you a lot of time farting around the grocery store looking at nutrition facts.

      Sick as frick. I'll watch that.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      needs more double stuff Oreos

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      If an englishman moved to the USA this is what he would consider fine dining. Everytime this same guy posts this same image I am reminded of how greatful I should be to have access to cheap steak and vegetables. These people live out of packaged food and act like it's good.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        That guy's just a colossal fricking moron and a troll

        >dehydrated rice
        You mean parboiled rice, like Minute Rice? It’s literally just rice. The only thing that changes is consistency, and that’s a trade off for convenience. No one is taking plain rice backpacking
        >Reddit bad
        Only because you can’t say Black person.

        Holy shit it's the homosexual who sucks off Reddit any chance he gets

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        steak and vegetables go bad in a day or two in the woods.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You know this poster never goes outside when two of the meals is just hard cheese and peanut butter, jesus fricking christ anon the bombs haven't dropped yet.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Those are meal components. The pic is specific to thru hiking. Lots of people eat peanut butter on tortillas as a lunch.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >hard cheese isn't outdoors food
        Lmao way to out yourself fatty, what do you think alps mountaineers ate in the 1800s?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          kendal mint cake

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      In Italy its mega easy.
      >pasta
      Jar of pesto will last for many meals with very compact size.
      Sugo or ragù is much bigger but tastier.
      If size is not an issue, UHT panna, onion and tuna for pasta.
      Fresh filled pasta will last a day or two at least.
      Butter + grated cheese is a sauce already.

      >dried meats
      Prosciutto crudo and different kinds of salame. Light and will last a good time.

      >cheese
      Aged cheese will last a good while.

      Stop eating garbage and just eat real food. You're going out for a few days, you don't need to eat mistery garbage like pic related.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >taking goyslop innawoods
      why would you ruin a good journey with this

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I love watching you get btfo every time you post your meme meals graphic

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Only people who’ve never been on really long hikes think this pic is wrong. It has its place.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Any meat will do. Chorizo is good as it's both fat and rich in protein. Dehydrated mashed potatoes for carbs. Vegetables are not worth eating in general.

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    A package of ramen noodles without the seasoning packet added to your favorite can of soup makes for an easy and filling meal. Just put the noodles in while you are heating up the soup, I do this at home sometimes.

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Depends how far you're going and how much you want to carry.
    I like to have instant sachet coffee and a grapefruit for breakfast.
    muesli bar / banana / noodles for lunch, maybe a cup of instant soup
    Dinner for first night normally 2 sausages and some instant mashed potato with instant gravy.
    I like bringing instant Indian meals that you just boil in it's sachet, there's half a dozen varieties, just add rice.
    Pack of timtams and a joint for deserts.
    Sunflower seeds are nice to shell and snack after dinner.

    Some times I'll prep a Guinness Beef stew or Stroganoff and bring it in a thermos. 800ml of stew lasts 2 large dinners with instant mash.
    Thermos is good for taking extra water boiled for morning coffee and putting in thermos with ramen for lunch later, or add noodles later so you can also make a coffee or soup with the same water.

    Basically anything you keep in your pantry which is pretty exhaustive. Eggs, spam, toast, baked beans, deenz, tuna, salmon, mashed potato, ramen, pasta, pasta sauce, mushrooms, bacon bits, canned chilli, creamed corn, stews, soups, drink sachets, fricking cereal and powdered milk

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >instant Indian meals
      vomit in a bag pretty much, sounds terrible.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        These things, they're fine, no worse than any other MRE

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Love me some MTR curries and a rice pouch. Stagg chilli is the bomb too but it's about 5NZD a can last I checked

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    this guy on youtube made spreadsheets of all the common grocery store food/ingredient that's good for hiking and every freeze dried meal that exists more or less. ranked by nutritional density.
    having a look at it gives a pretty idea what food would actually be good to take from an endurance athlete perspective and what's a splurge. most people's stereotype idea of hiking food is pretty far off.
    if you wanna know how to plan meals right, good starting point, will save you a lot of time farting around the grocery store looking at nutrition facts.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      nice video but jesus christ it did not need to be 50 minutes long. If any anon reads this first, just go and download the spreadsheet, its self explanatory.

      From that spreadsheet, has anyone tried making one of these 'keto bricks'? looks pretty badass in terms of being able to make it at home, doesnt go off, doesnt need cooking or rehydrating and is super calorie dense. doesnt look to hard to make from what I can see, just melt cacao butter and add protein powder and whatever else you want https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihhOUlr32Qs

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I will preface this with 'eating better' is to me nutrition first especially on longer and sustained hiking. I am aiming typically for 3000kcal+ in a typical hiking day In that regard I do:
    Breakfast: Mix of complex carbs and fat. A little protein is desirable. Cold soak oats with powder milk, peanut butter and breakfast bars, granola, dried fruit are my usual go-tos as I don't like to make anything more than coffee in the morning, would rather pack up and be ready to move sooner or eat on the trail.
    Lunch: Same as above, although I don't always eat big. Its a little easier to snack during the hike and keep energy up rather than eat a big meal and try to walk. Again, mostly no cook options. Peanut butter, dried fruit, hard cheese, meat. If the weather is cool your options expand.
    Dinner: I prefer to boil water, pour it into my cookpot and be ready in 10-15min. Cooking on pocket stoves mostly sucks as much as I've tried. I try to limit it to heating water, oil, and maybe meat before it goes into something else. It's usually more sausage or other meat added to knorr sides, instant mashed potatoes, brown rice mixed with dehydrated veggies. I try to get the bulk of my protein in and mostly just stay up on calorie intake. I carry a container of olive oil for calories and to keep pasta/potatoes from being congealed messes. I do try to bring some spices to change stuff up. Spam singles do well. I don't like to bring a lot of canned stuff but for shorter duration trips I do like canned fish since you get protein, often some kind of oil base, and a sauce or spices all in one.

    As far as a cooking if you want to deal with it there's almost nothing you can't do in the woods. If it's one pot at home it's one pot in the woods, just limited to what you feel like doing. Don't be afraid to pre-cut or mix stuff and get creative with repackaging. More importantly don't forget to actually try some recipes at home.

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    https://outdooreats.com/recipe/
    https://andrewskurka.com/section/food-nutrition/

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      First link isn’t that good at a cursory glance. I checked three random recipes and they included raw potatoes and fresh vegetables. One was 4oz of fresh vegetables. For comparison, Skurka’s brand and rice is 5.7oz total.

      Skurka’s advice is always pretty solid though. Really great stuff at the second link.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I think the first one is generally more around just cooking more with fresher ingredients while camping/short trips, less thru hike weight weenying. Whereas Skurka is Skurka, good recipes that are also weight conscious given what he does.

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    you're welcome OP

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Overpriced as shit as full of sugar. Just buy generic rolled oats and add whatever you want to it

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I’ll be carrying all your food in a nutsack, OP, meet me on the trail.

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    2oz instant refried beans
    1.5oz instant rice
    1oz hard cheese
    1oz Fritos
    0.2oz taco seasoning

    It’s Skurka’s beans and rice. If you don’t know about Skurka’s beans and rice you’re a newbie, and that’s ok. Google it. It’s a great DIY backpacking meal.

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Say I wanted to bring some nicer food/ heavier luxuries for a week long backpacking trip, but my pack weight is already kinda high. Would it be feasible to make a drag pack/sled out of an anti bear container (which I would have anyway) and some really thin stainless sheet metal (from an old broken refrigerator) to allow it to slide along the trail relatively easily without me putting more weight on my body. I would make it so I could be mounted/carried when rougher terrain is encountered at the end of the trip and my pack weight has dropped from using supplies. Has anyone tried this before or are there decent commercial alternatives?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Outside of snow, sleds have been obsolete since we invented the wheel. What you’d want is a hiking trailer. PrepHole thinks their a silly meme and for old people, but that’s because PrepHole is mostly children with no experience, so it’s not the best place to ask. These are used by people doing extended road walks, such as walking across the US from east to west, or global treks hoping from African slim to Mid East shit holes. I’d imagine they’re not very good on trails simply because any kind of scrambling at all and a device behind you would be cumbersome.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah I understand it wouldn't be as optimal or efficient like a wheeled hiking trailer but what I'm after is more load for less effort than carrying on my back over longer distances. I'm just trying to figure out at what weight does the drag overcome the energy savings by not having to carry it. I figure that Indians used them for a long time it must be at least better than carrying a certain amount

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It's the small luxuries like fresh meat

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Let me guess: another epic 5km European backpacking adventure.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Almost every single hiker has a Trangia here in the North. You can easily carry proper steaks and such most of the year in your backpack because of the weather. One week hike on a tundra and you'll be craving for actual food every once in a while. I haul potatoes, rye bread, graved salmon and other fresh food during my PrepHole larps.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Your food choices are not good ones with regards to hiking, but I understand that you don’t know that.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Nice cooking setup anon. Looks like someone actually knows how to enjoy himself in the outdoors unlike

      Let me guess: another epic 5km European backpacking adventure.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        This is a backpacking thread, not a camping thread.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          This is a meal thread, not a backpacking thread.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            this is a food thread, not a meal thread.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Read the OP, Black person.

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    can you comfortably afford a dehydrator? because if you can then you can make soups, stews and pasta sauces and dehydrate them, bring along pasta, minute rice or flatbread.

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I generally give up cooking PrepHole and just eat salami, crackers, tea and dried things.
    It's not even worth bringing a hex stove and burner and cleaning kit, i bring a single tin for boiling tea.

    MRE type meals are of logistical value, and are just extra packaging for the individual hiker, you can portion things with a pocket knife.
    You're not dropping food from a helicopter, storing it months in a shed next to an afghan airport, and nobody is trying the poison you.

    Nutrition is a marginal issue over the course of a few days, if you've got macros, salts and sugar you're fine.

    Stop eating weird shit and wasting time with autistic repackaging.

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I've said it before I'll say it again

    Block of cheese
    Salami
    Nuts and dried fruit
    Coffee/tea bags

    1 hot meal of choice

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Bring a shotgun and some powder because you'll be shitting out perfect shot after a couple days.

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Jerky, mixed nuts and dehydrated fruit. Is there anything wrong with this? Genuine question

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It’s gross. If it were more palatable, more people would do it. No cook options aren’t popular for that reason.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Jerky is delicious

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Low morale if it has to continue for a while.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I could legitimately eat macadamia nuts, cranberries, and pepperoni forever and not get tired of it

  29. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    big fan of the pre-prepared Indian meals. they come in sachets and just need to be heated and stirred in your pot. I had bombay potatos / basmati rice with nan bread on trail recently. delicious man.

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    My biggest problem is bears.
    I camp in an area that is well populated with bare and while I know how to cover the scent on the food it's self I don't know how to cover the scent on my body after eating it.

  31. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    If you're just hiking, then dried fruits, jerky, mixed nuts, and maybe a homemade rice ball. Anything more than that on a day hike and that's called a picnic.
    If you're camping it's always nice to treat yourself to at least one fancy meal but it's not necessary and you run the risk of foodborne illness. I can't justify buying expensive MREs just to sit in the middle of nowhere and eat them but if I could learn to prepare food That's like a packet of mountain house then I would.
    Just bring non-perishable snacks and a fishing pole. If you catch a trout or salmon you'll be eating fresh gourmet food for free.

  32. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    instant ramen packs, quick oats, canned things if not hunting.
    one of my favourites is pig or squirrel cut into canned chili, fry the pig then empty the can. crush the can and put it in garbage bag, take with you and throw away at home.

    try cooking at home with just 1 pot, see how you do, thats how i got good at cooking in a single pot.

  33. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >all the GMO-ed, zero nutrition processed, onions/ corn syrup/ dye filled, BPA mixed, ultra high sodium preserved "camping food" itt
    Smoked pemmican
    Dried bones
    Hard Tack
    Dried Fruits + Nuts
    Foraged veggies
    Iodized salt, brown sugar, and pepper
    All homemade, home grown, or found in nature as God intended
    Can be prepped and cooked dozens of different ways with dozens of dozens of different variations
    Lasts DECADES under vaccum seal within any temperature

    ...or let me guess:
    >you "need" more

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Ah yes, the absolute worst fricking food to ever exist. All the fruits and vegetables in the world can't cover up the crumbly garbage meat taste. I wouldn't turn it down if I hadn't eaten in a week but frick man it's not the 1400's anymore

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I made some pemmican for a camping trip last summer and ended up using it in place of beef cubes for our stew since we forgot the meat at home. It was surprisingly good. You're not supposed to eat it alone. You put it in stuff.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Squirrel?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Not everybody is prepping to join the navy seals, maybe lighten up a bit.

      I can carry a shit ton of chorizo/shrink-wrapped meat, and many nice things to cook up with it. Enough for 4 days easy. I could also carry a chunk of that stuff as reserve, but I don't need to and yea, it tastes bad.

  34. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I only really cook soups and stews when I'm out. I once cooked a pot roast ovee 20 hours using a thermal cooker but I wasn't hiking I was car camping. If hiking I make chicken/leek soups so long as you always add half a potato minimum the soup always tastes good just add your spice preference. You can add anything it's soup it's going to taste good.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      How far are you hiking on these trips where chicken and potato stew is appropriate?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        It's all a game of pretend

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          It really feels that way. I mean every board has a few moronic children who just blurt out absolute nonsense. But PrepHole is the only place where those opinions are just rehashed shit from YouTube videos that go against what the status quo has learned from first hand experienced.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        It's all a game of pretend

        Not all PrepHole activities involve walking for long distances. If you're in a canoe you don't really have to worry about weight that much, just makes portages a bit harder. I usually bring a couple potatoes and carrots with me when I go on canoe trips. I bring frozen stew meat for the first night in a tiny lunch box sized cooler, then dehydrated ground beef/turkey or pemmican for the rest of my dinners.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          So you saw
          >hiking
          >1L pot
          >everything in a rucksack
          Then gave advice that pertains to canoeing?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Even if you're hiking on foot, why is it so hard to carry a couple extra pounds? Especially if it's just one meal's worth, it's not that heavy unless you're a woman.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Look like

              It's all a game of pretend

              was right.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Who's pretending? I've taken real food on dayhikes. How weak are you that two potatoes and a carrot will make or break your ability to hike?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >who’s pretending?
                >I’ve done day hikes
                Jesus fricking Christ you people are insufferable morons.
                Let me guess: you’re not American.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >nooooooooooo you're not allowed to enjoy yourself, you have to hike for a week straight non-stop and buy all the ultralight gear and eat goyslop for every meal or else you're a larper!!!!111

  35. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Sandwiches and chocolate

  36. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >there are people on PrepHole that are too weak to carry a potato

  37. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Well if you want calories and protein just make what i call a Hiroshima
    Pack of shrimp flavored raman
    Pack of Idaho instant mash plain
    Pack of either salmon or tuna.

    Take a gallon zip lock back with you, cook your raman until its, well, cooked, pour the hot water and instant mash into the gallon bag mix it all up, pour in the raman, and the tuna, and mix it all up, enjoy a cheap (less the 5 bucks), 1000+ calorie, 20g+ proteins meal.
    Its basically just a Raman bomb with tuna added.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Oh another good thing you can pack thats light and great for you, steel cut oats, just need water to cook them so. Pack a small bottle of cinnamon sugar mix and BAM some good ass breakfast to help keep you regular as well.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Prison food

  38. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    What would you consider the smallest doable pot size for actual cooking (not boiling water).?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      1L

  39. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    My grandfather was a turboautist sar guy who survived 4 days fallen into a crevasse and he would crush doritos into powder, put it in ziploc bags , and eat that

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      He liked to challenge himself even with his nutritional intake.

      I'm a stage 5 outist. Unless it's extremely poisonous I don't even bother eating it, because being healthy while camping makes it too easy. You need to be almost dead from either dysentery or a rattlesnake bite or you're clearly just LARPing.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I forgot nestea crystals
        He also brought nestea crystals in ziplocs
        Unsure if he ate them raw or stirred them into water
        Now that i think about it maybe he stirred the dorito powder into water?
        Hes dead now so i cant ask him 🙁

  40. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    My all time PrepHole food is tortellini. Just buy some dehydrated good vegetable tortellini (meat ones taste like shit), heavy cream, bacon and cheese and you'll end up with a very filling and rich meal.

    Also, it took me years, but I realized I can just bring regular to my outings, especially if im not going more than 3 or 4 days. Just bring some olive oil, onions, eggs, sausages, green peas and all that shit. Spices are also weightless and can be carried in small zip bags (weed type, I find them really useful).

    If im not wienering cause im going to some summit I just bring good dried sausages, cheese, some nuts and bread, im europoor so I have cheap quality sausages. Sometimes I also bring premade ready to eat tabbouleh. I found one that cost 1€ and contains 400g (nearly 1 pound) and still edible

    All wienered in my two 650ml pots and a stove

  41. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Bump

  42. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    take potato
    take aluminum
    take butter.

    clean potato at home in water and put them into container.
    make fire.
    put potato into aluminum foil.
    put it into embers not full fire.
    wait some times open it up if your knife can't go trough the potato it's not baked put it back and wait more.
    after done put some butter at it and salt and you can eat.

    It's simple to prepare and taste really good.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      At ~40 calories per ounce it’s pretty trip dependent.

  43. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Get a big titanium pot and small containers with fresh/frozen vegetables.
    >Kidney beans
    >Fresh Spinach
    >Fresh Red paprika for the most nutritional value
    >+Frozen vegetables
    >Boat potatoes unpeeled
    >Sliced Cherry Tomatoes

    Bring 2 liters of some FirstPrice water cus frick paying for bottled water.
    Prep most of the ingredients but if something needs cutting you bring a dull knife and let a guest prepare it.

    People love being involved in preparation of stuff.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      OP is backpacking. Kidney beans take hours to prepare and carrying water isn’t a very good idea.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Pre-soft kidney beans in water you silly goose.
        Who the hell brings dry beans and spend 90 minutes softening them in water on a backpacking trip?, lmao.
        Get off the acid anon..

        Carrying water is a good idea unless you plan
        .... you know what i just now realized that i forgot OP's post about the 1L pot, forget everything i said in this thread.
        This kid will be heating macaroni and cheese because that pot-size won't fit anything else.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I’ll forget everything you said because you’ve never been backpacking.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I've done enough backpacking to test equipment from mug sized "pots" like a 750 and 2000ml pot.
            All the same ingredients and appropriate burner-heads.
            brs for the small, Primus mimer for large.

            The 2000ml pot is "just" big enough to hold the ingredients i mentioned.
            If you want to cook actual food with raw ingredients and meat etc that's as small as i would go.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          1L pot is more than enough to make some beans

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Add two tablespoons of sodium bicarbonate to the soaking water and once cooked the beans will be creamier

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Red kidney beans are poisonous if not boiled furiously for 20 mins during their initial cooking.
        Oh frick
        >Canned beans can be drained, rinsed and then used at once with other ingredients immediately.
        Thank God

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >canned
          No.

  44. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Do you guys not carry dehydrated meat with you?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      We're vegans brah. Meat is murder.

      JK, of course we do. Jerky for munching, freeze dried mystery meat in our lasagne for din din.

  45. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Nice bait thread anon, I couldn't have done better.

  46. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    beef jerky, cheese, and trail mix.

  47. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Looking for advice on what kind of meals are good for a long distance trail with no resupply for two weeks. Something lightweight enough that it's not going to be cripplingly cumbersome but also nutritious enough to keep me going. I also wouldn't want to eat the expensive yuppie goyslop if possible. I have trail snack food down well enough, it's just main meals that have me at a loss.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The longest I’ve gone is 6 days. 14 is bonkers. Anyway, try my chorizo and rice (here

      3oz chorizo
      1 cup instant rice
      1 bullion cube
      1tbsp tomato powder
      1/2tsp Italian seasoning

      ). Skurka’s beans and rice is also really good, though the cheese may not hold up for two weeks, depending on temperature. His Thai noodles recipe is bretty gud as well. In fact most of his recipes are really good, and he wrote an article on having fewer selections rather than more. Most of them are vegetarian though (not for moral or dietary reasons, but because it’s easier), and the bioavailability of vegetable protein is pretty low compared to animal protein.

  48. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    If you are going on short (over the weekend, like people who actually have to work in order to finance their larp) trips, you can carry vegetables and other fresh ingredients without your equipment getting too heavy. This can be made in a 1 litre pot:

    Soup, one serving
    >1 potato, diced
    >1 carrot, sliced
    >1/2 onion, diced
    >1 garlic clove, chopped
    >a handfull of macaroni
    >1 broth cube (meat, chicken or veggie)
    >Some (~100g) meatballs or sausage(if weather is cold enough) or about any shelf stable meat
    >Some parsley
    >Some ground pepper
    >5dl of water
    Prep: Just wash the potato and carrot well at home, no need to peel them. When starting to cook, chop up the potato, carrot, onion and garlic, add in to a pot. Add 5dl of water, set on high heat untill the water boils. When the water is boiling, add the meat, macaroni, and the broth cube. Add parsley and ground pepper according to your own taste. Boil on medium heat untill the potatos are done, then eat.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You don’t get any pto? Didn’t your forklift certification bump your position to a higher rung?

  49. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Get a dehydrator and a book called "Recipes for Adventure"

  50. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I have had good luck with recipes out of this book.
    https://www.amazon.com/Lipsmackin-Backpackin-2nd-Lightweight-Trail-Tested/dp/0762781327

  51. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I have also had most of the Peak Refuel line. They are all pretty good. The chicken alfredo is probably my favorite.

    They are a little more costly than Mountain house, but they are better and typically have more calories and protein per pouch.

    https://peakrefuel.com/collections/meals

  52. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Anyone have experience with pemmican? Im planning on making homemade in spring and im wondering if its still eadible after a week in backpack on a longer hike

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I made some and it stayed fine in my fridge for over a month before I finished it. However the Indians and fur trappers would use it for months at a time without refrigeration and long distance travel for months at a time. Stuff without fruit in it lasts longest but I don't think you'll have a problem hiking with it wrapped in wax paper in a Ziploc bag for a week no matter what it is

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yea thats what i read about it, that its good to eat for months without refrigeration, Just wanted to know if someone have actual experience with it. Thanks for answer

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