40 Best Backpacking Foods at Grocery Stores 

Tortillas with the dehydrated beans you showed, minute rice, cheese and hot sauce packets. 😋 Also, divy up a pkg of brownie mix into 4 or 6 ziplocks, add to each: a scoop of walnuts, a scoop of protein powder (or instant breakfast). When you want to eat it, add a little olive oil & water.

I keep a spare Taco Bell gift card in case I come across a wild Taco Bell while hiking.

Dude! You are the most realistic person I have watched. You are simple and easy. I have been looking for this kind of video for years. Great video!

I’ve been binge watching hiking video’s for months...only been hiking twice...this was top 2 all-time food specific vids

You could go on forever really and add instant mashed potato . Packets of powdered soups, "just add milk" pudding mixes and custard powder for dessert experiments, Gravy granules, curry powder, chilli flakes, Hot chocolate sachets. Flavoured Cous Cous, barley grains, all make great filling carbohydrate intake. Dried noodle products are legendary. Mac n cheese mixes also. Use freezer bags to keep contents pre-mixed in at home. write on the bag and date it with a sharpie. Different colours for different meal items. Water should be sourced, filtered and purified and planned carefully, also fuel requirements. Salami (pepperoni) and cheese sticks keep well without spoiling. It is possible to dehydrate almost any food / meals at home. Fruits work best. Also peas, corn and crispy dried onion add nutrition, texture and flavour to many savoury dishes. But DIY preservation of fish & white meats and eggs are sketchy at best due to bacterial concerns. Practise preparing & eating hiker meals at home before you go outdoors, to get flavours and volumes perfected. Also cook outside testing different cooksystems and fuel types, in various weather conditions. All the items we want should be affordable, tasty, calorie dense, lightweight, compact and easy to reconstitute.

Excellent video!! I’ve been trying to figure out what to eat on my section hike of the AT since I can’t handle the amount of salt in most dehydrated prepared meals or the cost thereof. This is one of the BEST food videos I’ve seen. 👍🏼😍💞

Awesome I’ll be sure to use these

Thank for ideas that are regular type food and not an expensive prefab dehydrated meal.

Superb ideas in this video. Thanks! We dehydrate and backpack with fruit from our garden. Plums are awesome! Another easy trick is to buy, then dehydrate thick slices of (salted and flavored) turkey loaf, for sale in grocery deli cases. Turkey jerky goes well in vegetarian soups, like Bear Creek.

I gotta say this video was way better then I thought it was going to be. I kinda thought it was one of those sales adds at first but I was wrong it really gave me some good ideas much better then those bags of dried foods sold for top dollar at rei an bass pro

Instant mashed potatoes and tuna helper was great for me while backpacking

Very thorough lists, missing out only a few items such as mash potato/ramen/instant rice/etc... but i find this the BEST Lists so far on RU-vid!

Salmon patties with mashed potatoes. Chicken and stuffing. Hamburg helper pasta with pepperoni. Beef tips and rice.

Great ideas! Thanks!

Boris Karloff on backpacking food.....

When I pack in my local Ozarks, I will cook wild greens. Poke Salad will be easy to cook. Follow directions though. Watercress is easy too. Plus others. Also fish if available. I make jerky and snack sausages from venison.

Good ideas. Thanks.

I think you missed honey..... good video!

Excellent info. Thankyou!

Thank you...

There are small oil pumps available which reduce the carry weight and possible spillage of oils, lentils are full of nutrients as well and are low cost. This is a really informative video with many alternative options. Powdered milk or Coffemate works and consider small packets of honey or sauces. The navajo blankets work well to keep a person warm as does the new battery operated clothing of today. A small tarp is sufficient and reduces carrying weight by more than half. A well packed pack could only weigh 3-5 lbs at best with food and other items for a few days.

A good quality summer sausage goes really well with a lot of the items on your very comprehensive list. Also, powdered cheddar cheese goes well with the refried beans and tortillas, which are also favorites of mine.

Great no nonsense vid

Instant pastachio pudding using powdered milk

Thanks!

If you have a Korean/Japanese supermarket near you you should have a good look in it, they have some great retort pouch stuff that is very well priced as well as freeze dried items such as soups etc... :)

Refried beans, instant rice, cheese, seasoning and corn chips.!

Great video

I watched the whole thing and some good takeaways…

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Didn't hear Salami or Pepperoni, I bring a block of Extra Sharp Cheddar or Parmesan and have Salami & Cheese for supper.

I can't imagine taking the time to cook something like pancakes and clean up the mess after while backpacking haha

Is this the guy who does cafe bike videos called RACER TV?

Cheese whiz in a spray can.

For short trips, i would maybe bring some home made protein bars. It is cheap and easy to make - and just a single bite size piece have a *surprising* amount of energy and nutrients! Grind up your favorite nuts in a blender (coarse or fine), add some protein powder, cocoa powder, and maybe some cranberries, and mix everything. Then add enough raw honey (maybe mixed with olive oil if its too hard) to mix it with the dry ingredients so it sticks together (it did *not* taste like honey when i made it). Work it to a smooth consistent dough, spread it on a piece of baking paper, and push it down to a compact mass about an inch thick. Put in the fridge for maybe half an hour, and cut into 1 square inch pieces. Im not really sure how long they last outside the fridge, but im guessing it should be good for a day or 2 if packed in saran wrap. For longer trips, id get some freeze dried caseroles or soups with instant mashed potatoes, bread, or maybe a mix of rice, beans, lentils, and qinoa. Im also planning to get a dehydrator, so i can make my own dried mincemeat and other foods. Unflavored whey protein shake tastes like milk mixed with water (if you only only mix it with water), and it *can* be used for a protein rich cereal. I have never tried dry milk, but im guessing it would be better to mix the whey protein with dry milk to improve the flavor... I like to get the unflavored type, and just add cocoa powder or other flavors myself (the flavored ones usually have artificial sweeteners in them). No sugar for me though. I have had enough toothakes from sweets in my life, and getting new teeth at the dentist is *expensive* (i got 2 already - and it should have been 4)...

Don't stack rocks.

Zatarans jambalaya mix with summer sausage

I love MRE, i know i know but they a cheaper, compact, and high on carbs

There are backpackers on low carb diets? Legit question

Is this like a very long and complex donation on Twitch? PepeLaugh

Good video. Way to move it along without a lot of extra chatter, promotions, and unneeded, graphics, and sound effects.

Cliff bars are like eating cardboard... I found, go to Walmart, and NOT in the healthfood, but pharmacy dept, a bar w/ 30 grams... I forget the name of it.

Prepared noodles are pretty heavy and not good for long term hiking

This voice is the stuff of nightmares

dude, you forgot ramen !

Good video, but did you have to record the narration in the 1950s?

No honey?

Not bad music video.you should try making a education video. When you combine them you louse both.

That music was too loud and feckin horrible but still a great video

Is this narration for real ? WTF !

Learn to pronounce pasta.

Sorry , the fake narration in the phoney British accent too annoying to listen to.

Hmm...robot voice much