My backpacking trips tend to involve two markedly different approaches to eating. If I’m backpacking alone, I favor dehydrated camping meals (usually Firepot Mac n’ Greens) that I can whip up quickly ...

If sliced bread was a clever invention, dehydrated meals are genius. Lightweight, compact, long-lasting, and high in energy, all of the meals listed below can be prepared by simply adding hot water.

Trying to work out what to take food-wise on a camping trip and how to keep it edible can be overwhelming. Even more so when you're looking at stays longer than a few days or when you're hiking into a ...

If you've got a camping trip coming up, or you're preparing your emergency kit for the big weather season (like cyclones in the Northern Territory), dehydration might be the key to preventing ...

Adam Roy is the executive editor of Backpacker. He lives in Colorado’s Front Range, where he spends his free time hiking, climbing, and running his home mountains. I’m a former professional chef and ...

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Can meals made in a pouch taste great and also be considered healthy? A taste test and nutritional breakdown of just-add-water dehydrated meals. As a huge proponent of eating something fresh at every ...