Backpacking Cookbooks - Vegetarian, Raw and Hydrated Meals

admin March 22, 2008

Check Back Here Often! We continually find new cookbooks & resources with ideas on preparing, packing and finding trail foods that are ready for your long distance trek.

New Additions

  • Backpacking Cookbooks - 8 great books to get you up to speed on technique, packing & great tasting food on the trail.

    • - Added 3/19/08

  • Vegetarian Backpacking Cookbook! - 150 trail-tested recipes, the meat-free sequel to the best-selling Lipsmackin’ Backpackin’

    • - Added 3/19/08

Cookbook Categories

  • Backpacking Cookbooks
  • Vegetarian Backpacking Cookbooks
  • Food Dehydration
  • Eating Raw
  • Foraging, Wild Berries and Mushroom Hunting



    • Backpacking Cookbooks

    Trail Food: Drying and Cooking Food for Backpacking and Paddling
    “Very good little book!”
    “More helpful than a barrel of jerky”
    “Fantastic for backpacking meals…”

    Simple Foods for the Pack: More than 180 all-natural, trail-tested recipes (Sierra Club Outdoor Adventure Guides)
    “Used for BSA backpacking…”
    “Anyone planning a wilderness trip should read Simple Foods for the Pack.”

    Making & Using Dried Foods
    “Similarities to previous out of print Garden Way Book”
    “If you want methods buy this book”
    “This book is great. Very informative.”

    Lipsmackin’ Backpackin’: Lightweight Trail-tested Recipes for Backcountry Trips
    Not Just for Backpacking, Truly Lipsmacking Recipes!
    From bland to BAM! (to borrow from Emeril)
    Make sure you have a dehydrator

    Freezer Bag Cooking: Trail Food Made Simple
    “Excellent resource for the ultralight backpacker!”
    “Tasty backpack food for for less.”
    a good start

    The Well-Fed Backpacker
    “June’s Recipes are Incredible”
    “Well-fed”
    “Very good, basic guide to backpacking cooking”

    Simple Foods for the Pack: More than 180 all-natural, trail-tested recipes
    “Used for BSA backpacking”

    Backcountry Cooking: Feasts for Hikers, Hoofers, and Floaters
    “I reviewed this book and found it fantastic…”
    “Expedition cooking….”
    “This book was a brilliant work of art.”
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    Vegetarian Backpacking Cookbooks

    Lipsmackin’ Vegetarian Backpackin’
    “Vegitarian Backpacking Cooking Bible”
    “Another former Marine Vegetarian”
    “Great book for trail food and not just for vegetarians!”
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    Food Dehydration

    How to Dry Foods
    “The only dehydrator book that you’ll need!!!”
    “Beyond banana chips and beef jerky….”
    “This is the best reference for drying foods on the market”

    Making & Using Dried Foods
    “Similarities to previous out of print Garden Way Book”
    “Awesome”
    “Compare to How to Dry Foods”

    Eating Raw

    Raw Food Made Easy For 1 or 2 People
    “Delicious recipes– you don’t have to be a raw foodist to enjoy them, either”
    “A quick-start manual for raw foods”
    “FINALLY, a realistic raw foods book!”

    The Raw Food Primer
    “Enticing Raw Foods”
    “Fantastic Foods for All”
    “this book is an absolute joy”

    Rainbow Green Live-Food Cuisine
    “These are the best recipes”
    “Most up-to-date and insightful live-food book available”
    “The Best Program in Raw Foodism”
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    Foraging, Wild Berries and Mushroom Hunting

    A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants:
    “How To Eat Nature,”
    “Up to the usual Peterson Field Guides standards”
    “Excellent book for identifying wild edibles.”

    The Forager’s Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants
    “The best available book on edible plants!”
    “Excellent Source for Information on a few plants…”
    “The BEST book for a beginner”
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    Don’t want to mess with cooking on the trail? Going for a short hike? Packaged backpacking meals are perfect if you are planning a busy day, looking for a lightweight solution for a short hike or want something different on a long distance hike.

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