The Food
To survive in the backcountry, you must obtain energy from the food you eat. The best backpacking food is lightweight, tasty, calorie-packed, healthy, and quick cooking.
On hikes lasting more than a few miles, you need wholesome meals other than top ramen to give you proper nutrition and energy. We provide you with backpacking meal recipes that are healthy, simple to put together, but gourmet enough to give you a little excitement! Your diet and food preparation are different while you backpack compared to in your nice, clean kitchen. Our backpacking cooking articles teach backpackers how to adjust their cooking and food options for the outdoors.
Backpacking Meal Recipes
Making your own backpacking meals is a great option compared to buying expensive freeze-dried meals. Many backpacking recipes consist of less expensive, basic foods you can find at most grocery stores, such as water, dried milk, rice, or pasta.
Wild Backpacker has a large collection of backpacking recipes, most of which can be done in just a zip lock freezer bag, marked in the top right with FB, or one small pot, marked with OP.
Backpacking Food Articles
Cooking and eating food in the backcountry is so different from in your kitchen. You learn how valuable a clean counter or any size of pot you could want. The goal of providing these cooking and food articles for when you are backpacking are to make it as easy as possible for you. 
Did you know that you have to adjust your cooking time based on your altitude? Which energy bars have the most calories per gram? If you got stranded in the forest ,would you know what plants are edible? Do you understand the difference between freeze-dried and dehydrated foods?
