My Favorite GROCERY STORE BACKPACKING FOOD | Cheap & Easy Backpacking Meal Ideas

My Favorite GROCERY STORE BACKPACKING FOOD | Cheap & Easy Backpacking Meal Ideas // In this video, I’m featuring some of my new favorite Cheap & Easy Backpacking Meal Ideas (and a couple of my classic favorites with some new additions) you can put together from the grocery store for your next backpacking trip.

I’ll show you a few breakfast options as well as a few lunch and dinner options. I’ll share with you how many calories there are per serving and what the price per serving is for each meal. I’ll also show you how I make each of these meals and how you can cook them in either a Freezer Ziplock bag and other reusable food storage containers without having to dirty your backpacking pot when out on trail.

I’ll also share with you a few of my favorite pro tips to help make your backpacking meals out on trail cheap and easy.

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[nancyst.john-smith]

The silicone bags are much healthier to cook in. As a Girl Scout employee I reached out to Ziploc to ask about the safety of cooking with boiling water using their bags. They answered me saying that they don’t recommend using the storage bags or the freezer bags as the plasticizers are not heat stable. When they are released into food they can become hormone disrupters. Nylon bags are safe at higher temperatures. There are steamer bags made to be microwaved and are heat stable, as is silicone.
I love your videos!!

[candacetoms]

I knew hoarding all of those single serve sauce packets would come in handy! The bbq mac and cheese looks so tasty!

[iwantcheesypuffs]

My "food cozy" is a used Doritos bag. Simple and effective. I just nest one inside the other and pa-bam -- works like a charm. Great recipies! Thanks for sharing.

[dankingjr.]

Always interesting to me how many people don't think about simple grocery store items for backpacking, and buy $13 "backpacking meals" instead. Cool video.

[weswalkerstring]

Great ideas. I am going to use some of them. One thing I have learned to do is dehydrate my cheese. You have to use the lowest setting on your dehydrator, or it will melt and all of the oil will run out. Better yet, slice it, put on racks and set it outside (if the humidity is low) or put a fan on it. Saves about 30% on weight, and increases the longevity of the cheese on the trail.

[georgesouthwick]

One of my favorites is instant cheese grits with cooked bacon bits.

[RileyOutside]

As a Canadian, I really want the selection your grocery stores have for this type of food!

[ep]

I’m so excited about these meal ideas! I RELIGIOUSLY watched your grocery store food videos when I went on my first backpacking trip and has some delicious meals out on trail. So excited to try the berry cobbler, protein shake and pad thai this year!

[NewHampshireJack]

Thank you for a superior video. In a tad over thirteen minutes, you have presented a library of great camping and emergency meal ideas. We have to search for many products here in the Philippines and do a lot of substitutions. When Beautiful Bride and I got together, she brought three wonderful young troops to our marriage. One of the first things we discovered was how much her kids enjoyed some of my healthy camp meal concoctions. When Mom is busy with a work assignment, it is a true pleasure for me to receive a sudden request. "Dad, can you make camp meal #3 (or any of the full selection), I am hungry." The troops are learning to do all of what I do on their own. That independence makes Mom a little sad, they are growing up. I agree but I also love the idea our troops are better prepared to get past bad situations in life. Thank you for sharing your ideas, maybe we will see you on the trail one day. You have earned a new subscriber and we will whack that like button.

[timp]

Fresh snap peas seem to travel well and might be cheaper than the freeze dried vegies.

[nonservitium]

I'd absolutely love to see a dollar store and Walmart series!

[aimeezzz]

The thanksgiving meal-WOW! My mind is blown as it is a genius concoction! Thanks for all these great meal ideas...gonna give a handful of them a try on my next trip. Appreciate all the links as well.

[scotttoner]

Great set of videos and information… and very well presented. Two suggestion to pass along. 1) when you are going to add powdered milk (or berries or seeds, etc., ) to oats anyway, add it in the oats prior to bagging/ mixing —- less baggies to carry and dispose of. One pot shop 😊. 2) consider making a cozy for your pot — mix the food in that and rehydrate/ eat from that instead of another baggy. Yes, need to rinse pot, but easier to eat and less plastic waste.

[frankschmidt]

Winco is a fantastic and cheap store that has a great bulk department to buy all kinds of dried foods for hiking or whatever 👍🏻

[cargirl]

Always looking for new meal ideas, thank you!!

[memathews]

This video has some solid gold suggestions! I'll be happy eating good food on trail all spring and summer. And, yes on the cheese and prepared meats, these last a few days with minimal care of avoiding sun and heat (double bagged and wrapped in a puffy or sleeping bag), I've been doing this for decades without poor results.

[jordanlineger-ndgz]

Excellent ideas.

I am making a cozy & doing some breakfast stuff for sure

[sjferguson]

I'm researching ideas for a big camping trip coming up and we are crazy limited on space in the vehicle so I thought backpacking type meals would be perfect to save on space. This video really helped me think about camping food in a different light. With all my kids grown I don't have to eat at camp like I used to when I had a bunch of kids to feed. These give me really great ideas. ❤

[paulbier]

This channel is top tier food ideas on the trail. I hike east of the Mississippi and I absolutely love her ideas for back country nutrition. I first started off buying mountain house meals and that sort of thing and they're okay, but I found that the ideas I get from you are far more tasty. Thanks!

[jackiamato]

What a great idea using the Cnoc bag for cooking your noodles/pasta. Saves on future waste. Great video, thanks for creating.