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

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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!!

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

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.

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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

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.

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. ❤

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.

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.

Good video, thank you. For those with dairy intolerance, here's a trick for making porridge without milk: I take rolled oats and run them through a flaker again. If you don't have a flaker, you can use a blender to get smaller flakes and some oat flour, which will make the porridge creamier (as if it contained milk). But don't leave them in the blender too long, or you'll end up with nothing but flour. Then process the flakes and other ingredients as usual. Enjoy your meal 😊

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!

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

Always looking for new meal ideas, thank you!!

A great way to help keep cold foods (cheese, eggs, etc.) cold is to store them in your cozy which will keep them cooler longer. You can also freeze a water bottle and put it in with your cold food.

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