Personal Menu Planner
This is designed to aid a new backpacker in creating a tasty menu on the trail.
Foods should require no refrigeration, their weight needs to be minimal, and they should bring big flavor.
This book is more of a guide for the new backpacker, it is not a recipe collection because we all eat different, like different things, and our budgets span a rather large range.
Personal cooking, is, well, personal.
There are things you can eat every day that others may not want once.
But personal cooking in the woods, on a trail for a week, needs to be nutritious, tasty, unique, and easy. It also needs to have minimal cleanup.
So, hike the trail with me to learn the skill – or formula – of personal backcountry cooking, and discover the creativity within yourself to be a five-star trail chef, at least in your own mind.
This is designed to aid a new backpacker in creating a tasty menu on the trail.
Foods should require no refrigeration, their weight needs to be minimal, and they should bring big flavor.
This book is more of a guide for the new backpacker, it is not a recipe collection because we all eat different, like different things, and our budgets span a rather large range.
Personal cooking, is, well, personal.
There are things you can eat every day that others may not want once.
But personal cooking in the woods, on a trail for a week, needs to be nutritious, tasty, unique, and easy. It also needs to have minimal cleanup.
So, hike the trail with me to learn the skill – or formula – of personal backcountry cooking, and discover the creativity within yourself to be a five-star trail chef, at least in your own mind.
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