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My Year of Lentils: A Survey of Packaged Vegetarian and Vegan Backpacking Meals (Gear Guide)

Mar 30, 2021 by Andrew Marshall

Small and mid-sized companies are making increasingly delicious vegan and vegetarian backpacking food. This gear guide covers meals from six of those companies.

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CS Instant Coffee Review

Oct 2, 2020 by Andrew Marshall

CS Instant Coffee is a small instant coffee product designed to compete with Starbucks Via and other popular backcountry coffee solutions.

coffee, food

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Fozzils Foldable Dishware: Useful or Not?

Jul 24, 2020 by Emylene VanderVelden

Fozzils Solo Pack dishware is a unique, folding, ultralight, compact set of dishes which at first blush are a luxury-seeking, ultralight backpackers dream. But we ran into problems when testing them with hot liquids.

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How to Dehydrate Food for Backpacking

Jul 3, 2020 by Drew Smith

The best backcountry meals are the ones you prepare yourself. In this article, I will tell you why and how to dehydrate food for backpacking.

Dehydrated Food, dehydration, food, food and nutrition, meals

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