Delicious lightweight backpacking breakfast ideas and recipes to satisfy your needs whether you prefer a grab-and-go or a sit-down brekky, hot or cold, sweet or savoury, home-made/assembled or commercial.

The unlucky folk who can happily survive on pretty much nothing but muesli bars and scroggin day after day after day can skip this and all the rest of our cooking posts! Otherwise read on!

It’s not rocket science: if you can cook a basic curry, stew, rice or pasta, you can create a dehydrated meal! Here’s one proven simple way.

Dehydrated food is a way of eating on hiking trips where all you do is boil water to pour into your dehydrated meal. By the time you finish setting up the tent, dinner is ready. You can buy commercial dehydrated meals, but your own are way better.

Yes it is possible to have cost effective, delish meals with serving sizes to match your appetite. Here’s how.

Not all of us like to cook! Here are tips and short cuts for non-cooks on how to create dehydrated meals for the track.

You’ve made your delicious meal at home, and now it’s ready to enjoy in camp. Here’s some tips to how make it easier and maximise the flavour.

Meal preparation, logistics, resupply and food storage are all critical for a successful and enjoyable long-distance trek. We use the 1000-kilometre Bibbulmun Track as a case study to demonstrate how to do it.

Two minute noodles, instant noodles or instant ramen… whatever you call them, they are light, cheap, compact, shelf-stable, delicious, readily available, convenient and easy to prepare: perfect hiker fare! Just swap those flavour sachets for condiments, and add protein and veg for quick, tasty and healthier instant noodle meals in camp.