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Homemade Backpacking Meal: Mashed Sweet Potatos

Homemade Backpacking Meal: Mashed Sweet Potatoes with Green Beans
Mashed Sweet Potatoes with Green Beans

For the last few years, I have been making homemade backpacking meals. When you backpack every weekend, $8 store-bought meals get pretty expensive. I like doing this because I can control the ingredients and the results taste better than pre-packaged meals. Some of my recipes are really simple and others are a bit more complex, but they are all fun to make.  One of my favorites is mashed sweet potatoes. Continue reading Homemade Backpacking Meal: Mashed Sweet Potatos

Paleo Beef Jerky Recipe

paleo beef jerky

Paleo Beef Jerky

One of my favorite snacks while backpacking is paleo beef jerky.  It stays fresh for days without refrigeration, tastes great, and provides the protein you need to keep moving.  Unfortunately, most store-bought jerky is loaded with corn, wheat, soy, sugar, and artificial preservatives.  Follow this easy recipe for making your own delicious, healthy snack! Continue reading Paleo Beef Jerky Recipe

Dutch Oven Cooking: Camp Culinary Delight

Paul demonstrating his expertise at Dutch Oven Cooking.
Paul preparing dinner on the dutch in a dutch oven.

Every year I go on two or three car-camping or base-camping trips with friends, and I always find that I’d like to contribute more to cooking on these trips.  When I was younger, my father always talked about cooking in the Dutch Oven on scout trips, but he never showed me how to use one.  Two years ago, I borrowed one of his old rusty Dutch Ovens, and refurbished it, then tried using it on a camping trip in the Adirondacks. The results mixed, but I wanted to keep trying, and it is still a work in progress. Here is what I have learned so far about Dutch Oven Cooking

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