The Ultimate Guide to Dehydrating Food for the Trail
Available in Print or E-book Formats.
In Recipes for Adventure: Healthy, Hearty & Homemade Backpacking Recipes, I show you how to dehydrate a wide variety of healthy food and how to create backpacking meals for your next adventure. Homemade trail meals are easy to prepare and memorably delicious.
- Step-by-step instructions with over 200 full-color photos.
- Over 75 backpacking recipes for meals, snacks and desserts.
- Create unlimited variations of the recipes by interchanging different meats and vegetables.
- Dehydrate fruits, vegetables, meats, scrambled eggs and more.
- Dehydrate potatoes, beans and corn into bark, my “secret” ingredient in flavorful and saucy backpacking meals.
- Comfortably carry a week’s worth of dried meals securely with well-organized food packing techniques.
- Cook trail meals with nothing more than a small pot, stove and spoon.
Breakfasts
Scrambled Eggs with Ham & Cheese, Sweet Potato Bark Porridge, Pizza Grits and more…
Lunches
Fish & Chips Chowder, Ratatouille, BBQ Bean Bark Stew, Taco Mac & Cheese and more…
Dinners
Chicken Cacciatore, Beef & Bean Chili, Spicy Shrimp Chowder, Mexican Beef & Rice, Kickin Veggie Mac & Cheese, Seafood Raminara, Unstuffed Peppers, Easy Cheesy Rice & Beans and more…
Sides
Peas & Carrots, Cheddar Mashed Potatoes, Fruit co*cktail, Mashed Sweet Potatoes and more…
Desserts
Banana-Mango Pudding, Rice Pudding, Pineapple Upside Down Cake and more…
Snacks
Dried Fruit, Sweet Potato Bark, Pumpkin Pie Bark, and more…
The E-book:
Purchase Recipes for Adventure as an e-book and you will immediately receive it as a PDF download. Save it so you can refer to it whenever you need it.
The e-book can be viewed on computers and mobile devices using the free Adobe Reader apps.
Photos are always on the left-hand pages and instructions and recipes are on the right-hand pages. Viewing it with two pages on the screen gives you the complete picture. Print out recipes as needed.
Navigate the e-book easily with the clickable Table of Contents.
Above: 2-page view of e-book on computer screen.
The Print Edition:
The Print Edition has the same content and color photos as the e-book.
The page size (8½ x 11) is twice the size of the e-book pages, so more content is printed on each page.
Colorful design elements define the sections.
“I made the Root Bark Stew. AMAZING! I had no idea I could dehydratethis kind of stuff. “Wet” stuff. You opened my eyes to a whole newworld.” –DS
"I just started reading through Recipes for Adventure and I LOVE IT!You've already answered so many questions for me, many that I didn'teven know I had. Thanks so much for a great resource." –Katie
“Just a quick note, IT'S AWESOME! Looks great, worth the wait.” –RP
“This is fantastic! Thank you for all the hard work.” –SC
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More Reader Comments:
"I just wanted to thank you again for your wonderful book. Your recipes and methods for making meals have become very popular amongst my kayaking and hiking friends. I have been asked to put together food for several trips and the requests keep coming in. The book is easy to follow and the pictures always match what I make. I recommend your book to everyone. My absolute favorite meal is the ramen noodles and kraut. I was just loading my Excalibur with a load of polenta eggs for my famous breakfast egg burritos and just had to "call" to say thanks." -Debbie
"I cannot thank you enough for assembling such a terrific volume of information! Your notes have already completely changed the way my husband and I camp and hike. Our new dream now is to experiment with long distance sailing so this information will be extremely useful for that activity as well. The book is very complete, thoughtfully organized, and wonderfully detailed." –Kellie
"Just a big thank you for all the work you do to keep the vision going. I bought your book right away and it simply is the BEST food resource available for the backpacker and home cook for that matter. I bought a motorcycle last September and the Son-In Law and I are going to spend a few days camping off the bikes this summer and definitely will take my dehydrated meals along." –Mark
"I've done some extensive camping in several states, Canada andSouth America, as well as canoeing the boundary waters. Preparing,storing and packing food is always a challenge. You have THE BEST tips,guides, recipes, etc, I've ever seen. My future trips will besignificantly more enjoyable from now on because of what you've put outhere. AWESOME job!" –Harold
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Reader Reviews
“I am a lover of the outdoors but new to ultra light activities –kayaking Voyageurs National Park, canoeing the BWCA, hiking the GrandCanyon. Your ingenious tips for dehydration, packaging and recipes haveenhanced and improved my experience tremendously.” – KW
“I purchased this book a month before my first backpackingtrip. My biggest concern about backpacking was having to eat unhealthy, over-processed preservative laden backpacking food. Even the organic brand I foundhad maltodextrin in it. After reading Chef Glenn's book and understanding howeasy (and FUN) it would be to make my own, I purchased an Excaliber 9-traydehydrator, some silicone tray liners (for making 'barks'), healthyingredients, and went to work. What I loved about this book was the informationand tips he provided to convert your own favorite recipes into trail meals. Anexample of this would be dehydrating chicken meat. The rehydrated results aretough and chewy, but using canned chicken, because it has been pressure-cookedworks great. I have to say, I am not a fan of canned anything, but when I foundcanned cage-free organic chicken, so I experimented with my favorite white beanchili (my recipe). The results were awesome.
One last thought: while reading this book it became veryapparent that Chef Glenn's mission is about sharing his passion for deliciousfood and combining that with his passion for the outdoors. I am grateful forthe time he invested in creating a useful resource. This is so much more than acookbook.” –MJ
“I like to KNOW what is in my food. Your descriptions and photos arePERFECT for me. I feel much better about my upcoming 50-mile hike withthe scouts.” – MS
“This book is all you need to start on your dehydratingjourney. Much of the information is available online at various places, but Ilike the convenient all in one place format. Glenn recommends starting well inadvance of a trip, but I didn't know that and found myself running thedehydrator 24 hours a day for about a week, plus dehydrating some food in myoven. Long story short, once you start dehydrating your own camping meals, youwill never go back. We've been home a week and are still eating some dehydratedmeals to finish up. The food has been dehydrated for 30 or more days now and isstill in great shape. I can see eating more of this food even when car camping asit makes cooking fast and easier. The bean bark recipe worked great as a staplefor many mixtures, next time I will do the same with a mashed potato for stews.Also, chicken worked great -- we pressure cooked in the instant pot thendehydrated. Can't recommend making your own food highly enough.” –NG
“I bought this book after finding Chef Glenn`s website whilelooking for tips for dehydrating food for my bug out bag. I wanted alternativesto the expensive store bought dehydrated meals. I found myself constantly goingback to his website to get more info when I saw the book advertised. It`s greatnot having to log onto the computer for every little question I have. The bookis very comprehensive from buying a dehydrator, dehydrating meals, storage, andre-hydrating food. I`ve put it into practice in my everyday meal preperationwith Mason jars of dehydrated vegetables and rice in Mason jars on my counterjust waiting to be tossed into soup, or, with just a few minutes in water, anyrecipe I need. It has really decreased my meal prep time. Since I eat 6 times aday, this is huge for me. I`ve shown the book to a co-worker who vacations inan RV with his wife. They were so excited about using dehydrated meals on theirvacations, they went out and bought a dehydrator.” SJ
“The author of this book is obviously well organized,industrious, hard working, adventurous and health conscious. He is not afraidto take up a challenge on the trail or in the kitchen. The activities hesuggests in this book require some organization and diligence, but the resultis nourishing, healthy, satisfying food that will not spoil. I am not hiking orbackpacking these days, but after reading this book, I now have new ways ofreducing food waste in my home kitchen. Wasting food is a waste of money andresources, and this book gives lots of ideas on how to dehydrate food forprolonged storage and how to use it. It is obvious that the author has preparedall of these recipes and that they are tried and true, he provides tips and hasfigured out ways to ensure that the rehydrated foods taste good, I appreciatethis. Thank you Chef Glenn for allowing others to benefit from your devotionand diligence in the kitchen.” –MG
“This has to be one of my all time best resourcebooks. I would call this a manual for dehydrating. It is packed full of goodusable quality information. The first section covers dehydrating meats,assortment of veggies, and fruit. It discusses those items being dehydratedfresh or a can or previously frozen or jarred. Then it goes on coveringdehydrating starchy veggies to make "bark", which is veryinteresting. This resource covers how to assemble different type meals forbreakfast, lunch and dinner, and dessert. The author lightly touches on how toprep and package the meals, trail cooking, and cookware. The book was easy toread and follow. If you’re in to dehydrating in general and want to know moreabout dehydrating I would recommend this book. Now if your an outdoorsman oroutdoorswomen this is a must read if you bring your meals with you on youradventures.” –AC
