We can all find dehydrated onions, but what about dehydrated carrots or cabbage? Make sure that your backcountry chef has what they need.
The Harmony House Backpacking Kit is a collection of eighteen packages of different kinds of freeze-dried vegetables. Each package is one cup of freeze-dried vegetables in a zip-lock bag. The kit is about $50 from most sources.
I got this for Christmas a few years ago and it has been great. Whenever I want to make a backpacking meal, I just dip into the backpacking pantry.
Here is the list of the vegetables in the kit, each item is one cup of freeze-dried veg:
- Carrots (2)
- Diced Potatoes (2)
- Green Peas (2)
- Tomato Dices
- Sweet Celery
- Cut Green Beans
- Sweet Corn
- Green Cabbage
- Mixed Red & Green Peppers
- Chopped Onions
- Black Beans
- Northern Beans
- Lentils
- Red Beans
- Pinto Beans
The perfect companion to this gift is a backpacking cookbook. I recommend Trail Cooking by Sarah Kirkconnell and The Back-Country Kitchen by Teresa Marrone. The first is focused on backpacking meals, the other covers the full spectrum from backpacking to cabin cuisine. Might as well get both, I can’t choose.
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