Dehydrating your own hiking food | DIY meals for backpacking camping | Beef jerky, bolognaise, dahl
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I love making my own food for hiking trips and I love being ultralight. I aim to carry 750g food per day on longer hikes and dehydrating your own food can really help drop the weight.
If you would prefer to purchase your meals I recommend bit.ly/390J06H
I demonstrate how I dehydrate meals for on the trail. I show you exactly how to dehydrate your own backpacking food including cooking, loading the dehydrator, packaging, and eating.
One of my subscribers requested I do a video on dehydrated backpacking recipes. Im so excited to share this one with you. These are my main go to meals for hiking, camping, and backpacking.
These meals are lightweight and absolutely delicious
I've got into this through a bit of trial and error - I recommend checking out a group on Facebook where I learnt a lot its called dehydrating devas and dudes / 937950979564072
In this video I make
00:41 dahl
5:47 beef jerky
9:30 bolognese
14:24 tomato wagon wheels
15:14 Load the dehydrator
17:32 After dehydration
18:34 1kg beef = 263g
18:57 2kg veg = 236g
19:37 Tomato wagon wheels = 46g
20:23 bolognese 3 meals = 187g
22:23 Dahl 2 serve = 175g
23:15 Full food overview
Recipes
DAHL (9 meals)
- 2 big chinks butter
- 2 big brown onions
- Head garlic
- 2 table spoons of grated ginger
- 2 teaspoons cumin seeds
- 2 teaspoons turmeric
- 2 teaspoons chilli flakes
- 3 tins tomatoes
- 3 cups red lentils (wash and put on boil with about 2cm water covering lentils - add a stock cube)
Mix together
- 3 big dollops of greek yoghurt
Eat - blend (don’t have to) and dehydrate
BEEF JERKY
I copy a recipe from a website I found a few years back, it has some good beef jerky recipes (I have no affiliation with them just some cool base recipes for beef jerky). Google kooee snacks beef jerky.
Base
- 1kg lean beef
- 1/2 cup soy sauce
- Shot of apple cider vinegar
- Garlic
- Chilli
- Worcestershire sauce 15-20 squirts
- Coriander hot sauce (or other yummy flavours)
- paprika
- Ground cumin
- Good dollop of honey
BOLOGNESE
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- 2 large onion
- Lots garlic
Fry up
- 3 large carrot - diced
- 4 Celery sticks - diced
- 4 grates of nutmeg
- Chilli flakes
- Fresh herbs (basil, rosemary, parsley)
- Half jar of olives
- Half jar capers (chopped)
- 2 tins tomatoes
- 2-3 table spoons tomato paste
- Good splash red wine
- 500g lean beef mince (1/2 cup breadcrumbs) - drain off fat
Cook for 2-3 hours low heat
TOMATO WAGON WHEELS
Slice tomatoes 8mm sprinkle with salt pepper and oregano
VEGETABLES
Frozen veg from supermarket
Chuck on tray and dehydrate - Zábava
Hey all thanks for the love - if home cooking isn't your vibe I highly recommend Radix - its a NZ brand and its delicious bit.ly/390J06H
Thank you so much for posting this. It's so hard to find vegan/vegetarian/pescatarian dehydrated meals. You have given me sooooo many ideas. I love all your videos. Your bubbly personality shines through and your wealth of information means I can watch them for hours. Well done!
You are so welcome! Thanks for watching and commenting. I found Radix nutrition is a good hiking food that caters to a lot of dietary things - they gave me a discount code is you are interested KATEG5 for 5% off au.radixnutrition.com/pages/_go_?ref=5716:118730&discount=KATEG5
its actually yummy and dosen't upset my tummy
Love dehydrating and vacuum sealing my own food. But I love your fun personality even more! Great food ideas! We are all in need of new ideas of food to take out on the trail. Especially healthy food!
haha so good mate thanks a lot. Totally I love a good refresh of inspiration. Happy hiking and dehydrating
Really interesting videos. I am a climber and alpinist. It is great that you prepare your own food. Keep up the good work.
Thanks mate. Been a bit lazy in the food prep lately but it’s worth it. Cheers
Tried the dhal recipe today (dialled down the chilli a bit for the kids) and was a total winner! Thank you :)
Oh so cool. I’ll let Elsie know. So good to hear
I was totally chuffed to watch this and your lovely acknowledgement. Seems Rachel and I watched this on the same night. Would never have thought to add those breadcrumbs to the bolognaise, but makes total sense. Such great food and free of all the nasties that can trigger my allergies, that get put into those commercial hike foods. I reckon my mum's chop suey recipe will also dehydrate a treat. That two step separate meat cooking part to remove any fat was a great tip. Again would never have thought to do that. As for thise tomatoes..... YUM. A huge thank you for this and all your other inspiring hiking videos. They are so informative and bring pleasure just watching them!
FIONA! thanks so much - and thanks again for encouraging me to do this one it was rather fun. Happy hiking and best of luck with the Dehydrating. cheers mate
Awesome stuff Kate, you have dramatically simplified my re-hydration process(I was dehydrating meat, sauce and pasts separately and beginning hydration first thing in the morning.). Thank you for sharing and for your great channel!
Thanks a lot. So happy I can help. Best of luck and happy hiking
Great tips and demonstration! You’ve inspired me to try some new dehydrating! I’ve never had Dahl before… looks great for the trip. I’m also going to try the tomatoes and beef jerkey. I’ve done vegetables and applesauce before. Plus we’ve dehydrated salsa for a Mexican combo over meat and rice. Thanks Kate! 👍👌Like!
Thanks so much Jennifer. So lovely to hear. Best of luck and let me know how you go. Cheers Kate
Thank you Kate !! I will be making your Dahl for sure!
Oh so good to hear - its so delicious
Made both the Dahl and the Bol over the last week and both me and my hiking partner love them so they will become our meals on a hopefully upcoming 2 week section of the AAWT. the only thing I did differently was to add cooked pasta spirals before dehydrating.
Thanks again Kate.
Amazing this is so exciting. Be sure to tag/ send me a pic of them In action
@@KateGrarock oh and I didn't blend the dahl
@@adriaanhomburg3348 haha should be fine. It looks so good
Hello Kate from Cleveland Ohio USA! I just came across your channel about 15 min ago for the first time. I am a gourmet cook, and loved your video about hydrating dahl, jerky and tomatoes! I am so grateful I happened across this! I recently bought a $50 dehydrator. Am rather new to dehydrating. I have been successful with dehydrating single food items, and I backpack. I have dehydrated wild mushrooms that I forage, onions, garlic, zuchini, but not tried yet anything comprehensive in my dehydrator to date. I am so excited to try your dahl and jerky recipes, this weekend I hope! Thank you for an easy video to watch. It was very calming and informative. I just subscribed. I look forward to watching everything else you videoed. I hope you continue your channel!
Amazing thanks so much hope you like the recipes. Sing out if you have any tweaks. Cheers
Yum! Dahl! Fiona will be so chuffed!! Thanks for sharing!!!
Hope you enjoy mate. Thanks for watching.
Nice Kate! We love dehydrating our meals but haven't built up the confidence to use them past day 4. I think we need to invest in a better dehydrator and a vacuum sealer. Thanks for all the tips
Oh so cool - yes it took me a bit to trust it. The one joy is you can really smell it when it starts to go bad. But yep you don't want that to happen day 5 of a 10 day hike. I just built confidence slowly and was amazed at how long this stuff lasts. Happy hiking and dehydrating
Awesome info, thanks for sharing! Cool to see what you’re up to!!
Thanks for watching. Hope to get back out on the trail soon
That all looks delicious! I only started doing this myself, but the food you make yourself is a lot better then the once you buy! 😋 Good one Kate! ATB Kaat
So true! thanks mate happy hiking and dehydrating
Looks great, very creative, will try them out.
Thanks
amazingly good. thank you.
Thanks so much. Happy hiking
I did the spag bol and it tasted great, thank you so much and more recipes videos would be greatly appreciated. Your a proper hardcore trekker....respect.
Oh that’s so good to hear. I’ll let my partner know. She is the creative spirit when it comes to food. Cheers
@@KateGrarock Your parteners recipe is much better than any other recipie that i have got from the many dehydrated recipe books i own. I will try the dahl soon.....thank you so much.
@@MarionDawe so good. The Dahl is amazing. Thanks
Thanks for the tips, great stuff
Glad it was helpful!
You made it look so easy
Haha thanks.
I got one for you guys called peanut fudge, mix one cup honey with one cup peanut butter, then add one cup of powdered milk and one cup of icing sugar, then mix together and form balls about the size of two walnuts or whatever size you like, once balls are formed roll balls in 2 cups of chopped roasted peanuts or you can keep the peanuts whole and roll them with the balls or make square slabs if you like, once done put in fridge for 2 hrs....then vacum or freezer bag them. I have eaten them after two weeks not stored in a fridge with no problem....enjoy.
Thanks will give it a crack. Cheers
A little trick I read when vacumm sealing dehydrated spaghetti, rice etc. Is to line the plastic pocket with paper towel and then seal the food inside that.
The paper stops the sharp pieces piercing the plastic and allowing air in. This seams to work well.
Oh Peter thanks a bunch - I have such trouble with the little buggers popping. Great tip will incorporate it into my routine. Cheers
You can put stuff in a paper bag and fold it over and vacuum seal too. It prevents the pokies.
I liked this video Kate ! , I dehydrate bananas , havent tried much else as yet but will do soon. If you dont have any baking paper on hand, what I do for example when doing the nanas, is put them on for an hour, pull the trays out and turn them and maybe do that once more, I have no sticky probs after that, very keen to try jerky and tomatoes now !
Nice one thanks Dave. I’ll give that a crack. Cheers
Cook wholemeal pasta, add minced meat and gravy granules only (don't add water). Allow granules to melt into the meat/pasta, Add peas. Delicious. ❤
Oh sounds delicious. Will have to try it. Cheers.
Hi, been a follower for ages! (Well before Alone ). Thanks for the recipes and cooking instructions. I'm off on a 7-dayer to Carnarvon Gorge and will be cooking up today and will do dome of your dishes.
Best of luck! This is very exciting. Love that area hope you have a blast and the food is delicious. Thanks a lot for the comment. Let me know how it all goes. Cheers Kate
Thanks mate from uk
My absolute pleasure happy hiking
Great stuff! 👍👍
Thank you! Cheers!
Great info thanks!
Thanks for the comment. Cheers
Dehydrating Made Simple is a another good facebook group.
Brilliant thanks, will check it out
When sautéing veggies garlic goes in last.
I do like it a bit raw
@KateGrarock not trying to be a douche. Onions first.. sweat them until almost clear , add celery and carrots... whatever time till you like texture. Them toss in garlic and heat until you can smell it. Nobody likes burt garlic and nobody complains about well cooked garlic. Props tho
Great as usual. So glad I found you. So helpful.
Thanks mate. Hope you make some great meals
@@KateGrarock Yes, this is so useful. Am starting out with your dahl recipe. Looks great. Found a vegan dehydrated hiking meals company earlier in the day which is within driving distance of where I live here in Canada. So have ordered a package from them. Found your video right afterward. Guaranteed good food at a fraction of the retail price. I am on it!
@@livableincome so good. It’s really nice to enjoy your own food in camp hey. Thanks for your support
@@KateGrarock Absolutely and I am trying to go light now. My back says no now to camping as if we are moving house.
@@livableincome oh yes so nice shaving the grams
I imagine the tomatoes benefit from having delicious jerky marinade dripping onto them.
Hahaha. Very vegetarian
Great vid Thanks! keep on keepin on :)
Thanks mate. Happy hiking
Hi Kate I just tried your tomato wagon wheels very nice extreme tomato flavour
YESSSS so cool how bloody good are they - even with crap tomatoes
You made me Hungry 🤤 watching you make all that 🥘
Haha. Get into it. 😀😀😀
Ummm I instantly went and dehydrated tomatoes , got heaps from the garden and now won't go to waste ! Can't wait to try them ! Fanks
Amazing so god to hear. And nothing beats home grown tomatoes for flavour. So their bad boys will have so much flavour. Hope you love them. Cheers
@@KateGrarock I just had to try one this morning, delicious ! And full of flavour . I will be trying the Dahl , looks like power food ! Thanks again Kate !👍
@@thenewman2656 so great. It’s a winner. Cheers
Hi Kate, enjoy watching you on Alone - both my wife and I hope you won - but we know you can't tell us yet! I was a member of the Canberra Bushwalking Club for years but never came across you as far as I can remember, I've moved down to Melbourne and now do high country walks mostly and occassional ones in the Grampians.
Thanks for the Dahl and the spag bol recipes. Could you advise how much water to add to rehydrate the Bol and Dahl food back to edible? I thought that I would simply weigh the pre-dehydrated food and dehydrated food then calculate the moisture loss then add that much water but recently my spag bol turned out like yukky soup. Demonstrating how to rehydrate (amount and temp of water and techniques) could be a good follow up video?
I'm trying Woolworths 'Textured Vegetable Protein (TVP)' instead of meat for my next overnight walk with some dry lentels and chickpeas with some Indian spices (an attempt to save an animal!)- I'll let you know how that goes - the TVP is already dehydrated so I'll follow the instructions on the pack for that. Again thanks, I really enjoy your videos, and although I've been hiking for many years I always learn something new from them.
amazing
Thanks mate happy hiking
Making me hungry Kate! Do you ever consider using dehydrated cooked rice on the trail?
haha cheers mate. I haven't ever don that - have you? could be yummy. do you know how to do it? would love some tips
Hello! New subscriber here 👋These are great ideas. Will deffo be trying these two for my Overland trip :) Question....you mention cutting the fat off the steak as it can spoil. How does all the fat in the dahl (butter and yoghurt) go?
yeah great question. I don' have problems with mine. Perhaps it is because it is mixed though and can dry out much better than if it was a great chunk of fat. I think the fat on the steak, while delicious if used quickly, it doesn't try out? But to be completely honest I don't really know.
G'day Kate. Really enjoyed this vid (again) thanks, and you've inspired me to gear up and make up some meals for post lockdown jaunts ;-D. Just wondering if you have considered or tried any other trail worthy meals like Mac and Cheese, or a nice curry, or anything else with cheese or tuna in it? Cheers
Thanks so much Peter so great to hear. I do like some good hike prep, especially when that's all we can do right now. So cool on the mac and cheese and tuna ideas - I haven't ventured out there yet but there are some ripper facebook forums that I am sure have discussed such things (link in vid comments). But thanks for the comment you have inspired me to think more broadly with my dehydrated foods and start to experiment.
Mate, appreciate the effort of sharing your recipes!
Quick question on your fancy dehydrator what’s the brand and model? I’m looking at upgrading my old Aldi round kit.
Square trays are so appealing and much less fuss then cutting bloody circles out the centre!
Thanks so much - yes the square helps so much. Its a BioChef, shop around but I got mine here , they are great amzn.to/2XVRNVn
Hey Kate! Curious if you rehydrate by cooking in your pot or if you just boil water and pour it over your meals?
Trying to figure out how to do the latter with home cooked meals and using the right bags to hold the food and hot water while rehydrating 😊
Cool Emma. Yeah it depends on the meal. The Dahl blended to a powered works find rehydrating by just adding hot water but the meat ones not so well. I think it’s all about the size of the dehydrated particle. The meat chunks are bigger and take a bit of time to rehydrate. Vego is probably the way to go for water only rehydration. My favourite alternative is Radix Nutrition: bit.ly/33VgynV they don’t put preservatives in the food so it doesn’t upset my tummy like the other meals do. These are my go to meals when I really just want to throw water on something and eat it. One sad alternative is cold soaking your dehydrated meals. But yep a bit sad having a cold meal. Best of luck on your adventures
Hi Kate, thanks very much for your oh so helpful videos. I was wondering the same as Emma. So if vege, you just boil a pot of water and sit the bag inside? For about how long? Thanks again you are very inspirational.
@@petra3615 thanks mate. No I either put the dry stuff in the pot with water and boil (no plastic) or if very fine like dahl I sometimes just put it in my bowl then put the hot water on top. Hope that makes sense. The only thing i eat in plastic bags is the store stuff radix.cheers
If you cold soak wouldn't it be a good idea to start it while still hiking.. That way when ya get to camp they are ready to cook.😊
Absolutely I’ve tried a couple of times but I guess I get so into the hike I often don’t get to that step till camp time haha.
Love your blue hiking shirt 😁 can I ask where you got it?
Thanks, alas it's an old mountain designs - I'm not sure they make much these days. Cheers
Thanks Kate. Just getting into dehydrating for an upcoming bike packing trip. Have you tried any other vego options? And what was that website you recommended? Thanks for your fab videos!!
Thanks a lot mate, oh cool bike packing - so fun. I did some soups like pumpkin and a tofu curry that were yumbo (just cut tofu small). Vego stuff dehydrates so nicely so you are probably only limited by your imagination. I like 2 facebook pages called "dehydrating your own backpacking food" and "dehydrating devas and dudes". There is also this mad expert a bit above my pay grade but looks so good at www.backpackingchef.com/
Probably too late but I made a brown rice, black bean and tomato sauce combo with mexican spices and it worked great. I cold soaked for an hour and ate with nacho chips. Yum.
I'd love to try your spag bol! Your jerky looks delish as well! How well do olives dehydrate? I might try it to find out, but I'm a bit iffy with the amount of oil...
The olives were really nice. Kinda like little intense flavour bursts. Try to use as little oil as possible. Cheers
@@KateGrarock Thanks, Kate! Appreciate the tip!
@@goldenscales no worries best of luck
Great video. Quick question. How do you determine how much is the right amount of water to add back when rehydrating?
thanks Jeff. Great question - I often stuff this up. but now I try to add less than i think and slowly add more as needed. Many times I have added way too much and ended up with a soup.
@@KateGrarock Exactly! Soup is what I am also trying to avoid. 😀
@@jeffweiner4785 haha good luck sing out if you get the solution
Hi
So why does it need to go in freezer? If dehydrated and vacuum sealed does it last several days or months? I want to do Bibbulmun and send my self meals but they could be in a box waiting for me for months, would I be better off with the store bought freeze dried meals?
Hey mate I just put them in the freezer as I thought it would help them keep better - I totally recommend the Facebook groups dehydrating devas and dudes and dehydrating your own backpacking food, they can answer your technical questions. The food will probably keep fine if it is properly dehydrated - but it is always good to test your food. I love to make it and then test it say 2 weeks later or perhaps in your case 2 months later. The other issue with WA if you are not from that state is that they can be a bit funny about foods that could contaminate their environment. I have heard things about food being taken at the border, while commercially packaged foods tend to be ok. But for a trail that long id go crazy having to survive on commercially bought foods. Best of luck
@@KateGrarock thank you. I’m at the really early stages of planning (looking at August 2022🤪) but it gives me a chance to test everything out. I’ve only done overnighters so have a couple week hikes planned before then to try it out. I’ll look into the food/border issue as I’ll be going in from VIC. And I’m with you I can’t survive on freeze dried store bought for that long. Looks like I’ve got lots of investigation ahead of me.
Thank you love your CZcams channel 😍
@@michelehoward9668 so cool I’m jealous. I’ve been wanting to do that trail for ages. I did cape to cape and got some of my food across in my luggage. But I found this link helpful www.agric.wa.gov.au/exporting-western-australia/quarantine-information-private-travellers
Also brilliant you are starting so early you should be able to sort out some delicious meals. I have been enjoying radix nutrition they don’t upset my tummy but nothing beats home made. Radix gave me a 5% code if you get super keen it’s KATEG5
@@KateGrarock A couple other FB groups to look into: Dehydrating Your Own Backpacking Food; Backpacking Recipes; and MEALS FOR THE TRAILS.....its just not nuts and berries anymore.
Oh one question. I've watched many American trekking vids where they recommend 2 pounds of food per day (approx. 907 grams per day). Being a rather voluptuous woman (lol) I thought I'd elevate that to 1kg / day. Do you think this would be too much to carry?
No that would be fine. Sometimes I can get my food weight down to 700g per day and I love to eat. I aim for 2000 to 3000 calories per day and one way to get this without too much weight is to select food that has at least 350 calories (or 1476kj) per 100g. Not everything you take will be this high in calories but these foods are brilliant for getting the calories up while keeping the weight down. eg Almonds 576 cal per 100g
Pecans 700 cal per 100g
Powdered Milk 496 cal per 100g
Olive oil 884 cal per 100g
Peanut M&Ms 513 cal per 100g
Pasta 352 cal per 100g
Rice crackers 384 cal per 100g
Peanut Butter 588 cal per 100g (protein rich)
Dark chocolate 546 cal per 100
Beef jerky 410 cal per 100g (protein rich)
Salami 444 cal per 100g (protein rich)
Protein powder 401 cal per 100g
Dried potato (Deb) 324 cal per 100g
Hey Kate! Bit very much late to the video but I just found your channel and oh my it's great!
Was just wondering if you would recommend coconut cream when cooking the dahl?! And do you know how it goes dehydrating. Thanks 🤠
Thanks mate. Yep go for it I think. I dehydrated a coconut based soup once and it was really good. It should be fine for a couple of months but maybe due to the high fat content don’t keep it for long long times. Enjoy.
@@KateGrarock thank you legend!!! Keen for some more videos too :)))
@@isabellamorris7982 thanks mate. I’ve got a few exciting adventures in the pipeline. Can’t wait to get them out there. Thanks for watching
You can also buy powdered coconut milk which you can mix in with the dehydrated Dahl - delicious :)
I'm sure you've been told this before, but you're so likeable! ❤
Cute. Thanks mate.
I was likeing your videos till you said tomato's, ... now I love them, I wish I had one like you at home, LOL. the content is helpful thanks again
Glad you like them! Cheers
Wash your sister sauce in Montana 😎
Haha
If you don't have a vacuum sealer, you can use a vacuum cleaner, just put the food into a bag, (leave the bag open) put an additional larger bag around it, suck the air out of the larger bag with the vacuum cleaner (which will suck the air out of the smaller bag as well) and close the bag with the food while it's still inside the larger bag and the vacuum is still running.
Oh so cool. This would probably work better than my crappy sealer. Cheers. I’ll give it a go.
4:29 innoculating some mouth bacteria 🦠 🦠🦠 from both of tasting ladies. They can grow millions left at room temperature especially if dehydration is not complete. After every time of tasting I suggest using a new spoon or washing the used one. The 2nd dip into the food is innoculating mouth bacteria. This is why 1 dip 1 spoon. It’s good to see this because I have to dehydrate my own food. Thanks for sharing.
haha thanks mate yes great point haha