AMC's Real Trail Meals Wholesome Recipes for

Tired of ending a day on the trail with packaged backpacking meals? Kick your menu up a notch with AMC's Real Trail Meals: Wholesome Recipes for the Backcountry.
Drawing on the field experience of Appalachian Mountain Club staff and trip leaders, this compendium of trail-tested backcountry recipes gives readers a wide buffet of lightweight and nutritious meals. Adopting a practical, easy-to-follow approach, the book shares the basic principles of dehydrating your own ingredients to create preservative-free and trail-stable foods.
It also features handy icons noting which recipes are vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, kid-friendly, or require kitchen prep ahead of time. With separate sections on desserts, snacks, and drinks, AMC's Real Trail Meals offers a diverse range of wholesome fare for outdoors adventurers of all levels. Most important for backpackers and others looking to travel light, each recipe comes with a breakdown of nutrition to pack weight, giving you the most nutrient-dense bang for your buck. Whether you're planning a week-long excursion in the wilderness or seeking creative snacks for a day hike, this cookbook gives you the recipes you need.
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Ethan Hipple Ethan Hipple's passion for the outdoors was ignited as a teenager working on a trail crew for the Student Conservation Association (SCA). He went on to serve on the Appalachian Mountain Club's hut croo, guided wilderness trips for Prescott College, directed the New Hampshire Conservation Corps, and ran the Parks and Recreation Department in Wolfeboro, N.H. He currently lives in Portland, Maine, where he runs the city's parks department. Along with his wife, Sarah, and their two awesome kids, Jackson and Tasha, he loves to find secret swimming holes, fish, surf, and play music on the porch. He is the co-author of AMC's Outdoors with Kids Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont.

Sarah Hipple grew up in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, where she and her family of ten enjoyed home-cooked meals together every night around the big wooden table. While studying at the Rhode Island School of Design, she spent her summers cooking for the Appalachian Mountain Club's High Mountain Huts. Working in a rustic lodge kitchen, Sarah prepared meals from scratch: homemade breads, delicious pastries, hearty soups, and savory meats. Since then, she has parlayed her love of food into running her own business, Welcome Home Personal Chef Service, which operates in Maine and New Hampshire. Sarah cooks for private clients and has catered innumerable staff trainings, weddings, and special events. She and her husband, Ethan, and their two children currently live in Portland, Maine, where they have created a home that is always full of friends and family gathering to enjoy Sarah's cooking.

Preface

Personal memories of good food on the trail

“Deliciousness”

Legacy of good food at AMC: huts, camps, trail crews, hikers

“Food Stress”

Acknowledgments

Friends and Family

AMC Staff, Hut Croos, Trail Crews

SCA Trail Crews

Intro

Overview of backcountry cooking: why a separate cookbook?

Real Trail Meals: what sets this book apart?

· Healthy

· Planned ahead of time (not ration or bulk system)

Our background

· AMC Huts

· AMC Cold River Camp

· SCA Trail Crews

· Welcome Home Personal Chef Service

· Personal outdoor trips

· Teaching kids to cook, “Outdoors With Kids”

How to Use This Book

Icons

Measurements and terms

How to use Indexes and Table of Contents

Stewardship and Conservation

Leave No Trace

Section 1: At Home

Nutrition

“Deliciousness” number one factor. If you don't eat it, you get no nutrition!

Thru hikers eating a tray of lasagna

Building Blocks

· Calories required

· Complete Proteins

· Grains and Carbs—whole!

· Veggies and Fruits

· Dairy

· The challenge of meat, veggies and dairy in the backcountry

Canned goods and prepared foods

Special Diets

· Vegetarians

· Food Allergies

· Gluten Free

· Dairy Free

· Paleo/Atkins/Cleansing, diets in backcountry not a good idea

Meal planning

The grid principle

Plan and repeat

Open pantry principle

Repackaging

Backcountry kitchen packing list

Tools and equipment

Spice kit and staples

Common Condiments: braggs, brewer's yeast, sriracha, homemade condiments

All Purpose Mixes

Baking mix

Cornmeal mix

Basic Veggie mixes

· Dried onion, carrots, celery

· Onion and peppers

Dehydrated Foods

Choosing Dehydrators

Veggies

Meats

Sauces

Sources of pre-made dehydrated foods: online, outdoor retailers, survivalist websites

Section 2: On the Trail

Packing Food

Separate stuff sacks for breakfast, lunch, dinner

Backpacking

Paddling

Resupply

Camp Kitchen

Camp Setup and Layout

Lashing

Tarps and knots

Leave No Trace

Cooking Methods

Stoves and Fuels

· Gas

· Propane

· Wood

Cooking on Fire

Baking

· Fry-Bake Pans

· Reflector ovens

· Dutch ovens (not good for backpacking, but good for special meal on first or last night of trip)

Equipment

Pots and Pans

Utensils

Dishes and mugs

Water storage

Other

Bear country, hanging food

Cleanup and dirty dishes

Cooking Tips

Rehydration

Seasoning

Burning

Taste it before you eat it

Leftovers

Breakfast

1. Cakers

2. Homemade syrup

3. Eggs scrambled

4. Fried bagels

5. Homemade granola

6. Corn bread cakers

7. Oatmeal

8. Dried milk

9. Granola

10. Hash Brown Scramble

Lunch

11. Salami and cheese

12. Pretzel chips

13. Sarah Lee bagels...don't mold

14. Nuts

15. Pitas

16. Dried fruit

17. Apples

18. PB

19. Dried hummus

Dinner

20. Pasta and cheese

21. Pesto pasta with veggies

22. Bomber bread

23. Quesadillas

24. Rice and beans and torts

25. Chicken and veggie curry

26. Miso soup

27. Potato pearls with cheese

28. Gado gado

29. Chicken, cheese and rice

30. Pizza

31. Fish

· How to clean and filet

· Fish recipes

Desserts

32. No bake cheesecake

33. Scotch a Roos

34. No bake cookies

35. Candy

36. Kettle corn

Snacks

37. 5 minute gado gado--best backcountry snack ever

38. Lipton noodles and sauce

39. Onion soup packets...hot brew

40. Gorp...make your own

41. Jerky

42. Candy bars

43. Soup mix packets

Drinks and Hot Brew

44. Water: treatment and storage

45. Cocoa/mocha

46. Coffee/tea

47. Methods of making coffee...drip, perc, French press, cowboy, instant

48. Cider

49. Hot Tang

50. Russian Tea

Dutch Oven Cooking (for paddling or first/last night of backpacking trips)

51. Stacking

52. Pineapple upside down cake

53. Lasagna

54. Pozole pie

55. Chicken Juanita

56. Coffee cake

57. Pizza

58. Sticky buns

Campfire Cooking

59. Orange brownies

60. Hobo stew

61. Baked potatoes

62. Smores

63. Omelet in a bag

64. hot dogs wrapped in crescent rolls

65. Biscuit donuts

66. Pie irons

Recipes alphabetically
Recipes alphabetically by type of trip (backpacking, paddling, winter camping)

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AMC's Real Trail Meals Wholesome Recipes for the Backcountry

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Table of Contents

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