Dehydrating food has been a practical preservation strategy since ancient times. Today, dehydrated foods pop up everywhere from your favorite snack aisle to your local sporting goods store.

My backpacking trips tend to involve two markedly different approaches to eating. If I’m backpacking alone, I favor dehydrated camping meals (usually Firepot Mac n’ Greens) that I can whip up quickly ...

Adam Roy is the executive editor of Backpacker. He lives in Colorado’s Front Range, where he spends his free time hiking, climbing, and running his home mountains. I’m a former professional chef and ...

Master Food Preservers of San Mateo and San Francisco Counties sponsor a series of free classes every year, online and in person. Taught by students who went through their multi-week training program, ...

Dehydrating food is considered one of our oldest—if not oldest—method for preserving food. For as long as our species has been gathering, foraging, and throwing spears at wild beasts, we have been ...

Freeze-dried backpacking food makes backcountry cooking easy. Here are our top picks for good eats, trailside.

Food is often the number one topic on any backpacker’s mind. Alex Roddie taste tests mouth-watering backpacking meals. The ...