Delicious Backpacking Food for THE OTTER TRAIL

These are the meals I ate while hiking The Otter Trail in South Africa, which is a 5 day trail. I also took some frozen meat along for the first night.
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[@jacquicoetzee2870]

Absolutely love your videos. Mom and I are ticking off her otter trail bucket list item in Feb 2023. We been watching so many what to pack videos, this was by far the best.
You did a video a while ago where you split your food into days you were hiking, this was also such a great informative fun video to watch.
We so worried we pack too much or too little food.

[@RoughingItWithRuth]

Thank you so much for this wonderful comment! I'm sure you are going to have a magical trip in February. I have done both (packed too much food and too little food), and while it was a bit annoying, it didn't ruin the trip. I think the best is to do a few smaller overnight trips to experiment with how much food you will need 😊

[@NorwayHikesTrails]

Nice video Ruth!

[@RoughingItWithRuth]

Thank you!

[@hermanwallis2376]

Lovely video thank you. Some great ideas. Doing Otter in 5 weeks.

[@RoughingItWithRuth]

Enjoy it! 😊

[@tombrown6628]

I would be tempted to stay at a cabin and eat all day!!😂😂😂

[@RoughingItWithRuth]

I am tempted every time! 😆

[@stephanieterreblanche9470]

Very cool vid Ruth!

[@RoughingItWithRuth]

Thanks Stephanie!

[@Rustie_za]

When we went 6 odd years ago, we pre-seasoned x4 300gram steaks, vacuum packed them then froze them rock hard. Each guy had x4 steaks wrapped in one or two sheets of newspaper. By day 3 and 4 the steaks were defrosted but still ice cold. Only steak works for these reasons: Lamb chops have bones = extra weight. Pork and chicken you don't want to play with. I will tell you, the other group of europeans eating their freeze dried trail food from some branded packs looked at us longingly every night when we braaied.

[@hermanwallis2376]

Def doing this also!

[@Sir_Chuckmyster]

😎 WOW, I am going to camp with you guys soon 👍☺

[@RoughingItWithRuth]

😂

[@karminipillay7742]

Hi, what was the weight of all your food per person?

[@RoughingItWithRuth]

The weight of my food was around 4kg at the start of the trail.

[@jurievanheusden3053]

Hey what plate were you using in this video?

[@RoughingItWithRuth]

This in one of the SnapFold plates.

[@claireevelyn3379]

Will you be able to do the Shoprite or PNP version of this ? Most of this appears to be Woolworths home brand.

[@RoughingItWithRuth]

You're correct: for this trip I did shop at Woolworths. I have some other videos with food from Pick n Pay and Checkers: ruclips.net/video/VA5I8q2aR8A/видео.html&ab_channel=RoughingItWithRuth and ruclips.net/video/I-TJxWoKcjY/видео.html&ab_channel=RoughingItWithRuth

[@Rustie_za]

Please tell me all that food was for 2 people, right?

[@RoughingItWithRuth]

Haha, yup 😀

[@jurievanheusden3053]

Hey what plate were you using in this video?

[@RoughingItWithRuth]

This is the Fozzil Snapfold Bowl.