This video is exactly what I was looking for! Vegan recipes that aren't just bought and per-packaged and the whole menu can be made zero-waste ! Perfeeeect
Yep, drives me nuts when I see people doing videos about all the food they prepped and its just all premade processed stuff from the store. Here is a playlist with most of the other food videos on the channel ruclips.net/p/PL1hrtV0M4swH-ZjDoxvqO6mWtXxGAbJbk
Congratulations! Great job. I’m attempting a thru hike of the PCT 2020 and this is the first video I saw for cold soaked plant based backpacking meals under 2 pounds 4,000 cals and $10. Bravo!
Cool. I’m starting my CDT hike in a couple weeks and this will help me stay MOSTLY vegan. Good caloric sources and tasty foods. I’m throwing a few extra things in as well but this is a really awesome vid.
@@PaulBogush yeah. I'm guessing it would have! They are hiking now, I'm going to ask lots of questions when they get back haha. They already have the most beautiful life, house by the hills, green everywhere, well lit, wooden floorboarded house, forest, a dog, a pool! Very fortunate humans.
For what it’s worth. I started sectioning the AT many moons ago (like ‘98 …I didn’t know it but I was doing whole foods plant based cold soak. I always did a lot of beans too. I dehydrated all of my food including daily wheatgrass juice
So grateful for what I am learning from you from watching your videos. I have bought a few of the items you recommended: bidet, cathole trowel, $13 Arpenaz Quechua backpack (!!!love!!!), and I believe you recommended the long-handled bamboo spoon at one time. And here you have the ultimate food guide! Thank you so much!
Thank you sooo much! I'm glad to have found healthy on-the-trail meal ideas! I couldn't stand showing my kids videos of "cool hikers" who only ate junk food! Our reason to hike is to be healthy and one with nature.
Glad it was helpful! This was the very first video that I randomly threw up on this channel. I think every food video after this one that involves meals is better :)
Awesome video! My husband and I are avid day hikers but are getting into backbacking. We have been watching RUclips’s of peoples trips and both commented on how horrible people eat! 😬 I looked into vegan meals already made and my jaw dropped at the prices! Just started researching making our own and your video was a huge inspiration, thanks for making it!! 💚
@@PaultheBackpacker We are back to watch more!! My husband is loving your videos and wants to try the thanksgiving dinner! 😊 also going to watch the cookie video after this! Thanks again!
I also appreciate how you limit foods that come pre-packaged. I always thought it was kind of hypocritical: eating from packaging that cannot and will-not be recycled or composted (while being surrounded by relatively pristine nature).
Ayde, Agreed. Part of being vegan is about nature and sustainability. It's about animals too, but without the other two, none of us will exist for much longer either.
I like that you've focused overall on the gestalt of your food itself rather than just straight calories. This was a really fascinating and informative video.
If trying to reduce the calories from the original meal from 4,000 to 3,000 I recommend NOT getting rid of the nutritional yeast, and instead reducing a less nutritious food, because fortified nutritional yeast (the type found at most grocery stores) is a great source of vitamin B and that may otherwise be lacking in this food plan. This is very informative and well thought out. Thanks for sharing!
you could grind a lot of that to powder and mix it together to save space so you just have one bag it also makes it playable so it fits in a pack really well. just need a shaker bottle
My plan last Summer: Costco nuts. 160 macadamia nuts is 4000 calories, for example. I went with walnuts, the bag is 9000 calories. That was a fail as no one will eat that many walnuts in a month. I had great success with their ‘Heart Healthy’ bag and dry roasted almonds. Trader Joe’s has xlnt dehydrated selection for variety. I was surprised at all the heavy junk food hikers eat.
So funny, after I read your line about getting a bag of walnuts I thought in my head nobody can eat that many walnuts :-) sure enough your next line verified that!
I am starting to leave out the word vegan from the title of a lot of the food videos I'm doing! It's just healthy eating, no one needs to join any secretive Clan! Please check out any of the other food videos on this channel which are much better than this first one :-)
similar to your experience, I've been surprised by all the junk food included in other videos - this video was such a refreshing find! As a new backpacker I thank you!
This may be the most useful vegan backpacking food video ever!! No junk and cheap. Most I’ve seen that aren’t junk are $20 a day and consisting of hard to find bars and powders. Thanks so much!
Thank you so so so sooo much for this. You obviously put a lot of work into it and I am eternally grateful that you took the time to share! Would be able to tell me where you got the gravy powder? Thanks again!
@@PaulBogush Thank you for specifying! I ended up going with Better than Bouillon stock paste because I realised powdered gravy is usually not gluten-free. Your recommendations helped me plan the food for a 6-day backpacking retreat in Yosemite that includes 14 people!! The retreat starts in 5 days and I'm currently swimming in Ziplock bags haha! So thank you again a ton :) www.rippleoutretreats.com/
Really like what you've done there, and I bookmarked that video, but it seems like a lot has to happen before getting to this. That's a lot of stuff I would have to figure out even where to get them haha But I like it, I thought the same "what a whole lot of junk food they're all eating" I'm not vegan at all, but I do enjoy good healthy food and vegan food usually tick all the boxes. I know you said you're cold soaking, but I'm just wondering if you plan on making a video that involved cooking? Maybe dehydrating and such? I got few ideas, but I'm not sure how to count calories and the likes. Anyway thanks for that video, much appreciated!
Nope...I don't cook 😝 I have a few videos on dehydrating, and almost all the food videos have full nutritional profiles in the descriptions. There are a lot of videos on the channel that have much easier meal prep and with easier to get ingredients. This video was kind of made by accident, all the other ones are better! And forget the vegan part...I was eating like this while backpacking before I "went vegan." It's just easy, relatively cheap, light, and nutritionally sound. I recently did a video that basically is about "here are your ten things to buy" to get start stepping up your meal plan. That one might be a good pace to start. Thanks for stopping by!
@@PaultheBackpacker thanks, I'll check out the rest of the channel then (and subscribe while I'm at it). Food is an important part of life. I was kinda worried when I saw all these videos and thinking "there's no way I can live off on mars bars and mac an cheese... no way!" haha Cheers
I have to admit, I do miss the days of long ago when I was packing chocolate Twizzlers for breakfast! If you check out any of the other videos and have any questions please do not hesitate to leave it in the comments and I'll get back to you.
This was the very first video that I made that wasn't even supposed to go on RUclips :-) if you poke around my channel there's a lot of other food videos including one I just did a couple weeks ago I think is better :-)
If these meals were recreated and put in an air tight sealed bag, do you know roughly how long of a storage life they would have? I'm hiking the AT next year and want to avoid food going bad on me but like your meal ideas.
An easy way to think about it is to think about how you would store these individual ingredients in your house and how long they would just last in a cabinet. Almost all the meals I share ruclips.net/p/PL1hrtV0M4swHjT3wHYlo6trwOQ3K1CX6S can sit around for months. My backpack has been packed for a month with the food inside of it because I am just waiting for a weekend without rain and I have no worries about the food inside. Except for the meal I put a pita/tortilla in....those will have to come out :)
Nice video- I agree the junk food is not good but when you get a hitch into town and have 10 minutes at a small-town store with limited options to resupply you take what you can get.
A lot is up to personal preference, but the one great thing with these is if it is still too "hard/crunchy" you just let it soak more. For me it is usually around 20 minutes for almost all the meals. Anything with chia I usually do a minimum of 20 minutes.
I’d definitely need a stove but would try these recipes hiking in the UK around where I am. Can’t find dried soy milk for looking but still trying as I don’t like dried consonant milk, it always coagulates funny
I would like to see the exact measurements. Is there a link here somewhere. I’m vegan and planning my first overnight trip and literally want to copy this exact menu. It looks delicious!!!
I believe the link in the description has exactly what was brought. There's also links to many other food videos that have links in the description. Some of the links are not working, I'm slowly replacing them. If you happen to find a video with a broken link and wish to see it, just comment on the video and I'll fix it.
Couscous is usually made with wheat and not gluten free. Also Oreos aren’t gluten free either. I just want to make that known Incase there are any new gluten free people seeing this. Although I do think this is a great vegan hiking meal video! Very helpful!
I’m gluten free and have been trying to move towards more vegan foods lately. Trying to figure out how I can put that into my AT Resupply strategy for a thru hike this year and then remembered this video! Awesome awesome awesome. So well planned and ticks so many boxes. Don’t forget the description still says it’s gluten free if you swap couscous and oats but Oreos aren’t gluten free! Maybe you could edit it but other than that amazing video. Happy hiking! From Tic Tac
That's what I'm looking for mate, however I was wonder if you can through customs immigration of certain countries with all those grains in your backpack? Or do you buy them in the country when you arrive to that specific country? cheers for the video
I am not sure and I bet it depends on the person checking your bag if you are bringing loose items. You can't bring in raw items, so I am not sure how they would handle a bag of cashews that not in their original packaging saying they were roasted, or chia seeds.
The "Enjoy Life" brand bar has (rice-milk) milk chocolate bars. I usually get the dark chocolate ones, but their products are vegan, and gluten/nut/soy free. You can find them at Kroger, Harris Teeter, and Lowes and probs the other chains.
In Canada, some of the Presidents Choice chocolate chips are "may contain traces of milk"but don't have them as an actual ingredient. You could also sub delicious cacao nibs.
Thankyou for starting off the video saying, i've watched a lot of RUclips videos to see what others have done, and this is you conclusion. You have just saved me a lot of time not having to go through so many shitty videos where people don't get straight to the point and just talk talk talk. This video was perfect and exactly what i needed to know, no cook,high nutrition for a vegan. Thanks mate.
Awesome video man. I’m a “hardcore” vegan lol and these cold soak meals are a great idea especially in Australia where it’s not too cold at nights. Do you have any good resources for additional recipes?
Dude thank you so much for this video! I’m planning on fastpacking the JMT in 7-10 days this August and you’ve saved me a crazy amount of time figuring how I’d meet my nutritional needs 😁🙌
Awesome video. Very good subject. I’m glad there is a backpacking menu for vegan people like me I found powdered hummus in the supermarket among other Partner In foods like peanuts, bins, coconut milk and many others. I think, there is dehydrated vegetables that you can add to this vegan meals. Thank you so much for sharing your video. Keep up the good work. I’m looking forward to seeing all the recipes from you. God bless you.
Paul thank you so much ! I'm planning my first backpacking trip to Yosemite and I refuse to eat like garbage and just focusing on "calories" and "protein" when they themselves can't define what's protein is and why they need it. I mean it only makes sense to Eat garbage + look like garbage = feel like garbage.
Really appreciate the reference to how to make it gluten free and 100% vegan. I don’t think Oreos are gluten free though. Love the attention to detail and the white backgrounds - lots of effort clearly went into this thank you!
Ahh! Totally forgot about the Oreos in there and not being gluten-free. Obviously they do sell Oreo like cookies that are gluten free. They are vegan though! And now that I think about it, I wonder if they were gluten-free cookies, I haven't bought real Oreos in a long long long time.
Hey there! Just wanted to say, love what you are putting out there. Super cool information. I have been looking for meal plans for the PCT for a while, and this hits the nail on the head. I love the variety of foods you have included. I was wondering, however, if you could tell me what you believe to be some of the most key nutrients? I'm trying to put together multiple menus that are designed similar to the one you have shown here, with the same level of nutrition, just with different ingredients so I am changing up what I am eating every so often. If you could make any other ingredient recommendations, that would be awesome as well!
Ok...not sure if you have seen the other full day menu video I did, but in that video I took out some ingredients that were somewhat redundant in this one. That might be the place to start, then take a look at this video and see what is different. I don't mean to watch the videos, but you could simply print out the ingredient lists. Basically many of the things missing from the simple plan that are in this video could then be used in their own separate meal plan....whoa....does that make sense? Basically this video I made more to show many possible ingredients, so you would not need flax seeds and hemp seeds in one meal, but could be spread out. One thing that I struggle with is recommendations for a thru hike since that is a different beast than what I am used to--nine more years for mine :) I do play around with a thought in my head that I would buy some bulk bags of some simple things that I could bounce up along the trail as I used them, and things that I could carry many days worth without a lot of extra weight. Top four in my mind would be Chia Seeds, TVP, Nutritional yeast, and some kind of supplement like an Amazing Grass product. I have given up trying to "eat" vitamin C and just bring some supplement with it in it. Some ingredients that I have been using a lot more of that are not in this video: cacao nibs (horrible plain, great mixed in something) coconut milk powder loving making things easier with Amazing Grass Green Superfood Calimyrna Figs -- love the natural packaging and ease of counting calories with them while hiking The other thing I have been messing with making my own electrolyte mix and then I don't have to be so careful with the food supplying them. Easy to mix a bag and bring it and SO MUCH cheaper than buying your own. Hopefully I should have a video up on hydration soon and that will be a part of it. One thing I have really learned is that I have to be careful about adding enough salt to my meal plan. I never really realized how little salt I had until I made the videos and put all the food into a nutrition tracker. That is the #1 electrolyte you will lose (and everybody loses a different amount), and I feel much better at the end of teh day now that I am consciously adding more salt to my meals. Not sure how this fits in, but I have also been looking at how I pack my snacks and bringing different things. When you are hiking hard, someone my size and hiking at my speed can't really process more than 300 calories per hour. When I started separating out my snacks, or bringing snacks that are easy to calorie count I simply felt better. So I know that 2 figs and 4 dates are 200 calories....when I was just shoveling in food there would be points where I felt sluggish, which often times made me eat more for "energy," which then had the reverse result of what I wanted. If I do bring a mixed bag of something that adds up to 1200 calories I am more careful to say eat only 1/4 of it only per hour. Nutrition and hydration is so interesting and I never know how much detail is appropriate in the videos :)
Wow. That was the most comprehensive answer I could have asked for. Thank you for that! I did see a second video, and it seemed to me that there was more bars and less individual "snacks". There is no problem with that and works for most people, but I just really like the idea of how you have it laid out in this video. Eating something for breakfast and then snacking slowly and consistently seems like the way to go for me. No big meals that really fill me up and make me sluggish, just nice sustained energy levels. But yes, I will definitely compare and contrast the two lists and see what ingredients I could rotate in and out. You did get me thinking of making homemade energy bars though in another video (which was also fantastic), but I was wondering if you had any experience with the shelf life of the ones you made? Sorry to be asking about another video in this comment! RUclips faux paux! I have thought about those ingredients, especially the coconut powder. I also prefer carob over cacao nibs, just in case you haven't used them before. I am definitely waiting for an electrolyte video. I must admit I know virtually nothing about it, so it will be a real eye opener. Thank you so much for your help Paul, you have really helped me lay the groundwork for my plan. I think I am at a good starting place!
Thats basically what I expected in terms of shelf life. I wasn't sure if any residual moisture from the fruit could make the nuts go rancid, but I believe a month is a pretty good testament to that. I know seeds and nuts are a bit more prone to going bad, so I will need to come up with a good way to keep them for longer thru hikes and things. I guess keeping them whole will do the trick. Thats funny, it seems like our experiences are just completely switched. My girlfriend loves cacao nibs and has been sneaking me some in our foods for years now. Even today I can still tell when it's in there. She recently brought home a bag of carob chips and I ended up eating the whole bag that night. I agree with the pasty/waxy thing that they have going for them, but I find it tolerable. Thats funny about your daughter though. History repeats itself! I did just see your video on "deconstructed energy bars" and thought it was great (here I go commenting on another video). It got me thinking about completely changing up my cold soaking routine. I am thinking of basically non-stop cold soaking throughout the whole day in a Gatorade bottle, and drinking it all day long and eating bars and things for snacks. In my head, that means I can keep a steady dietary intake all day long, rather than having spikes of food that aren't being absorbed efficiently. Plus, because I'm drinking it as a "smoothie", I don't need a spoon which easily saves me an ounce or two on my base weight! Any thoughts to that system?
My favorite ultralight vegan foods... Coconut milk powder is an excellent tasty and light weight high calorie food that can be added to many things. Coconut water powder is awesome for electrolytes. Powdered nut butter is great. Spirulina is a complete and super dense nutritious protein and can be added to water on the go. Chia and hemp seeds are also great. Chia also helps the body pace water absorption for less waste through urine. You can add them to hot water and stir for a couple minutes and they’ll be ready to eat right away. Flavor with some freeze dried berries. Other than that, I like to mix vegan green powder with protein powder for an oatmeal booster. Last but not least, Matcha for smooth balanced energy! (You can check out www.EcotopiaRising.com for high grade organic matcha that saves an acre of rainforest & endangered species for every tin sold!) 🍵🌎💗
I'm still amazed some dude did the PCT on just Snickers bars, cheers for the video been looking to start making my own mixes. I dig man, thumbs up & subbed
Not sure about this video, but in some I have joked that in my 20's I could "survive" just fine on twizzlers and chips ahoy cookies. I am amazed at what I did on crappy food. Looking back, I think about what I could have done if I had been putting in some proper fuel and what the long term effects were. You can drive your car for a year without adding and changing oil....it will "survive" just fine. But if you keep it up, eventually, it breaks down.
I ordered it online from Amazon. I no longer use it though, now I'll just usually add a little protein powder. Not for the protein but to give it a Milky flavor. The soy powder can end up tasting a bit gritty :-) and I have some oat milk powder coming tomorrow that I'm going to try, we'll see how that tastes!
Funny you left this comment today. I was driving home today from a trip and thought that on my next trip I am going to go totally "meal-less." I never really sit and have "lunch." It is always just snacks, and when I brought the couscous it usually ended up being breakfast, but usually it was getting dumped into dinner. But for the last 5ish months I found myself never eating breakfast, and many times I would end up bringing it home, so I stopped bringing a breakfast and just making that "snacks." I actually did bring some home made muesli on this trip, and brought home half of it. I dumped it in a food processor, added some figs and dates to make it stick together in bars, and have pretty much decided that is the future of my "breakfast." i think that fits better into my hiking style and how I would be digesting food. If you are putting in miles your body is not processing more than 250-300 calories an hour, sop to sit and have a breakfast with more calories than that just get you off to a sluggish feeling start. It never seemed sluggish because that is just how I always felt, but when my breakfast is "snacks" I just feel better.
Hi Paul! Thank you for your reply! I am trying different foods and I will try a few of what you showed in your video. But I still prefer to have a hot meal for dinner! Tks! Pedro
you can add seaweed wraps(homemade), sun-dried tomatoes, Different homemade nut butters(like almond butter, sunflower butter, pastachio butter, etc.)!!! :D miso paste maybe(the real stuff doesn't need refrigeration). corn tortilla chips with nutritional yeast is an awesome snack too! I make seaweed wraps with nori sheets(get a huge bag of 100 or more sheets at the asian market), a little sunflower butter, miso paste, and just 1 or 2 drops of sesame oil. Those wraps are delicious... chewy too. some people use different filling and make seaweed jerky. You can mix different flavors with the nut butter on the go to make either different sweet nut butters(like chocolate almond), or different savory flavors(like sunbutter miso, or cashew butter miso with nutritional yeast). p.s. you can make homemade sunbutter in a food processor and it only takes 10 min. or less. you can save a TON of money by making everything yourself.
Paul Bogush yeah, you pretty much got everything smack down! :D making homemade meals is great! I like to smother different butters all over everything and add different things to make them taste either savory or sweet depending on my apetite.
Do you have any plans to do a video on what TVP is, why a dried flattened banana not banana chips, what are plantain chips, why sea salt etc? Also what’s your dessert? Is it a mouse or a milkshake? I’m not sure sorry!
It's textured vegetable protein. Basically it's a fake meat. It's actually not too bad if you mix it with the right stuff like make tacos or lasagne or spaghetti. I grew up eating it, I hated it but not anymore (now I actually have a choice haha).
Sorry I did not see this comment until right now when @temps responded and it bounced a notification to me. My next video is actually going to be a little bit on TVP, and then share a better alternative to it. And I was literally just thinking yesterday that I should really do some quick one ingredient videos. So some quick answers--TVP coming up, dried flattened bananas over chips because slightly more nutritious and provides a texture very different than other food so it keeps me eating when it's HOT and I don't want to bother. It is more milkshake, but amount of liquid changes the consistency....less liquid and it could be oatmeal consistency.
Thank you for geeking out over hiking food and sharing it! I saw such a change when I started eating good on trail. Something you should try is dehydrated quinoa. Has more substance than couscous.
What's weird is I must have eaten too much quinoa at some point in my life :) That is one thing I have no desire to eat anymore. We used to eat it all the time and guess I just got tired of it!
I'm just getting into backpacking, and I had this exact same thought when combing through these countless thru-hike videos, "what the F are these people eating??? and why??" I'm not actually veg/vegan and I'm not a nutritionist or anything, but I try to stay away from clearly terrible processed foods. And breaking everything down into simply how many "energy units" (calories) food has, while completely ignoring the actual nutritional content your body will take in from the food, seems a short-sighted and one-dimensional way to approach things. I'm not a purist, but even the "health bars" seem dubious at best if you have any small clue about how nutrition works. I profess my ignorance though, having never done a 6-month hike: Is there no way to get better, actually nutritious food at these stops along the way?
I think the answer is yes and no....and I am not a thru hiker. At some resupply's it might be a dollar store, sometimes just a fancy connivance store attached to a gas station. So often folks are not in control of what they get to pick. I just think that sometimes what people buy at dollar stores is "misleading." Stocking up on "fig bars" is not getting you many figs :) I do want to maybe do a video where I go Dollar Store shopping and try to stock up for 5 days with only dollar store food. I do equate a lot of thru hiker videos I have seen to people on cross country auto trips just worrying about filling up their cars on gas and forgetting about the oil and coolant. But still, even when people find high quality grocery stores, I have see plenty of people walk out with bags of Doritos strapped to their pack. I am not sure how I would approach it. Maybe a bounce box with some staples inside, or maybe pack extra amounts that could last a few resupplies of things that do not weigh much. I do think I would rely on a good supplement. Was thinking maybe my box would consist of chia seeds, Amazing Grass Supplement, maybe some nutritional yeast, and a good protein powder. I don't want to to rely on a lot of junk food to give me my main nutrition, and figuring with a days supply of those junk food could just supplement the difference when needed. Don't want my protein to come from Slim Jims :) I think part of it is the age of the people giving advice in the videos. I just found in a book my original meal plan that I used when I was in my early 20's. What I could survive on then certainly would not work now. I think the other piece for older hikers giving advice is that they simple so not know better. What they treat as normal trail physical problems....cramps, exhaustion, etc.,...might be alleviated with better nutrition. But if that is all you know....and everyone else has the same problem, I guess then you assume it must just be what is suppose to happen and don't consider that it might be crappy food.
Thank you Paul, I eat a vegan diet as well. I agree the food eaten on the trails are nutritionally deprived. You have some great meal ideas here. I will be consuming a vegan protein powder that is not soy based though, powdered dehydrated greens ... A good protein source is crucial not only for nutrition but that of muscle repair.
YES--looking at protein as a "recovery" ingredient is important. Too many people look at it as something to consume to "build" muscle. Without looking back, I don't remember the exact kind of powder I used in the video, but now I use pea protein. One thing to take into consideration with vegan sources of protein is that your body cannot use all the protein used in vegan sources, and the amino acid make-up is obviously not as complete as meat protein. I think we can convert something like 80% of pea protein...which means if you are aiming for a certain amount of protein you need to consume more than they label for your body to get the same amount. Looking for twenty, need to consume 24. With other vegan sources you would need even more.
Great video (and super-helpful) and thanks for posting the spreadsheet too. I wish more folks promoted food logistics & good nutrition on long hikes. One thing I did on the WCT that worked for me was adding a Starbucks Via and a smidge of cacao to my morning oatmeal (no-cook) for my coffee fix. Caffeine is a very personal thing though and doesn't rock everyone's boat.
New sub #101. Doctor just told me to eat better. Less meat more fruits and vegetables. I backpack almost once a week and take trips once a month. Thanks for the video.
Welcome Jason #101 :) Just took a look at you Pike's Peak video...yes, some of those meals might be tough to give up but it will be worth it! Give your taste buds time to change. Some of the things I eat regularly now I would have never eaten just a few years ago. The reality is no matter how much I want to go back to eating certain things I used to, I simply feel so much better now. The latest video I posted was the diner from this menu being made, and have another next weekend about making the chia pudding from this video. Thanks for watching and commenting!
This is such a good video for anyone starting out back packing and has become the template for my meals!
This is fantastic. Thanks for sharing
Waow! This is a great resource. Thank you!
Love this!!!!!!! Thank you!
Very helpful, thanks!
This is awesome, heck, I'll use this just as a day outing and not even overnight...lol. Thanks!
Thanks! Lots more food videos here ruclips.net/p/PL1hrtV0M4swH-ZjDoxvqO6mWtXxGAbJbk
I'm not a backpacker or a vegan, but I found this video totally fascinating.
Thanks! Lots more videos like this on the channel :)
Thanks to your video I was encouraged to see if they have oat milk powder yet and I found some on Amazon! So excited!!
And thanks to you I just went and ordered some myself :-) look for a future review video in a month or so!
@@PaultheBackpacker I ordered the Hoosier Farms brand and it has sunflower lecithin in it and it makes my stomach cramp. 😞
You can try Anthonys, no lecithin :)
@@PaultheBackpacker nice! Thanks!
This video is exactly what I was looking for! Vegan recipes that aren't just bought and per-packaged and the whole menu can be made zero-waste ! Perfeeeect
Yep, drives me nuts when I see people doing videos about all the food they prepped and its just all premade processed stuff from the store. Here is a playlist with most of the other food videos on the channel ruclips.net/p/PL1hrtV0M4swH-ZjDoxvqO6mWtXxGAbJbk
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Congratulations! Great job. I’m attempting a thru hike of the PCT 2020 and this is the first video I saw for cold soaked plant based backpacking meals under 2 pounds 4,000 cals and $10. Bravo!
Paul Bogush I will be watching them.
YAS. I hate meal videos for this reason. Amazing video
Lots more food videos here ruclips.net/p/PL1hrtV0M4swH-ZjDoxvqO6mWtXxGAbJbk
Paul the Backpacker thank you!
Dude. Thank you. That’s all I can say. The most intelligent trail food video I have watched. Well done.
Thanks! Should have an updated one coming out with a lot fewer ingredients to help folks out soon.
Cool. I’m starting my CDT hike in a couple weeks and this will help me stay MOSTLY vegan. Good caloric sources and tasty foods. I’m throwing a few extra things in as well but this is a really awesome vid.
Some people I know just did a big hike, vegans. They rehydrated all their meals themselves and sent them ahead. Very cool.
@@PaulBogush yeah. I'm guessing it would have! They are hiking now, I'm going to ask lots of questions when they get back haha. They already have the most beautiful life, house by the hills, green everywhere, well lit, wooden floorboarded house, forest, a dog, a pool! Very fortunate humans.
@@PaulBogush OK, so I asked them for you. It took months haha. They prepared the food for months.
@@gdaymates431 That is some serious dedication to healthy eating!
Couscous generally isnt gluten-free, but I love these ideas
Thanks!
Thank you for the information,
What an excellent resource! Thanks for the great video!
For what it’s worth. I started sectioning the AT many moons ago (like ‘98 …I didn’t know it but I was doing whole foods plant based cold soak. I always did a lot of beans too. I dehydrated all of my food including daily wheatgrass juice
Thank you for providing wholesome food ideas for backpacking. These are great ideas!
So grateful for what I am learning from you from watching your videos. I have bought a few of the items you recommended: bidet, cathole trowel, $13 Arpenaz Quechua backpack (!!!love!!!), and I believe you recommended the long-handled bamboo spoon at one time. And here you have the ultimate food guide! Thank you so much!
Glad I could help!
Thank you sooo much! I'm glad to have found healthy on-the-trail meal ideas! I couldn't stand showing my kids videos of "cool hikers" who only ate junk food! Our reason to hike is to be healthy and one with nature.
@@PaulBogush Hahaha!! True!
Thank you for this! I really appreciate the bulk aspect, as opposed to pre-packaged items.
Glad it was helpful! This was the very first video that I randomly threw up on this channel. I think every food video after this one that involves meals is better :)
Awesome video! My husband and I are avid day hikers but are getting into backbacking. We have been watching RUclips’s of peoples trips and both commented on how horrible people eat! 😬 I looked into vegan meals already made and my jaw dropped at the prices! Just started researching making our own and your video was a huge inspiration, thanks for making it!! 💚
This was the first random video thrown up on this channel :-) about 30 other much better recipe videos on here!
@@PaultheBackpacker We are back to watch more!! My husband is loving your videos and wants to try the thanksgiving dinner! 😊 also going to watch the cookie video after this! Thanks again!
@@greenfoodcrush2602 enjoy:)
Great video with lots of good ingredients and ideas. Olive oil and coconut oil are healthy fats that add a lot of calories too.
I like clean up to be just add a little bit of water swish it around and done! The oils change that :)
I also appreciate how you limit foods that come pre-packaged. I always thought it was kind of hypocritical: eating from packaging that cannot and will-not be recycled or composted (while being surrounded by relatively pristine nature).
Ayde, Agreed.
Part of being vegan is about nature and sustainability. It's about animals too, but without the other two, none of us will exist for much longer either.
Gold, ty.
I like that you've focused overall on the gestalt of your food itself rather than just straight calories. This was a really fascinating and informative video.
Thanks! I do always throw in information for the fat, calories, carbs because for so many people that's all that matters!
If trying to reduce the calories from the original meal from 4,000 to 3,000 I recommend NOT getting rid of the nutritional yeast, and instead reducing a less nutritious food, because fortified nutritional yeast (the type found at most grocery stores) is a great source of vitamin B and that may otherwise be lacking in this food plan.
This is very informative and well thought out. Thanks for sharing!
Amazing! Thanks.
Well done, Paul - thanks for the suggestions and info.
you could grind a lot of that to powder and mix it together to save space so you just have one bag it also makes it playable so it fits in a pack really well. just need a shaker bottle
@@PaulBogush water helps
add water and shake for a bit alternately dip tooth brush into powder and spit on brush hey presto instant vegan tooth paste
rinse and swallow
Thank you for this
Excellent ! Many thanks.
My plan last Summer: Costco nuts. 160 macadamia nuts is 4000 calories, for example. I went with walnuts, the bag is 9000 calories. That was a fail as no one will eat that many walnuts in a month. I had great success with their ‘Heart Healthy’ bag and dry roasted almonds. Trader Joe’s has xlnt dehydrated selection for variety. I was surprised at all the heavy junk food hikers eat.
So funny, after I read your line about getting a bag of walnuts I thought in my head nobody can eat that many walnuts :-) sure enough your next line verified that!
I'm not vegan but I want to eat healthy on trail and I was wondering how I could do it. Very informative thank you!
I am starting to leave out the word vegan from the title of a lot of the food videos I'm doing! It's just healthy eating, no one needs to join any secretive Clan! Please check out any of the other food videos on this channel which are much better than this first one :-)
similar to your experience, I've been surprised by all the junk food included in other videos - this video was such a refreshing find! As a new backpacker I thank you!
brilliant! thanks for this. what a relief....
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Thank you!! I was looking for ultralight, vegan, no stove backpacking meals and this is spot-on! Appreciate the google sheet as well. Awesome!!
This may be the most useful vegan backpacking food video ever!! No junk and cheap. Most I’ve seen that aren’t junk are $20 a day and consisting of hard to find bars and powders. Thanks so much!
Thank you so so so sooo much for this. You obviously put a lot of work into it and I am eternally grateful that you took the time to share!
Would be able to tell me where you got the gravy powder?
Thanks again!
@@PaulBogush Thank you for specifying! I ended up going with Better than Bouillon stock paste because I realised powdered gravy is usually not gluten-free. Your recommendations helped me plan the food for a 6-day backpacking retreat in Yosemite that includes 14 people!! The retreat starts in 5 days and I'm currently swimming in Ziplock bags haha!
So thank you again a ton :)
www.rippleoutretreats.com/
Really like what you've done there, and I bookmarked that video, but it seems like a lot has to happen before getting to this. That's a lot of stuff I would have to figure out even where to get them haha But I like it, I thought the same "what a whole lot of junk food they're all eating" I'm not vegan at all, but I do enjoy good healthy food and vegan food usually tick all the boxes. I know you said you're cold soaking, but I'm just wondering if you plan on making a video that involved cooking? Maybe dehydrating and such? I got few ideas, but I'm not sure how to count calories and the likes. Anyway thanks for that video, much appreciated!
Nope...I don't cook 😝 I have a few videos on dehydrating, and almost all the food videos have full nutritional profiles in the descriptions. There are a lot of videos on the channel that have much easier meal prep and with easier to get ingredients. This video was kind of made by accident, all the other ones are better! And forget the vegan part...I was eating like this while backpacking before I "went vegan." It's just easy, relatively cheap, light, and nutritionally sound. I recently did a video that basically is about "here are your ten things to buy" to get start stepping up your meal plan. That one might be a good pace to start. Thanks for stopping by!
@@PaultheBackpacker thanks, I'll check out the rest of the channel then (and subscribe while I'm at it). Food is an important part of life. I was kinda worried when I saw all these videos and thinking "there's no way I can live off on mars bars and mac an cheese... no way!" haha Cheers
I have to admit, I do miss the days of long ago when I was packing chocolate Twizzlers for breakfast! If you check out any of the other videos and have any questions please do not hesitate to leave it in the comments and I'll get back to you.
You are really giving me a lot of ideas. I am gonna binge watch a bunch more of your videos on my next day off 😊 thanks so much!
Keep them coming, love the detail !
Gooood... will do...Thanks!
This is so helpful. Thank you !!! I enjoyed the part where you say "sesame seeds" :) lol
This was the very first video that I made that wasn't even supposed to go on RUclips :-) if you poke around my channel there's a lot of other food videos including one I just did a couple weeks ago I think is better :-)
If these meals were recreated and put in an air tight sealed bag, do you know roughly how long of a storage life they would have? I'm hiking the AT next year and want to avoid food going bad on me but like your meal ideas.
An easy way to think about it is to think about how you would store these individual ingredients in your house and how long they would just last in a cabinet. Almost all the meals I share ruclips.net/p/PL1hrtV0M4swHjT3wHYlo6trwOQ3K1CX6S can sit around for months. My backpack has been packed for a month with the food inside of it because I am just waiting for a weekend without rain and I have no worries about the food inside. Except for the meal I put a pita/tortilla in....those will have to come out :)
@@PaultheBackpacker thanks for the incredibly helpful reply! I'm going to try it out :)
Nice video- I agree the junk food is not good but when you get a hitch into town and have 10 minutes at a small-town store with limited options to resupply you take what you can get.
WOW. This is awesome! Thank you!
Great video, how long do you let these meals "soak" before they're ready to eat?
A lot is up to personal preference, but the one great thing with these is if it is still too "hard/crunchy" you just let it soak more. For me it is usually around 20 minutes for almost all the meals. Anything with chia I usually do a minimum of 20 minutes.
Excellent video. Well thought out and great information!
YES! Vegan backpacking ideas thank you! And btw Trader Joes chocolate chips are accidentally vegan as they contain no milk. Great ideas thx so much!
Thanks for that suggestion!
RowdysMommy74, It's due to allergies.
Real chocolate is naturally vegan though.
I’d definitely need a stove but would try these recipes hiking in the UK around where I am. Can’t find dried soy milk for looking but still trying as I don’t like dried consonant milk, it always coagulates funny
Pretty much every cold soak recipe on the channel improves with some hot water from a stove :)
I would like to see the exact measurements. Is there a link here somewhere. I’m vegan and planning my first overnight trip and literally want to copy this exact menu. It looks delicious!!!
I believe the link in the description has exactly what was brought. There's also links to many other food videos that have links in the description. Some of the links are not working, I'm slowly replacing them. If you happen to find a video with a broken link and wish to see it, just comment on the video and I'll fix it.
You’re awesome thank you so much! I found the link with the spreadsheet. So happy to know this segment of my planning is all taken care of now
Awesome video and I loved the Vegan info!! It is so hard to find good food, and I love that you make it your self!!! 👏👏
Please do more videos!!!!!
Please check out links in the description. There are playlists with almost 30 more food videos, almost all of them better than this very first one!
Thank you for sharing the spreadsheet, this is incredibly helpful!!
Couscous is usually made with wheat and not gluten free. Also Oreos aren’t gluten free either. I just want to make that known Incase there are any new gluten free people seeing this. Although I do think this is a great vegan hiking meal video! Very helpful!
@@PaulBogush okay I notice the description,
I’m gluten free and have been trying to move towards more vegan foods lately. Trying to figure out how I can put that into my AT Resupply strategy for a thru hike this year and then remembered this video!
Awesome awesome awesome. So well planned and ticks so many boxes. Don’t forget the description still says it’s gluten free if you swap couscous and oats but Oreos aren’t gluten free! Maybe you could edit it but other than that amazing video.
Happy hiking! From Tic Tac
That's what I'm looking for mate, however I was wonder if you can through customs immigration of certain countries with all those grains in your backpack? Or do you buy them in the country when you arrive to that specific country? cheers for the video
I am not sure and I bet it depends on the person checking your bag if you are bringing loose items. You can't bring in raw items, so I am not sure how they would handle a bag of cashews that not in their original packaging saying they were roasted, or chia seeds.
Any attempt to help people understand how easy it is... 1000% awesome! 🤘 Level 3000 vegan! Whence I get going I'll share my meals with you.
FINALLY!! We’ve been searching for help with this...thnx for your time, Buddy! ATB, Lisa&Rick BIG like!
Thank you so much! I'm just starting out, and was pretty horrified at most backpacking food suggestions. I have to learn more about cold soaking.
This is good.
LOL, you kept the oreos in. good ideas though.
Oreos are in there to coerce some of the nonvegan viewers into coming over to the other side :)
You should check out our gluten-free, plant-based, quick-cooking breakfasts! I think you'd really enjoy them: www.backcountrystaples.com
This is wildly helpful!
Thanks so much for putting this all together!
There is such a thing as vegan chocolate chips in case anyone was wondering... they sell them at Whole Foods
I just can't get used to "vegan" substitutes...probably because I cheat too often with regular choc chips!
I have yet to find good vegan milk chocolate chip. Know of any? No don't want the vegan dark chocolate, don't like the taste.
HorrorBeautyFX I like the “enjoy life” brand. Even my very anti-vegan sister loves them!
The "Enjoy Life" brand bar has (rice-milk) milk chocolate bars. I usually get the dark chocolate ones, but their products are vegan, and gluten/nut/soy free. You can find them at Kroger, Harris Teeter, and Lowes and probs the other chains.
In Canada, some of the Presidents Choice chocolate chips are "may contain traces of milk"but don't have them as an actual ingredient. You could also sub delicious cacao nibs.
If you had a dehydrator I think you'd be unstoppable lol
You have to find the video where I dehydrated kale leaves on the dashboard of my car :)
@@paulbogush4089 OK now that I've got to see lmao
Very nice. I’m about to do this analysis and menu planning. Nice to see ahead of time that it can be done. Healthy vegan meals at 2000cal/lb, awesome.
There are semi sweet vegan choco chips
This is unbelievably helpful and has saved me countless hours of time! Thank you good sir!!!
Do all of your meals have complete proteins? How many grams of protein for this particular day?
Thankyou for starting off the video saying, i've watched a lot of RUclips videos to see what others have done, and this is you conclusion. You have just saved me a lot of time not having to go through so many shitty videos where people don't get straight to the point and just talk talk talk. This video was perfect and exactly what i needed to know, no cook,high nutrition for a vegan. Thanks mate.
Thanks for stopping by :)
Awesome video man. I’m a “hardcore” vegan lol and these cold soak meals are a great idea especially in Australia where it’s not too cold at nights. Do you have any good resources for additional recipes?
Dude thank you so much for this video! I’m planning on fastpacking the JMT in 7-10 days this August and you’ve saved me a crazy amount of time figuring how I’d meet my nutritional needs 😁🙌
Awesome video. Very good subject. I’m glad there is a backpacking menu for vegan people like me I found powdered hummus in the supermarket among other Partner In foods like peanuts, bins, coconut milk and many others. I think, there is dehydrated vegetables that you can add to this vegan meals. Thank you so much for sharing your video. Keep up the good work. I’m looking forward to seeing all the recipes from you. God bless you.
Paul thank you so much ! I'm planning my first backpacking trip to Yosemite and I refuse to eat like garbage and just focusing on "calories" and "protein" when they themselves can't define what's protein is and why they need it. I mean it only makes sense to Eat garbage + look like garbage = feel like garbage.
Really appreciate the reference to how to make it gluten free and 100% vegan. I don’t think Oreos are gluten free though. Love the attention to detail and the white backgrounds - lots of effort clearly went into this thank you!
Ahh! Totally forgot about the Oreos in there and not being gluten-free. Obviously they do sell Oreo like cookies that are gluten free. They are vegan though! And now that I think about it, I wonder if they were gluten-free cookies, I haven't bought real Oreos in a long long long time.
Hey there! Just wanted to say, love what you are putting out there. Super cool information. I have been looking for meal plans for the PCT for a while, and this hits the nail on the head. I love the variety of foods you have included. I was wondering, however, if you could tell me what you believe to be some of the most key nutrients? I'm trying to put together multiple menus that are designed similar to the one you have shown here, with the same level of nutrition, just with different ingredients so I am changing up what I am eating every so often. If you could make any other ingredient recommendations, that would be awesome as well!
No worries! Hope you are having a blast!
Ok...not sure if you have seen the other full day menu video I did, but in that video I took out some ingredients that were somewhat redundant in this one. That might be the place to start, then take a look at this video and see what is different. I don't mean to watch the videos, but you could simply print out the ingredient lists. Basically many of the things missing from the simple plan that are in this video could then be used in their own separate meal plan....whoa....does that make sense? Basically this video I made more to show many possible ingredients, so you would not need flax seeds and hemp seeds in one meal, but could be spread out.
One thing that I struggle with is recommendations for a thru hike since that is a different beast than what I am used to--nine more years for mine :) I do play around with a thought in my head that I would buy some bulk bags of some simple things that I could bounce up along the trail as I used them, and things that I could carry many days worth without a lot of extra weight. Top four in my mind would be Chia Seeds, TVP, Nutritional yeast, and some kind of supplement like an Amazing Grass product. I have given up trying to "eat" vitamin C and just bring some supplement with it in it.
Some ingredients that I have been using a lot more of that are not in this video:
cacao nibs (horrible plain, great mixed in something)
coconut milk powder
loving making things easier with Amazing Grass Green Superfood
Calimyrna Figs -- love the natural packaging and ease of counting calories with them while hiking
The other thing I have been messing with making my own electrolyte mix and then I don't have to be so careful with the food supplying them. Easy to mix a bag and bring it and SO MUCH cheaper than buying your own. Hopefully I should have a video up on hydration soon and that will be a part of it.
One thing I have really learned is that I have to be careful about adding enough salt to my meal plan. I never really realized how little salt I had until I made the videos and put all the food into a nutrition tracker. That is the #1 electrolyte you will lose (and everybody loses a different amount), and I feel much better at the end of teh day now that I am consciously adding more salt to my meals.
Not sure how this fits in, but I have also been looking at how I pack my snacks and bringing different things. When you are hiking hard, someone my size and hiking at my speed can't really process more than 300 calories per hour. When I started separating out my snacks, or bringing snacks that are easy to calorie count I simply felt better. So I know that 2 figs and 4 dates are 200 calories....when I was just shoveling in food there would be points where I felt sluggish, which often times made me eat more for "energy," which then had the reverse result of what I wanted. If I do bring a mixed bag of something that adds up to 1200 calories I am more careful to say eat only 1/4 of it only per hour.
Nutrition and hydration is so interesting and I never know how much detail is appropriate in the videos :)
Wow. That was the most comprehensive answer I could have asked for. Thank you for that! I did see a second video, and it seemed to me that there was more bars and less individual "snacks". There is no problem with that and works for most people, but I just really like the idea of how you have it laid out in this video. Eating something for breakfast and then snacking slowly and consistently seems like the way to go for me. No big meals that really fill me up and make me sluggish, just nice sustained energy levels. But yes, I will definitely compare and contrast the two lists and see what ingredients I could rotate in and out.
You did get me thinking of making homemade energy bars though in another video (which was also fantastic), but I was wondering if you had any experience with the shelf life of the ones you made? Sorry to be asking about another video in this comment! RUclips faux paux!
I have thought about those ingredients, especially the coconut powder. I also prefer carob over cacao nibs, just in case you haven't used them before.
I am definitely waiting for an electrolyte video. I must admit I know virtually nothing about it, so it will be a real eye opener.
Thank you so much for your help Paul, you have really helped me lay the groundwork for my plan. I think I am at a good starting place!
Thats basically what I expected in terms of shelf life. I wasn't sure if any residual moisture from the fruit could make the nuts go rancid, but I believe a month is a pretty good testament to that. I know seeds and nuts are a bit more prone to going bad, so I will need to come up with a good way to keep them for longer thru hikes and things. I guess keeping them whole will do the trick.
Thats funny, it seems like our experiences are just completely switched. My girlfriend loves cacao nibs and has been sneaking me some in our foods for years now. Even today I can still tell when it's in there. She recently brought home a bag of carob chips and I ended up eating the whole bag that night. I agree with the pasty/waxy thing that they have going for them, but I find it tolerable. Thats funny about your daughter though. History repeats itself!
I did just see your video on "deconstructed energy bars" and thought it was great (here I go commenting on another video). It got me thinking about completely changing up my cold soaking routine. I am thinking of basically non-stop cold soaking throughout the whole day in a Gatorade bottle, and drinking it all day long and eating bars and things for snacks. In my head, that means I can keep a steady dietary intake all day long, rather than having spikes of food that aren't being absorbed efficiently. Plus, because I'm drinking it as a "smoothie", I don't need a spoon which easily saves me an ounce or two on my base weight! Any thoughts to that system?
Wow...literally was driving home from Boston today and in my head planned out a video on drinking calories :) i hope to film it Monday.
Awesome video man! Great ideas
Thanks! Chia seeds rule!
My favorite ultralight vegan foods... Coconut milk powder is an excellent tasty and light weight high calorie food that can be added to many things. Coconut water powder is awesome for electrolytes. Powdered nut butter is great. Spirulina is a complete and super dense nutritious protein and can be added to water on the go. Chia and hemp seeds are also great. Chia also helps the body pace water absorption for less waste through urine. You can add them to hot water and stir for a couple minutes and they’ll be ready to eat right away. Flavor with some freeze dried berries. Other than that, I like to mix vegan green powder with protein powder for an oatmeal booster. Last but not least, Matcha for smooth balanced energy! (You can check out www.EcotopiaRising.com for high grade organic matcha that saves an acre of rainforest & endangered species for every tin sold!) 🍵🌎💗
I'm still amazed some dude did the PCT on just Snickers bars, cheers for the video been looking to start making my own mixes. I dig man, thumbs up & subbed
Not sure about this video, but in some I have joked that in my 20's I could "survive" just fine on twizzlers and chips ahoy cookies. I am amazed at what I did on crappy food. Looking back, I think about what I could have done if I had been putting in some proper fuel and what the long term effects were. You can drive your car for a year without adding and changing oil....it will "survive" just fine. But if you keep it up, eventually, it breaks down.
where did you find soy milk powder?
I ordered it online from Amazon. I no longer use it though, now I'll just usually add a little protein powder. Not for the protein but to give it a Milky flavor. The soy powder can end up tasting a bit gritty :-) and I have some oat milk powder coming tomorrow that I'm going to try, we'll see how that tastes!
@@PaultheBackpacker wow oat milk powder sounds a lot better. Will have to try to find it in my city.
I also used to use coconut milk, but too hard to simply clean sometimes. I have used dessicated coconut. Not "milky," but adds some nice flavor.
Great video
Hi Paul!
So, you don't have lunch? Just snacks? Or the couscous is the lunch?
Tks!
Funny you left this comment today. I was driving home today from a trip and thought that on my next trip I am going to go totally "meal-less." I never really sit and have "lunch." It is always just snacks, and when I brought the couscous it usually ended up being breakfast, but usually it was getting dumped into dinner. But for the last 5ish months I found myself never eating breakfast, and many times I would end up bringing it home, so I stopped bringing a breakfast and just making that "snacks." I actually did bring some home made muesli on this trip, and brought home half of it. I dumped it in a food processor, added some figs and dates to make it stick together in bars, and have pretty much decided that is the future of my "breakfast." i think that fits better into my hiking style and how I would be digesting food. If you are putting in miles your body is not processing more than 250-300 calories an hour, sop to sit and have a breakfast with more calories than that just get you off to a sluggish feeling start. It never seemed sluggish because that is just how I always felt, but when my breakfast is "snacks" I just feel better.
Hi Paul! Thank you for your reply!
I am trying different foods and I will try a few of what you showed in your video. But I still prefer to have a hot meal for dinner!
Tks!
Pedro
you can add seaweed wraps(homemade), sun-dried tomatoes, Different homemade nut butters(like almond butter, sunflower butter, pastachio butter, etc.)!!! :D miso paste maybe(the real stuff doesn't need refrigeration). corn tortilla chips with nutritional yeast is an awesome snack too! I make seaweed wraps with nori sheets(get a huge bag of 100 or more sheets at the asian market), a little sunflower butter, miso paste, and just 1 or 2 drops of sesame oil. Those wraps are delicious... chewy too. some people use different filling and make seaweed jerky. You can mix different flavors with the nut butter on the go to make either different sweet nut butters(like chocolate almond), or different savory flavors(like sunbutter miso, or cashew butter miso with nutritional yeast). p.s. you can make homemade sunbutter in a food processor and it only takes 10 min. or less. you can save a TON of money by making everything yourself.
Paul Bogush yeah, you pretty much got everything smack down! :D making homemade meals is great! I like to smother different butters all over everything and add different things to make them taste either savory or sweet depending on my apetite.
Thanks
This is so useful. Thank you. Would it be possible to fix the link to the doc, it doesn't appear to work anymore.
@@PaulBogush That's strange. Was getting an error on my desktop but it seems to be working now on my mobile.
Do you have any plans to do a video on what TVP is, why a dried flattened banana not banana chips, what are plantain chips, why sea salt etc?
Also what’s your dessert? Is it a mouse or a milkshake? I’m not sure sorry!
It's textured vegetable protein. Basically it's a fake meat. It's actually not too bad if you mix it with the right stuff like make tacos or lasagne or spaghetti. I grew up eating it, I hated it but not anymore (now I actually have a choice haha).
Sorry I did not see this comment until right now when @temps responded and it bounced a notification to me. My next video is actually going to be a little bit on TVP, and then share a better alternative to it. And I was literally just thinking yesterday that I should really do some quick one ingredient videos. So some quick answers--TVP coming up, dried flattened bananas over chips because slightly more nutritious and provides a texture very different than other food so it keeps me eating when it's HOT and I don't want to bother. It is more milkshake, but amount of liquid changes the consistency....less liquid and it could be oatmeal consistency.
This video is very interesting. A very much appreciate it
Thank you for geeking out over hiking food and sharing it! I saw such a change when I started eating good on trail. Something you should try is dehydrated quinoa. Has more substance than couscous.
What's weird is I must have eaten too much quinoa at some point in my life :) That is one thing I have no desire to eat anymore. We used to eat it all the time and guess I just got tired of it!
great video for us stoveless vegans
Sounds like a name of a really bad indie band..."The Stoveless Vegans"
I'm just getting into backpacking, and I had this exact same thought when combing through these countless thru-hike videos, "what the F are these people eating??? and why??" I'm not actually veg/vegan and I'm not a nutritionist or anything, but I try to stay away from clearly terrible processed foods. And breaking everything down into simply how many "energy units" (calories) food has, while completely ignoring the actual nutritional content your body will take in from the food, seems a short-sighted and one-dimensional way to approach things. I'm not a purist, but even the "health bars" seem dubious at best if you have any small clue about how nutrition works.
I profess my ignorance though, having never done a 6-month hike: Is there no way to get better, actually nutritious food at these stops along the way?
I think the answer is yes and no....and I am not a thru hiker. At some resupply's it might be a dollar store, sometimes just a fancy connivance store attached to a gas station. So often folks are not in control of what they get to pick. I just think that sometimes what people buy at dollar stores is "misleading." Stocking up on "fig bars" is not getting you many figs :) I do want to maybe do a video where I go Dollar Store shopping and try to stock up for 5 days with only dollar store food. I do equate a lot of thru hiker videos I have seen to people on cross country auto trips just worrying about filling up their cars on gas and forgetting about the oil and coolant. But still, even when people find high quality grocery stores, I have see plenty of people walk out with bags of Doritos strapped to their pack.
I am not sure how I would approach it. Maybe a bounce box with some staples inside, or maybe pack extra amounts that could last a few resupplies of things that do not weigh much. I do think I would rely on a good supplement. Was thinking maybe my box would consist of chia seeds, Amazing Grass Supplement, maybe some nutritional yeast, and a good protein powder. I don't want to to rely on a lot of junk food to give me my main nutrition, and figuring with a days supply of those junk food could just supplement the difference when needed. Don't want my protein to come from Slim Jims :)
I think part of it is the age of the people giving advice in the videos. I just found in a book my original meal plan that I used when I was in my early 20's. What I could survive on then certainly would not work now. I think the other piece for older hikers giving advice is that they simple so not know better. What they treat as normal trail physical problems....cramps, exhaustion, etc.,...might be alleviated with better nutrition. But if that is all you know....and everyone else has the same problem, I guess then you assume it must just be what is suppose to happen and don't consider that it might be crappy food.
Thank you Paul, I eat a vegan diet as well. I agree the food eaten on the trails are nutritionally deprived. You have some great meal ideas here. I will be consuming a vegan protein powder that is not soy based though, powdered dehydrated greens ... A good protein source is crucial not only for nutrition but that of muscle repair.
YES--looking at protein as a "recovery" ingredient is important. Too many people look at it as something to consume to "build" muscle. Without looking back, I don't remember the exact kind of powder I used in the video, but now I use pea protein. One thing to take into consideration with vegan sources of protein is that your body cannot use all the protein used in vegan sources, and the amino acid make-up is obviously not as complete as meat protein. I think we can convert something like 80% of pea protein...which means if you are aiming for a certain amount of protein you need to consume more than they label for your body to get the same amount. Looking for twenty, need to consume 24. With other vegan sources you would need even more.
Love this video. I would add seaweed to the mix. I'm doing the JMT in July and will use your recipes. Thank you
Funny, the seaweed at Costco is super expensive, so it would blow the budget anyway
glad to see healthier ideas
Just finished my newest "healthier" meal plan tonight. Hope to get that up soon. Thanks for stopping by!
TVP?
Great video (and super-helpful) and thanks for posting the spreadsheet too. I wish more folks promoted food logistics & good nutrition on long hikes. One thing I did on the WCT that worked for me was adding a Starbucks Via and a smidge of cacao to my morning oatmeal (no-cook) for my coffee fix. Caffeine is a very personal thing though and doesn't rock everyone's boat.
Thanks! And I had a bad experience sneaking some of my parents' coffee when I was like 8 and have never had another sip since then :)
New sub #101. Doctor just told me to eat better. Less meat more fruits and vegetables. I backpack almost once a week and take trips once a month. Thanks for the video.
Welcome Jason #101 :) Just took a look at you Pike's Peak video...yes, some of those meals might be tough to give up but it will be worth it! Give your taste buds time to change. Some of the things I eat regularly now I would have never eaten just a few years ago. The reality is no matter how much I want to go back to eating certain things I used to, I simply feel so much better now. The latest video I posted was the diner from this menu being made, and have another next weekend about making the chia pudding from this video. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Hey Paul, what kind of cocoa powder do you use? Is it baking cocoa powder? I'm trying to find some at my local WINCO.
Dope Video! Sending blessing your way, Keep inspiring!🎒🙌🏻