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"Foraged" Miso Mushroom Soup

Ingredients

  • 2x GF Instant Miso packets with tofu and wakame

  • Dried Kale snack OR foraged Stinging Nettle

  • Costco Gourmet dried mushrooms OR foraged mushrooms (chicken of the woods or lions mane)

  • Optional rice noodles

  • Optional salami

Cooking instructions:

You can use the fat in pork sausage, or if you carry a little olive oil to lightly fry foraged finds (mushrooms- make sure you are 100% sure what you have found). Or, just boil a nearly full pot of water and throw it all in! Add the miso packets, dried mushrooms, kale, and follow noodle packet instructions if you are using them.

Pesto noodles with sundried tomatoes

Ingredients

  • 1 Pesto powder packet

  • Sundried tomatoes

  • 2x Mozzarella string cheese (this keeps for 3 - 4 days unrefrigerated)

  • 2 rice noodle cakes

  • Dehydrated vegetables

  • Forage for additional greens

  • Protein (like hard sausage that keeps unrefrigerated for several days)

Cooking instructions:

Put noodles and dried veg + dried tomatoes in pot (+ foraged greens). Just barely cover with water. Cook for 5 minutes - most of the water will be absorbed. Add pesto powder. Shred your string cheese and add while still hot. Top with a protein. YUM!

Backpacking “Pad Thai”

Ingredients:

  • Peanut butter powder

  • Garlic powder

  • Ginger powder

  • Salt, pepper, spices

  • Cashews or other nuts for crunch

  • Tamari packets

  • Dehydrated vegetables

  • Rice noodles

  • An extra protein (if wanted- like a tuna packet, tvp, chicken, jerky, etc.)

Packing Instructions:

  1. In a snack size ziploc, fill most of the way with peanut butter powder (⅓ to 1/2 cup), and a teaspoon each of garlic and ginger. Large pinch of salt and black pepper, plus any other spices (I like to add cayenne).

Mexican Rice Bowl or Tacos

Ingredients:

  • Taco seasoning packet (from store or DIY with home spices in a baggie)

  • Tuna or chicken packet

  • Fast cook rice (RightRice or other pre-parboiled rice) or Corn Tortillas

  • Sundried tomatoes

  • Foraged greens and/or dried veggies or dried kale snack

  • Cashews or other nuts for crunch

  • Mini packaged guac if you are feeling extra fancy, or string cheese

Instructions Mix protein packet and taco spices Cook “rice” and/or veggies if needed, otherwise just lay out your tortillas Soften sundried tomatoes and veg into a sort of “salsa” with a small amount of cold water Add your guac or some shreds of a cheese stick Mix it all together- it’s surprisingly pretty good.