4 Day, Plant Based, Vegan, Cold Soak, Backpacking Meal plan

[@LM-dg1hl]

Fellow vegan here and wannabe thru hiker. This is such a smart hiking meal plan! I love that you made it cold soak, too. Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge with us. ☮️

[@PaultheBackpacker]

No wannabe thru hikers...just pick a year and go :) Just not next year, all the folks who did not go this year will be filling up the trail next year!

[@diegomillan2806]

Man, I see only 2 videos of your channel and I really love him. Greetings from Chile

[@PaultheBackpacker]

Thank you, lots of other food videos here :)

[@everest1sierra2]

Would love to see how to make the "all nutrition cookies" that you said aren't on your channel yet. I would also be interested in learning about how to make the blueberry leather. (And, actually, any of the recipes you care to share!!) Did you just dehydrate canned jackfruit? Thanks for all of these ideas, it is always good to get some healthier ideas for on the trail!

[@PaultheBackpacker]

There is a video for one of the three cookies on the channel already and they are the best :) I start with the canned Jackfruit, add the spices, the hummus and dehydrate. The hummus happened quite by accident. I had always wanted to try and dehydrate it and one day my wife had extra on her plate from dinner along with some left over humus. I mixed the two together and it as great. The video for this would probably have to say vegan pulled pork :) I am going to do a series of food videos in July and will add the Jackfruit as one of them.

[@Gabsloch]

This is awesome :) I am planning a backpacking trip for August and there are not many videos on vegan backpacker meals! I am new to this and this really helps!

[@PaultheBackpacker]

I just fixed the link in the description....they will lead to most of the other food videos on the channel.

[@timfarness5136]

Hi Paul, I'm a meat eater who still watches your videos. I really like the Thanks Giving in a jar. I do like it hot better in a food jar for work. Sometimes I substatute cos cos for the patatos.

[@PaultheBackpacker]

I do the same thing with couscous!

[@julialineburg4980]

Thanks

[@susietopspin]

I’m a vegan and current section hiker, hope to be thru hiker. Thanks for doing this and happy trails. 🤘🏻🥾⛰️

[@shananigans_outside]

Definitely look forward to these videos! Gives me different ideas. Thank you 😊

[@Maria-yf8fp]

Thanks Paul! I've been wanting a dehydrator, got to take the plunge.

[@PaultheBackpacker]

In a couple weeks I am going to do a series of videos about simple things you can do with a dehydrator. They key for me is not putting it away :) If I keep it on the counter I use it a lot....until my wife declares that she is tired of it on the counter :) My dehydrator was a $40 open box special that has worked out great.

[@miken7629]

I don't know if nuts are vegan, but I usually bring a 1 pound bag of Pecan halves which gives me 600 of my daily calories for 5 days. At 200 calories per ounce, they are the highest calorie density food I have found and are mostly protein, fat, and high fiber. Walnuts are close at 3000 calories per pound.

[@PaultheBackpacker]

Yep, nuts are definitely vegan :-) as long as they're not wrapped in bacon!

[@ScrabblerVid]

These videos are great. Wish there was also a written version of the items/recipes.

[@PaultheBackpacker]

On almost every video...except this one....the ingredients are in the description with a full nutritional work-up.

[@ScrabblerVid]

@@PaultheBackpacker Maybe it doesn't show in mobile? I've only seen it once in the cookie video.

[@AMostlyFunctionalJess]

That blueberry leather looks really interesting, well, it all looks really interesting to be honest!

[@PaultheBackpacker]

The blueberries and chia seeds are great, and then you can just add anything else you'd like. I think the one in the video has cashews and sunflower seeds too.

[@AMostlyFunctionalJess]

Awesome! Time to experiment

[@dredpiratesnoop2607]

I found the channel bc I do a lot of camping and need some ideas for healthier meal choices anyway I liked the look of the food so I subbed ... time to buy a dehydrator i think

[@PaultheBackpacker]

Welcome aboard! I am thinking about doing a series of dehydrator videos in August. I think often it seems too complicated, but it can be done so simply.

[@AllenSchubert]

Wow!...I've seen some videos where fellow vegans post about what they will eat (usually regarding thru hikes), but this is by far the healthiest vegan hiking meal plan I've seen! (Well, unless you have wheat issues.) ... Do you take this same care for your meals at home? (That question was really irrelevant to the topic, but just wondering if you are this thorough about daily eating at home.)

[@PaultheBackpacker]

No wheat in any of the meals, and gluten free oats :) and yes, I eat pretty much the same stuff at home, just with a whole lot more greens. I am a big fan of the smoothie! Actually, the only thing in this menu that I rarely eat at home are the tortillas. I totally forgot they had flour. Didn't even think of it because that is just a backpacking only thing that gets purchased. We do have a variety of gluten-free, flour free tortillas that we would normally eat as a family. And I honestly can't remember the last time there was a pita in the house! I asked my daughter to get some tortillas for me and she said that was the only thing they had that was close to it left in the store.

[@sjoyce4824]

Just came across these videos. Love them! You make it make sense. Have you made a cookbook yet??

[@PaultheBackpacker]

No cookbook yet! Thanks for stopping by :)

[@sfmarckx]

Hi Paul, Thank you for another highly informative and inspiring backpacking food video! You might consider filing some of these ideas away in a document for a future recipe book. I would definitely be interested, just to have all of this information in a single easy to access place. I keep learning new things from your videos. We have been playing with soy curl recipes here thanks to one of your past videos. I hope you had/have a wonderful trip. I'm still hoping the backcountry opens around here for overnights so I can get out. I've got a sheet of silicone coming in a few days to try to make a gasket between the lid and pot of one of my titanium pots to maybe be able to rig it up with rubber bands or compression straps holding it together for a metal cold soak container. I'll let you know if I figure out something that works. All the best, Scott

[@PaultheBackpacker]

The lid doe not have to be "airtight." Using a jar with a lid is something I just started doing in the last couple of years. Usually it was just a bowl. Now of course a bowl does not give you the option of soaking things as you come into or leave camp :) I actually have pushed my trip back a few days. It was just too hot and buggy and the weather seems like it will break soon. The heat is one thing that I don't like but can deal with, it is the deer flies right now. If I leave my little front yard where there are trees as soon as I get to tree cover I can't go any further without a head covering. They are big nasty things that hurt! Google Deer Fly Tape :) Hoping by putting off the trip a few days the cooler night temps might help with the flies.

[@JennaDanelle]

Can you share where you get the powdered tomato powder and the sloppy joe mix you use? Loved this video - it is so great to see how you really plan and pack your food - I'd love this sort of meal plan on the trail. I don't have a dehydrator yet but man this video has me thinking I really do need to take the plunge on a small one.

[@PaultheBackpacker]

I don't remember what tomato powder was. Not committed to just one brand, and even right now in the house it's put into the generic jars to hold it instead of keeping it in the original bag. I don't get it very often, you really don't need that much recipe. Same with the sloppy joe mix, I just pick up whatever I find in a store. I literally just cleaned out my backpacking food box last weekend and threw out the sloppy Joe mix since I had used half the bag a while ago and the rest was getting pretty old so I can't go and look at that brand for you either.

[@JennaDanelle]

@@PaultheBackpacker I have just never seen powdered tomato at the store before, lol. I will see what I can find online. Thanks! :-)

[@PaultheBackpacker]

It was something like this www.amazon.com/Dried-Tomato-Powder-1-25LB-Natural/dp/B08FXW2DSY/ref=mp_s_a_1_11?dchild=1&keywords=powdered+tomatoes&qid=1634435124&sr=8-11

[@JennaDanelle]

@@PaultheBackpacker thank you. :-) I found the sloppy joe mix too! I am excited about that one! It is def going on my food list for my next hike!

[@luboyanev]

Thank you for sharing, as always getting many new ideas from your videos for backpacking meals to try out! Btw. the first 3 links in the description seems to be broken when I try to open them on my pc..

[@PaultheBackpacker]

Thank you for telling me about the links. It appears the website I used to shorten the links no longer exists, which means throughout all my videos all the shortened links don't work and have to be replaced!

[@luboyanev]

@@PaultheBackpacker Thank you, it works now, Happy hiking trip!

[@Journeysofdad]

I'm a complete carnivore and I watched the entire thing lol. Well done!

[@PaultheBackpacker]

Not sure if I mentioned it in this video, but I was eating vegan as a Backpacker long before I ever carried it over to my regular life. So much easier and cleanup is reduced to practically zero because there's no animal products.

[@Journeysofdad]

@@PaultheBackpacker only thing I couldn't handle is eating beans dehydrated lol. More power to ya. But ya I have many friends who live this lifestyle. I'm from upstate NY. Lots of vegan and vegetarians here.

[@DetraDearmas]

So I hit your channel by accident. Whole food vegan no added fat or sugar is my thing. So do you dehydrate or buy tomato powder and all that stuff, cause it looks like I'm doing this the hard way. I make chilli, Spanish rice, or whatever to dehydrate dinner, carry wraps for lunch, and soak the oatmeal breakfast. My grandkids (11 and under not vegan because of dad) loves to go vegan backpacking with me. So in fixing for 2 kids that need to carry their own food.

[@PaultheBackpacker]

I'm pretty sure this is the only meal on the entire Channel which I had some stuff that I dehydrated. I do buy tomato powder dehydrated, no way it's even close to being worth to doing that myself.

[@jenskimble]

I am ready to try some of this stuff, but I have a question about greens. There are no greens in any of this?

[@PaultheBackpacker]

Some greens in the muffins/cookies, and instead of greens there's lots of fruit throughout, this was more of a quickly thrown together meal plan, but even in my other more thought out meal plans you can get all the nutrition, fiber, vitamins and minerals, without all the greens for backpacking. And if you really want to go greens, doing some powdered greens is an easy thing to do.

[@joanketelby752]

@@PaultheBackpacker Ha! I didn't know that. Thanks.

[@markcummings6856]

I like it 👍

[@jojolly54]

Seitan...say-tahn.