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.

These packable meals will last for months and have way less sodium. This is where DIY dehydrated meals come in. By using a dehydrator, which costs about $40, cutting your food into thin slices, making ...

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These three-ingredient backpacking meals are filling, affordable, and, with only three ingredients, couldn't be easier to ...

I’m a former professional chef and food writer, and I used to agonize over my backcountry meals. How much water-laden fresh produce was I willing to haul into the wild? How many microcontainers of ...

Welcome to Pouch Wars, a monthly taste-test of dehydrated backpacking meals. We’ve surveyed the market, sampling both big, corporate brands and tiny cottage operations in our search for the very best.

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 ...