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Backpacking Food & Fire: Pemmican and Trail Food

Pemmican, trail food and cooking outdoors.

Backpacking food that is dense, simple and made from real ingredients.

Pemmican is the original trail food — rendered fat and dried meat that keeps for months and carries more energy per ounce than anything in a foil pouch. Start with how to make pemmican, then see how it fits into a full menu in paleo trail foods for backpacking.

For how the founder eats today, read the peak performance diet for outdoor adventures. Fire and camp-cooking notes are being written from the book and will land here.

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Peak Performance Diet for Outdoor Adventures

Food can make or break any expedition because proper food is crucial to keeping the body going during rigorous adventures. I figured out how to bring paleo foods on my backpacking trips and experienced phenomenal improvements in health and performance. Here, our body’s are challenged like nothing in our day to day life. Also during

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Hearty Trail Foods for the Paleo Carnivore Backpacker 

Until recently is wasn’t easy to find packable animal-based foods which were ready for the trail. On a recent backpacking trip I tried some of the new convenient grass-fed, ready-to-go primal super foods and was delighted with the results. My menu consisted of a combination: This menu proved to be delicious (with an acquired taste),

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