When it comes to hiking food, we often imagine dehydrated space meals, loaded with preservatives, barely recognizable as an actual dish. It doesn’t have to be like this!

Imagine if you could pull up to camp, tired, weary and have a gourmet babagnoush with crackers as an entree, while pulled pork sliders bubble away on your pocket-sized hiking stove. Enter envious hiking friends, as they drool over your shepherd’s pie created solely over the flames of your campfire.

‘I bet carrying that all day weighed a ton!’ they’ll say, as they try to swallow a piece of chewy cardboard meat, described on the packet as ‘chicken stir-fry’.

‘It weighed 200grams and serves two people, how great’s a dehydrator?’ you’ll say, as their jaws drop to the floor, their taste-buds tingling at the smell. Time to get cooking!

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