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.

My backpacking trips tend to involve two markedly different approaches to eating. If I’m backpacking alone, I favor dehydrated camping meals (usually Firepot Mac n’ Greens) that I can whip up quickly ...

If sliced bread was a clever invention, dehydrated meals are genius. Lightweight, compact, long-lasting, and high in energy, all of the meals listed below can be prepared by simply adding hot water.

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 ...

Adam Roy is the executive editor of Backpacker. He lives in Colorado’s Front Range, where he spends his free time hiking, climbing, and running his home mountains. I’m a former professional chef and ...

This experiment explores making a dehydrated low-carb meal with freeze-dried cheese, breaking down taste, texture, ...

A Durango-based company with ties to Boulder is now selling its dehydrated meals and instant lattes in Sprouts grocery stores nationwide. Farm to Summit, founded in 2021, focuses on creating healthy, ...

Farm to Summit is a small dehydrated foods company in Durango with a taste for adventure, and it’s about to expand operations by about five times its current productivity – while supporting local ...

Ever pull a jar of dried apples from the pantry and find one sticky clump stuck to the side? That’s the kind of surprise that can turn into mold later. To Condition Dehydrated Food, you let the dried ...

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.