When you’re backpacking into the woods to set up camp, filling your pack with lightweight camping supplies and food is key to a comfortable hike. In addition to being perishable, fresh foods can weigh you down. To keep you light on your feet, here are a few easy to pack and carry vegan camping foods.
When you’re backpacking into the woods to set up camp, filling your pack with lightweight camping supplies and food is key to a comfortable hike. In addition to being perishable, fresh foods can weigh you down. To keep you light on your feet, here are a few easy to pack and carry vegan camping foods.
Easy vegan camping food ideas
1. Harmony Valley Vegetarian Breakfast Sausage Mix
Certified vegan, high in soy protein (11 grams per serving), and a good source of fiber, a 5.7-ounce pack of Harmony Valley’s sausage mix will make one pound of hearty breakfast sausage. Simply add water, let sit, and you’ve got the makings for vegan sausage patties, links, or ground sausage to mix with grains and vegetables.
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2. Fantastic World Foods Original Hummus
Transporting 15-ounce cans of beans into the woods can get heavy, but this quick, easy, and gluten-free hummus mix simply needs water and olive oil (pack in a small container). You can buy hummus mix in bulk in some health food store locations or in a 6-ounce box, which will make about 1-1/2 cups. Pack some tortillas, which conveniently lay flat in your pack, and make hummus wraps or simply eat with a spoon.
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3. Everything Mushroom Shiitake and Vegetable Soup Mix
No need to go foraging for soup ingredients, this organic vegan-friendly mushroom soup mix, which comes in a 2.3-ounce package, will feed three to four hungry campers and can be cooked up in 20 minutes. Add extra grains or veggies to the pot to make a heartier vegan meal.
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4. Bob’s Red Mill Organic Quinoa
Plain and simple, quinoa is a quick-cooking seed that is known as a protein-rich “whole grain”. One cup of dry quinoa will make three cups of cooked quinoa — all you add is water — in 10 to 15 minutes. Quinoa can be stirred into vegan sausage, hummus, or soups. You can also add trail mix to quinoa for a breakfast grain salad or add trail mix and warm dairy-free milk for a hot cereal.
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5. Nature’s Flavors Organic Soy Milk Powder
Lugging a couple of half gallons of soy milk isn’t feasible on long treks (unless you just really like the extra weight for a workout). Lighten your load with soy milk powder then just add water to as much as you need at the campsite. Drink it, stir it into dry cereal or dry cereal, swap it into baked goods (if you plan on campsite baking or pancake making), or add it to your pre-hike coffee at sunrise.
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