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The Well-Fed Backpacker

The Well-Fed Backpacker
By June Fleming

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A vastly expanded edition. Offers a long list of food sources, new material on drying techniques and many more winter meals to provide heat and sustenance on an icy hike. Haute hiking menus for spring, summer, fall, and winter.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #144459 in Books
  • Brand: Liberty Mountain
  • Published on: 1986-02-12
  • Released on: 1986-02-12
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 192 pages

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A vastly expanded edition. Offers a long list of food sources, new material on drying techniques and many more winter meals to provide heat and sustenance on an icy hike. Haute hiking menus for spring, summer, fall, and winter.

Customer Reviews

You can't go wrong with June5
I like my backcountry meals to come together easily at home from easily purchased ingredients, to be very lightweight, and to cook quickly in camp so they don't waste time and fuel. At the same time, I can't stand most packaged meals and find that simply adding boiling water to a packaged meal yields only UFOs: Unidentifiable (and inedible) Floating Objects. I'm not interested in wasting time, money, and weight on being "gourmet" in the backcountry. *The Well-Fed Backpacker* by June Fleming strikes the perfect balance for me. For her recipes that I like the best, the shopping is easy, the preparation at home and in camp is easy, the weight is light (especially Cheesy Bacospuds), and the taste is good to great. This is the most practical recipe book for backpackers that I know of.

This Is The One4
I went over the backpacking cookbooks offered on Amazon using the extremely useful viewable pages, and selected the three I thought were best. Of the three I purchased, the Well-Fed-Backpacker is notably more informative. It is in that class of books known as perennial favorites, first published in 1976 and still a very strong book today in its third edition. If you are buying one or three as I did, be sure to include this book.

Very good, basic guide to backpacking cooking.4
Many excellent trail-tested recipes and good advice. Prices and gear slightly dated now. Doesn't include information about weights of things. Otherwise very good and includes many useful tips. The recipes are varied and delicious and discuss packaging and things like that