Simple Foods for the Pack: Sierra Club Books. This item is unavailable.Simple Foods for the Pack: Sierra Club Books

Featuring more than 180 trail-tested recipes for portable, delicious, and easy-to-prepare meals, this updated edition of the original - and best - natural foods backpacking cookbook adds Cordon Bleu chef's expertise to delight the palates of backpackers and day-hikers. It stresses variety and tastiness, with special attention to nourishment, nutritional balance, low cost, and health.
Mouth-watering recipes include Moroccan couscous, hot and sour soup, salmon in tomato-orange sauce, chocolate fudge pudding, and walnut spice cake. These foods are easily packed and use lightweight and long-lasting ingredients. The cookbook also provides menus; makes suggestions for foods prepared at home; and offers tips on packaging and carrying foods, selecting tools and utensils, medical information, use of fires, treating water, and where to buy ingredients.

This is a recipe book specifically for campers and hikers who want high-protein, nutritious meals that taste good. It includes sections on staple foods, basic equipment, foods to make at home for quick, high-energy boosts and has dozens of recipes for soups, breads, seafood, grains and more, all of which can be cooked while camping out. Each recipe has a prepare-at-home section to ensure fuss free cooking once your trip is under way. It also has a section on natural remedies for ailments common to climbers and campers.