More hiking food ideas with a vegetarian flavour

Vegetarian hiking food?
Tasty vegetarian treats from an experienced hiker and bushwalker?
Simple vegetarian food ideas for a multi day hiking trip?

Clare give us her ideas to keep any vegetarian happy with a full stomach on a hiking trip.


Clare, our eldest daughter, is in the second year of an Outdoor Education degree. She has done a lot of walks over the last two years and before that she worked at Wallangarra Outdoor Education Centre taking young people hiking in the mountains of East Gipplsand. Click on "Read More" to see her ideas

BREAKFAST:
I'm a cereal girl and just measure it into which ever bowl I'm going to take
so I can see how much it looks like and then put that in a zip lock bag.
Other ideas that people from uni use: A guy I know hates muesli so took
bagels on a ski touring trip, eggs, dehydrates baked beans apparently come up
alright, porridge, Burcher muesli as well

LUNCH:
Wraps (those taco types, they don't get too stale too fast, I like the taste
and they fill me up a bit more)
Then in them I add:
Tuna
I carry a block of cheese, just slice it up out there
sprouts (cheap and don’t go bad fast)
carrots
fresh beetroot
Avocado
sweet peas
tomato
dip of some sort
really what ever I feel like when I'm at the supermarket

DINNER:
I take fresh food which is different to Mum and Dad, I'm a vego, and love fresh veggies, so depending on the length of the hike I take as much fresh as I can.

Korma:
In a film canister I add together, 1 tsp of ground coriander, 1 tsp of
ground cumin, 1 tsp of chilli flakes and 1/2 tsp of turmeric.
I take a sachet of tomato paste
1 sachet of coconut milk powder
onion/garlic
array of vegies and dried mushrooms

fry up onion, garlic and spices, add mixed up coconut milk and tomato paste,
then add any vegies. Cook until vegies are desired texture. Serve with
couscous or rice.

It's really light

I have also just started taking a packet Tom Yum soup with rice noodles and
adding fresh vegies to that.

Pasta and pesto with parmesan cheese is an old fav and again I just add some vegies.

I did an 18 day bush walk at the start of the year and it was amazing to see
what people ate, some people ate dehydrated spag bol for every second night, some
had fresh veggies and cheese for the whole time ("It's fine just cut the
green bits off, I think a lot of people would pay for this cheese"),
I generally had each meal three times, once a week.

One girl just dehydrated fresh vegies and combined them in lots of different
ways (carrot, zucchini, and capsicum in one packet and broccoli, beans and
carrot in another for example), then each night she would add different
sauces, spices, pesto, or herbs to create different meals with different
grains.

I suppose there are just some other ideas using fresher ingredients. It is up to you what you enjoy or how much effort you want to put into preparation and cooking.

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