I didn’t take a photo today, apart from the phone selfie for the workout challenge. Just forgot.

This photo is from when I was preparing for my hike a few weeks ago. These are my dinner baggies. I measured and packed the ingredients for each meal separately in advance to make things as easy as possible. When I was out walking and wanted a meal, all I needed to do was to pick a baggie and cook its contents. The kitchen looked a bit like a drug lab, with rows of little plastic bags on the table…

Breakfast is easy. Always porridge for breakfast on a hike. I make my own grain mix for porridge – about half rolled oats and the other half is a mixture of spelt, rye, flax seeds, and wheat bran. There’s a big box of it in the pantry; for the hike all I did was measure and bag it.

Now I think I’ve found the perfect hiking dinner recipe, so dinner will be almost as easy going forward.

0.75 dl of grains
0.75 dl of lentils
~30 g of dried vegetables

Pick any kind of grain that cooks in about 10 to 20 minutes, and combine it with any kind of lentils that cooks in about the same time. It doesn’t matter too much if one of them ends up slightly overcooked. Add vegetables. I prioritized convenience this time and used a ready-made mix of dried “Swedish vegetables” from Friluftsmat.

I made three dinners, all following the same basic recipe but with different details. Cous cous, wheat grain, oat grain; red lentils, puy lentils, black (beluga) lentils. And when it was time to cook them, I added curry powder to one but used bouillon powder to season another, so they ended up tasting like completely different dishes.

I’m very happy with this solution. Great results with very little effort!