What Are the Superior Trail Snacks? – Podcast S3 Ep13

In this episode, we cover the important topics of nutrition, by playing the game soup, salad or sandwich, and asking probing questions such as: can anything be a chip? And is peanut butter sweet or savoury?

After a huge call from our Assistant Editor that Jatz Tim Tams are better than the originals, we got to thinking – what weird and wonderful snacks do our audience take hiking? We threw the question out to you on Instagram and people came back with some pretty quirky answers.

Have a listen!

In This Episode We Cover

• Hiking snacks
• Overland Track
• Hiking nutrition
• Dehydrating meals
• Ready-made meals – shout out to On Track Meals
• Trail drinks

Show Notes

Dehydrated Tex Mex rice

On Track Meals review

Radix Nutrition review

Dehydrated and freeze dried hiking meals review

Aidan’s Skippy Jerky ‘Recipe’

We always winged it and it never failed:

1. Cut your kangaroo fillets into thin strips.
2. In a bowl, combine soy sauce and honey, or use teriyaki sauce (any marinate you like works really).
3. Add in finely grated garlic and ginger.
   1. If you want, dry rubs of spices also work.
4. Allow to marinate in a covered bowl for at least a few hours.
5. Remove strips and let them drip, then add to the dehydrator and run for 24 hours.
6. Keep checking for optimal firmness. This will depend on your dehydrator but you don’t want to completely dry out the jerky, it should be just a little soft.
7. Try not to eat it all in the car on the way to the trailhead.

Enjoy this episode? Listen to the next episode with Tim and Amy, it’s full of outdoor hot takes. Or if you’re after something different, learn how nature saved Kane Ford’s life.

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