Dehydrated Dinner Entrées

Include our hand-crafted dehydrated dinners in your next backcountry adventure.

Yamnuska Backcountry Kitchen dehydrated dinner entrées are the high performance meal you deserve in the backcountry when a single pot and a suitable heat source is available!

Our dehydrated dinner entrées are flavourful, nutritious, light-in-weight, compact-in-size, and, they are easy to prepare.

Some people believe that “good enough” will do when it comes to backcountry food. We respectfully disagree!

Yamnuska Backcountry Kitchen

Food Services Menu

For nearly 45 years, Yamnuska Mountain Adventures has been guiding guests professionally in the Canadian Rockies. It’s our home, our playground, and we have extensive experience feeding clients from all over the world while they participate with us in our backcountry adventure & education programs. We love sharing our expertise with you through the professional food services we offer in the Yamnuska Backcountry Kitchen, and through the tips and insights we post on our Backcountry Kitchen blog. Here is a menu of the food services we offer. Please visit our food services page for complete information.

Backcountry Camping – Custom Menu & Provisioning

Planning a menu that meets the tastes, provides the calories and delivers the nutrition needed by groups and individuals while backcountry camping, is complex. It requires careful consideration of the season, expected weather, and the activities planned. Begin a chat about engaging our custom menu and provisioning services for your next backcountry camping trip.

Ingredients being prepared with leafy greens ready to serve with dehydrated meals.

Cauliflower cut and rinsed in a colander, Paris, France.

Backcountry Hut Trips – Full and Partial Food Programs

When choosing our backcountry food service for your family or group, we will customize our menu for your tastes & diet needs, and, for the calories needed to meet the physical demands of your planned backcountry adventure.

Creating your Own Menu – Dehydrated Dinner Entrées

Our dinners provide a great range of flavour options to compliment any single or multi-day backcountry menu you create. Yamnuska Bacouncountry Kitchen dehydrated dinner entrées are also perfect for your family or business emergency preparedness kit.

Zucchini carefully diced and prepped for dehydrated meals.

Domestic & International Visitors – Full Food Programs

When you are concerned about high quality food availability and simply don’t have the time to source it locally upon arrival, we can provide dinners and other food products to ease your provisioning burden when you arrive in the Bow Valley to prepare for your backcountry adventure in the Canadian Rocky Mountains.

High grade yams selected and prepared to add in dehydrated dinners.

Day Trips – Packed Fresh Trail Lunches

With 48 hours notice, we can prepare group backcountry trail lunch orders for pickup in Canmore Alberta at a time that works for your itinerary. The foundation of our fresh packed lunches is a hearty sandwich hand-crafted from a variety of fillings, breads, cheeses and vegetable garnishes to satisfy your tastes.

Military and Other Large Groups – Bulk Orders & Food Programs

Backcountry work camps for geological exploration, logging, seismic mapping, wildlife surveillance, and military base camps, are all ideal for our food programs. And, if your business is responsible for large numbers of staff, bulk orders from Yamnuska Backountry Kitchen are also perfect for stocking your business’s emergency preparedness kit.

Dehydrated Food

The Yamnuska Backcountry Kitchen operates from our commercial facility in Canmore, Alberta, Canada. We offer a full range of backcountry food services and a wide variety of packaged-to-order dehydrated dinner entrées prepared by our red seal chef.

hiking and backpacking hut in the rockies