Fun Facts About our Food

• Yamnuska Backcountry Kitchen dehydrated dinners entrées are lightweight and ideal for use anywhere a pot and a heat source suitable for cooking is available. We offer individual or group servings in a variety of flavours to satisfy all tastes and common diet requirements.
• The advantages commonly cited for dehydrating food is that it packs up smaller and doesn’t negatively impact taste or nutritional content. We sample a lot of freeze-dried foods for taste and while there are some okay tasting boil in a bag freeze-dried foods on the market, we made the decision when we opened our backcountry kitchen that dehydrating our dinner entrées delivers the best overall combination of texture, taste, and packing size & weight. And we do not add preservatives to any of our dehydrated food.
• We believe you will appreciate our focus on quality when you prepare and eat one of our dinners in the field. Every dried batch of product is tested multiple times to ensure that our standard food-safe moisture level is achieved  This guarantees we deliver the right balance between being able to store our dinners safely outside of the fridge & freezer, and their rehydration performance in the field.
• Our meals are hand-crafted in small batches on a stove top, and in our opinion that’s the most important attribute of our exceptional dinners, and it’s what distinguishes us most from the freesze-dried products sold by international companies. When comparing Yamnuska Backcountry Kitchen dinner entrées to freeze-dried packaged options, please read product nutrution information carefully because what many of the packaged freeze-dried products advertise as enough for two people, is often barely enough to satisfy an average person who is really hungry after an active day in the backcountry!
• Our single meal dehydrated portions and custom food services assume you are active and hungry while in the backcountry so our portions are generous. Read our calorie planning entry in our blog for great information about calorie needs while active in the backcountry Also, each of our packaged dehydrated dinner entrées comes with the nutrition information you require to make the best food decision for you.
• Yamnuska Backcountry Kitchen’s delicious dehydrated backpacking and camping meals are hand-crafted from fresh high quality ingredients in our commercial kitchen by our red seal chef. It seems pretty straight forward to us that high-quality ingredients yield high-quality real food. The ingredients of our meals are carefully selected and are constantly under review and imporovement based on feedback from the field.
• Alberta is arguably North America’s beef capital and with an abundant and diverse agricultural industry we have access to exceptional organic and non-organic fresh foods. We buy locally and regionally as much as possible and many of our dried herbs and spices come from all over the world.
• All of our recipes are designed to balance taste, nutrition and carrying weight to meet the rigourous physical demands of mountain adventure activities.  You can enjoy Canadian Bison Stew, Lamb Curry, Shepherd’s Pie, Beef Chili, various vegetarian selections and many other dehydrated dinner entrée selections on our backcountry food menu.
• While others may be eating a handful of freeze-dried ingredients tossed in a bag by a machine in a bulk production factory outside of Canada, you will be eating our meals knowing that each of Yamnuska Backcountry Kitchen’s dehydrated dinner entrées has been hand-crafted with care and attention and in small batches to ensure quality, your safety and your enjoyment!

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