Bushwalk Australia

I need some ideas. My go to lunch for hiking has always been a small salami and biscuits etc. However I have just been diagnosed with a meat allergy that limits me to chicken and fish after being bitten by ticks too many times :/ so I need to plan some other options for lunch and also for dinner as many of the prepacked rice meals etc have things like bacon or meat extract flavourings

For lunch try dehydrated hummus. There is a thread on here about a year ago. The recipe was also published in the Bushwalk Australia e magazine.

For evening meals I occasionally use various versions of tvp (textured vegetable protein) available from most indian food shops, mainly in currys, but tend to avoid the flavour sachets included with many of them. I suspect the flavour sachets are far more dangerous than real meat.

We dehydrate tinned fish mixed with mayo and mustard seed and also dehydrate hummus then rehydrate either in the morning or the night before for multi day hikes. These get gobbled down with vita wheat 7 seed crackers


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I got some salmon jerky ages ago from the Tassal shop in Hobart but haven't seen any since. Wonder if its worth DIY? I very much liked it. On the Overland a number of people did use those small tins of tuna or I guess you could use the tinfoil sachets now available. Tins are always extra weight - in the car I keep the sardine-can-sized tins of smoked rainbow trout from Aldis

Sirena have "Premium Tuna Fillet" in sachets which are nicer than the normal packet tuna.
For day one in colder areas - the smoked salmon in those vacuum sealed packs lasts ok.
Wraps/Crackers with tuna/smoked salmon, mayo and dedydrated cucumber/zucchini.
Deb with packet salmon and mayo is a strangely yummy combo
Dinners - you might want to get a dehydrator and make your own to give yourself more options than what is commercially available, eg vegetable curries and chicken mince dishes.

hot smoked salmon has a lot less salt than traditional cold smoked btw. DC

I wonder if its a food safety thing here, shelf stable smoked salmon is very common in Canada, but not so much here. dehy tomatoes are great. It may just require a re-think of your food planning, its not always best to try a 1-1 swap, it may be better to re-format from scratch.

I've carried packs of Tassal smoked salmon (the cheap 'pieces for cooking') for as much as five days before eating. Buried in the pack not that much heat reaches them.

I find beans to be a great substitute for red meat.

Red kidney beans and Borlotti beans are a favourite. Unfortunately the only ready to eat beans I have found are packed in tins rather than retort pouches, but cooked beans can be mashed and home-dehydrated then ground. The resulting slop when rehydrated is very similar to store-bought refried beans.

Home made cooked chickpea patties when home-dehydrated and then broken up into pieces are a good meat substitute out bush too.

I've often eaten dried beans, if you put them in a ziplock to soak when you wake up and then cook + soak them in a pot with a cozy they will be reasonably soft. Add some cup of soup mix for some flavour.

Cheese, peanut butter, vacuum pack salmon and tuna pouches (with the canned fish in larger supermarkets) with tortillas for lunch. For dinner - red lentils are easy to cook and dont take long and are very versatile. In fact, if you can carry an insulated cannister (such as kleen kanteen), you can soak any dried beans in hot water throughout the day while you walk and cook them quickly at night.