10 Backpacking EXPERTS Share the BEST Meals (Darwin, Dixie, Hanson, Ashby, Coach & More!)
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Backpacking & Blisters: A Hiking, Backpacking, and Adventure Show
27 min
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What is the episode’s overall theme and who are the backpacking experts featured?
Every team, every topic, everywhere. This is Believe.
What are the experts' favorite backcountry meals? We'll hear from Darwin, Dixie, Eric Hansen, Devin Ashby, and six other famous backpackers. There are some really good ideas here and others that are just downright yucky.
Welcome to the Backpacking and Bushes podcast. We are tips and tails with a sense of humor. This episode is brought to you by Enlightened Equipment, the gear company that true experts recommend. Check out their ultralight gear at enlightenedequipment.com. With me today is a man who puts his backcountry meals in heavy-duty, extra-thick, made-of-metal Tupperware. Tupperware Mike Crafton, how's it going today?
It's going good, man. Thanks. I appreciate it. And with me today is the only man that goes out on the trail and does not bring a fuel canister because he thinks that chili mac and beef will produce enough gas for all of us. Carl Mandrioli.
Dude, that's really funny. Yeah. You could probably figure out a way to make that true.
You can probably bottle that stuff for sure.
For those of you who are new to the show, you haven't been on for a while. So what's the deal with Tupperware Mike? How'd you get that nickname?
It was one of our first hikes that we did together, a Patreon trip. And when we got to camp, hiked all day, when we got to camp, I pulled out a piece of Tupperware that I bring with me. You know, I can't eat a full pack of those meals. They're always two-person meals. So I cut mine up. I cut it in half. But then I need a way to rehydrate it.
How did the Tupperware story start and why did it become a running joke?
So I started using this lightweight 0.05-ounce, 25-gram piece of Tupperware. And I pulled this thing out, and you made fun of me. You made fun of me for the whole weekend because I pulled that piece of Tupperware out.
I don't think so. I think we made fun of you, but not for the whole weekend.
It's
not that funny.
It's been nine years, Carl. It's been nine years, and you're still making fun of me about my Tupperware.
Probably. here's the here's the funny part of the story too is that a few years later he was going on a different trip and one of my other buddies on the trip talking about how his father-in-law had a stash of actual like vintage Tupperware and Mike's like I will buy that off you and I will resell it and so he like brought a trailer down from like the far north of California to the far south of California loaded it up he sold like what ten fifteen thousand dollars worth of Tupperware after getting the nickname is that correct
It is. I think we're up to 40, about $45,000 in sales on Tupperware on that Tupperware. Yeah. Are you serious? Seriously. I definitely owe you something for it because you, you connected us and yeah, I definitely owe you something for that. It's made me a lot of money.
You don't owe me anything. I think that's just a fun story.
You want a Nemo Eclipse pad? If
you're throwing pads my way, I'll take whatever you got. If you got extra gear.
I might have one or two extra pads.
Overall, what is your favorite freeze-dried food brand?
I'm trying out a couple of them right now. And the first one is the Farm to Summit. They just had one of their first ones and highly impressed with the Farm to Summit. And then there's also a new guy. He's kind of, he's smaller. I think it's, I think he's Trail Goods, Luke over at Trail.
Yeah. That's going to be on our list today.
Is it? For sure. Yeah. I like that one.
Yeah. And we have, so we've got 10 experts that are going to share their favorite backcountry meals and they don't have to be freeze dried food. Some are not, some are weird. And then Mike and I are going to evaluate, you know, we know it's like very subjective, but are these meals that we would eat or that we have eaten? Do we like these? Do we give it a pass, a fail, a yum or a yuck? And we're going to hear from folks like Darwin, Dixie, Eric Hansen, Coach from Marion Outdoors, Devin Ash. We've got all sorts of awesome folks. So that's what we have in store. Bible verse of the episode is Proverbs 11, 25. A generous person will prosper. Whoever refreshes others will be refreshed.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the episode’s overall theme and who are the backpacking experts featured?
0:01–1:51
2
How did the Tupperware story start and why did it become a running joke?
1:51–4:59
3
Which freeze‑dried food brands do the hosts recommend and why?
4:59–8:57
4
What is Darwin’s all‑time favorite backcountry meal?
8:57–10:55
5
How does Dixie boost Mountain House spaghetti with a cheese stick?
10:55–14:19
6
Why does Eric Hanson love Pinnacle’s creamy Tuscan chicken?
14:19–18:42
7
What makes Devin Ashby’s Loco Moco Brunch Skillet a trail favorite?
18:42–21:43
8
Why does Chris Cage swear by seaweed and pork rinds for backpacking meals?
21:43–27:35
Speakers
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