trail food reviews

Trail Food Review: Trail Butter

Trail Butter
Trail Butter

Trail Food
Trail Butter
$7, 8-oz. plastic jar; $5 4.5-oz. resealable tube
Flavors: Ozark Original, Expedition Espresso, Mountain Maple
trailbutter.com

Given the inherent limitations on what you can eat in the backcountry, finding foods that are portable, non-perishable, don’t crumble or get crushed after a couple days in a backpack, and that everyone loves—adults and kids—is challenging, to say the least. Backpacking for three days in Utah’s Coyote Gulch with my family and another family—including four kids age nine to 12 with very different tastes—the tube of Trail Butter I brought became an instant hit with everyone and it disappeared quickly.

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Trail Food Review: Honey Stinger Organic Waffles

Honey Stinger Organic Waffles

Trail Food
Honey Stinger Organic Waffles
$22 per box of 16 packets, 1 oz. per packet
Five flavors: honey, chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, and lemon
honeystinger.com

I’m admittedly a little behind the curve on this—these waffles have been on the market for a while. But I filled a zip-lock bag with them for a recent five-day backpacking trip with my wife, 11-year-old son, and nine-year-old daughter in Oregon’s Eagle Cap Wilderness—and they became an instant backcountry staple food for my family.

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Trail Food Review: Probars

Probar flavors

Trail Food
Probar
$3, 3 oz.
theprobar.com

I’ve grown tired of some of the energy bars on the market. But having sampled the new Probar flavors—double chocolate, peanut butter, peanut butter chocolate chip, and superfruit slam—on several days of backcountry skiing, I have to say they taste really good.

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