The recipes
Any complete meal can be dried, the important thing is to be careful to reduce its components into smaller pieces than usual to speed up the process (for example, cut the vegetables into cubes, choose small legumes and cereals or chop them once cooked, use short pasta with fast cooking times). The only limitation: if you plan to keep a compound for a long time before consuming it, avoid very fatty foods, the lipids cannot be dehydrated and in the long run they risk going rancid. On the contrary, vegetables, fruits, cereals and legumes can be kept for several months.
Quick snacks and meals
In the outings that end in the day, meal planning certainly takes a back seat compared to the role it plays when it comes to organizing for several days, yet it is appropriate to devote a little attention to this aspect too, after all it is only thanks to the energy that gives us what we eat that we can spend whole days walking, running or climbing.
The rule during sports activity is calories that are quick to assimilate and easy to digest, so bars, dried fruit, chocolate. The mid-day sandwich is fine, as long as it’s light.
When the goal is to maximize yield and reduce weight and bulk to a minimum, many turn to energy gel; as for me I try to use it only in extreme cases, as a rule I prefer unprocessed and possibly self-produced food.
Preparing super energy snacks based on fruit and cereals at home is very simple, even in this case you can take advantage of the drying method to obtain a supply that will last for a long time and forget about it for a long time. A handful of dehydrated apricots or, even better, dates, contains many more minerals, vitamins and calories than you can find in many bars on the shelves and there is no risk of “forgetting” packaging at high altitude.