Improve your backpacking experience by creating the delicious and healthy home-dried meals and snacks featured in this book. Easy to rehydrate in camp and lighter than lugging ingredients and extra fuel, these foods are perfect for backpackers. Updated with 20 brand new recipes for soups, stews, pasta, and casseroles, this new edition also has the most up-to-date information on dehydrators and ovens, water purification, and food storage, making it the perfect handbook for nutritious--and delectable--dining on the trail. * Over 180 recipes for casseroles, pastas, soups, stews, chowders, beans, pilafs, dried fruits, trail mixes, bars, and cookies * Tips on drying food in a dehydrator or oven * Includes vegetarian and low-fat recipes * Recipes so tasty that you'll make them at home too AUTHOR: Lifelong camper Linda Frederick Yaffe has written for Backpacker magazine. Her previous books are 'Solar Cooking for Home' and 'Camp, High Trail Cookery', and 'The Well-Organized Camper.' 20 b/w illustrations