Wouldn’t it be great if you didn’t have to compromise on the amount, energy or taste of food in your backpack when you go off hiking or hunting for a few days in the bush?

The problem with outdoor adventures is you need a lot of stuff. When you need to pack everything you need to be safe, warm and dry, as well as food and water, weight becomes your number one priority, especially when you need to carry it all in your pack for days on end.

We’ve been on a journey here in New Zealand to solve this challenge since the 1960s; experimenting with recipes, ingredients and technologies to produce light weight, tasty, nutritious freeze dried meals. Equally important is for us to then test them in the wild places of the world to be sure we’ve created ‘fuel’ that is fit for purpose.

The result? We’ve packed the taste of New Zealand home cooked meals into convenient pouches that weigh less than a third of their weight when you eat them. Perfect for those long days out in the bush to provide the balanced nutrition needed when maintaining your energy is of paramount importance.

Light, fast, tasty nourishing food for adventure.

Would you like to try our food on your next outdoor adventure?

Back Country Cuisine is for anyone adventurous who believes that food and consuming food is more than just nutrition, it’s also about rewarding yourself and having a great time.

Keen outdoors folk like trampers, hunters and fisherman make up a big part of the people enjoying thousands of desserts and smoothies that Back Country Cuisine produces every year. Their brief for eating in the back country is simple. Make it light, full of energy, convenient, and most of all, delicious.

We all need to have something to look forward to at the end of a long day hauling a pack around, and time wasted cooking complex meals and cleaning up isn’t one of them. Whether it’s breakfast, lunch, dinner, or a snack - your favourite Back Country Cuisine meal will be ready and waiting for you in a matter of minutes, so you can get on with the task at hand which is pure enjoyment of the outdoors.