An easily prepared low water use food system for all outdoor ventures, embodying a high calorie, low weight, small pack size, and no wash up ideology with ingredients and components being widely available from supermarkets.


Alpine Oven Essentials I Recipe Format

Welcome to The Alpine Oven blog, a collection of lightweight meal recipes developed for situations where calororie intake, weight, size, water usage, time and ease of cooking are premium. For use in backpacking, multi day climbing and kayaking expeditions through to biking and fishing trips, the applications are endless.
Using the guidelines described above, they are a compilation of easily sourced, off the shelf meals with known calorific value, allowing for a personally tailored daily calorie intake, for your chosen activity.


Conceived for and proven on alpine forays, including a 3 night acclimatization camp above 3000m on the Allalinhorn glacier above Saas Fee in Switzerland (pictured above) and closer to home, and my alternative Four Nation coast to coast trips, details of which can be found at Transnation coast to coast

Any recipe ideas you'd like to add? Send me a message and I'll try to include them.