5 Quick and Healthy Breakfasts for Camping

Oatmeal, again? Pop Tarts? Doughnuts? A good quick breakfast while canoeing or backpacking (or car camping for that matter) is as important as it is elusive.

Bryan Hanse at the Nessmuking shares five simple yet nutritious ideas for a lightweight breakfasts:

On my first paddling and camping trips, I often overlooked making a good breakfast in favor of eating a few quick snacks, like Pop Tarts ...   Essentially, they’re just empty carbs and eating them in the morning creates high blood-sugar levels, which will eventually crash throwing the body into a battle that’ll will last all day.

Now there's really nothing astounding or new about his five choices but they are well thought out and look very tasty. For example:

Super Charged Couscous

1/3 cup dry couscous
1/2 cup water
1 tbsp almonds, sliced
2 tbsp raisins
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/6 cup dry milk
Honey to taste

Calories: 340
Fat: 5 g
Carbs: 64g
Protein: 14g

Instant couscous cooks in five minutes, and when augmented with tasty ingredients, it makes a great breakfast. Mix everything, except the optional honey at home. Boil water in camp and add the mix. Remove it from the heat and in five minutes, breakfast is ready.

I like couscous for breakfast (oatmeal still gives me the willies, it's a texture thing) I'll be sure to try this one.

Read his post here for the other four ideas.

Comments

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Couscous is my favorite trail breakfast not only because it's tasty with honey and powdered milk but also because its density makes it very packable. In fact, the first time I ever had couscous was on an Outward Bound trek about 16 years ago!

A slightly more whole-grain option is par-boiled, dried bulghur. More complex than processed semolina, so the energy will last a bit longer.

[JimmyTH]

I used to really work on packing a variety of foods in my trail meals but as I got older it seemed that I needed less. Probably for kids a complex nuts and grains breakfast is essential but I'm not a kid any more. My favorite trail breakfast is oatmeal and raisins boiled with a little salt. I use real oatmeal, not the instant kind. When I cook it at home I wonder how I could eat the stuff, but when I hit the trail it's what I want. Tastes good, easy to cook, and I don't burn out from a sugar crash.

I also bring some vitamin pills but not the whole bottle.