Trail Food Trip Planner
FoodEverest's Trail Food Trip Planner is a free backpacking meal planner: set your trip and it builds a day-by-day food list from 284 freeze-dried and dehydrated meals, using each meal's published net weight and calorie count. Optimise for the lightest pack, the lowest cost, or a balance of both.
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How this is calculated. Pack weight is the sum of each meal's manufacturer-published net food weight; pouches, your stove and fuel are not included. Calories are per pouch as published. Prices are brand-direct list prices captured on 2026-07-28 and are not live - check the retailer before buying. Calorie-per-day presets are planning estimates, not nutritional advice. Calorie density is shown as calories per ounce (the established backpacking figure), with kcal per 100 g (the EU nutrition-labelling convention) alongside it.
Price coverage. 279 of 284 meals show a USD price. US brands are exact list prices. UK, EU, AU and NZ brands are converted from their own currency at a recent daily FX rate and marked with a "~" (hover for the original figure and date); a converted price is an estimate, not the brand's dollar price, so treat any "~$" total as approximate. Adventure Food publishes no price of its own, so its "~" figures are a Dutch reseller's EUR price (outdoor-food.nl) converted to USD - an estimate twice over. The remaining meals have no published price and are shown as "-". Weight, calorie and protein comparisons cover all 284.
Data: 284 meals from Adventure Food, Backpacker's Pantry, Campers Pantry, Expedition Foods, Good To-Go, LyoFood, Mountain House, Packit Gourmet, Peak Refuel, Radix Nutrition, Strive Food, Tent Meals, Trailtopia and Wild Zora, compiled from manufacturer-published figures captured 2026-07-28.
Price coverage. 279 of 284 meals show a USD price. US brands are exact list prices. UK, EU, AU and NZ brands are converted from their own currency at a recent daily FX rate and marked with a "~" (hover for the original figure and date); a converted price is an estimate, not the brand's dollar price, so treat any "~$" total as approximate. Adventure Food publishes no price of its own, so its "~" figures are a Dutch reseller's EUR price (outdoor-food.nl) converted to USD - an estimate twice over. The remaining meals have no published price and are shown as "-". Weight, calorie and protein comparisons cover all 284.
Data: 284 meals from Adventure Food, Backpacker's Pantry, Campers Pantry, Expedition Foods, Good To-Go, LyoFood, Mountain House, Packit Gourmet, Peak Refuel, Radix Nutrition, Strive Food, Tent Meals, Trailtopia and Wild Zora, compiled from manufacturer-published figures captured 2026-07-28.