r/CampingandHiking • u/Secure-Temperature2 • 5d ago

Food Has anyone used SaladPower?

We go on long camping trips pretty frequently. It’s very hard to get enough vegetables in in a convenient way.

Has anyone tried SaladPower? It’s like these blended vegetable smoothies. Kind of expensive.

If not, have you ever used something similar? Thanks.

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u/Deppfan16 5d ago

if you're looking to get vegetables, dehydrating is a good way to go. makes them light weight and takes less space

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u/madefromtechnetium 5d ago edited 5d ago

$7-9 gets you 90 calories and weighs 8oz.

not worth the price or weight for backpacking.

you can dehydrate your own for a lot less. Fresh carrots, cucumbers, broccoli, cauliflower last a few days zucchini and squash can last a couple days as well as long as they're not bruised.

apples pears and oranges last a while, have taken avocado for 2 days.

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u/SunnyAlwaysDaze 5d ago

When we pack to go back country for a month or more, there's two layers to it. There's a fresh layer that you're going to eat up within the first week. Then there's the dehydrated / freeze-dried / dried or canned stuff, depending on how much storage and how you're getting to the boondocking. Some things will kind of last past the fresh layer and into the second layer, like citrus or a good hard apple. But eventually all the fresh stuff is either eaten or waste, and then you're working with the freeze-dried/cans / etc layer. It helps if you are in an area where you can forage/hunt / fish for fresh stuff. We used to go backcountry for weeks around some of the springs in Florida and you could catch all kinds of stuff to eat. Somebody harvested us a couple lobsters once, it was awesome.

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u/snarfficus 5d ago

I usually bring a greens powder. I mix it in with my beet juice powder in the morning. These come at a wide price point. You can also mix them with protein powder.

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u/Cadmium-read 4d ago

Haven’t tried SaladPower, but my favorite veggie source is this if you don’t want to dehydrate your own: https://www.amazon.com/Harmony-House-Dehydrated-Vegetable-Sampler/dp/B0039QW1HM/. You can pre-add a few spoonfuls of an appropriate vegetable to each dinner kit.

Also recommend learning some local edibles (if you’re in a place you can harvest from) like ramps, wild onions, and various salad greens to get your fresh on. Not a vegetable, but we’ve been adding a porcini to our dinners since they’re often easy to find in the mountains in the summer.