A few weeks ago, we hiked on one of New Zealand’s great walks around Lake Waikaremoana. The hike is done in 4 days and 3 nights. Before leaving, we prepared our vegan and homemade menus for every day with a hearty breakfast, a cold snack and a hearty and hot dinner. Here are our menus and what was in our backpacks.
Our vegan menus for 4 days of hiking :
day 1
BREAKFAST: overnight oat with chia seeds and apples. A preparation without cooking that you let swell overnight in vegetable milk (or water if you want to make it even lighter) for a hearty and protein-rich breakfast.
-> The recipe of the overnight oat
COLLATION: an avocado toast on multi-grain crackers.
DINNER: polenta and express dhal of red lentils. We put the preparations in two reusable freezer bags: one for the polenta that we cook with water, and the second for the lentils and spices to which we add a can of diced tomatoes.
day 2
BREAKFAST: the same overnight oat as the day before to finish the carton of vegetable milk.
-> The recipe of the overnight oat
COLLATION: an avocado toast on multi-grain crackers.
DINNER: an express couscous with a dehydrated preparation made of semolina, dehydrated vegetables, raisins and spices, to which we have added a can of chickpeas.
day 3
BREAKFAST: chia seed pancakes with oats. We just need to add a little water to the dry preparation to have a pancake dough ready!
-> The pancake preparation recipe for hiking
COLLATION: a cereal bar and an apple. (The cereal bars were homemade but not successful, so we’ll share the recipe later, after new attempts).
DINNER: a miso noodle and tofu soup.
day 4
BREAKFAST: chia seed pancakes again
-> The recipe for pancakes for hiking
COLLATION: again a cereal bar and an apple.
4 days of hiking: what do we put in the bag to eat vegan?
Here’s the list of everything we took in our backpacks to eat during these four days of trekking:
- all our dry preparations, that is: 2 bags for overnight oat, 2 bags for pancakes, 1 bag for polenta and 1 for lentils, 1 bag for couscous, 1 bag for miso soup, 2 bags for cereal bars not shaped like bars, 2 small bags of candied ginger;
- 1 brick of soy milk (for 4 bowls of overnight oat), but can be replaced by water if you want to make it lighter ;
- 1 small jar of date syrup to put on the pancakes;
- 1 can of diced tomatoes for the dhal;
- 1 can of chickpeas for the couscous;
- 1 package of quick
- fast-cooking noodles;
- 1 block of tofu in a tetra-pack;
- 1 package of cereal crackers;
- 4 avocados;
- 4 apples;
- 1 small flask filled with vegetable oil for cooking pancakes and to put in polenta;
- black tea.
