Fresh food may be nutritionally best but it’s not always the lightest or easiest to carry. That’s where Back Country Cuisine comes in.

The name says it all, Back Country Cuisine is food for the backcountry. Its home is in Invercargill, one of the southernmost cities in the world, set amongst a region that is a gourmet food box. Here is access to some of the best backcountry anywhere with Rakiura/Stewart Island, Fiordland and Mt Aspiring National Parks providing the perfect testing grounds for Back Country Cuisine meals.

The company’s mission is to help improve people’s mental and physical well-being by reducing barriers to enjoyment and participation in the outdoors. With its  freeze-dried meals, the company claims it can help do this in four ways:

1. Reducing the preparation time and level of knowledge required to be properly fed in the outdoors.
2. Reducing the amount of gear needed to cook food in the outdoors.
3. Reducing pack weight thereby improving people’s physical performance in the outdoors.
4. Reducing the stress involved in selecting good food to eat while tramping.

Back Country Cuisine acknowledges that ‘fresh is best’ from a nutritional perspective. But, in an outdoors setting, that has to be balanced against the reality of carrying weight: fresh food is heavy.

This is where Back Country Cuisine’s light, fast, tasty and nourishing freeze-dried food comes into its own. The company says its people love seeing the smiles, adventures and goals achieved by outdoors people, that its meals fuel.

Because getting people into the outdoors so they’re happier and healthier is so important to Back Country Cuisine, the company is proud to support Wilderness Magazine and partner with its Walk1200km challenge.

Learn more about Back Country Cuisine.