Food is fuel and morale
A balanced, satisfying meal after a hard day changes the whole trip. We design for nutrition first and flavour always.
About us
Paddlers who got tired of bad trip food
Freeze Dried Expeditions started at a campsite, with a crew looking at another pot of ramen and asking why the food was the worst part of an expensive trip.
Our story
Self-guided shouldn't mean self-deprived
We've spent years on self-guided canoe trips across the Canadian Shield: float planes in, shuttles out, long portages and longer evenings around the fire. The trips were unforgettable. The food often wasn't.
Guided outfitters fix that with a camp chef, often a young person choosing the school of life over university, who paddles your gear, pitches your tents and cooks every meal. It's wonderful, and you pay for it. We wanted the same quality of food for crews who carry their own gear and set their own camps.
So we started cooking real meals, freeze-drying them, and packing each one into its own named bag with everything it needed. Friends asked us to pack for their trips. Then friends of friends. Freeze Dried Expeditions is the result.
What we believe
How we work
Weight is the enemy
Every gram is planned. We pack to your float-plane or portage limits so you're neither overweight nor short of food.
Simple at the fire
Whoever is cooking that night, whether a seasoned guide or a first-timer, should be able to put out a great meal with a pot, some water and a clear card.
Leave it wild
Wilderness is under pressure from more and more visitors. Our packaging is minimal, and every map book includes Leave No Trace guidance for your route.
Concentrate on what you want to enjoy: the leisure time, the views, the people. Not how you're going to feed yourself. The Freeze Dried Expeditions idea
Maps, too
Why we make paper maps
Expeditions take you down roads not travelled: old trails made by animals, by the original inhabitants of the land, and by more recent explorers. A good map shows all of that, and it never runs out of battery.
Our map books are built for use in the canoe and for the bookshelf afterwards. They're organized, annotated, protected, handy, shareable and, on the day you really need them, invaluable.
