I love hiking and I love eating healthily, but in all honesty, hiking boots and fresh fruit and vegetables don’t always go hand-in-hand, especially when you're going for longer distances. Yes, I know, you can choose nuts and dried fruit over pretzels and power bars, and you can even carry a flask full of a home-cooked meal instead of a sandwich on a day hike, but when it comes to quick, lightweight and non-bulky options, it’s harder to get in the same amount of fruits and vegetables on the trail as I do at home.
That’s until I discovered the joys of making my own fruit leather. From a nutritional standpoint, it might not be exactly the same as bringing several pieces of fresh fruit with me on a hike, but since I used to bring no fruit at all because it would just get bashed around in my backpack, it’s a lot more than I was getting a couple of years ago.
