065: Dirty Gourmet: The Best Camping Food for Your Adventures with Emily Nielson
A Sustainable Mind - environment & sustainability podcast
Marjorie Alexander
4.6 • 588 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Dirty Gourmet is a women-owned outdoor company dedicated to empowering outdoorists to make food a part of their soul-nourishing outdoor experience. The founders of Dirty Gourmet, Mai-Yan Kwan, Emily Nielson, and Aimee Trudeau together after a bike tour across Canada and years of camp life took it upon themselves to rethink the idea of food in the outdoors. Whether you're a car camper getting started with a picky family to feed, or a lightweight backpacker looking for inspiration to get you to your destination, they have plenty of tips and recipes for you on our website and in their cookbook, Dirty Gourmet: Food for your Outdoor Adventures.
In this episode we cover:
- How splitting up your trip types into 3 categories is important to enjoying cooking and eating awesome food in the great outdoors
- Two must-follow rules for enjoying cooking during your outdoor adventures
- A super easy homemade granola recipe!
Emily Nielson and Dirty Gourmet Online:
- Dirty Gourmet website: DirtyGourmet.com
- My favorite recipes on the blog:
- Dirty Gourmet on Social Media:
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/dirtygourmet/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dirtygourmet
- Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/dirtygourmet/
- Dirty Gourmet: Food for your Outdoor Adventures

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| 0:00.0 | This is A Sustainable Mind, Episode 65. |
| 0:04.9 | Today we chat with Emily Nielsen, co-founder of Dirty Gourmet, an awesome book and website |
| 0:11.1 | dedicated to helping you create amazing homemade dishes for and during your outdoor travels. |
| 0:16.8 | But before we dive into that, I wanted to acknowledge our ongoing donors. |
| 0:21.3 | Vincent A. from Las Vegas, Nevada, Jessica D from Topeka, Kansas, and Elizabeth B from Oak Park, Illinois. |
| 0:29.2 | Thank you all so much for your ongoing contribution. |
| 0:32.8 | I also wanted to take a moment and read some messages I've been receiving on Instagram. Refinement |
| 0:40.1 | House on Instagram says, you don't have to know everything. The science, research, political |
| 0:45.3 | policies, data science behind sustainability. Simply by surrounding yourself with content that relates |
| 0:51.4 | to your journey on becoming a better citizen for the planet is a step in the right direction. |
| 0:56.6 | I absolutely love listening to at A Sustainable Mind on podcast. It's easy to understand dialogue |
| 1:02.9 | that introduces various ways to change your mindset and habits, insightful, inspiring, and makes it all seem so easy. |
| 1:10.9 | Thanks, Marjorie, for hosting. |
| 1:13.4 | Also, turning to alternatives on Instagram, took her family to some local botanical gardens |
| 1:20.7 | and says, on our way there, we listen to and learn from the most incredible podcast at |
| 1:26.7 | A Sustainable Mind. You know how you get those |
| 1:29.2 | divine timing moments with podcasts where it answers every question you have in your mind. Well, |
| 1:34.3 | this is exactly that. Thanks at Marjorie R. Alexander, you pretty much cemented all the recent |
| 1:39.5 | changes I've been making in my life, motivated me even more to go green with my family. |
| 1:49.6 | And you've absolutely inspired me to make some big changes in my business at Carrie shares trees. So much gratitude. Some things are hard on the heart to listen to, but light a fire deep |
| 1:55.6 | in your belly for serious change. Thank you both so much for mentioning a sustainable mind in your Instagram post that |
| 2:03.0 | definitely helps spread the word. It's so much appreciated. And if you want to get in touch with me, |
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