Welcome to episode 107 of the first 40 miles.

If you're new to backpacking, or if you're hopelessly in love with someone who wants you to love

backpacking, then this podcast is for you we'll talk about the

essentials how to lighten your load and how to make the most of your time on the

trail I'm your host Heather Legler and I'm Josh Legler and this is the first 40 miles.

Today on the first 40 miles we have a cookbook and we'll share some behind the scenes details along with some tips to help you create your own

backpacking recipes.

Then on the summit gear review,

a flameless cooker that will keep your meals hot and

toasty to the last bite.

Next, our backpack hack of the week is the recipe we've hyped for months and we promise it's worth it.

All this and that's about it. Today on the first 40 miles.

I'm so excited because today is the day that our cookbook goes up for sale.

It launches. We first mentioned the idea of a cookbook I think over a year ago.

Probably. Yeah, on one of the podcast episodes we said, hey, we're working on a cookbook. We're not sure when it'll come out and it took a while.

And that cookbook that we kind of had started, went through so many transformations and you know I

thought well maybe I'll make a really healthy cookbook, but as I kind of experimented more with recipes, I was like,

me no, if it's going to be something that our listeners can really use, then it has to be quick and easy recipes.

Yeah, I know you wanted to make sure that all of the ingredients were not only

short ingredient lists for the recipes, so you didn't have to get too many things to put together,

but also ingredients that are easy to find.

You can just go to the local grocery store and they're all going to be there.

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