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Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

North American Board Member And Heather’s Choice Founder Heather Kelly

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Zack Williams

Outdoors, Wilderness, Sports, Fishing, Outdoor, Hunting, Sports & Recreation

4.6853 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2021

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Based out of Anchorage, Alaska, Heather's Choice is a backpacking food startup company dedicated to making delicious, ultralight, nutrient-dense meals and snacks for adventurers. Heather Kelly is an avid hunter, angler, backpacker and outdoor adventurer. Kelly launched Heather’s Choice Meals for Adventuring in 2014 to combine her love of sports nutrition and backcountry pack-rafting. Her emphasis has always been on high-quality, whole foods nutrition. With signature dishes such as smoked sockeye salmon chowder and blueberry buckwheat breakfast, Heather’s Choice has gained recognition as a healthy, delicious, portable food option for the backcountry.

Transcript

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We think that we just put food in our mouth and like, da da!

0:05.0

It like magically becomes the energy that we need, but we don't spend very much time talking about or thinking about how that food actually gets

0:14.2

digested and assimilated. To embrace smaller scale stuff like you've been doing

0:20.4

here where you're working these source chains to embrace that and to

0:24.3

embrace the inefficiency of doing something particular like creating a high quality

0:30.7

meal that is also it's kind of like biodiversity, it makes you more

0:35.4

resilient, whereas hyper-efficiency makes you more fragile. Isn't that interesting?

0:40.9

Just even focusing on the quality of food

0:44.5

and the work that goes into procuring it

0:46.9

has changed the narrative in my own head

0:50.1

about what it means to eat food,

0:52.2

which is pretty cathartic.

0:54.0

The BHA Podcast and Blast is proud to be sponsored by Phil some clothing in gear.

1:01.0

As anybody who's been listening to this knows,

1:03.3

anybody spends most of their life outside,

1:06.0

knows that Philson has been producing unfailing goods

1:10.0

since the 1897 Alaskan Gold Rush.

1:13.0

They were the primary outfitter of that.

1:16.0

And right now, if you're heading for Rainy World, say Southeast Alaska

1:21.0

or anything in the rain. You can look for

1:24.0

Philson dry bag coats, fluffles and backpacks are made to keep your

1:29.0

gear dry no matter what you're doing, how wet it is, what kind of splash you got. You can look at the waterproof scagit cap and

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