Your trail food, planned in minutes — not hours.
TrailFuel replaces your spreadsheet, calorie app, and handwritten shopping list with one AI that builds a complete backcountry meal plan — then generates the shopping list automatically.
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Sound familiar?
Five apps, zero plan
You're juggling recipe blogs, MyFitnessPal, a spreadsheet, a notes app, and a shopping list — and nothing talks to each other.
A recipe isn't a plan
Finding one good trail meal is easy. Building a balanced 5-day plan across weight, macros, variety, and budget? That's a different problem entirely.
The scaling nightmare
Planning for one person is hard. Planning for a group with different appetites and dietary restrictions? Exponentially harder.
You don't know what you don't know
New hikers pack canned beans and fresh fruit. They underestimate calories on hard days. They overload their pack with heavy food.
Guessing costs real money
Without knowing what to buy or how much, you overspend at the supermarket and carry food you'll never eat.
How TrailFuel works
Three steps. One complete plan.
Tell us about your trip
Enter your days, distance, and elevation. TrailFuel calculates your exact calorie needs per day using sports science — not guesswork.
Daily itinerary
AI builds your meal plan
Our AI picks meals that hit your calorie targets, macro ratios, and budget — across every day of your trip. You choose from the top options per slot.
Shop and go
Your shopping list is generated automatically — deduplicated, grouped by category, with the cheapest prices from Woolworths and Coles.
Grains & Carbs
Nuts & Fats
Dehydrated Meals
Built around real trail science
Calorie targets that actually work
Not a generic 2000 cal/day guess. TrailFuel calculates per-day targets from your weight, the distance you're hiking, and the elevation you're climbing. Day 3 at 20km with 800m gain gets more calories than day 5's easy 8km descent.
Lightest possible pack
Every recipe is ranked by calories per gram. The AI prioritises calorie-dense foods — nuts, oils, dried meals — so you carry less weight for the same energy.
Science-based macros
65% fat at breakfast (your diesel fuel on trail). 4:1 carb-to-protein at lunch (37% endurance boost). 25% protein at dinner (overnight muscle repair). Not made up — based on sports nutrition research.
Electrolyte tracking
You lose 439mg of sodium per hour hiking. TrailFuel tracks sodium, potassium, and magnesium across your whole plan and warns you when you're short.
Auto shopping list with prices
Every ingredient totalled, deduplicated, and grouped by supermarket aisle. With live price comparison from Woolworths and Coles.
Group trip planning
Planning for a group? Everyone's dietary restrictions handled automatically. Shared dinners split by portion. One shopping list for the whole crew.
Built by hikers, for hikers
I built TrailFuel because I was sick of spending 3 hours in a spreadsheet every time I planned a trip. I'd calculate calories by hand, Google recipes, write a shopping list on paper, and still forget something. There had to be a better way.
Bobby
Founder, TrailFuel
1,121 FSANZ-verified foods
Australian food safety standard
Australian-made
Built for Australian trails
Backed by sports nutrition research
Science-based formulas
Simple, hiker-friendly pricing
Hiking is meant to be affordable. So is TrailFuel.
Free
- Unlimited solo trips
- AI meal plan generation
- 1,121 verified foods
- Nutrition dashboard
- Shopping list
- Community recipes
Pro
or $XX/year (save 40%)
- Everything in Free
- Group trip planning
- Price comparison (Woolworths + Coles)
- Garmin & Strava sync
- Custom macro targets
- Electrolyte supplement guidance
- Unlimited AI chat refinement
Questions? We've got answers.
Yes. Solo trip planning with AI generation, the full recipe library, nutrition dashboard, and shopping list are all free — no credit card, no trial period. Pro adds group trips, price comparison, and integrations.
TrailFuel calculates your calorie needs using the Mifflin-St Jeor formula — the same one dietitians use — adjusted for your weight, the distance you're hiking, and the elevation you're climbing each day. The AI then picks meals that hit those targets while optimising for weight, macros, variety, and your budget.
Absolutely. Build custom recipes from our library of 1,121 FSANZ-verified foods. Nutrition calculates automatically. You can keep them private or share them with the community.
Currently Woolworths and Coles in Australia. We're adding ALDI, IGA, and specialist outdoor retailers.
Your meal plan, nutrition data, and shopping list are all viewable offline once loaded. AI generation requires internet — but you do that before you hit the trail.
Group trips apply the union of everyone's dietary restrictions automatically. If one person is gluten-free, the whole plan respects that. Pro users can set individual substitutions per person.
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