Any dry food add boiling water recipes for backpacking?

Question

Im looking for good tasting easy to make meals. Meals that are dry, like freeze dried or dehydrated for a lighter load

Answer 1

The Freezer Bag Cooking website is chock full of recipes and advice for ultralight weight meals and techniques. You can even submit your own recipes or buy their book. http://www.freezerbagcooking.com/
http://www.freezerbagcooking.com/gear.htm
Harmony House sells all the dehydrated and freeze dried ingredients you could ever want in convenient small bags. http://www.harmonyhousefoods.com/easy.html
Wilderness Dining sells cooking gadgets and food: http://www.wildernessdining.com/
Minibull sells excellent handmade easy to use alcohol stoves: http://www.minibulldesign.com/fs2.htm

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Why not just go to your local outdoors store, Dick's Sporting Goods, Sportsman's Warehouse, Meijer even (I think) and buy some Mountain House or Backpacker's Pantry? These are freeze dried meals that provide you with what you need, I prefer Mountain House because they are simpler to make and nearly all Mountain House are made the same, other brands vary and it can be annoying trying to always figure it out. I backpack frequently, at least 3-4 trips a year, and I always pack this type of meal. Also, Cous Cous is a good option, it's pretty filling and a great supplement to a meal.

Answer 4

Just Add Boiling Water Meals

Answer 5

I'm assuming that you don't want dehyd meals because of the expense and are looking for low-cost alternatives.

Here are some:

Cup-o-Noodles
Cup-o-Soup
Lipton noodle dishes
Instant mashed potatoes (I eat this for breakfast when backpacking)
Knorr dry soup mixes
Instant oatmeal
Freeze dried hashbrowns (just add water and then cook - I see these at Costco)
Powdered milk and dry cereal (Cheerios are my fav)

Avoid MREs - they are heavy and have a lot of trash associated with them.

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Answer 7

The tips so far have been great. I use the freezerbag style cooking quite frequently, and it works really well. You can adapt many "just add water" products from the grocery store and make them in a freezer bag. Easy, cheap and tasty.

We've done entire Thanksgiving dinners that way - stove top stuffing, instant mashed potatoes, etc.

I'll add one more source since no one else has mentioned them:
http://www.cachelake.com/
Excellent quality, great taste... they have mixes for breads, rice dishes, stews, soups, etc. Very inventive, with real ingredients.

Answer 8

I agree with Robert K. mountain house freeze dried food packages are good and easy. you can get them at any outdoors store. There are about 5 hiking/backpacking type stores within about an hour drive from my house, but then again i live very close to the great smoky mountains natl. park. they all sell freeze dried food. you should try to find out if there are any stores like these near you. if you can find a store that sells only hiking and camping supplies, the people who work there will probably be able to tell you everything you need to know. good luck and have fun out there!!

Answer 9

i use dehyrtaed food's they are cheap and very good i use them all the time mountain house is the best frezze dryed food out there they are chep and very good and they are lightweight i use them when i go camping and backpacking mre's are to heavy i am a boy scout i am a eagle scout so i know what to use and buy i go backpacking all the time and use mountain house

Answer 10

Spaghetti is always good.
And if you dehydrate tomato sauce into a fruit leather kind of thing, you can mix water with it for decent sauce.
And there are pretty good instant mashed potatoes out there.