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Oct 4, 2010 at 4:52 am #1263969
I am looking for suggestions for a dinner for my next overnight backpacking trip. I always seem to get in a rut and eat the same thing all the time and I know a lot of you have some great food ideas. Here is what I am looking for:
1. I prefer a no mess, FBC meal
2. It has to use 12oz of water or less
3. It has to use ingredients that I can buy at the local standard grocery store
4. I don’t have a dehydrator, so that is out.Thanks for the help!
Brad
Oct 8, 2010 at 10:04 am #1652613instant mashed potatoes with a can/foil of smoked oysters
couscous with can/foil chicken
instant soup mixes. I will add some kind of meat/chicken to it.
packs of Knorrs noodles or rice seem to work well
refried beans (Fanstatic Foods brand in organic section)and add to some taco shells with shredded cheese and salsa packets
if there is a Whole Foods/Fresh Market they may have bulk bins of items that are already dehydrated. You can also order some dehydrated items from Harmony House
Oct 8, 2010 at 4:17 pm #1652707Lots of recipes here:
http://www.trailcooking.com/ Sarbar's website
http://www.onepanwonders.com/ Dicentra's website
http://www.wildernesscooking.com/ Laurie Ann March's website
All three are contributors here.
Oct 8, 2010 at 6:08 pm #1652726Thanks for the mention Mary. I'm not sure that my recipes would be up his alley as many do require drying the foods. I believe one ends up with better tasting fare that way. That said, you don't need a dehydrator… the oven will suffice.
Edited for a spelling correction… lol… I am nothing without my editor.
Oct 9, 2010 at 11:16 am #1652892Sorry for not getting back to you, we were traveling the Smokies this week and a half!
I gotta say though my go to easy meal is instant rice, pouched chicken, gravy mix and cranberries. Tasty!Oct 21, 2010 at 5:44 am #1656581Thanks to everyone for your help, I found several Freezer Bag Cooking meals that are mashed potato based that I am trying. I will also have to try the rice/chicken/gravy/cranberries meal sometime as well.
Oct 22, 2010 at 2:00 pm #1657064One of my favorites from Sarah's website is the chicken curry cranberry couscous (I may have the order of the name wrong but those are the main ingredients). Aside form the chicken pouch, I had everything else I needed in the house. No dehydrating and all simple, readily available ingredients.
Another staple for me is a quick-cooking noodle (or substitue rice or couscous), a tuna packet, some pistachio pieces, some grated pamersean cheese and a packet of the pesto powder mix (found in the dry powdered suace area of the grocery store). I throw all the dry ingredients in the baggie together at home. In camp, pour in the needed water for the couscous, maybe a little extra to get the pesto sauce runny, some olive oil, then add the tuna/chicken and boom! Ready to eat.
Oct 22, 2010 at 3:37 pm #1657099http://www.trailcooking.com/recipes/curried-chicken-cranberry-couscous
Hope that was the one you were thinking of :-)
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