Favorite backpacking recipes

What are some of your favorite foods to bring/make for backpacking?

Some of mine: As an easy-to-cook grain, I recently discovered fonio, which looks and tastes a bit like tiny couscous. I combine a serving of fonio with a packet of ghee (Kroger sells those under the Simple Truth brand) and whatever dehydrated vegetables I'm in the mood for, and I have a great just-add-hot-water recipe for the back country.

Also, I learned from backpackingchef.com that you can make palatable dehydrated ground beef by cooking it with some bread crumbs, or in my case rice panko, before dehydrating. That little change alone has substantially improved the texture of my back country chilis, as dehydrating ground beef on its own turns it into something between a pebble and a piece of old gum.

Fridge,

Grains and fresh veggies, as I've found the slight weight add of fresh tastes better (and the water to rehydrate probably cancels out the weight of fresh anyway). Cherry tomatos and kale last on the trail pretty well. I've kept a bag of kale unrefrigerated for three days and it was still crunchy.

etcetera,

@tetonicus already mentioned Skurka's Beans and Rice which are fantastic, but I've been using a variety of his recipes for backpacking trips. Big fan of the Coconut Cashew Curry.

Tetonicus,

If your answer isn't Skurka Beans and Rice it's probably only because you haven't had them yet. You can change it up with a green chili kit from https://dehydratedbeans.com/. Which, also has really good dehydrated beans (I believe Santa Fe Bean Co. is defunct).

IndustrialPlaid,

Ooooh I've been looking for a source for dehydrated beans, thanks. Who knew that it would be...dehydrated...beans...dot com...

And rice and beans definitely are a great base for all kinds of recipes. I'd go further than the Skurka recipe and say that depending on what spices, sauce, and veggies you use, you actually have the template for a whole variety of backpacking recipes, which is always nice to keep things from getting boring.

Kindymycin,

For me it's about super simple yet savory dishes. Oatmeal with brown sugar and cinnamon or dried berries, peanuts butter and honey wraps, jasmine rice with a few pinches from the ol sprice bag (different every time, but might have any of cumin, turmeric, garlic, onion powder, cilantro, oregano, thyme, dill, paprika, or red pepper flakes) or just a bullion cube. Simple and yummy after a long hard day on the trail or a chilly morning to warm the bones ☺️

fomo_erotic,
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I did the wonderland last year and by far the favorite meal of the trip was instant potatoes with a can of fish. We had killer meals, all dehydrated ourselves. But the instant potatoes and fish were the fave. high carb high fat high protein. Hot and ready from a jet boil.

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