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.
I’ve bought the large freeze dried cava of food and used them to make my own meals. The best combo was probably freeze dried chicken, cheese, onions, and peppers with seasoning from a taco packet. I’ve paid it with minute rice and it was pretty good.
Better still was using the same ingredients to make tortilla soup. Regardless of the starch, go ahead and use twice as much cheese as you think it will need.