best meals for backpacking

“What are the best meals you guys have been eating lately? I have used two different pasta recipes from Prosecutor's cookbook and they have been great. I would make a note in the recipe to use 3 oz of angel hair pasta per adult. At least 10 adults have tried those recipes on our trips, and everybody liked them.

We also have enjoyed the cobbler from dried apples, which is pretty awesome considering its cooked on a stove in a frying pan. The recipe says rehydrate for an hour before cooking, but that is way off. The apples will be fully rehydrated in 20 minutes at temperature, so no additional rehydrating is needed.

What good meals have you had this summer, not counting MREs and freeze dried?”

“i was looking for car camping recopies the other day and stumbled on this website...it indicates if a recipe is backpack friendly or not

http://camprecipes.com/”

“mmmmm, poo balls

http://camprecipes.com/recipe-Poo-Balls-781”

“Anything involving tortillas, garlic bread, cheese, tomatoes, olives, and most importantly, a "whet" pesto brought in medium container. Classico carries a decent pesto. With a stove, you can melt cheese onto either garlic bread or tortillas while toasting the bakery product, and then just add pesto combing your choice of non-rotten cheeses (mozzarella and le brie work well) tomatoes (sun-dried), olives (can be pre-packed and mixed), peppers, jalapenoes, or meat (summer sausage, tuna, pepperoni, etc.). Furthermore, you can add minute rice, flavored or not, or any other taste that floats your boat. It's kind of like a barchetta looking thing. Throw all that #&%!$ together and munch down. A concoction like that was something I had put together on a 9 day trip and it was like little slices of heaven. Also, always remember to bring some sort of sweet for dessert. I've been real partial to ready-made organic brownies and chocolate covered peanuts. M&Ms always kick ass in the back-country too. Uber important.”

“barchetta



bruschetta

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“lol TD!

the best meals i've found are dehydrated stuff that I make.

chili
sketti
stews
rice/pasta dishes
cous cous stuff

so on and so forth.”

“jimijam - going to go in that direction a little bit next summer. Getting tired of some of the pasta and freeze dried stuff. Tortillas rock as back country food. They seem to last a while, pack well, and substitute for bread and other things.”

“I like Couscous. It takes two minutes to make tastes great with brown sugar and butter or onions and bullion.”

“...one of the best things I have made on the trail is mexican corn fritters....they are a great & spicy addition to a meal...get the mexican cornbread mix that only uses water put mix in baggy...add water...drop in hot skillet or pan in a little olive oil & fry em up...
...also....biscuits & gravy..get KFC biscuits & put in a small Pringles can...get the peppered white gravy mix that uses water...mix in pan...warm biscuits in foil...yumm....(don't add too much water...lol...I did the last time...it sucked...)... use one of those teeny tiny wisks...they are sooo cute....
...fav Mountain Home entree.....Pasta Primavera...yummmm”

“I always try to pick stuff that doesn't smell like a dinner invitation for bears. Not always the tastiest stuff.

I also tend to pick things you don't have to cook, again, not always the tastiest stuff.”

“You guys are on the right track..

The "best meals for backpacking" are just an extension of your kitchen.. with a different stove.. and only an icebox instead of a refrigerator..

There is nothing you can't enjoy on the trail.. pick something you want to eat, and go at it.”

“I just dehydrated pizza sauce, onions, red/green peppers. Peperoni on an english muffin. My own personal pot pizza! yo bear!
sour kraut is great de-hydrated.”

“GatherNoMoss makes some great dehydrated spaghetti.”

“kraut.....interesting......”

“Div, i tried a great corn bread/johnny cake recipie this weekend that worked great

1/2 C. Corn Meal
1/2 C. Flour
3/4 Tsp. Baking powder
1/2 Tsp. Baking soda
Powdered Egg
Powdered Milk
Salt/Pepper

Mix all the ingredients in a ziplock. Add enough water at camp to make a little thicker than pancake batter and fry in a skillet w/ butter or oil. I was car camping so I used actual egg and milk and added some red pepper for a kick. They were great!”

“those fried cakes and breads sound great! I'll try one of those soon.”

“Spam singles, cheese whiz on a honey wheat bagel!!!”

“small jar or tube of pizza sauce, bag of mozerella cheese, pepperoni, and pita bread...”

“divinity - what skillet do you take backpacking? The titaniums are expensive!! Aluminum? Iron?”

“Wal-Mart carries Mirro or Mirror aluminum pots and pans. It is the cheapest and the lightest that they carry.”

“I have found the foil packets of tuna, chicken and salmon to be very tastey and VERY easy to clean up after the meal.”

“First night out I like to carry a frozen steak wrapped in a couple of sheet of newspaper and stuck in a ziplock bag. The steak will thaw by evening and can be grilled on an open fire or fried in a small pot. Sometimes it gets hacked up into bitesize pieces before freezing to facilitate frying in the small pot. Also, salt and pepper and coat with olive oil at home, before you freeze it. Then you can just throw it in the pan and it is ready to go. The last trip I went on I cooked about 3 oz of shell noodles. After they were done, I drained them, threw in some dried, chopped tomatoes and a one-ounce nalgene bottle of italian dressing that I brought from home. I then set that aside in the ziplock I brought it in. Then I fried steak (new york strip) chuncks to medium rare and then combined the noodles back in the pot and ate it all, and did not share. It was good.”

“For BBQing your steak, a cookie cooling rack makes a light weight grill.
Don't forget the backed potato.”

“First night meal:

Cube the following.
Round Steak
potato
onion
bell peper
mushroom
carots
acorn squash

Salt and pepper to taste, double wrap in foil. Put into ziplock.

To cook, remove from ziplock, cover with coals for 45 minutes.”

“meal planning sucks.
why do teenage boys have to eat 10lbs of food per day?”

“and the border restrictions are driving me insane!”

“Simlify it. Just give then 20 snickers bars a day.”

“snicker”

“is there a site with a list of restrictions between usa and can?

i eat thing i eat a lot at home.. i rarely have to shop before trip into the woods. so, look in your cabinets, unless you prepare everything from scratch.”

“Buy them each a giant jar of peanut butter and a big jar of nutella and leave it at that.”

“you read my mind rosey”

“The Nutella won't last a day.

With a diet like that, pack extra tp.”

“Easy come, easy go!”

“the US doesn't like it when meat or fruit products are brought across.

snickers, nutella, and peanutbutter...they'd love it / i'd have to kill the hyper little devils”

“What you do is say to them, "Ya see that peak up there? I bet I can beat you up there..."”

“No peaks Rosey, just tall sand dunes. Maybe they should try tree climbing.”

“How about, "I'd like to see how quickly you can move this dune from here, to over there..."”

“Dry dog food. It's delicious, nutrious, and crosses the border easily.”