I'm looking for a few meal ideas for quick and easy food for hiking. I've got a 1.5 qt pot and a pocket rocket, (portable stove). Now I just need something other than Ramen noodles to cook. Any ideas?
Blast from the past, got me to thinking here.
I grew up out in the boonies near the Sierra Nevadas and still live here, we used to go hiking and camping a lot. I'm too old for the overnighters now.
For overnighters, we used to empty a couple cans of baked beans into ziplocks and ditch the cans, freeze the beans flat the night before so they'd be easy to transport, then warm them up in the bag in our small pot of water over the campfire. We'd freeze hot dogs or pre cooked sausages, and by the time we got where we were going, they'd be thawed but still cool. A whittled stick for a skewer over a campfire and you're good to go.
PB&J sammies....a couple of ziplocks of pre cooked bacon...obviously granola bars....depending on how long you'll be hiking before you can cook your meals, if you'll be able to fish
, if you can have a campfire, and package your meals in a way that you have as little as possible to carry out, helps.
You've probably already thought about all this....Aunt Bea's suggestions of packaged rice etc., is a good one.
Oh, yeah, I almost forgot to add.....anything cooked, warmed up, or otherwise eaten in the great outdoors tastes wonderful, especially after you've been hiking for hours! Have a nice trip.