easy, tasty, nutritional dinner ideas for backpacking?

[Wldrns]

A Boy Scout buddy told me this just last weekend: stove top stuffing and can chicken. Make the stuffing with boiling water and toss in the chicken (juice from the can & all), mix, then eat. Simplicity!

Try also mixing the stuffing and meat with store bought instant mashed potatoes. It doesn't take any longer to prepare and the dry spuds weigh next to nothing. The mixture is quite tasty as one of my lightweight staples that bulks up nicely. For more variety I sautee mixed vegetables with onions, then dehydrate them to add to the mix. Another meat you can use is packets of dried corned beef, ala chipped beef. Just be sure to rinse the meat in cold water first to get rid of the excess salt.

Enertia food is very much like home dehydrated food, not freeze-dried. I highly recommend it if you don't dehydrate your own. It will give you an idea of the variety of food you can dehydrate for yourself - I do many casserole types of meals, Enertia is heavy on that type also.

[vakylclimb]

frying?

I haven't tried this, but my roommate has (he was one of the people in charge of freshman trips at our school). They ended up bringing some vegetable oil and potatoes, making homemade french fries in the backcountry.
And the next day they re-used the oil and added left over pancake batter to it to see what would happen. Turns out, it was funnel cake. Doesn't sound like a bad idea, defiantly something different.
Either way, most anything tastes good after a long trip

[Kevin]

Bump!

[adk joe]

trailfoods.com is where its at, I lived off of those things on the many trips to yellowstone.