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This is a great topic! I've been putting some time researching and experimenting with backpacking meals. One thing I have recently discovered is that mountain house meals, though are expensive, are not a bad choice as long as you don't have a sodium restriction... And you can add stuff to them. For example, as my husband and I were hiking into our elk bivy camp, there were some dumb grouse... and one of them ended up with one of my arrows in him...and ended up in pieces in our beef stroganoff. I pieced him up into the water we were boiling for the mountain house meal and just added him in to the meal, and it was not too bad!
I just got a dehydrator so I'm trying to learn about dehydrated meals so I can limit mountain house meals. You can dehydrate all kinds of stuff! And because I am not one to waste my appetite on mediocre food as I like to "enjoy" and not "survive" when hunting, im finding all kinds of good at the local store.. A company called Bear Creak has a great line of just-add-water soups/stews/chilli that you can use as a base and add other misc. dried favorites to, and the dirty rice mixtures are great too! I like the home made granola bar idea.. I want to try that one. My favorite breakfast is the oatmeal with powdered milk with misc fruit additives. You can even do regular cereal with powdered milk and just add water and have a bag-o-cereal for breakfast...
I just got a dehydrator so I'm trying to learn about dehydrated meals so I can limit mountain house meals. You can dehydrate all kinds of stuff! And because I am not one to waste my appetite on mediocre food as I like to "enjoy" and not "survive" when hunting, im finding all kinds of good at the local store.. A company called Bear Creak has a great line of just-add-water soups/stews/chilli that you can use as a base and add other misc. dried favorites to, and the dirty rice mixtures are great too! I like the home made granola bar idea.. I want to try that one. My favorite breakfast is the oatmeal with powdered milk with misc fruit additives. You can even do regular cereal with powdered milk and just add water and have a bag-o-cereal for breakfast...