Backpackers, recommend me some camping food.

[fuzzybabybunny]

Going backpacking this weekend and just want to get some ideas.

I have a Jetboil but I'd prefer not to actually cook in it because I don't like cleanup. I'd like to instead just boil water in it and then pour the boiling water into a plastic ziploc bag that has a bunch of lightweight dehydrated stuff like couscous, canned chicken (sans the can), etc.

 

[jonessoda]

9 packs Cup-O-Noodles.

Edit: More seriously, I hear Mountain House is pretty good, though I don't know if you can boil it in the bag or if you gotta use a pot. MREs have 1200 calories each (all the food, not just the entrees) and the entrees come in sealed metallized-plastic pouches you can boil, so that wouldn't be messy, and you can usually get them at surplus stores.

 

[imported_elwood]

Ramen, duh.

 

[SpunkyJones]

Mountain House you can boil in the bag, foods ok for dehydrated. This info in 10 years old though, I'm now old, fat, and a daddy, so no more wandering the mountains for me.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

1. MRE's
2. Ramen