Post details: Cheaper Backpacking Food
Cheaper Backpacking Food
Steve and I like the freedom of camping without a cooler, but don't like to pay for expensive dehydrated food. Here are some things we make while in the woods that can be purchased at a regular grocery store.
Pasta Dinner Mixes with ham, chicken, turkey, or tuna in foil pouches - Betty Crocker "Helper" meals are incredibly cheap. I tape together the contents of the box, meat, and directions I cut out. I replace butter with oil and milk with reconstituted dry milk. The chicken and ham taste a little better if you saute them in the oil before adding the other things. I don't buy meals that require eggs to make. Zatarain's Pasta Dinner Mixes are also good. More expensive, but only require water to make.
Lipton Sides - The ones that cook in 15 minutes or less.
Couscous sides - Near East makes some good ones.
Breakfast Wraps with powdered eggs and dried refried beans. Easy because you can boil water for eggs, beans, and coffee all at once.
Potatoes baked in a tin foil packet with a little oil.
Applesauce, single-serving.
Pudding - Scary, but there is now non-dairy, no refrigeration required pudding.
