Fast food for backpacking

When I go back packing in the summer I can bring the food that takes longer to make.

But when I go hunting/ backpaking I have almost no time to eat. I am looking for good ideas for fast food to eat that I don't have to heat or add water to. Just open and munch. I used meal replacement bars and trail mix this last trip.

Thanks,

In todays world of microwaves and other modes of cooking there are many products of foods that make cooking in the outdoors easier too. I use many brands of things that are relatively cheap from the store and easy to cook outdoors. Many like to use products from places like mtn house which are expemsive freezedried foods, but there are the regular items by Lipton and Knorr that are just as good. Plus if you have a kitchen in your home you can produce many of your own easy to cook in the outdoors items.

I like rice, but instead of buying instant rice, i cook the rice myself then dry it and package it in Ziploc bags. All it needs is to be soaked or heated to a boil and its ready to use and eat. Also the same goes with beans, cook them at home then dry them and rehydrate them later in camp or bring them to a boil and they are ready to be used.

Or make your own recipes for stew and soups then either dry these or package the dry items by amounts used and reconstitute in the cook pot on a backpacking trip.

Much money can be saved by making your meals at home then repackaging them for use on trips. Get a food dehydrator or use an regular oven at home and experiment with drying times or make a outdoor dehydrator with screening to keep insects away from the food as it dehydrates.

High calorie, tasty, quick meals I like are using the carb-balance Mission tortilla wraps, with bite size sausages and stick cheese. You can add mayo packets if you want the extra calories. These wraps are great on the front end of a longer hike, or if it's going to be cold. Pretty light for the calorie to weight ratio.

Read the other food posts. People have posted some really good, inexpensive ideas.

Good luck!

Nothings more convenient than an MRE. Hot or cold.

Many types of cheese will keep for backpacking trips. Throw that on a tortilla with some shelf stable humus (World Market carrys it in indivual packages, much like sour cream comes in from fast food places) and you have a tasty meal. Also, indiviual packages of Nutella or peanut butter on a tortilla.