I started making dehydrated meals for lightweight camping situations, but now I’ve gotten hooked! I bring dehydrated meals with me on long road trips to save time and money, and even have started bringing them to keep in the cupboard at work for when I forget a lunch. All I do is take a wide mouth thermos and put the dehydrated food in and add 1.5x volume boiling water, seal the thermos and let it sit 15-20min. For soups or wetter dishes sometimes I add a little more hot water just before eating.
Anyone else have good dehydrated recipes for me to try? Right now I’m loving this beans and rice one as a base because I can so easily make variations, like adding powdered eggs and make breakfast burritos.
I’m saying you make the chili at your camp site, since everything except the meat doesn’t need to be kept cold. I don’t bring a cooler either so meat is either dehydrated or eaten only on the first day of a multiple day trip. I’m not usually on long hikes, though; the tomatoes might get squished in that instance. Though, you could also have them canned (store bought or canned yourself) 🤷🏻♂️
Ah sure I see what you’re saying. And you can definitely bring all the ingredients separate (you bring cans of tomatoes and tomato paste and wet foods? Bringing whole tomaotes in your backpack is something I’ve never heard of, thats heavy, wet messy, and also more inportantly not shelf stable. And canned shelf stable tomatoes are soo heavy and lots of trash to carry out) and cook everything and add dehydrated meat into it, but that’s a ton more work out in nature and burns way more fuel than just prepping at home and then heating up water for almost instant chili on trail. When I’m in nature I want to spend my time enjoying nature not lugging around cans and a can opener, spending an hour plus prepping and cooking a meal. Dehydrated meals take about 15min to rehydrate and you get the quality food that you had a whole real kitchen to prepare.