mike

Here is a simple, One-pot, cheap, luxurious, lightweight treat of a meal for you:

BlueCheese and Macaroni.

Ingredients:
One box of macaroni and cheese
Powdered milk (reconstitute with water to make 1/4 cup milk) per instructions on the box
butter or Margarine, or vegetable oil or... nothin'
Blue Cheese of you choice. The better the blue cheese, the better the meal.

Cook the macaroni and cheese per the instructions on the box. Add blue cheese to your personal taste allowing the blue cheese to melt into the mix.

-OR- skip the dried cheese mix from the box and just mix in a spash of milk, a dollop of butter, a dash of salt, a dash of pepper, and blue cheese to taste.

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aprilstarchild

My boyfriend and I are vegetarians (and I'm vegan, just to make things nice and complicated, ha ha), and he's not as into pasta as I am....so when we find a well-stocked grocery store, we buy instance rice and TVP (aka textured vegetable protein). We never eat TVP at home--or instant rice, for that matter--but it's handy when traveling. It's cheap and takes up very little weight.

They tend to cook in about the same amount of time, and they tend to be of the "boil water, add stuff, turn it off and let sit" method of cooking, which is good for saving fuel.

In any case, there's obviously a million things you can add to those two ingredients. One of our best nights, after the rice and TVP were done cooking I added garlic salt, a cube of vegetable bullion, some oil, and one of those little cans of tomato paste. (I think we may have also added a little nutritional yeast, but I forget.) Tomato rice soup!! Delicious and easy. I could have eaten that for dinner for days, especially since I crave salt like crazy on tour.

We did get a tiny non-stick frying pan meant for camping, and that expanded our possibilities a great deal...we could make pancakes for breakfast or fry veggie sausages or saute vegetables in smallish quantities.

Rob_E

I like that idea. It seems like it'd also make it easier to adjust on the fly. I also might try throwing my teapot lid over it, but I suspect my teapot lid is the same size as the base of my pot, so it might not be small enough to sit on top of the burner. My water bottle might, but I don't know how much heat I'd want to subject it to.