We usually carry one or two Mountain House freeze dried meals as backup meals in case we don't find a meal elsewhere at dinner time. We carry some snacks too.

We also tour with a backpacking stove. We have used MSR Dragonfly or Whisperlite stoves. For my last few backpack trips I used an Esbit tablet stove and it worked well for heating a bit of water for tea, oatmeal or a MH meal. Smaller and easier than an MSR stove, and only costs $10.