OK, some perhaps unknown to some, tips.
More general camping, then bike specific:

Pine needles make for a great dirty dish scrubber. Just grab a big ol' handful and start going to town on that half burnt oatmeal.

The Lentil is the perfect legume for touring. You can mostly "cook it" just by soaking during your day of bike-touring/backpacking/canoeing/et al.

I bring an empty plastic peanut butter jar. Fill her 1/3 with the magic beans, the rest with river water.
Let those babies swell all day.

Then empty the water.
Then empty the swollen nuggets into my pot - add fresh river water, then bring that to a roiling boil for 10 mins.
Strain and season.

* never season while it's boiling. Salt makes them tough.

I like to add a little butter fried onion and garlic - and maybe a chopped tomato.