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.

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    6 months ago

    But more complex meals like a dehydrated chili or dehydrated chicken curry, you can’t just “take on every camping trip” especially if you are sleeping far from your vehicle.

    How are you camping? Chili and beans and such are normal things to cook while camping without them being made and dehydrated before arriving on site because they keep well and are fairly lightweight. 🤨

    I go camping all the time and the only thing I bring that I would dehydrate first is maybe some meat to have jerky because meat is the only thing I bring that doesn’t keep without refrigeration.

    I do think it’s a good idea for meals you would not or could not make on a fire/camping stove or wouldn’t keep without refrigeration, though. And definitely sounds good on a road trip where you don’t have a fire or camp stove to actually cook.