>>2349031When backpacking a use a lot prepacked (either bought or packed myself) pasta, rice, oatmeal, and other easy to cook things. I like my sausages so I pick up a variety of dry ones to provide protein, salt, and spice. If bagging up my own stuff I use dehydrated beans, veggies, powdered milk, dry fruit, etc to fill the main. I don't like the weight but tinned fish in a good sauce is a solid one. I don't like the tuna pouches so much because they are usually under 100 calories a pack, so I consider them a supplement to lunch usually. I tend to bring a lot dried fruit, granola or meal bars, etc. as well so I can do breakfast on the trail if I decide I want to keep moving as well as provide a little burst of energy here and there. If you are actually trying put good miles on you end up needing the calories.
For just regular get out and go camping it's hard to beat anything cooked over a fire. Beef stew (or any stew really) is great, steaks, eggs and bacon in the morning, Rough cut veggies just heated through. You can also really easily just prep stuff. Toss pork or chicken a in a bag with marinade, put it in the cooler and make a foil packet for the fire. If no fire, we often did chili, pasta and meat sauce, etc. at home, and just reheated it in the pot with a stove.
No matter what kind of camping I always have coffee, tea, and/or hot chocolate. Its a little pick me up with sometimes some additional calories. It's also a great mental boost to have a warm beverage at the start or end of a long day. Nothing ever hits like a cup of coffee on a cool morning out in the woods.
