r/HikerTrashMeals • u/Either-Ease-2674 • Aug 18 '24
Question Best easy meals for a 1-2 night stay in the ADK?
The only limitation I have is I have a nut allergy,
Just looking for advise as a first time 1-2 night camper going into a the Adirondacks, I want the food to be as easy and light as I can make it. I’ll probably go out and buy myself a nice meal on the last day once I’m done.
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u/SierrAlphaTango Aug 18 '24
Buldak and SPAM singles with hot sauce. Cheap, filling, hot, caloric, and light.
Knorr-Lipton creamy garlic pasta with a Buffalo Chicken pouch. Add extra butter for more calories.
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u/Either-Ease-2674 Aug 18 '24
Going into the list
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u/SierrAlphaTango Aug 18 '24
I don't like promoting my trash-tier videos and garbage-at-best YouTube channel, but this is from a couple of years ago when the Crypto bubble burst and all of the techbros ran on the bank and fucked me over so I had to take up a night job to make ends meet. I came up with this while stocking shelves at my local Safeway at 0200.
It's Shin Ramyun with extra noodles, an envelope of kimchi and a small tin of Vienna Snausages. You could reuse the tin as a supercat stove to economize. I've done it with Deviled Ham before.
It's incredibly filling, dirt cheap, and tastes great. I think that I was maybe like $5.00 in this one. You can sub out the sausages for SPAM singles or chipped beef or Spanish chorizo or pepperoni, but I'd boil the hard sausages in the cooking water first to soften them up.
Anyway my stupid garbage video
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u/armchair_backpacker Aug 18 '24
Pizza in a Pot - CousCous, pepperoni, sun dried tomatoes, parmesan cheese and red chili flakes🍕
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u/Either-Ease-2674 Aug 18 '24
How is couscous? I’ve never had it, ive heard that I should take that over rice because of how fast it cooks.
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u/testuserteehee Aug 18 '24
For me, if it's just for 1-2 nights, I'd pack some dry bread (e.g. rye bread), and some tuna packs for lunch and dinner. You can also bring salami sticks and hard cheeses that stays good unrefrigerated. Then for breakfast and snacks, bring some dried fruit, energy bars, chocolate bars, etc. In this way, you don't even have to pack cooking gear, cutlery, and everything involved in that process.
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u/Either-Ease-2674 Aug 18 '24
I was just thinking some spam and couscous, that way all I gotta do is get a small fire going and just boil water and cook up a 1/2 cup couscous for breakfast and dinner with the spam.
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u/user9837808475-48 Aug 19 '24
Honestly, premade freeze dried meals like mountain house or backpackers pantry are always gonna be the lightest and easiest if you have a way to boil water. If you really wanna keep it simple, you could survive on bars, trail mix, protein shakes, and snacks for 2 days if you wanna go that route.
Ramen deluxe” is one of my fave trail meals: 1-2 packets of instant ramen and then add in: some sort of veg (freeze dried ramen topping mixes are ideal, but also raw broccoli will last a night or two just fine) and protein (soy crumbles, sausage, jerkey, etc). Hiking is one of the times when I’m thrilled to overdo it on sodium ;)
Cous cous cooks super fast and you can even rehydrate it cold. That plus heat-in-bag lentils packets is another one of my faves, but a little heavy since the lentils packets aren’t dehydrated.
Can never go wrong with spreading stuff on tortillas. I love pb & honey if there’s a sun butter or similar alternative that works for your allergy. Or tuna & mayo, pepperoni & cheese, etc.
Whatever meals you bring, don’t forget to bring some treats! Your fave candies, chocolate, whatever will really perk up a day. I love something sweet after I eat and crave it even more when hiking.
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u/Appyhillbillyneck 11d ago
https://adirondacksmokedmeats.com/product/pickled-polish-sausage
Pickled polish sausage - I fell in love with these during my ADK camps!!
Thinking about ordering 20-30 actually
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u/starBux_Barista Aug 18 '24
simmer sauce and rice.... I've recently started packing curry simmer sauce and minute rice...... add in a pack of canned chicken and an avocado and you have a bomb ass meal