Camping Food: Easy & Warm Camping Meals.
Reusable food pouch baby food storage
Dehydrated/freeze-dried camping your meals are great for hiking, backpacking, or camping meals as you don't have to keep it cold in order to avoid spoiling.
Reusable food pouch baby food storage
While coolers/refrigerators could work well in some situations, ice or electricity isn't always available making dehydrated/freeze dried food very attractive. While removing the water helps preserve camping food additionally, it has another benefit...
Camping, backpacking, or hiking food that's freeze-dried or dehydrated is able to reduce weight by sixty to 90 %. If you're carrying a backpack or other hiking gear with a few days worth of camping food and supplies this can make a BIG difference.
As with every prepackaged food you'll probably find most camping food portion/serving sizes extremely optimistic or following a long day of hiking...laughable. I don't know who dreamed up the system but keep it in mind when you're buying it because otherwise you'll probably be going hungry, or maybe you're carrying a pack throughout the day you might even be undernourished.
Something different to keep in mind is the kind of the container itself. The containers with corners makes it difficult for the boiling water to mix with the camping food leaving dry spots. Also tall narrow containers ensure it is almost impossible to reach inside having a spoon without getting as messy like a two year-old, as you work your way down to the bottom. (An easy option is to trim from the top as you eat.) So if you feel a light eater or make use of them afterwards for trash a few of the containers have a "ziplock" kind of closure which can come in handy, if they're not trimmed to ribbons. ;-)
Some camping foods can now be heated with a heating pouch by adding water to a chemical heating source. The benefit is there's no flame. The drawback is they weigh more than the pouch on it's own and there's more trash to get rid of properly. So it could be better to just bring a little stove if you're backpacking.
Camping food offers tradeoffs. While it isn't usually gourmet that does not mean it has to be bad. All things considered a gourmet meal will make for a lot of extra weight and inconvenience. Not my notion of a fun trip. The reason why people buy it is because it's light, convenient, and it can provide a quick hot meal. For taste.