Cycle touring and bikepacking gourmands, outdoor cooking and maybe a little coffee outdoors

Made the recent error of taking a dehydrated dinner from Firepot and an Adventure Nutrition wet meals pudding on a multi-nighter. The later tasted exactly how it looked. Less washing up was done, barely had to move, but both are a hard no from me.

So looking for recipe and kit inspiration, as simple or as bougie as you got, how remote were you, what is your go to, was it worth it, did you hand grind and pour over your morning coffee on your Kent gravel loop, or forage for dinner on the silk road, go for it..

Pictures, recipe and location encouraged..

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Just cheap and nasty dried noodle packs for me if an overnighter.
I usually take cooked pizza to munch all day and then want something really simple and quick to eat before bed.

I'll started with my goto, mostly pre-made and vastly tastier than a spenny dehydrated meal.

*Cheezy* pasta or couscous
1: In a blender:
Shelled Hemp Seeds - 25g
Nutritional yeast flakes - 5g
Notorious Nooch Smoky Bacon yeast flakes 1-3g (optional)

2: Finely chop:
Sundried Tomato

3: Store together in a container.

On the trip
4: Cook giant couscous or pasta of choice. Drain but leave a little wet.
5: Add dry mix.

6: Optional, add:
Fresh basel or pesto
Olive oil
Chili flakes

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I'm in the camp of taking a full Trangia kit with kettle when touring and cooking proper meals. One thing we're keen on is the Simply Cook kits, each meal is three little pots of all the bits that would be awkward so all you have to do is buy the bulky ingredients at the end of the day. Big fan of farm gate eggs and foraging mushrooms for breakfast.

On my own in the summer I opted for preportioned baggies for overnight oats for breakfast, bung some dried fruit, sugar, spices, milk powder in there. Cold meals for dinner cut down on evening faff and all I needed was a tupperware and some cutlery

We dehydrate our own stuff, usually a bean chili or Jamie Olivers black lentil.
Baked beans.
Idahoan instant mashed potato is actually really tasty, and and fairly cheap to have something hot to fill up on.
Milk powder for custard/coffee/tea/general milk things.
Tuna in foil packs.
Jerky/Biltong with a splash of water and dehydrated veg.
Rice noodles.

We are a bit limited because partner needs gluten free food. So breakfast is either granola or nutribix, or if I'm feeling generous, gf waffles and a bit of maple syrup.

https://www.backpackingchef.com/

If we are travelling nearer shops though, our stove (Soto Windmaster) has an adjustable flame, so we can simmer a onepot of stuff we pick up.

Mainly here for the inspiration, but I'd like to point out that porridge is fucking shit and can fuck the fuck off to fucksville.

I'd like to know what you eat for breakfast

I sometimes chuck a tin of tuna in my cheap nasty noodles if I am feeling posh.

Nice. One of my favourite memories is sat looking at Mont Blanc, eating baked beans and mash.

*I've never tried batchelors instant pasta, but I'd imagine it can't be worse than the expensive trail meals.

I'd like to know what I should eat for breakfast that doesn't involve porridge. Open to suggestions.

great thread. My only experience of cook touring, I made pasta and put in a tin of those mackerel in tomato sauce. Thought I was ray mears.

Whats all this dehydrating about, do you need another one of those single use appliances or is there a better way.

We splashed out for a single use appliance, but you can do it in the oven if yours goes down to 50-70c.

I am a Trangia cooker when touring. My approach is to make quick, flavourful one-pot things that require very little prep time - I use a lot of pre-prepared items for those reasons. For meat, sausages are cheap, easy to find and easy to cook without worrying about under/overcooking. Pulses are also a great - chick peas, black beans, etc - and go with anything and are filling. A pack of pre-cooked lentils, some sauteed veg and some sausages will have you eating really well.

I have some cooking things I take along with me that are essential. Cooking oil, some balsamic glaze, honey and hot sauces live in small silicone squeezy bottles that seal. I also carry sugar, salt, pepper and stock powder in small container.

Instant coffee is fine for me and takes up no space. I love porridge and along with the instant coffee means I only ever need water in the morning. I only keep pasta for emergencies and usually eat that on the last night. Dried, filled pasta is more interesting than plain pasta and requires no sauce.

I do prefer Touring in France - the pre-prepared options are much, much better.

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I have one for making jerky, it takes up a lot of room though.

That's breakfast sorted.

I hate porridge too. Breakfast is muesli with dried fruit, maybe a bit of milk powder.
Coffee is full wanker with aeropress and hand grinder if it's just a night or two, but instant if going proper lightweight. Tubes of sweetened condensed milk make it palatable. It's delicious by itself if you're flagging.

First breakfast is the warm scraps squashed under your sleeping pad from last night (recommend
jammy dodgers), second breakfast is in the nearest town pretending to be an actual human who is a functioning part of society.

thread needs @pastry_bot

Breakfast is a jar of crunchy peanut butter, an aeropress or two, maybe a banana. Then find real food in the first place you can.
Beans inside the porlex.
Porlex inside aeropress.
4 or 5 filters will fit in the press.
Don’t take the grinder handle, a multitool bit fits fine.
Eat the peanut butter and stir coffee with your Campagnolo wrench.

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porridge is great. gbop.

Eat the peanut butter and stir coffee with your Campagnolo wrench.

#wouldrep

Have prepped a veggie/lentil-based curry w/rice then carried that in a zip lock bag to reheat for one-night stays. JetBoil and gas canister for this. And plenty of water to rinse out/wash up.

Or if staying on a campsite on a multiday tour, I've just headed to the nearest decent pub for dinner.

Aeropress coffee + some fruit or a supermarket pain au chocs for breakfast, then head to the nearest town for a second breakfast/snack stop if needed. Wetherspoons are always a good option for breakfast and a morning shit.

Wetherspoons are always shit.

There’s something I can get behind.

Flatbreads/wraps or similar for me! Bonus that you can fold them up and don’t need to worry about squashing them. Smother in peanut buttter and Nutella and that’s a reasonable start to the morning that you can make and carry with you. Bonus that flat breads and nut spreads are pretty ubiquitous the world over.

Savoury options I often go with couscous, quick and easy to cook and can add so many flavours to it. Add in some olive oil to whatever flavours you want and it’s pretty energy rich as well. My favourites are tinned tuna or chorizo/salami plus whatever veg can be chopped up small and eaten raw (carrots/peppers/peas etc) and that’s a pretty easy meal with minimum clean up afterwards. Does need a bit of water though to cook the couscous but not as much as pasta I’ve found.