[Bedivere]

I usually eat Cream of Wheat with a little brown sugar and dried berries in it for breakfast on the trail but it would be nice to find a tasty, filling, no-cook alternative. I really despise powdered milk, so cereal is right out unless I'd be eating it dry. I also hate oatmeal. So what do you eat or recommend for breakfast that either requires boiling a very minimal amount of water or better yet, no stove usage at all?

[Tom]

Pop Tarts Bagels & Cream Cheese

[GeoTom]

You will need a battery powered toaster for the Pop Tarts though. Or a very long extension cord.

[Ski]

You just haven't had good oatmeal: 2 cups boiling water add: 1 cup oatmeal and one cup of: equal parts Monukka raisins, dried cranberries ( sugarless ), yellow raisins, almonds, walnuts, filberts 1 tbsp minced candied dried ginger cinnamon, nutmeg, ground clove, and a dash of cardamom * optional: chopped dried pineapple ( sugarless ), chopped dried apple ( sugarless), fresh berries ( in season ) stir constantly for 4-5 minutes, add 1/4 cup brown sugar, cover and let stand at least 5 minutes before serving.

[Backpacker Joe]

Oatmeal. Or, those mtn house granola breakfasts.

[tmatlack]

Comrades, My friend always eats chicken Lipton cup o Soup for breakfast with some crackers or a bagel. He likes the salt, warmth, it's filling, and fast. He's a freaking breastly hiker so something is working for him. Tom

[Conrad]

Grape-Nuts w/ water & sugar. There are more ways to have cold cereal than (1) powdered milk or (2) dry! Or, granola the same way (the kind of granola that comes in a container like a half-gallon paper milk carton). I discovered this summer that a small honey squeeze bottle makes a great container/pourer for the sugar.

[kbatku]

Pancakes and bacon, sometimes a toasted bagel w/ cream cheese. The ubiquitous instant oatmeal. Eggs and hash browns, sausage patties - fried biscuits. Yumm!!

[Lono]

Instant oatmeal, hot water poured into the little bag, with lots of berries and raisins. Two bags in the morning. Plus coffee, two cups, and maybe a handful of nuts. A dirty spoon and coffee cup, rinse with the last of the hot water. To me its more important not to have breakfast dishes to clean on the trail than to have a heartier meal than that.

[grannyhiker]

I don't have any problems with dried skim milk in cereal or cocoa. Any other use, forget it. Dried whole milk (remembered with loathing from my childhood and youth) is even worse--there's no way to avoid lumps. I never could eat oatmeal but love meusli (basically raw oatmeal with lots of fun stuff added, like other grains, dried fruit, nuts). 1/4 cup meusli, 1/3 cup dried skim milk, plenty of freeze dried fruit (unless wild blueberries are in season), in individual sandwich bags. Add 1 (edit--a whole cup, not 1/3!) cup cold water, reseal bag, shake thoroughly (gently kneading bag to get the dried milk in the corners mixed in), let sit about 10 minutes to partially rehydrate the fruit. That's my breakfast--no stove needed.

[kbatku]

Try it with instant pudding for a cheap desert, or with Carnation Instant Breakfast for a calorie boost that tastes good.

[jenjen]

Baker's breakfast cookies, or Bear Valley pemican bars are tasty for breakfast. Instant eggs (cooked in a freezer bag) with cheese and taco sauce on a tortilla.

[Canuck]

The breakfast cookies are good. I love the Mountain House (?) granola with raspberries that you add water to but if you don't like powdered milk you probably won't like it. It's sure tasty though.

[Henchbot]

this is moronic question probly..... how do you keep cream cheese?

[sarbar]