Instant mashed potatoes are one of my go-to backpacking foods. Not only can you find them in pretty much every supermarket for dirt cheap, they don’t even need to be cooked — you can make them with the cold-soak method. Obviously eating plain mashed potatoes when backpacking would be boring. Here’s one recipe for sprucing them up.
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Ingredients:
- 60g instant mashed potato flakes (about 210 calories)
- 2 shelf-stable sausages or 60g/2oz of jerky (about 260 calories)
- 1 Tbsp. dried mushroom powder (only about 10 calories) – powdered mushrooms rehydrate easier than whole pieces!
- Spices, herbs, salt
- Handful of foraged greens (too few calories to bother calculating)
- 1 Tbsp. olive oil (120 calories)
Calories/Weight:
- Calories: approx. 600
- Weight: approx. 140g/4.9oz
Instructions
- At home, put the instant potato flakes in a baggie. Add any herbs and spices you want to the flakes. I added Italian seasoning.
- On the trail: Put your greens (I like hogweed but stinging nettles are also easy to find) and dried mushrooms into 1 cup/240ml of water. If using jerky, put it in the water too.
- Bring the water to a boil.
- Once boiling, turn off stove. Stir in instant potato flakes. If you used sausage instead of jerky, add it now.
- Add salt and olive oil.
- Enjoy!
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