Ramen Noodles Backpacking Recipes

[Stitches]

I don't like ramen noodles---too messy to eat. I love couscous, which is easy to cook AND easy to eat. Add dehydrated veggies, bacon bits or chopped turkey jerky or dried beef, and whatever spice or sauce you like. There are many varieties available.

[Miel]

I don't like ramen noodles---too messy to eat. I love couscous, which is easy to cook AND easy to eat. Add dehydrated veggies, bacon bits or chopped turkey jerky or dried beef, and whatever spice or sauce you like. There are many varieties available.

I do love me some couscous!

[Venchka]

Why do people continue to rave about Ramen?
There are alternatives.
Hakubaku brand noodles from Australia cook fast, taste good and aren't loaded with junk.
http://www.hakubaku.com/en/
Enjoy.

Wayne


Sent from somewhere around here.

[Miel]

How about dehydrating spaghetti squash? Taste and texture just like angel hair pasta.

[nsherry61]

How about dehydrating spaghetti squash? Taste and texture just like angel hair pasta.

Actually, many different left over cooked noodle dishes from home that are dehydrated, rehydrate quite well and taste very good.

[lonehiker]

On a long trip I will eat ramen (w/tuna or spam) with the spice packet about once a resupply. On short trips I have a ramen recipe that calls for dehydrated burger and veggies but no spice packet. At home I might have ramen for lunch 3 - 4 times a month. I don't mind ramen.

[Cadenza]

The ramen sold in typical American grocery stores is crap!

But you can get good quality ramen (without MSG!) from Korean/oriental markets. There simply is no comparison.

[Miel]

But you can get good quality ramen (without MSG!) from Korean/oriental markets. There simply is no comparison.

^^This^^

And on my spaghetti squash comment: the problem is, the thing contains almost no calories. Ramens are like 300 calories for one of those small packages.

[Dogwood]

^^This^^

And on my spaghetti squash comment: the problem is, the thing contains almost no calories. Ramens are like 300 calories for one of those small packages.

Expand thee mind. Not many calories in a tuna packet(especially packed in water) or dehydrated mashed potatoes(just potatoes!) or pasta(just pasta) either. But people take them on trail because they can have ingredients added that can change the nutritional profile including increasing the caloric content.

How about this? Don't look at a meal basing it on only one ingredient? Have you ever eaten a burger and just eaten a burger patty or spaghetti and nothing else?

Add some tahini, nuts(pumpkin and sunflower seeds come to mind), seeds, oil, coconut, spices(turmeric and cumin come to mind), some type of cream or dehydrated milk, etc

[Dogwood]

How about the empty calories in refined sugar, AND CONSIDERING IT'S ABSOLUTELY DISMAL OVERALL NUTRITIONAL PROFILE, yet hikers carry this on trail in mass amounts as added to "food" in their many highly processed choices. Worse, the FDA approved ingredient labeling laws allow the "food" industry to hide it on packaging by it being masqueraded as alternative names.

[MuddyWaters]

Some fbc recipes with ramen on Sarah Kirkconnells site trailcooking.com


Ramen noodles, pearled couscous, minute rice. All precooked and work exceptionally well with fbc

[shawnb]

The worst part of most ramen is they contain MSG---a non-starter.

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandst...rink.features3

"We now know that glutamate is present in almost every food stuff, and that the protein is so vital to our functioning that our own bodies produce 40 grams of it a day. Probably the most significant discovery in explaining human interest in umami is that human milk contains large amounts of glutamate (at about 10 times the levels present in cow's milk). Babies have very basic taste buds: it's believed that mother's milk offers two taste enhancements - sugar (as lactose) and umami (as glutamate) in the hope that one or other will get the little blighters drinking. Which means mothers' milk and a packet of cheese'n'onion crisps have rather more in common than you'd think."

[shawnb]

I often add Miso base (Kikkoman makes a decent one) to common ramen noodles - replacing the included spice pack. Miso is extremely lightweight. I'm fond of the Miyasaka brand (can be obtained via Amazon.) Add a pork based meat (precooked bacon or, if you want to get extravagant soy-glazed spam) and it's amazing.

[Spogatz]

I kick mine up with a a foil packet of Chicken breast meat. MMMmmmmmm

[show me the monkey]

I saw this at supermarket checkout some years ago, but didn't buy it. It might be worth a look: http://www.amazon.com/101-Things-Do-.../dp/1586857355

[rocketsocks]

I don't like ramen noodles---too messy to eat. I love couscous, which is easy to cook AND easy to eat. Add dehydrated veggies, bacon bits or chopped turkey jerky or dried beef, and whatever spice or sauce you like. There are many varieties available.

tip o' the day

break up the ramen by crushing in bag best you can, makes it much less messy and is a joy to drink right from a mug
~soup is good food.

[rocketsocks]

tip o' the day

break up the ramen by crushing in bag best you can, makes it much less messy and is a joy to drink right from a mug
~soup is good food.

Here's how I do it.
Bend bag in half just enough to break noodles, give bag 1/4 turn and repeat. Now use the heals of your hands to mash the little quartered club sandwich pieces tip broken up.

[chknfngrs]

1:1 ratio of honey and Texas Pete

[Hangfire]

I tried the ramen noodles hot chocolate combo a couple of times, not as bad as you would think, even got the German kids to give it a go. Of course I didn't add the flavor packets in that format.

For normal ramen I like the chicken flavor the best, and as for the MSG, you're either allergic to it or you're not, most people are not.

[shawnb]

I tried the ramen noodles hot chocolate combo a couple of times, not as bad as you would think, even got the German kids to give it a go. Of course I didn't add the flavor packets in that format.

For normal ramen I like the chicken flavor the best, and as for the MSG, you're either allergic to it or you're not, most people are not.

In all likelihood, nobody is allergic to it. Glutamate (MSG is glutamate stabilized by salt, and indistinguishable by humans from other forms of glutamate) is part of every protein in our bodies. Per the link I posted above, it is a component of human breast milk - arguably the most natural food for humans. It's naturally present in all sorts of things - parmesan cheese is loaded with it, as are tomatoes.

The MSG hysteria is a sort of weird food hysteria that is somewhat analogous to the current stir over gluten, of which ~1% of the population actually does have a legitimate issue with.