I eat a lot of couscous, which doesn’t need to be heated, it just soaks up water when presented with it and becomes edible. Adding prunes, olives, walnuts, and salt helps too. A pot of food is two or three meals.

I sometimes carry dehydrated bean mush, which also rehydrates readily, and will mix it with the couscous for more flavor and protein and fat and whatever. There are also prunes in here, this was tasty.

I usually have a sweet potato, and they are worth turning the stove on for. Pictured here with couscous and a little rehydrated beans

Rolled oats also don’t need to be heated to soak up water and be good to eat. Bean mush may also be tasty with oats and peanut butter.

Spaghetti can be had from most gas station/convenience stores. I (always so far) cook it with sweet potato, I find they need about the same time, and don’t drain the water. Here I added peanut butter and salt and it got saucy and wonderful. Think of it as peanut noodles, it isn’t that weird, I promise

If I’ve got greens I’ll put them in. They don’t travel well, but aren’t so hard to come by and I should really get them more often. This noodle soup contains sweet potato, spinach, nutritional yeast, water and salt.

This rainy windy day I stopped at a grocery store and consumed a small bread, a tub of hummus and half a bunch of kale. Perhaps not surprisingly those fake sausage things weren’t that great out of the package, but they held up pretty well stuffed in my bag for a week or so till I cooked them while staying with a friend. (some fake sausage things are fine out of package, though it is not a thing I am in the habit of purchasing)

This is my favorite.