<<If you want to go really light you can just boil the rice and add a bullion cube for chicken and rice. Add to it any wild birds you happened to kill and you eat pretty good>>

I second that (done it many times, with and without the bullion cube), and it brings up a topic - from a nutrional efficiency stand point, boiling meat and using the broth is the preferable cooking method, visions of meat roasting on a fire notwithstanding...