A lot depends on how many are in the Group as sometimes you may have to eat what others prefer and how bad the hangover from the night before is



For a camping/trekking trip that has been planned it is usually quite easy to have eggs, bacon, sausage, black pudding, baked beans etc for breakfast if you have a couple of single burner stoves. Better to also arrange to be the cook and agree that some one does the washing up!

Supermarkets carry some very nice boil in the bag range meals such as i.e. Chicken Tikka Masala etc

http://www.lookwhatwefound.co.uk/Page/ProductsByCategory.aspx?CatID=1

Very tasty when combined with Tilda Microwave Boil in the Bag Range of rice dishes.

http://www.tilda.com/our-rice-range/tilda-steamed-basmati-rice

There are lots and lots of different supermarket convenience meals available and some of them are very good even compared to home cooking.

Bug Out Bag (Survival requirement) have a different set of requirements due to the required energy density. i.e. a 21 day food bag weighs in around 10Kg and contains around 45,000 Kcal. Freeze dried meals such as Mountain house are very useful due to there storage life times around 5 years. The downside though is the cost of Freeze dried.

I will combine Freeze dried meals such as those from Expedition foods and longer life tinned products from the Supermarket such as canned Oatmeal and Dried Milk etc and other foil pouches such as Tuna etc.

http://www.expeditionfoods.com/online-shop/

A vacuum sealer is a very useful item to have to make you own homemade MREs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAIj5l_uh-4