One thing I do on shorter summer trips and always on winter trips is just bring miso paste and Seaweed. I make Miso soup a lot at home and always have a bag of both red and white in the fridge. That is one way to avoid the problem of MSG which a lot of the packaged soups have. Also the soup packet can get pretty pricey for what you actually get.

I buy these plastic 2"x2:" plastic containers at the$.99 Cent Store and put a blob of Miso paste in them. The containers are very lite and you get a pack of four for $.99.


As for other soups I make a lot of mine in bulk and dehydrate them. The Green's Cookbook has a really great Black Bean Soup (really a Black Bean Chilli) much better than anything you can buy in a packet. Also I make an Indian Dish called 'Rajma' which is made with kidney beans. I combine these with pre-cooked re-hydrated Quinoa to add carbs. 3.5 to 4 ozs of dehydrated Black Beans and 2 oz of Quinoa once rehydrated will swell to one pound of dinner.

frank