While I prefer reconstituted homemade dehydrated dinners in the freezer-bag for dinner, there have been several occasions when the weather was so inclement (like a continuing series of cloudbursts with hail) that I couldn't use the stove (I don't want to use the stove under the vestibule) or I was just too tired even to boil water in the evenings. That meant eating part of the next day's fruit, nuts and Kashi bars (I always take an extra "lunch" on a backpack). From now on I'm always going to take at least one dinner, maybe two, that can be eaten cold. Hummus is marvelous stuff. Tabouli is another, although I've found it quite crunchy when made with cold water. However, I dislike many of the other foods in the above "eat cold" lists, except, of course, as Jim pointed out, CHOCOLATE!!! (That word has to be spelled with at least three exclamation marks!) <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />