Originally Posted By JollyRogers
If you don't mind a little weight you can just boil the pouch the rice comes in. Already pre-cooked. You can use the water you boil to drink and it takes much less time to heat this than bringing water to a boil. So you save even more fuel and still no dishes.

Uncle Ben's Ready Rice


Sure that works for any retort packaged stuff (like MRE's) trouble is most of us aren't interested in heavy food most of the time. or put it this way, carrying that much weight of water in the food to save carrying a little bit of fuel would be somewhat counterproductive.
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