Your thinking is clearly along the right lines. You're making distinctions about what is important to you, not just what They (whoever They are) think you should do.

Did think of one other thing: why bowls? If you use the "boil and soak" meals, you could just prepare them in the bags, and eliminate the bowls. (Eliminate hot drinks, and drink water from your water bottles, and you can eliminate the cups, too.) Here, we're clearly into the neighborhood of personal preference; there's nothing wrong with you if you take both a bowl and cup...