Couscous The Ultimate Tramping Food

It's light, cooks fast, contains protein as well as carbs and goes well with pretty much anything.

Typically in New Zealand people seem to take pasta or rice with them for tramping trips.  During my recent trip to the southisland I noticed a lot of the foreign people having couscous.  This really seems to make a lot of sense.  It cooks extremely fast, you basically just add boiling water and leave it for a minute and it's ready to eat.  This mean you get to eat sooner when your ravenous at the end of a hard day.  It also doesn't require much fuel so you can save a bit on weight assuming you're using gas rather than fires.

You can basically use couscous in place of rice in any recipe.