In reply to Fredt:
Personally, I loath bad food in the outdoors and that includes all forms of packet-soup/dehydrated stuff. I carry a big pack and put real food in it. It has always been worth it and a few extra kilograms in my pack has never worried me. If I wanted to carry less, I'd lose some of this beer-induced fat around the middle.
That said, there are some very sensible things to do to at least carry real food efficiently.
Firstly, cous-cous is lighter than rice or pasta and needs less water and less gas to cook. All three tick the starch box and none of them are exactly mind-blowing so one might as well go with the most efficient.
Secondly, hard cheese adds more flavour, per gram, than gouda or the like. Nuts add flavour and protein, too. I'd much rather have cheese and cashew nuts than tinned tuna and neither of the former require me to carry a tin in or out of the mountains.
Spices are "free" from a weight perspective. Curry powder, also.
The best wild-camping I ever had involved aubergines, carrots and other robust produce with cheese and nuts for protein and real spices for flavour. Not a dehydrated morsel or tin in sight and, because the produce was tough, not even much packaging to lug around after the meal was eaten.
Better still, real produce comes from a farm and doesn't require the processing and tonne of plastic, single-use packaging like all that dehydrated shite.