Kaylee's not-a-blog » Food » Meals » Skurka rice & beans with corn chips & cheese

Several years ago, I read about Andrew Skurka's "Beans + Rice with Fritos & Cheese" hiker meal, and, after finding a sample package of dehydrated refried beans, bought some cheap generic corn chips (because Fritos are silly expensive) to try the recipe.

Here's the original raw link (copy & paste to visit it):
https://andrewskurka.com/backpacking-dinner-recipe-beans-rice-with-fritos-cheese/

It was easy, very tasty, and worked out well! :)

Steps:

• rehydrate about 1 ounce each of dehydrated refried beans and instant rice (just add boiling water and let sit for about 10 minutes)
• [optional] add Taco seasoning (since I used heavily seasoned "chili" corn chips, I skipped this)
• add about 1 ounce of cheddar cheese
• add about 1 ounce of corn chips, then break/smash/cut them up
• stir and enjoy :)

Picture:

Beans, rice, and cheese, all ready to eat:

(prepared in one of my cheap, light Dollar Tree bowls)

After adding corn chips:

After breaking up & stirring corn chips, final ready to eat:

Calories & Cost:

item	Calories	Cost (actual)
dehydrated refried beans	109	$0.38
instant rice	150	$0.17
cheddar cheese	110	$0.25
corn chips	160	$0.10
Totals:	529	$0.90