Meals for remote hiking and camping trip/ Trangia cooking ideas, please!

[Fordian]

DS is off to Scotland next week with 3 mates, actually not hiking but kayaking, but remotely. They need 4 evening meals that they will cook at camp.

They'll have 2 Trangias.

Other than Vesta dried meals, any ideas? He's looking at self-heating 'space' food at 50 quid for 5 meals...!....

TIA

Couscous
Precooked lentils
Super noodles

Anything that cooks quickly and is light

If they have room in their kayaks, tinned curry, beans or similar

Batchelors pasta n sauce, Beanfeast bolognaise, Savoury rice, cous cous, super noodles, porridge (can be for pudding / snack not just breakfast), Wayfaryer meals are good, not self heating but better than freeze dried food and cook well on a trangia. If weight allows for an odd tin then meatballs, chicken in sauce, chilli etc can go with rice/pasta etc. Bananas and packet instant custard. Soreen travels well, eat as a cake with instant custard too to make more of a pudding.

Pasta and pesto, those smoked sausage things keep well. Custard powder for dessert

Just sent mine off with some packets of precooked lentils. A Mexican one, with a similar flavour pack of rice and a lentil bolognaise which they'll do with pasta. www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/307133407 Final meal is a spicy couscous which they plan to add some sliced pepperoni too.

For a first night meal they could take frozen sausages and instant mash. I tend to go for chiploatas as they coom that bit quicker. Taken frozen they'll still be cook but defrosted by dinner time.

There was quite a range of curry options in the isle with the lentils, they'd work well too.

These are great and we often take them if we are having a night or two away in out camper van. We just have these with either boil in the bag rice or the sachets that you can heat up. You can get them in most supermarkets.

You can just heat them up in the pan.

The ‘Look What We Found’ pouch meals.

I walked the West highland way a couple of months ago and I took a few Summit To Eat freeze dried meals. I think they worked out about £5 each and they were very tasty and filling, they only had "normal" ingredients in them, no E numbers.
I liked them particularly because they were very easy to prepare, just add hot water and eat from the bag, so I didn't need to do any washing up and carry bowls, plates etc.

Summit to eat link

Do the meals need to be super tiny and lightweight? If they can carry a few more bits then they'll get something much more interesting and filling.
We camp with a Trangia. If they have two then one can be frying something the other cooking a side. Much more exciting after a day of kayaking!
How about
Fried sausages with a pasta n sauce side
Tuna pasta: tins of tuna in oil fried with onion and mixed with pasta
Supanoodle supreme! Chicken super noodles with some fried bits. Maybe bacon or frankfurters.
Bean chilli with rice
Sausages and one or two other bits can be kept cold in a Tupperware with a single ice block or wrapped in lots of plastic bags for a good couple of days. Just get them to use meat first few nights. Should be fine in a kayak.

Great ideas. Thank you. And any others gratefully received.

Those vacuum packed packs of gnocchi and tortellini that Aldi do. The instant custard that you mix up with boiling water - also the lemony bit of lemon meringue pie mix. Batchelor’s pasta n sauce can be made without milk or butter.

Vaccum packed hotdogs

Primula cheese in a tube, bagels, tubes of peanut butter (Amazon)

Malt loaf

Cous cous is easy as just need boiling water. Canned fish or meat you can eat cold eg mackerel fillets. Energy bars eg Aldi hike bars