In a treeless open bowl, we stamped out a flat area of snow and set up a camping stove to cook a dehydrated meal.

He closed the seals to the cargo spaces, and went back to the galley, where, sipping herbal tea, he rehydrated a dehydrated meal.

They stowed neatly behind the crates of dehydrated meals, forms in triplicate, cans of boot polish and other essential military items in the truck.

The boat had few creature comforts but all necessities - a stove, a sleeping place, roomy hatches for dehydrated meals and drinking water.

From 2002 to 2005, sales of dehydrated meals rose to $14.3 million from $12.5 million, according to the Outdoor Industry Association.

With seeds acquired through the International Red Cross, many vegetables were sent back to the base hospital to supplement the dehydrated meals served the recuperating veterans.

In 1975, work began on a dehydrated meal stored in a plastic retort pouch.

Starving for food, Peter immediately eats all the dehydrated meals, without adding water.

All they left me was that machine full of dehydrated meals.

When crumbs from the dehydrated meals hung suspended throughout the capsule, he reported: "Things are getting' pretty grotty up here."