Spoon Fork or Spork

[MtnMuley]

Sporks and forks are nice, but when I'm in the back country, 90% of the time I eat MH's, instant oatmeal, Idahoan's, and premade snacks, bagel sandwiches, and wraps. A long spoon is all I need.

Besides, a hangry guy can clean out a MH cleaner with a spoon rather than a spork.

[Jonathan_S]

I usually pour them into my pie hole when they cool off enough. Anything on my fingers gets licked clean. I'm a pig anyway but get me in the woods and I'll start eating your pack if you leave it sitting around.

[Magnum_Willys]

Spork makes an ok spoon but a lousy fork.   Eating backstrap with a havalon and spork is just wrong.........

[Jonathan_S]

$2:  https://www.rei.com/product/895376/gsi-outdoors-pouch-spoon.

Put the Mtn. House meal in a quart Ziploc bag at home and leave the Mtn. House bag in the trash at home.  its a lot less garbage post-meal and you can heat the meal up in the Ziploc.

You pour boiling water into a ziploc bag?

[jackelope]

Put the ziplock full of food into the boiling water.

[Jonathan_S]

Put the ziplock full of food into the boiling water.

Oh gotcha. That didn't occur to me because I don't carry a pot most of the time. I was going to say, those sandwich bags don't love to be boiled

[Shawn Ryan]

$2:  https://www.rei.com/product/895376/gsi-outdoors-pouch-spoon.

Put the Mtn. House meal in a quart Ziploc bag at home and leave the Mtn. House bag in the trash at home.  its a lot less garbage post-meal and you can heat the meal up in the Ziploc.

You pour boiling water into a ziploc bag?

Yes. Been doing it for years.

[Alpine Mojo]

Take the MH out of a bag and put it into a bag.  Brilliant!!

Best.  Thread.  Ever.

[actionshooter]

Long handled spoon is all I use and my 1st freeze dried meal is my garbage bag with a Ziploc so I don't cut them down (at least the 1st one) and  Backpackers Pantry is better than Mountain House

[Jonathan_S]

and  Backpackers Pantry is better than Mountain House

You just lost all credibility 

[swanny]

$2:  https://www.rei.com/product/895376/gsi-outdoors-pouch-spoon.

Put the Mtn. House meal in a quart Ziploc bag at home and leave the Mtn. House bag in the trash at home.  its a lot less garbage post-meal and you can heat the meal up in the Ziploc.

This is the way to go!

[Tbob]

I got a long titanium spoon a long time ago. I think it was Sea to Summit.. Super light and long enough to get every last morsel of MH

[actionshooter]

and  Backpackers Pantry is better than Mountain House

You just lost all credibility 

[Pathfinder101]

cut the bag shorter and/or use an MRE Spoon.  If you are eating an MRE, flip the pouch sideways and open it lengthwise (can't do that with a Mountainhouse bag though). 

[bradslam]

$2:  https://www.rei.com/product/895376/gsi-outdoors-pouch-spoon.

Put the Mtn. House meal in a quart Ziploc bag at home and leave the Mtn. House bag in the trash at home.  its a lot less garbage post-meal and you can heat the meal up in the Ziploc.

You pour boiling water into a ziploc bag?

It works just fine, but we're talking about quart-size freezer bags, not the lighter weight sandwich bags.  Ultralight backpackers have been doing this for years.  I don't think it's all that big of a deal, but the Zip-loc bags are smaller and not as stiff as the bags the freeze-dried food comes in, so they end up taking less room whether full or as trash.

BTW, I almost never take anything but a spoon when backpacking.  I have a Sea to Summit Alpha Light long-handled spoon and it works great.