While discussing some breakfast ideas with another walking companion, we decided that we should combine two of our ideas and it has become my new favourite bushwalking brekky.
Simmer your preferred mix of dried fruit for a few minutes in enough water to just cover them (while dry). They should aborb all the water. If necessary, add a little more if they are not fully rehydrated. Simmer for a bit longer after they have fully rehydrated in order to stew them (5 or 10 minutes depending on your preference for how stewed you like them, and how much fuel you are willing to carry).
Top with home-made granola, made with your preferred mix of nuts and seeds.
Dried fruit I use are apples (home dried - the commercial ones work OK, but have a weird marshmallow look and texture when rehydrated), pears, peaches, apricots, sultanas. The varieties with larger pieces can be chopped into smaller pieces before packing them.
We make granola with coconut flakes (6 cups), cashews, almonds, pistachios (1 cup each), sunflower seeds, papitas (1/2 cup each), chia (1/4 cup), & butter (1/2 cup). Mix and spread out on trays. Bake for 10 minutes at 120 C. Re-mix/re-spread and bake for another 10 min, and then again a third time. (Total of 1/2 hour cooking, to get it well toasted and crunchy. Some of these nuts and seeds have more flavour when they have been properly toasted).
We don't have much space/shelves in our oven, and for this quantity we need to spread it out on 4 trays. So we do two trays at a time, meaning a total cooking time of 1 hour. If you don't make such a large quantity, you can cook it all at once, in half an hour.
This is a great hot-breakfast alternative to porridge which can get rather boring after a few days. I think I will alternate between this and porridge on longer trips.