+1 for hard salami. If a meal takes more preperation than adding boiled water it stays home. I make most of my instantized meals either from scratch or splitting up a freeze dried meal and then adding instant rice, potatoes, or beans. This make the amount of spices and salt more palatable and I can add powdered milk or whatever. I can also add salami or sausage into the bag before the boiling water to warm it up. A chemist recommended that I not us quart freezer bags due to concerns that plastic particle are leaching out when one dumps boiling water into them. Designed for freezing not adding boiling water. I use
http://www.packitgourmet.com/CookIn-Bags.html 
