Backpacking food

We went backpacking from Thursday to Sunday, so the cooking has been strictly limited. I needed to plan meals that were light, compact (everything had to go in a bear canister), quick to prepare, and that could, ideally, be made in a single pot. The dinners were:

1. Angel hair pasta with meat sauce: I made the base meat sauce at home and added some Knorr dried tomato basil soup at camp.
2. Garlic mashed potatoes with bacon and green peppercorn sauce: Using diced slab bacon from Dittmers, powdered garlic mashed potatoes, and Knorr green peppercorn sauce.
3. Cheddar potato soup with sausage: Using a smoked/dried sausage (I think it was Bauernwurst) from Dittmers and a powdered cheddar potato soup.

The first two of these meals were perfectly acceptable, the third is not to be repeated -- even for camping food it wasn't really acceptable.

One random note to my future self: the plastic peanut butter jars from Whole Foods are not really altitude safe. We ended up with peanut oil all over the bottom of the bear can after driving from the Bay Area to Mammoth Lakes.

[Update]
Some other notes for the future:

1. Quick oats with raisins and powdered milk is a good backpacking breakfast, use standard oatmeal servings: 1/2 cup oats, a pinch of salt, a handful of raisins, 1/3 cup powdered milk. Pre-portion to that point, then add a bit less than 1 cup of boiling water per serving when serving.
   
2. Andrea and I always bring too many Clif bars. Sure, they aren't heavy, but we don't end up eating more than one a day between the two of us.
3. TJ's trail mix with dried pineapple and cherries is good.