Use to do all freeze dried and have transitioned to mostly grocery store "instant" and fresh food over the last  10 years.  Have used Cache Lake quite a bit - pretty good - but still like exploring the grocery stores for "finds".  Solo is jst a little more challenging.  A pasta side for 4 makes a good main dish for two with a foil pack of chicken but hard to scale those to one easily.  So always looking - Hawk Vittles and Packit Gourmet seem best - which is a long ways from saving money using the 10 tins.