About 30 years ago I brought along pouches of Tang.  It tasted fine, but each pouch weighed about  a quarter pound!  Then I switched to Crystal Light which I was happy with.  As other posters have mentioned, the empty packets were a bit of a pain in the neck to ensure you disposed of them properly, but no big deal.  In the last couple of years I've switched to drops, initially because I found fewer single serve crystal packets available.  I found that I actually prefer the drops because of the convenience.  Main reason for using this stuff is to have some flavour.  I normally drink tons of tap water at home, but prefer to "kick it up a notch" while tripping.

Thanks CanoeClaire!  That sure looks good and would be great for breakfast, or actually, any meal.   Now to figure out the best way of making them.

Scoutergriz, I understand the risk of entaglement you mention in your post, and you raise a very important point.  However, I'm not going to backtrack on what I said in my post, but will clarify that when I mean "loosely" it is in the sense that items such as packs and food barrels are not 100% lashed to the thwarts and/or each other.  They can move around relative to the canoe and each other by, let's say 6 to 12 inches.  Under no circumstances do I ever have lengths of rope laying (or floating) around that could pose a reasonable risk of getting entangled.  (At least by my assessment.)

Also testing my avator.