Dehydrating backpacking meals

[Arklatex]

Ummm... I understand wanting to dehydrate hamburger. I understand wanting to dehydrate chili. But why on earth would you want to dehydrate canned beans?!? They would still have to be heated and have water added to be useful, so why wouldn't you just store regular beans and soak them the normal way when you want to use them?

It's probably 100 times faster to do bushes bbq baked beans that are dehydrated than try to mess with soaking and cooking the regular dried beans and making the sauce, etc. You could carry a can but it's heavier and then you have to pack out the can instead of burning a bag.