Stove for bikepacking?

[lifeontwowheels]

Looking at getting into some bikepacking/touring come spring and I love the idea of incorporating many of the lightweight/ultralight principles in getting gear together.

I like the idea of an alcohol stove and think for the shorter trips it would be fun to play around with different designs as I probably wouldn't be doing much more than boil in the bag meals. I eventually want to do a cross country trip, though, and camp most of the way to save money. Part of that would be cooking as many meals as possible.

So what does everyone use on longer trips? Is more involved meal prep possible on an alcohol stove? I've seen some of the experiments with remote feed alcohol that would offer a solution to longer cooking times. Just don't know if the fussiness would be worth it when there are some solid white gas stoves out there that would give me what I want.