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Anonymous Tue 16 Jan 2018 04:35:49 No.1181960 View View Reply Original Report

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Thoughts on freeze dried meals?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Jan 2018 04:43:33 No.1181966 Report

Quoted By: >>1181995 >>1182229 >>1182663

>>1181960
>add water
>bring seasonings
>weight now equals decent food you could have brought

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Jan 2018 05:29:16 No.1181990 Report

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>>1181960
Convenient and helpful, and it's a nice way to get a warm meal when you're /out/. I typically use em when I'm mountaineering, though taste wise they always leave something to be desired.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Jan 2018 05:44:20 No.1181994 Report

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They're light and usually tasty enough, but they're expensive.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Jan 2018 05:44:28 No.1181995 Report

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>>1181966

The whole point of freeze dried food is you don't need to carry the waterweight. Use purified water from your environment instead.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Jan 2018 05:44:42 No.1181996 Report

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>>1181960
Never had one I really liked. Normally just bring typical grocery store dehydrated food and canned/pouch meat and vegetables depending on how much I'm concerned about weight. Way cheaper and general better tasting anyway. If anyone has any they really recommend I'd be willing to try but I've had a pretty wide selection of them and they've all been disappoint except for a rice and bean one I got for 4x what a packet of instant rice and beans costs at the grocery store.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Jan 2018 12:00:07 No.1182081 Report

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>>1181995
I see you don't inna desert.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Jan 2018 12:05:01 No.1182083 Report

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I wish it was easier to get FRH's and their meal components.
Sitting in a tent.
Bust out some FRH meal and an instant coffee.
Food in no time at all and rugged up on a rainy day.
That would be pretty nice.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Jan 2018 12:07:50 No.1182085 Report

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>>1181960
What if a specifically want a non-vegan glutin meal?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Jan 2018 12:35:14 No.1182099 Report

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>>1182085
mountain house

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Jan 2018 12:52:25 No.1182106 Report

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>>1182081

If you're in the desert and are carrying the water weight anyways might as well bring normal food. Freeze dried would be pretty asinine in that situation

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Jan 2018 13:00:41 No.1182108 Report

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>>1181960
I always have to shit with the fury of a thousand suns after eating one of those things and spending two days on the mountain.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Jan 2018 15:44:30 No.1182199 Report

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Love them for multi-days. Nothing better than when you've been hiking for 20 miles and actually have a decent hot meal to eat.

Sure, they're probably shit normally, but they taste fucking delicious after eating granola and dry shit all day while hiking for 10+ miles.

They're just expensive which blows.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Jan 2018 16:15:07 No.1182207 Report

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>>1182081
> dehydrated food is useleas because you can't use it in exactly one scenario.
Poor excuse for criticism.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Jan 2018 17:06:00 No.1182227 Report

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>>1181960
Mountain House's "breakfast skillet" is very tasty, and a favorite of mine. Their blueberry granola one is really good too. Great grub for breakfast innahammock, being easy, warm, and tasty. I like them but prefer fresh fish or more "prepped" foods. Weight savings is nice if you're trying to be UL.

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Anonymous Tue 16 Jan 2018 17:11:31 No.1182229 Report

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>>1181966
This. I bring all my own water anyway.

>>1181995
Where I live the EPA tells people not to drink the water because of fracking sludge that has been illegally dumped all over the fucking place. You can't simply filter out those chems. I'd have to travel like 1000 miles to Canada wilderness for water I'd feel safe running through a filter and drinking.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Jan 2018 04:20:28 No.1182642 Report

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>>1182229
Marcellus Shale always seemed like a faustian bargain. When I lived in Western PA people were pretty split on it, but the people who were completely gung-ho always seemed a lil shortsighted to me. I'm used to glacial melt water so I guess I legitimately didn't consider that people couldn't use water they find in nature after filtering, kind of depressing desu

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Anonymous Wed 17 Jan 2018 04:25:57 No.1182647 Report

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>>1182642
>marcopian shale

Not quite shure but try filtering Garnet Canyon water inna Grand Canyon. Best make raman and pack out the flavor pack.
>some will tell you its not salty
>blech

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Jan 2018 04:30:09 No.1182651 Report

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>>1182083
if you know anyone in the military you can get that shit bulk that just gets thrown away or has been sitting in storage for a centuyry

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Jan 2018 04:35:33 No.1182654 Report

Quoted By: >>1182663 >>1182802 >>1183205

Expensive and usually taste like shit
not even calorie dense, lots of those meals have 400 calories which just doesn't cut it when you're doing miles of trail every day.

Just try to remember to eat a good mix of protein, carbs and fresh fruits/veggies. My favorite hiking meal is:

>a bag of cherry tomatoes/carrots/cucumber slices (will stay good for two or three days)
>a bunch of pre-seasoned tuna packets (the tuna in chili sauce one is amazing)
>several packages of crackers

The flavor varieties and fresh textures of the crackers/veggies beats the hell out of whatever gray coup you're going to get in a freeze dried meal.

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Anonymous Wed 17 Jan 2018 04:50:03 No.1182663 Report

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>>1182654
>>1181966 i tried to tell them

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Retail Bro Wed 17 Jan 2018 04:55:55 No.1182669 Report

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>>1181960
Make your own

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Jan 2018 05:48:57 No.1182707 Report

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>>1182085
Rehydrated meat kind of sucks, I normally buy the vegetarian/vegan ones and add a little spam or tuna.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Jan 2018 08:52:04 No.1182802 Report

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>>1182654
I'm sure that shit is delicious, but the one thing the freeze dried meal has on it is that it's hot. Anything warm, like a cup of tea for instance, is amazing after a long day of tooling around in nature.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Jan 2018 08:58:15 No.1182806 Report

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>>1182802
So bring a little alcohol stove and a cup and heat it up.

Or warm it over a twig fire.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Jan 2018 08:58:42 No.1182807 Report

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>>1182802
If you have the means to heat water why not just bring real food and heat it up?

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Anonymous Wed 17 Jan 2018 10:08:42 No.1182817 Report

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>>1182807
Convenience I guess. It's always easier to get the Mountain House meal then it is to plan out meals and get the ingredients from the store. Plus it's very easy to cook. A friend of mine swears by those Harmony House soup kits, but they don't seem hearty enough for my purposes.

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Anonymous Wed 17 Jan 2018 10:15:12 No.1182819 Report

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>>1182817
Plus you don't need to bring along any extra cooking implements and the stove is quickly free for something else.

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Anonymous Wed 17 Jan 2018 10:23:23 No.1182820 Report

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Okay, we get it, you are super fucking lazy and enjoy expensive, chemical filled bullshit meals.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Jan 2018 10:35:18 No.1182822 Report

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>>1182817
>>1182819
What I meant is that freeze dried stuff isn't the only easy hot food you can make. It's no trouble at all to bring some sausages or something and heat them up. I can concede it's convenient though. I usually bring enough vacuum-packed ingredients to make at least one nice meal on the stove so convenience isn't really something I prioritize.

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Anonymous Wed 17 Jan 2018 10:43:34 No.1182824 Report

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>>1182820
Sounds about right.

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Anonymous Wed 17 Jan 2018 19:29:19 No.1183129 Report

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>>1182707
I've found this true with both dehydrated and freeze dried meals. I think it's why they tend to keep the protein pretty low. Except the mtn house egg dishes, which I think rival frozen egg dishes I've had before. My experience the smaller the size of meat the better, but you kind of dont even realize the meats actually there.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Jan 2018 21:27:23 No.1183205 Report

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>>1182654
>400 calories
What? I just looked at a couple I had and they're 880 calories for 7.8 oz.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Jan 2018 14:15:26 No.1185547 Report

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>>1182820

>chemical filled

That's not how freeze-drying works, dumbass: https://www.spscientific.com/freeze-drying-lyophilization-basics/

Also, ingredient list for MH foods looks largely like most normal store-bought foods, except obviously more freeze-dried stuff. Otherwise, it's unexceptional, nutritionally-speaking, unless you're a nutcase: https://theepicenter.com/mountain-house-pouch-ingredients-nutrition

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Anonymous Sun 21 Jan 2018 14:31:35 No.1185556 Report

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>>1182106
Yes, I said that.
Yes, I am.

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