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Just got back from a trip to the White Clouds. Beef stroganoff is good. The chili mac is good, but you'll have a looong reminder of it. The breakfast skillet is pretty good too. The chicken and rice is better than expected. I took a couple of red pepper packets left over from Dominoes and that helped it out nicely.

That Airelane Aire or WTF it's called has some good stuff. Pepper Steak. Chicken Burrito Bowl. Beef Burrito Bowl.




Travis

Yep! Eat the pizza on the drive there and toss the pepper packets in the food bag.

My sons and I love the blueberries & granola as well as eggs & bacon for breakfasts.

The beef stroganoff and teriyaki chicken & rice are great for lunch.

Backpackers pantry has great Thai stuff.

MH Pasta Primivera. Just don't tell the kids about the veggies in it. Raspberry crumble for dessert.

Can't say what is 'best', but the 2 best are beef strokemeoff and turkey tittierzini.

Lasagna is good and as a bonus you get free glue to repair your tent, waders, raft, boots, etc...

Word on the street is that it is good for Supercub fabric, but not yet STC'd for landing gear.

That's no joke on the lasagne. Got to clean that spoon immediately unless you want orange cement on it. :-)

But it sure does taste good.

Backpacker's Pantry is pretty good stuff.

I liked the salmon pesto pasta, supplemented with some olive oil and an extra foil pack of salmon.

The Katmandu curry was also good. My buddy jazzed it up with extra spices. I think it would be a little bland without the help.

I like most of the MH options. Not real fond of the "ice cream". The scrambled eggs are surprisingly good.

Most of the Italian-esque options with pasta and tomato sauce are pretty decent. Chili-mac is good. I really hate to say beef strokin'-off is edible. Stew is good. The chicken stuff is mostly good.

It's mostly pretty bland. The Italian-esque stuff gets better with a shot of grated parmesan. It's all better with a good dose of pepper and garlic salt, only for some reason, with MH, garlic salt gives me AWFUL acid reflux .. not much else does. Needs to be eaten about 3:30 in the afternoon, then another 2 miles o' hiking done to stomp it into submission.

If Backpackers Pantry is the other brand Sportsman's Warehouse carries, I don't like it. Someone else, Coleman maybe, makes some vegetarian freeze dried stuff. It's pretty nasty. Beans and rice, if the beans don't soak up and soften, means fart-powered buckshot a while later. Not good.

Beef Stogahoff

I imported a heap of MH from Campsaver in the US to Australia, for my Sambar hunting expeditions. I haven't had a bad one but really like lasagne and beef stew. Granola and blueberries was good too.

Cheers

I agree.. in that order as well.

Beef Stew, Beef Stroganoff, and the eggs and bacon were a surprise. Backpackers Pantry Thai stuff is decent.

Hard to beat old school ramen, unless you don't like to swell up like a tick.

Scrambled eggs served as sort of a soup

Personally, there are several meals I find much less expensive (like $1) , that are almost as easy and just as good