Originally Posted by Brad
The problem with Freeze Dried food is it's a chemical mess. I've gotten to where I can barely tolerate it (physically). I just don't like putting that kind of chit in my body.

So in recent years I've switched back to slightly heavier, more cook-time required dehydrated meals. The "Heathers Choice" linked above is NOT freeze dried... it's dehydrated, like these linked below.

Haven't tried this yet, but plan to:

http://hawkvittles.com/

Pretty good:

http://shop.maryjanesfarm.org/Food

My favorite:

http://outdoorherbivore.com/

Freeze dryers large enough to produce at a retail level are incredibly expensive. Heck, they're even expensive at a personal-sized level:

https://harvestright.com/

Our backpacking buddy just bought one of the Harvest Right freeze driers. Will be testing out meals this summer. Good old organic elk and antelope will figure into some of the meals!


How often do you eat freeze dried meals a year?

I'm just curious. A couple of weeks of that ain't going to kill me. And taste wise I've not found a bad MH meal yet.

But then we are typically not all that picky and I'd eat MREs just as well, but for the weight.

We have a couple of dehydrated recipe books and such, and for the couple of weeks or so a year, max of a month, that we eat freeze dried, its not worth the extra effort, at least not to us.

We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....