Best overall freeze dried food brands? Ty

[Nate333kloeck]

I’ve only tried mountain house, it was ok. Will try peak after reading this thread.

 

[jdmaxwell]

Peak.

 

[Hunter4019]

Mountain house and peak taste around the same to me, pretty good.

 

[Rockchuck]

Packit Gourmet is the best I have had across many different brands.

 

[Bangstick]

Best tasting overall freeze dried food brands to try? Ty

Peak biscuits and gravy

 

[CharlesF]

Any of the Peak variety are great, haven't enjoyed heathers choice in the past. Bring some small tortillas along & toast on your stove for some breakfast or dinner tacos

 

[bergie]

Any of the Peaks, other than chili mac.

 

[TimeOnTarget]

Peak beats most all I’ve found based on calories per bag and water needed. Some other brands would take 3 meals to equal 1 peak meal. They’re pretty tasty too.

 

[caseybratten]

Like everyone else has said peak is great and typically you can get one of their buckets for like 130 bucks with a govx discount.

 

[CMF]

Does anyone just get the freeze chicken or ground meat and put together their own meals?
If so, where do you order from?
It looks like ordering MH bulk from Cotsco would be the cheapest at $3 serving for chicken if you get 6-10lb. cans.
I'm thinking of just adding chicken with the ramen noodles, not sure on a meal with the ground beef.
Lately I've been just taking ramen and a couple hydrated chicken packs that weigh like 3oz each($1.25ea) or the idaho potatoes($1) wiht chicken or pull pork, etc.

 

[kherbstreit1775]

Good-to-go Thai Curry is great!

 

[VAHunter23322]

I have tried a few. Peak has been best. Where is best place to buy in volume? Will be buying for four for up to 12 non consecutive days in backcountry.

 

[JD Jones]

Peak curry is my current fav and has been really for a few years now. I literally ate it 6 of 9 nights on my last trip. That said, I just bought a bunch of new so I’ll report back if anything changes.

Pakit gourmet is also really good as some mentioned and local-ish to me.

 

[highcountrymuley]

I second the Peak coconut chicken curry. Love it! But the peak beef stroganoff was gross. The beef had a weird taste and I burped it for hours afterward. The last meal before leaving I tried it again to see if it was just me the first time. It was gross then also. I like Mtn House biscuits and gravy and breakfast skillet.
I always add a little more water and give a few more minutes hydrating across all brands. Peak seems to take a little less water and provides more protein. I am very hungry after a day of hunting so the large servings are great for me.

 

[Robinhood21]

Bumping this back up. I usually stick with PEAK as they saved my hatred towards FD meals but I wanted to test some new ones out this past year in Alaska.

Here's the new meals I had:

**Pinnacle Foods Italian Sausage and Zesty Tomato Sauce with Farfalle Pasta, and Parmesan
**Pinnacle Foods Jalapeno Cheddar Biscuits & Herbed Sausage Gravy
**Stowaway Gourmet Turkish Delight

All 3 of these were fantastic and will be buying again.
-The Pinnacle Italian Sausage Pasta is my new favorite, seriously so good!
-The Pinnacle B&G is right up there with PEAK and MH... in my opinion, probably a little better. It'll definitely be part of the rotation.
-Stowaway Gourmet Turkish Delight (kind of a granola yogurt type dish) was great also great and has convinced me to try more of their entre meals.

It seems that the smaller FD companies have much better quality and taste. They're more pricey but to me, it's worth it knowing I'm really going to enjoy the meal.

Any new ones out there I should be looking at?