Thread: Dehydrated meals

Originally Posted by hotsoup

Carry in some milk powder works awesome too.

Hot tip

i repackage them into a vacuumed pack bag and add in milk powder, brown sugar sometimes ill add Honey Crunch or this other cereal to bulk them out.

Originally Posted by 199p

I like the radox breakfasts have them for dinner all the time

Since no body else has asked I will.

Do you have to eat it in the bath?

Hotsoup made me feel bad about calling Radix "woke" yesterday so I decided I might try some of their meals as I haven't tried any since they went.. vegetarian (PS: it's not hard to find examples of Mike Rudling spouting rhetoric about "short sighted" "environmentally damaging" food production when talking about why Radix now uses plant based protein... which probably comes from massive monocrop agriculture systems...) End of the day it's their company and they can run it how they see fit, the model obviously works well for them.
Anyhow, tried the Indian curry last night. Managed to get one fork load down the hatch and that was me done, yuck. Might be some people's cup of tea but certainly not mine.

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

Hotsoup made me feel bad about calling Radix "woke" yesterday so I decided I might try some of their meals as I haven't tried any since they went.. vegetarian (PS: it's not hard to find examples of Mike Rudling spouting rhetoric about "short sighted" "environmentally damaging" food production when talking about why Radix now uses plant based protein... which probably comes from massive monocrop agriculture systems...) End of the day it's their company and they can run it how they see fit, the model obviously works well for them.
Anyhow, tried the Indian curry last night. Managed to get one fork load down the hatch and that was me done, yuck. Might be some people's cup of tea but certainly not mine.

I'm with you on that I'm sure they are good at fueling the body, but they taste like crap.
Their breakfast is pretty good.

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Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

Hotsoup made me feel bad about calling Radix "woke" yesterday so I decided I might try some of their meals as I haven't tried any since they went.. vegetarian (PS: it's not hard to find examples of Mike Rudling spouting rhetoric about "short sighted" "environmentally damaging" food production when talking about why Radix now uses plant based protein... which probably comes from massive monocrop agriculture systems...) End of the day it's their company and they can run it how they see fit, the model obviously works well for them.
Anyhow, tried the Indian curry last night. Managed to get one fork load down the hatch and that was me done, yuck. Might be some people's cup of tea but certainly not mine.

Wasn't my intention Ryan, sorry about that. I see Mike on a regular basis, he's a good friend. I guess knowing Mike and his background, he's hardly the woke type.

In regards to meat. If you can picture an Olympic cycling team from NZ, they're traveling to Egypt for an international event. They're fully loaded with all of their meat based Radix meals which give them the exact nutrients they need to perform. On arrival to Egypt they have all of the meals confiscated as meat is banned in said country. This obviously creates a huge problem for international athletes travelling worldwide. With plant based there is no issue with this. Each country has their own strict rules around meat products being brought into each country, its a major headache for a brand like Radix.

Originally Posted by hotsoup

Wasn't my intention Ryan, sorry about that. I see Mike on a regular basis, he's a good friend. I guess knowing Mike and his background, he's hardly the woke type.

In regards to meat. If you can picture an Olympic cycling team from NZ, they're traveling to Egypt for an international event. They're fully loaded with all of their meat based Radix meals which give them the exact nutrients they need to perform. On arrival to Egypt they have all of the meals confiscated as meat is banned in said country. This obviously creates a huge problem for international athletes travelling worldwide. With plant based there is no issue with this. Each country has their own strict rules around meat products being brought into each country, its a major headache for a brand like Radix.

I had some back and forth with Ryan when he first started moving to meat free. The reason you give here wasn't one he used at the time, however I'm sure it's based on a culmination of things.
The point I tried to make to him is that the super refined, vegetarian meals generally taste like crap and have poor texture. Some people want to enjoy their dehy meals but Ryan obviously thinks this number of people is not worth catering for. It's certainly helped the likes of Real Meals gain market share.....

Originally Posted by MattS

I had some back and forth with Ryan when he first started moving to meat free. The reason you give here wasn't one he used at the time, however I'm sure it's based on a culmination of things.
The point I tried to make to him is that the super refined, vegetarian meals generally taste like crap and have poor texture. Some people want to enjoy their dehy meals but Ryan obviously thinks this number of people is not worth catering for. It's certainly helped the likes of Real Meals gain market share.....

I think you got your Ryan's and your Mike's mixed up...

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

I think you got your Ryan's and your Mike's mixed up...

Screaming children+no sleep+4 coffees=I'm not even sure what my own name is anymore...

Yep, just throw my usual breakfast cereal mix into small clip seal plastic bag , add milk powder. & brown sugar for extra calories. Job done. Just add water & the clip seal bag makes a perfect breckie bowl. Lunches are my issue. Take plenty of snacks, nuts, dry fruit, etc. Add a small block cheese & salami …. But that’s not so great in summer temps. The sachets of tuna are a good option.

Those Moana meals look little more than a snack. Only 1000-1500kj. (Many muesli bars are 5-700kj, for reference)

Got a Real Meal here that I grabbed at the supermarket a while back, hoping to finally have reason to use it next week. 2450kj, so still a bit light for a dinner IMO, in line with the lowest yield backcountrys, most of those are more like 3-3.5k. (About the same as the Radix 800kcal =3,347 kJ)

The Radix works for me, the chilli for dinner and the apple cinnamon for breakfast. I joke they are about 90% the same, just pumpkin seeds and powders with different flavours added. But I will give science its credit, they fill you up and work just fine. I go the 800 size and find I don't need to eat lunch, the tank is full.
Then when I'm out of the bush I have a decent steak and a beer.

If the meals are a bit light, I take those single packs of udon noodles or little packs of quick rice things and bulk it out.

Mainly Radix for me too with the odd Real Meal in the mix .Really enjoy the flavors, was a bit skeptical when they went plant based but haven't noticed any difference tbh.
Love the Real Meal's chocolate pudding!!

Originally Posted by Dreamer

Mainly Radix for me too with the odd Real Meal in the mix .Really enjoy the flavors, was a bit skeptical when they went plant based but haven't noticed any difference tbh.
Love the Real Meal's chocolate pudding!!

That chocolate pudding outstanding... I'd happily devour that at home for dessert.

Only issue with Realmeals is price, that new venison meal was $21 on a certain website.

Radix does a 6 box for $53, works out to be $9 ish each. Great value, taste isn't on par with realmeals yet imo.

Anybody tried Real-Meals new venison yet.