omeal review

So i had Chicken creole with brown rice. The concept sold it for me,the bag contains a heating pad, spoon and food. open heating pad place into bottom of bag put in the bag of food add water and watch it steam away. Fantastic but could not open food bag without knife, the little niks in the bag would not tear open. It tasted ok not great. I expected lots of rice but it was more like a thick soupe with a little rice and the person who put the chicken in the bag needs to stand closer as there was about 4 bits. It was a small portion gone pretty quickly. The heat pad retains a lot of water even after standing on it so the bag of rubbish is the same weight without the food. I think the portion of food was smaller than a back country single portion. Overall I was disappointed:(

Sounds terrible


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one of the local asian supermarkets has self heating meals and to be honest they arent a bad size when cooked, havent tried them myself as they are full of evil vege

On this subject, Countdown is selling backcountry meals quite a bit cheaper than the usual outlets. The packaging is plainer, but seems to be the same product. Maybe they have realised there is more money in millennials who can't cook than hunters/trampers!

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Originally Posted by chindit

So i had Chicken creole with brown rice. The concept sold it for me,the bag contains a heating pad, spoon and food. open heating pad place into bottom of bag put in the bag of food add water and watch it steam away. Fantastic but could not open food bag without knife, the little niks in the bag would not tear open. It tasted ok not great. I expected lots of rice but it was more like a thick soupe with a little rice and the person who put the chicken in the bag needs to stand closer as there was about 4 bits. It was a small portion gone pretty quickly. The heat pad retains a lot of water even after standing on it so the bag of rubbish is the same weight without the food. I think the portion of food was smaller than a back country single portion. Overall I was disappointed:(

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I once was eating lunch at a friends house, and found the chicken soup they served to taste really really good.

I asked them the secret and the lady of house said "I just put extra chicken in."

The chicken content in most of these instant meals is usually no more than a rumour.

Wheres it made?

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Wheres it made?

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Now it gets scary...are you sure you really want to know?

Ahhh.
Omeals are usa made
We tried the hash bacon breaky and a spag bol and chicken n beans meal for a 3 day trip
Thought they were ok
Small meals but calorie dense
Needed longer than the 5 min heat time tho.
Will look at other boil in bag options as back country while cheaper in supermarkets and once a gamechanger and no longer at top of my list
Oh...we took some bc smoothies with us this trip too.....shite as voted by all of us

The ‘kaweka’ boil in bag meals were awesome, but think they’ve gone out of business or no longer doing them


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Originally Posted by MSL

The ‘kaweka’ boil in bag meals were awesome, but think they’ve gone out of business or no longer doing them


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Yep they're out of business which is a shame. Been gone for near 2 years

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The ‘kaweka’ boil in bag meals were awesome, but think they’ve gone out of business or no longer doing them


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Theres a new BIB company keeps popping up on the gram, look pretty good.

If its only for a couple days I always take the biol in bag over dehy, Ive yet to find a dehy that tastes like anything other than cardboard

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Theres a new BIB company keeps popping up on the gram, look pretty good.

If its only for a couple days I always take the biol in bag over dehy, Ive yet to find a dehy that tastes like anything other than cardboard

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any other details ? brand ? where they can be purchased ? those Kaweka where so much better and worth the weight penalty

I make sure I'm really hungry before eating dehy meals. Also leave them 20-25 min wrapped in a jacket or beanie and then they are not quite so cardboardy (is that a word?) than if you leave it for just 10min.

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any other details ? brand ? where they can be purchased ? those Kaweka where so much better and worth the weight penalty

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Called go native meals. They do. An interesting thing where they sell an entire day's food pack for 30 bucks

I’ve had a few few radix meals, they are expensive but do have all the nutrients required for big days

https://youtu.be/9Ry4QBQejFU
I think I’m going to try some army rations, with hand warmer.:thumbsup::sick:

Go native is the business

These are pretty good.

https://www.absolutewilderness.co.nz/collections/all

But then I dont mind the backcountry either, just got to put boiling rather than hot water in and be sure to give plenty of time to rehydrate.

Re: taste. I've come to the conclusion that Asian flavoured meals are better suited to Backcountry-type meals than European flavours.

Back country freeze dried meals are pretty disgusting I find. I would rather carry a pack of sausages, some bacon, 1/2 a loaf of bread etc and at least enjoy the meal. Some of that freeze dried shit even my dog won’t eat it!

Re the countdown BC meals - if it's not BC branded, whats the branding on these?

the wife watches a youtube channel "emmymadeinjapan"
she did a bit of a series on RTE ration packs from around the world, some were ok, some looked awful

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The ‘kaweka’ boil in bag meals were awesome, but think they’ve gone out of business or no longer doing them


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I do my own like the kaweka meals just make your meal at home and vacuum pack in a thin pack freeze when you go hunting thaw and just put the pack into your cooker of hot water for 5 min open pack and eat nice hot meal. Then use hot water for your cuppa

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Originally Posted by Fat ninja

I’ve had a few few radix meals, they are expensive but do have all the nutrients required for big days

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How did you rate portion size and flavour etc? I’ve been thinking of giving these a go, but want to know whether the step up in price is worth it? Although it’s only a couple bucks... but not much point if they’re just like bcc

the backcountry stuff is ok....just add slightly more liquid that stated and leave it a bit longer...better still is to add say 25% of that water early in day so it has time to soak in...the cooked breakfast for two is my favourite...for one.