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    Maybe they have picked up the woke tramper market so it might be a good move for them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MB View Post
    Guessing a reasonable proportion of customers are hunters. Not too many vegetarian hunters out there. Not that we can't eat vegetarian food, just not what I want after a hard day in the bush.
    If we only ate what we shot I think I' be one of them
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    Quote Originally Posted by 300_BLK View Post
    There is a difference between plant based and vegan FYI
    That's true but all their meals except a few breakfast options with whey protein are vegan anyway

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    Anyone tried the "real meals" yet?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sika 8 View Post
    Anyone tried the "real meals" yet?
    No, but they're next on my list to try. I'll pick some up next time I'm in Auckland. I hear good things about them.

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    I used to think the Radix were the shiz, but the last thing in the world I want is to go vegetarian after a hard day's hunting (which I had to the very last time I used Radix having accidentially bought and packed one - so gutted). The plant-based move made me look at other brands. I wonder if Vegans consider the cost to wildlife of converting land to agriculture? If, and I mean, if, I need to carry freeze dried meals, I use Real Meals. They are a Nelson based company with NZ owners. The meals were designed by a local chef, and I think they actually use real meat, not that tofu based stuff in others. The Tom Kar Ghar requires a solid aluminium spoon to ensure you scrape it dry. Outstanding. But the caloric content does vary massively on Real Meals, so check this if that's important to you.

    If your out for only a night or two, consider bringing your home made vacuum packed chipottle n cheese venison burgers (mix veni mince, Chipottle/Taco Mix pack, some cheese cubes, and salt (binding agent), set in the fridge and freezer to shape, then vacuum seal), a few slices of cheese, some bbq sauce, spinach and some garlic pita pockets. A $10 warehouse pan with the handle removed is sub 300g, and a piece of tin foil for a lid. Cut up small cubes of butter - that's all you need for "oil", wrap in baking paper. Another idea, make your own home made veni stew (add potato cubes to beef up carb content) and vacuum seal. End of the day, just heat it up in your Jetboil/MSR pot. So good with potatos and butter. Some jetboil and MSRs require a pot adaptor to be able to cook using a pan. But any screw in gas stove should do the trick with a small pan. Then you can just go to town and heat up your own home made meals. Pack a couple of buns to beef up your calories (again butter is good). I don't count the cost of carrying high quality food anymore. If your light on most of your gear, then why not.

    If your going to a hut... home made panini, butter, ham, egg, mayo and spinach... wrapped in quality tin foil. Put on top of hut firebox to warm. Bring one for breakfast. Job done.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tahr View Post
    Maybe they have picked up the woke tramper market so it might be a good move for them.
    Oh that's an Epic quote of the week. Game on.
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    Real meals, formally ‘absolute wilderness’ are not bad. Some pretty tasty options.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Snoppernator View Post
    I used to think the Radix were the shiz, but the last thing in the world I want is to go vegetarian after a hard day's hunting (which I had to the very last time I used Radix having accidentially bought and packed one - so gutted). The plant-based move made me look at other brands. I wonder if Vegans consider the cost to wildlife of converting land to agriculture?
    What has always annoyed me about the whole vegetarian/vegan crowd is their argument usually revolves around the idea that a human life is equal to that of an animal- OK fair enough if you're consistent, so by your logic is there also no difference between the life of a cow a rabbit and a monkey? No? So size/intelligence isn't the determining factor, were talking about all life being equal. So that extends to insects too right? Or where do you draw the line? Is it just things you find cute and cuddly that matter? They're both alive? What about a cockroach? They would happily kill that themselves I bet! Lets have a look in all these vegans/vegetarians houses and see who owns some fly spray lol. If you were to look purely at lives taken to sustain a human population, vegetarians are responsible for FAR more deaths than a conventional diet. If you think about it through that lens then wouldn't you want to feed the most people from the least number of lives taken?

    In all honesty I don't care what they eat so long as it doesn't effect me, but they can piss off with their virtue signalling.
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    I'm good friends with the owner of Radix, he's based in Cambridge here.

    There are multiple reasons they went away from meat. If you actually have a conversation with him it's rather eye opening.

    There are a lot of absurd assumptions going around which are simply not true.

    Radix primary focus is extremely high quality nutrition for athletes travelling world wide. Their target market is not hunting, however I'm regularly discussing options to suit the hunting community and there a few cool things in the pipeline.

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    I helped install their boiler and heating system - they are some clever people.

    I'm still buying their stuff - it's calorie dense, and requires the least water of the options I've tried. I'd eat their breakfasts every day if I could afford to.
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    I’ve stopped buying their meals since the change, still eat the breakfasts as they are bloody good for a day on the hill and their protein powder is the best out there so I use that aswell

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    Mistakes were made

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sika 8 View Post
    Anyone tried the "real meals" yet?
    I have, and consider them to be (by far) the best of the freeze dried meals suppliers, the only ones I still buy.
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    "Vegetarian"...... an old Indian word for lousy Hunter

 

 

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