Good To Go meals - actually good!
Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2024 2:27 pm
NOTE: 
The below review is based on meals I bought myself and ate on trail myself. I consider it impossible to provide a fully ethical, trustworthy and objective review of something given to you by a profit-seeking entity, so I simply do not do that. 
I somehow found myself getting bored of mountain house beef stew on my last big Sierra thru-hike, so I asked my co-hiker if we could swap meals. He was glad to share some of his 'Good To Go' goodies and so I found myself surprised to be eating some of the best soul-warming flavor-dancing chicken pho I've ever had anywhere, let alone on trail. Spicy and hot and using both of the lime crystal packets provided, I drank every drop of the broth, went to bed, slept through the night, and felt better than I had in days.
Since then I've pulled some of their meals into my array of choices to get a bit more vegetation and variety, not to mention flavor and satiation. The breakfast hash is a particular winner since I do NOT do reconstituted eggs, and can only do so many rotations of berry oats and cheese grits.
They're easily doctored; some summer sausage cut into the gumbo or a scoop of nut butter in the thai curry would not go amiss. The water instructions are pretty good, but adding 2 more ounces and waiting 5 added minutes has served me well^ as a rule of thumb, as has repackaging in quart freezer bags and using a cozy.
I can personally^ recommend, in no order:
Chicken Pho
Thai Curry
Pad Thai
Cuban Rice
3-Bean Chili
Kale and White Bean Stew
Chicken Gumbo
Breakfast Hash
^ - one man's cheese is another man's spoiled milk; please try for yourself and don't just completely take my word for it. HYOH and EYOF.
The below review is based on meals I bought myself and ate on trail myself. I consider it impossible to provide a fully ethical, trustworthy and objective review of something given to you by a profit-seeking entity, so I simply do not do that. I somehow found myself getting bored of mountain house beef stew on my last big Sierra thru-hike, so I asked my co-hiker if we could swap meals. He was glad to share some of his 'Good To Go' goodies and so I found myself surprised to be eating some of the best soul-warming flavor-dancing chicken pho I've ever had anywhere, let alone on trail. Spicy and hot and using both of the lime crystal packets provided, I drank every drop of the broth, went to bed, slept through the night, and felt better than I had in days.
Since then I've pulled some of their meals into my array of choices to get a bit more vegetation and variety, not to mention flavor and satiation. The breakfast hash is a particular winner since I do NOT do reconstituted eggs, and can only do so many rotations of berry oats and cheese grits.
They're easily doctored; some summer sausage cut into the gumbo or a scoop of nut butter in the thai curry would not go amiss. The water instructions are pretty good, but adding 2 more ounces and waiting 5 added minutes has served me well^ as a rule of thumb, as has repackaging in quart freezer bags and using a cozy.
I can personally^ recommend, in no order:
Chicken Pho
Thai Curry
Pad Thai
Cuban Rice
3-Bean Chili
Kale and White Bean Stew
Chicken Gumbo
Breakfast Hash
^ - one man's cheese is another man's spoiled milk; please try for yourself and don't just completely take my word for it. HYOH and EYOF.