Peak Refuel Beef Stroganoff | Freeze Dried Backpacking and Camping Food | Amazing Taste | High Protein | Real Meat | Quick Prep Meals

Absolutely delicious! Great portion size, good ingredients, and really filling. Loved the mushrooms and the sauce. The meat had good flavor but it was cut into small cubes and they still didn't rehydrate very well. The noodles rehydrated really well and held up to a little longer soak/steam than the package said. The sauce thickened well at the 25 minute mark.If this was a couple bucks cheaper I would be inclined to stock up on these. I think Mountain House is a better value and the flavor is a pretty close runner up to Peak.All in all, it was a great warm meal at the end of a long day on trail.

The ample quantity of meat bits tastes like real beef, the mushrooms are fully of mushroomy goodness and the noodles are a kindness to my tired body. The portion is revivifyingly large for one hungry person and reasonable for two who have been eating lots of hiking snacks. It's not going to replace the coconut chicken curry in my heart, but it is definitely something easy and tasty to look forward to at the end of a trail day.One caution is that the instructions understate the water and soak time and can leave the meat and mushrooms a little crunchy. I find a full 400ml of boiling water and a 20 minute hydration time with a second round of stirring/mixing half way through gives good results.Given that it's better in quality (and in quantity) than the fast food I might easily buy on the way to the trailhead, I'd say these are even pretty decent value as pre-packaged backpacking meals go.

Great food but didn’t exactly rehydrate the meat. Need to try again to make sure is not user error

This is a favorite meal for our family when we go hunting and back packing. We started getting these for emergency meal prep because of the easiness of it, the taste is so good and the shelf life is excellent. It’s a little pricy but the quality is worth it.

So good! Excellent balance of sauce, beef, and noodles. Perfect comfort food at the end of a long hike.

Wow, these are delicious! Not just eddible with questionable ingredients. I try different brands and am happy if they are edible, they usually contain some sketchy ingredients. These taste amazing and have real ingredients! No more MREs or Mountain House freeze dried for me. Those survival meals are just for that surviving, Peak Refuel is for thriving at what you are doing. They also require less water than other brands, which can be a consideration if weight an spare water is an issue

It was just okay. I much prefer the Mountain House beef stroganoff. I did like that Peak Refuel's ingredients are better quality and seem fresher. The beef was actual chunks and the mushroom pieces were large and very flavorful. The main reason why I prefer MH's meal is that I prefer the onion flavor. This meal had a very strong sour cream taste which I didn't like. So, while I liked the higher quality ingredients, I still prefer MH. If you like a strong sour cream and/or mushroom taste this would be a good choice.Also, add a little more water than what the package calls for or else it will be really sticky.

Probably the best Peak backpacker's meal.Flavor, texture, calories, hydration are all on point.Don't forget that the hydration time was set for ~5,000' and doubles every 5,000', so if you're at 10,000' it's double the hydration time.