Freeze Dried Meals

Hassle-Free Pre-Cooked Meals for hiking.

Rehydrates in minutes with a cook-in-the-bag convenience – so you have NO DISHES!

WHY FREEZE DRIED ?

Dehydration and Freeze-drying both seek to remove moisture from food, however the methods are vastly different.

Dehydrators use heat to evaporate water, whereas Freeze drying uses vacuum freezing (a process called sublimation) to gently remove water, without damaging the food and the delicate vitamins and essential phytonutrients. This allows the food to retain its original shape, texture and concentrated taste.
Freeze dried products are generally more expensive than Dehydrated equivalent products, but are way superior in every other aspect.

R&R have tested many different meal options over the past 10 years.
Doing 5-6 multi-day hikes yearly, we learnt that your food and nutrition is an important part of hiking.
We have tried it all … from self made meals, pre packed meals, dehydrated meals and freeze dried meals.
We have found that the freeze dried meals are the way to go!
Its light weight, takes max 15min from boiling your water to eating and doesn’t take much packing space.

There are a few different freeze dried meal brands available in South Africa.
Most known : Back country (contains flavourings, colourings, sugar, the meats are combined with soy, white rice)
Most vegetarian options : Trek ń Eat (contains modified starch, sugar, additives, palm oil, white rice)
Recently available : Forever Fresh (real free range meat, no additives, basmati rice)

Our recommendation is FOREVER FRESH.
They have the healthiest options with fresh ingredients, at the same price and they are produced in South Africa.
Run by a family in Western Cape, you can taste the passion in the meals.
Their packaging is more simple and takes less space in your bag.