Does anyone have any experience with Hawk Vittles, who sells dehydrated meals? If so, any recommendations, any favorites? How was the company, shipping, & prices?

Thx

I love Hawk Vittles. I've always found their single meals to be the right amount of food at the end of a long day of hiking.

I really like the Cowboy Pasta and the Beef Stew.

The company was fine to work with, shipped fast, I think USPS. I thought their tiered pricing structure for shipping was a bit wonky. I actually ended up removing one of the meals from my order because it would have bumped me up into a higher shipping price, so the marginal cost of the meal was going to be like $9 instead of $5. Oh well.

Definitely recommend Hawk Vittles!

I have used their foods. They arrived fairly quickly. I liked how There were few ingredients and I knew what the ingredients were. I thought the food was good, but not great. The meals tended to be sweet to me. I usually don't like my savory meals to be sweet. For example, a past a dish with tomato sauce was too sweet for me. It reminded me of chef boy ar dee. I added a little hot pepper and it was quite good. Your taste may vary from mine regarding sweetness. Other than that issue, I was pleased with their meals.

Used them for a five day and was ok...but found the flavor just so so.... Not too impressed. But as much as any non home dehydrated others. It's good but nothing made it stand out.

I've bought them a few times and find them quite tasty, but as can seen by other replies tastes can be different. I have stick mostly to the Spicy Sausage Pasta, North African Stew and Moroccan Stew which were all very good. I was going to try the Black Bean Stew, but alas my 4-legged friend got into my food bag and polished it off before one of my trips. A buddy of mine tried (and I had a taste of the Has Browns and Sausage breakfast and while it didn't look great it still tasted quite good.

I like that he uses fresh ingredients and the dehydrates the cooked product -- no preservatives, etc. I usually buy the double sizes and break them down with a scale to single portions into Ziplocs at home. Not too hard to figure out the smaller water quantity needed from there. We have found that the 2nd level of shipping (was like 6 double meals) worked out best for me and a friend I ordered with. Product was usually pretty quick (within a week or so).

HTH

I have ordered thousands of dollars worth of food from HawkVittles.

Just pay attention to the calories count because some of the individual servings are half or more less calories than what is listed. Open a spreadsheet or grab a piece of paper and start keeping track of that. Just something to pay attention to. Just click on the image next to each one for a pop-up that will show the nutritional information, and at the bottom of that pop-up is the package weight. Do the math to get the total calories per serving.

They tend to have a slightly higher calorie count than most others out there - and two or three of his are really high and very good.

He does tend to over hydrate his foods a bit to make sure they have a longer shelf life (which is a good thing) but it does tend to take a bit longer to get the food rehydrated (which is a bad thing) so I have found pre-soaking them while you are hiking to be of benefit.

+Abela

Hawk Vittles are my favorite meal so far. They have simple ingredients, good taste, and a high caloric content. Most other meals have pees, onions, and carrots in nearly every single meal which I am not a fan of. My favorite is the Buffalo Pasta.

Ryan

Edited by ViolentGreen on 01/28/2013 17:26:21 MST.