AlpineAire Foods Freeze-Dried Forever Young Macaroni and Cheese

A poor quality freeze-dried food product from AlpineAire.... cute product name, but this is remarkably bad for freeze-dried food. I rarely can carry enough food when hiking in for 3-4 days wearing packs. I brought two of this product, ate one, and went hungry rather than eat the other.Taste is similar to retail store budget macaroni and cheese, but without the milk and butter/margarine to be added as part of the preparation instructions for the boxed stuff. The sodium content is at least double the already salty boxed product, and costs approx 400% more. Only virtue, of course, is the durable packaging and fast cook noodles. But there are other freeze dried food brands that offer mac and cheese with better taste and better nutrition, for similar cost.

One of these days was some of the best m&c I have eaten ; maybe I was hungry.The other I added fresh mushrooms to, it came out too wet, it was tasty; maybe I was hungry.