Peanut Chicken Salad

I recently spent two months backpacking and I only ate three backpacking meals the entire time. (I usually get creative with ramen each night.) To me, they cost too much to rationalize mediocre taste. I picked up this cold soak meal at an outfitters because really hot temperatures were in store and I figured "why not"? This peanut chicken salad was so good that I kept an eye out for it at every store in the remaining weeks and was bummed not to enjoy it a second time.

It’s one thing for a backpacking meal to be convenient - bless the good to go gods for a cold water soak meal - but it’s a whole other thing for it to also be this delicious. I’m a sucker for anything peanut flavored. So this is a gem!

I am always looking for a good cold soak that actually tastes great. You knocked this one out of the park!

I'm very grateful for "Good To Go" as they are by far the cleanest ingredient dehydrated meals I found on the market. I hate to say I was just underwhelmed. I was at 8,500-9k feet of elevation and the first time I made this per the instructions it had way too much liquid and wasn't close to rehydrated. Being able to use "cool" water I thought would be great but personally did not enjoy it. I was also in very cold weather so that could have played a part. The second time around I used less liquid and let it rehydrate twice as long which was better (did this with all the meals of G2G I ate. Granted, the package does warn you of longer rehydrate times at elevation but I wouldn't have thought over 20 minutes to be necessary. Flavor was "okay", but did not enjoy the texture. They warn you of being crunchy which is fine but it was too crunchy in the dehydrated sense. Flavor was "okay", I ate mine on a wrap as suggested and that helped. Similar to the other meals I tried, it felt like when you go to someone's house and they've put too much seasoning in their meal. My hunting partners had the big box brand meals and while they have way too many ingredients I don't want in my body, they cooked faster and were tastier. Unfortunately there's a tradeoff to eat clean.

I was pheasants surprised with the flavor! This will be a great addition to my summer meals. No stove no worries…

I’ve been using Good to Go meals for years. Glad I stumbled across them at my son’s prompting. Thank you such great backcountry meals!