I really don't need a stove or hot water?
That's right—Stove-Free means just that. You can pour straight from your water bottle or from the faucet (if it's potable) right into the bag. Just 12 minutes later get ready to have your hair blown back, because your crunchy, fresh-tasting salad is now ready to go.
Is it spicy?
We consider this meal to be mildly spiced, with just a hint of Thai chili kick. Paired with coconut milk and peanuts, you'll find this meal is perfectly balanced and not overly spicy.
X Tear pouch open and REMOVE oxygen absorber.
X Add a little more than 1/2 of a cup (125ML) of COOL (yup, not boiling) water to pouch.
X Mix well then REMOVE excess air from pouch. Reseal tightly.
X Lay POUCH flat on one side for 6 minutes. Flip to the other side and wait an additional 6 minutes. ASK YOURSELF, do I share or let them fend for themselves?
X OPEN. STIR AGAIN. EAT. SMILE.
X Rehydration will take LONGER at higher altitudes.
This obsessively crunchy and crave-worthy salad packs real peanuts, tender chicken, and just the right hit of Thai flavor. Whether you’re deep in the backcountry or parked at a scenic overlook, it’s the closest thing to takeout without leaving the trail. Just add cool water—no stove required.
This product has been lab tested with an extended shelf life and will have a minimum of two years to consume until its expiration date.
Peanut Chicken Salad
INGREDIENTS: (notice how many you can pronounce!)
Chicken (White Meat Chicken), Dry Roasted Peanuts, Dried Carrots, Dried Savoy Cabbage, Peanut Butter Powder (Roasted Peanuts), Coconut Milk Powder (Freshly Pressed Coconut Milk, Maltodextrin (from corn), Sodium Caseinate), Coconut Sugar, Sea Salt, Ground Coriander, Organic Wheat-Free Soy Sauce Powder (Soy Sauce (Soybeans, Salt), Maltodextrin, Salt), Crystallized Lime (Citric Acid, Lime Oil, Lime Juice), Dried Shallots, Dried Cilantro, Garlic Powder, Dried Thai Chilies, Kaffir Lime Leaf Powder, Black Pepper
CONTAINS: Coconut, Peanuts, Soybeans, Milk
The stove free meals are helpful in different scenarios. This one saved me on the Camino trail this summer. I arrived to town hungry but everything in Spain closes a few hours each afternoon. On a flight with crappy food? Breakout one of these! I now keep one in my daily backpack and travel with a few on any adventure!
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.
