FFTS Quinoa

Food For The Sole Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Kale and Quinoa to be exact

This is another excellent meal made by Food For The Sole that I cold-soaked on my recent section hike. It was intended to be a lunch, but the shelter I stayed at the second night had a bear prowling around, and I didn’t feel comfortable sauteing onion and garlic outside a full shelter with a hungry Yogi around. So I cold-soaked this for dinner, and was very pleasantly surprised.

First, the numbers- this 4.2 oz. package contains 510 tasty calories with 19g of protein and 17g of fat at a cost of $11.

This gluten-free vegetarian meal contains tasty chunks of roasted sweet potato mixed with kale, quinoa, onion, pumpkin seeds, olive oil, garlic, lemon juice, salt and pepper. The sweet potatoes are nicely caramelized, which gives an otherwise slightly nutty-tasting meal a nice burst of sweetness. The flavors meld together very well.

Even though this meal is meant to be cooked with hot water, it cold-soaked just fine within 30 minutes. I did some camp chores while I waited.

I’m not a vegetarian, but I enjoy my vegetables too, and this meal definitely clicks with my taste buds. It’s also one of the few quinoa dishes I’ve ever enjoyed. As the picture above attests, it looks purty on the website. In my ziploc bag in real life…..it still looks purty.

My appetite is usually still blunted on the 2nd day of a section hike, so I was surprised to find myself at the bottom of the ziploc and out of food before I realized it. THAT’S how tasty it was.

This was a lunch-sized portion IMHO, and I wasn’t super hungry, but it more than adequately filled my belly and kept it happy through the night.

Grade: A