Peak Refuel Breakfast Skillet

The best commercial breakfast I’ve ever had so far

Peak Refuel is another fairly new maker of freeze-dried backpacking meals. They seem to have a bit of a cult following, so when I decided to cook hot breakfast meals on my last trip, I decided to give their one hot breakfast option a shot. Based upon the results, I’m going to have to check out their dinners too.

This was a BIG breakfast. Granted, my appetite on the first morning of a trip is far from revved up, but still, this meal was so big that I had to force the last few bites down. Fortunately, they were incredibly tasty bites.

Peak Refuel claims to be different in that they use 100% real meat, are made in the USA, take less water to rehydrate and do so more quickly, contain roughly double the protein of competitor’s meals and use premium ingredients.

Check out what you get from a mere 4.9 oz. package:

And I gotta say, my meal looked almost exactly like the picture on the website, which is highly unusual.

From the website:

From my freezer bag:

Heck, I’d argue that mine looks even prettier.

Anyway, notice that there’s nothing in there but chunks of real food- mainly sausage, egg, potato and red and green bell peppers. Seasoned just right too, although a wee bit of hot sauce wouldn’t hurt it none.

Not only was it savory, it didn’t have any of the fake food flavors you often get with commercial meals. In fact, it tasted pretty much like what I would cook up at home. And the 600+ calories got me powered through the morning too.

I think a lot of folks would be fine with splitting this meal in half unless they’re really big or really hungry, and thus the $12.99 price point looks like pretty good value.

When I opened my freezer bag in camp and the aroma wafted around the group I was sitting down with, the first comment was “dude, you suck!” This of course from an unfortunate soul that was eating a Clif Bar for breakfast. Yeah, I suck like a boss. I did of course let the poor guy have a little, and he murmured his appreciation with his eyes closed in bliss. Thus the verdict….WINNER.

Grade: A