Trek’n Eat Trek ‘n Eat Gourmet Forest Stew With Meat

When you think of a stew, you tend to think of potatoes and dumplings in a meaty gravy. The Trek n’ Eat Forest Stew is very nearly there in that it has a very tasty gravy with small pieces of beef (7% overall, equal to about 55 grams of fresh meat), but no potatoes and dumplings.

The starch content is made up by durum wheat pasta which works much better than potatoes in this case, as dehydrated spud doesn’t rehydrate as well as pasta.

Lots of thought has gone into the gravy and you might be surprised to see porcini mushrooms and blueberries on the list of ingredients as well as the usual herbs and spices. This complicated recipe makes for a depth of flavour which means you can eat a whole pack and not get bored with the taste. It’s not like a Bovril soup with pasta; it stands on its own two feet as a tasty meal full of flavour.

Shame there’s no dumplings!

Product weight 170 grams
Total weight with packaging 192 grams
Weight of meal when hydrated 720 grams
Energy 634 kcal

Overall Marks: 9/10
Thoroughly recommended.

 

Gourmet Forest Stew with meat
Net weight 170g
Added water  320ml
Ready quantity  490g
Ingredients  pasta 50% (durum wheat semolina, egg, salt), game sauce (contains soy, milk,
wheat), beef 7%, carrots, capsicum, tomatoes, mushrooms, onions, sunflower oil
(contains milk, E551), blueberries, Porcini mushrooms
Dried meat content: 11 g (equals approx. 55 g fresh meat)
Allergens  Eggs, contains gluten, Milk, Soy
Directions  Pour boiling water directly into the bag up to 8 cm on the scale (320 ml), stir
thoroughly. Close the bag and let it rest for 5 minutes.

Average nutritional values per 100 g dried product
kJ/kcal  1331/318
Carbohydrates  53,8 g of which sugar 6,0 g
Fat   4,6 g of which saturated fatty acids 1,6 g
Protein 12,8 g

 

Fibre  1,8 g
Salt 0,3 g