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	The perfect meals for short term or long term camping? For years I�ve been packing lots of food requiring lots of cooler/refrigerator space that took an hour or more of me and Carols time to prepare and then even longer to clean up. To make matters worse, I ended up with excess food to bring back home and even some waste. Some time ago one of my good friends in Jeep Expeditions decided to experiment. Jim brought along several Hormel Compleats meals for one of our weekend camping trips. I watched him take two meals from a tote box, put them in a pot of boiling water and in less than 10 minutes he was eating. In the same time we hadn't even gotten our food on the fire yet. A few minutes later he put the wrapper, serving vessel and plastic silverware in his trash bag and that was it. Ever since then, we've been packing and trying Hormel meals for our camping trips. They need no refrigeration, have storage life of up to 2 years, need no preparation other than boiling a pot of water, require little or no clean up and the best part of them is that many of them are quite tasty. For more detailed cooking instructions/suggestions, scroll to the bottom of this page. See what we think below of the varieties we have tried. We plan on having most if not all the varieties reviewed and posted by March of 2015. New reviews will be added every week or so until then. If you see the meal and picture listed below, I have that meal in hand. If the description has a statement other than "Coming Soon" then I have tried and there should be a review you can read by clicking on the picture of the meal. If it shows not found give it a day or so and it will be up on the site. The ones that say "Coming Soon" will all be up by March 2015. I will add new meals as I can find different selections. I carry a spreadsheet in my wallet and always check out different stores for their selections. I hope to have every Hormel Meal sampled and reviewed by March 2015. If you have any comments you can send them to: info@JeepExpeditions.org START YOUR DAY THE HORMEL WAY ! Click on the picture of any meal below to see the review of that meal and more !
	Sausage Gravy & Roasted Potatoes You'll be looking forward to breakfast with this one! Click on the picture and see the review.
	Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal A good breakfast snack. Click on the picture and see the review.
	SAUSAGE BREAKFAST SCRAMBLE The good, the bad and the ugly. Click on the picture and see the review.
	BACON BREAKFAST SCRAMBLE Same as the Sausage Scramble. Click on the picture and see the review.
	Ham BREAKFAST SCRAMBLE Strike Three ! Same as ALL of the Breakfast Scrambles. Click on the picture to read the review.
	The Final Word Reviews for all of the Hormel Breakfast Meals currently available for sale have been posted. Generally, I can say that there are some meals that I most likely will not be buying for myself in the future and includes: 1. Any meal with scrambled eggs. Why? because they just aren't that good (the egg part is the part that isn't that good) My favorite meals in this section so far are as follows: 1. Sausage Gravy & Roasted Potatoes 2. Apple & Cinnamon Oatmeal To see my other Hormel favorites in the "Sandwich Makers", "Snackers", "SPAM" or other catgories, please look at those individual sections in the "FINAL WORD" at the end of the reviews. From now on Hormel Compleats will be the primary breakfast & dinner food I�ll be taking on most of my trips with Jeep Expeditions. They have a great variety, need no refrigeration, have a shelf life up to two years (just in case you have a few left after that next trip), require little or no prep time, are delightfully tasty, light weight & compact and very convenient. Just drop one or more dinners in boiling water for 8 minutes, let them sit for a minute and you are ready to eat. Clean up is a simple as dumping the water from your pot and throwing everything else away or you could burn the plastic and paper in your campfire. Oh yes, one more thing. The pictures on the label are like the pictures you see in any ad for any food, it always looks perfect. I have not found a Hormel meal yet that looks like the picture on the container wrapping, but a few have been close. Some of the colors may not be perfect in my pictures as changes in lighting and angles and even differences in the white balance of the camera can cause a change in the actual color. Don't let any picture deter you, look at the picture on the box, and think of how tasty its' going to be and you be the judge. Trust me, if it looks bad I will tell you but if I don't, you can count on a good looking tasty dinner when you pull off the plastic film cover. As for where to buy your Hormel Meals, I buy mine at Walmart Neighborhood Markets or Walmart SuperCenters. The price as of Oct 2014 is $1.98 each $1 or more less than elsewhere.
Cook 1, 2, 3, 4 or more meals at once depending on your pot/kettle size.	How to cook and equipment suggestions STOVE: I prefer the single burner butane stoves which you can buy online or at discount stores for as little as $10. Cans of butane are easy to carry easy to insert into the stove, safe and can last for a couple of meals. I find that butane burns hotter than propane which means your water boils faster, your food is done earlier and you are eating soonerand. The equipment is both simple to use and lighter in weight than the propane equivilent. POT/KETTLE: My choice of pots would be a stainless or blue porcelan steel 2 gallon pot. You can not only use this for boiling your Hormel meals but after you can use the water to wash up anything afterwards and/or to wash up yourself or reuse it for your morning Hormel breakfast. It's all you need to prepare your camp dinners or breakfasts COOKING: Bring water to a boil, drop in unopened meals and cook 9 minutes. Take meals out of the water with tongs. Let the meal sit for a minute, peel back film top, stir/fluff up a bit and enjoy! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The opinions expressed in this product review are the opinions of the writer and are based on the writers tastes and preferences. The writer may have and in most cases invited other people to participate in this review. Despite the review (favorable/unfavorable) you are encouraged to try out any product that you might be interested in. Copyrighted images & trademarks for Hormel Compleats, Hormel Sandwich Makers, Hormel Snacks, SPAM Meals and other Hormel products used throughout this web site are the property of Hormel Foods, LLC and are used for informative and identification purposes only. *Copyrighted images & trademarks for Campbells Chunky Soups, Chef Boyardee, Velveeta Skillet Meals, Barilla Italian Style Meals and other products portrayed and reviewed here are the property of their respective owners and are used here for informative and identification purposes only.

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