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$Backpacker\'s Pantry Biscuits and Gravy - 2 Servings$

Backpacker's Pantry Biscuits and Gravy - 2 Servings

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Start the morning off right with this hearty breakfast from Backpacker's Pantry!

Cooking requires the use of two containers and two cups of water
Nutrition facts displayed here and on packaging may differ; information on packaging reflects actual contents
May contain traces of peanuts and/or tree nuts
*Discount will be applied when you check out; offer not valid for sale-price items ending in $._3 or $._9

Ingredients: biscuit mix (bleached enriched wheat flour (flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), partially hydrogenated vegetable oil (soybean and/or cottonseed oil), leavening (baking soda, sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium aluminum phosphate, aluminum sulphate, monocalcium phosphate), dextrose, modified food starch, salt), gravy (wheat flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), nonfat milk, cream (cream, lecithin, tocopherols and ascorbyl palmitate (to help protect flavor)), soy sausage (textured vegetable protein [soy flour, caramel color], partially hydrogenated soybean oil, water, salt, sugar, hydrolyzed corn-soy-wheat gluten protein, natural flavors), arrowroot powder, corn starch, chicken flavor (hydrolyzed corn protein with partially hydrogenated vegetable oil (cottonseed, soybean) added), butter powder, (butter (cream, salt, annatto extract), nonfat dry milk, buttermilk, sodium citrate, citric acid, tocopherol (used as an anti-oxidant), beta carotene (used as a color)), modified food starch (from corn), salt, butter flavor (whey solids, modified butter oil and dehydrated butter, corn syrup solids, salt, guar gum, annatto and turmeric (for color)), pepper, vegetarian soup with imitation chicken flavor (maltodextrin, salt, autolyzed yeast extract, yeast extract, onion powder Allergens: mlk, soy, gluten, wheat.

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Backpacker's Pantry Biscuits and Gravy - 2 Servings Customer Reviews

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Backpacker's Pantry Biscuits and Gravy - 2 Servings

3.0

(based on 10 reviews)

50%

of respondents would recommend this to a friend.

Pros

Lightweight (7)
Flavorful (6)

Cons

Difficult to prepare (5)
Long cook time (4)

Best Uses

Backpacking (8)
Car camping (3)

- Reviewer Profile:
- Avid adventurer (5), Casual/ recreational (5)
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Reviewed by 10 customers

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Dec

2010

(2 of 3 customers found this review helpful)

1.0

Don't Bother

By Dodge Ram

from Portland, Oregon

About Me Casual/ Recreational

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Pros

Cons

Difficult To Prepare
Long Cook Time

Best Uses

Comments about Backpacker's Pantry Biscuits and Gravy - 2 Servings:

This product is NOT Biscuits and Country Gravy it's more like a big pot of fake gravy and under cooked dumplings. If you want some better Biscuits and Country Gravy go to your grocery store and pick up a box of the name brand biscuit mix and a packet of gravy mix and cook the biscuits in a dutch oven you will be much happier.

Aug

2010

(2 of 2 customers found this review helpful)

2.0

Big gooey mess

By Mantaray_SD

from San Diego, CA

About Me Casual/ Recreational

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Pros

Lightweight

Cons

Difficult To Prepare
Long Cook Time
Messy

Best Uses

Backpacking
Car Camping
Weekend Trips

Comments about Backpacker's Pantry Biscuits and Gravy - 2 Servings:

These require two containers to make, one to mix up the dough and another to cook the gravy/biscuit mix (sticky mess to clean later). I cooked it in higher altitude (8ooo') so that might have affected the outcome, but the biscuit dough did not cook evenly and some of it ended up quite raw. Overall it was a big gooey concoction but being a hot meal on a cold morning it was palatable.

Jun

2010

(2 of 2 customers found this review helpful)

1.0

consistency of clam chowder

By hikerett

from Bellingham, WA

About Me Casual/ Recreational

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Pros

Flavorful
Lightweight

Cons

Difficult To Prepare
Long Cook Time

Best Uses

Comments about Backpacker's Pantry Biscuits and Gravy - 2 Servings:

The gravy taste was there but w/ the consistency of clam chowder. Doughy blobs of biscuit taste bad & the texture is even worse.

Dec

2009

(2 of 2 customers found this review helpful)

2.0

Not worth it

By kcarchitect

from Lake Forest, CA

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Pros

Lightweight

Cons

Lacks Flavor

Best Uses

Backpacking
Extended Trips

Comments about Backpacker's Pantry Biscuits and Gravy - 2 Servings:

It's more like dumplings than biscuits. The gravy had an off, sour taste to it. It didn't take long to prepare, but requires a skillet or pan to cook it in. It doesn't have a lot of flavor.

Mar

2010

(1 of 1 customers found this review helpful)

3.0

too much work

By Snow Chief

from Vancouver, WA

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Pros

Flavorful
Lightweight

Cons

Difficult To Prepare
Long Cook Time
Unhealthy

Best Uses

Backpacking
Extended Trips

Comments about Backpacker's Pantry Biscuits and Gravy - 2 Servings:

Taste - the taste was OK. It was a simple country gravy with a good biscuit taste.

Consistency - getting the biscuit edges to not have the consistency of under-cooked biscuits (like dough) proved to be difficult.

Cooking - takes a very long time and more steps than most of these meals.

I will not have this again as there are too many meals that are much easier to prepare.

Jan

2012

3.0

A definite change of pace

By Riverview Mike

from Riverview, FL

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Pros

Nice Change of Pace

Cons

Difficult To Prepare

Best Uses

Backpacking

Comments about Backpacker's Pantry Biscuits and Gravy - 2 Servings:

You'll need a big bowl (24 Oz.) and a pot (24 oz.) in order to make this product, so this is not your typical boil water in a bag meal. Having said that, although not restaraunt quality, it's a nice change of pace. After 4 days on the trail, I find myself craving bread. This definitely fits the bill.

To prepare this meal, you'll mix the gravy mix in your pot with 16 oz of water. THEN, bring the water to a SLOW boil. While heating up the gravy, you'll mix 1/2 cup of water and the biscuit mix in a separate bowl. You could use the bag the product comes in to mix up the dough, but I'd recommend against it due to the difficulty in mixing it thoroughly.

With the gravy mix boiling slowly, you'll drop spoonfuls of dough into the gravy mix. Then, cover and keep at a low boil for 6 to 8 minutes. I've found that 8 to 9 minutes works a bit better. I think the key to preparing this meal is not trying to cook it too fast (keep the temps low).

Since the biscuits are cooked in fluid, they will be more like a cross between a biscuit and a dumpling. The gravy mix is a bit bland, but not terrible. Cleanup is a bit of a pain because the gravy mix will stick to the pan.

Aug

2011

4.0

Good Morning Fuel

By Dr Dirt

from Boise, ID

About Me Casual/ Recreational

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Pros

Flavorful

Cons

Takes several pans

Best Uses

Backpacking

Comments about Backpacker's Pantry Biscuits and Gravy - 2 Servings:

I love biscuits and gravy for breakfast! While these are not like what you would make at home, they were a real treat on the trail. Others have complained that its more like dumplings and gravy. Given how it is preapred, that is true. If you let it set long enough though, you can get a nice biscuit texture. We're going to try using our fire pot as a dutch oven next trip for the biscuits. The flavor is very good and the portions are filling. I recommend it as a nice change from eggs or cereal.

Jul

2011

4.0

Yummy!

By Rockies Girl

from Denver, CO

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Pros

Flavorful
Lightweight
Nutritious

Cons

Best Uses

Backpacking

Comments about Backpacker's Pantry Biscuits and Gravy - 2 Servings:

Very yummy! We ate it for dinner, but the biscuits are on the sweet side and would probably be better for breakfast.

It does take a little longer to prepare than the "pour boiling water in pouch and wait" meals, and it does use 2 containers, though we just avoided having an extra bowl to wash by using the bowl we mixed the dough in as one of our eating bowls. So what, there's a little uncooked dough left in there, you're backpacking!!!

The gravy was yummy. We accidentally added a little too much water to the biscuit dough, so it was a little too liquidy, but hey, even then it was still good. Unlike the Organic Spinach Putanesca from the same company the night before...

Good stuff.

Feb

2010

(0 of 2 customers found this review helpful)

5.0

Better then expected

By tra

from Athens, GA

About Me Casual/ Recreational

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Pros

Easy To Prepare
Flavorful
Lightweight

Cons

Unhealthy

Best Uses

Backpacking
Car Camping

Comments about Backpacker's Pantry Biscuits and Gravy - 2 Servings:

This definitely hits the spot on cold mornings. Of course its not as good as grandmas, but for freeze dried backpacking breakfast it surpassed my expectations. The one con, already mentioned by one reviewer, is that it is way too hearty to precede very strenuous activity like cycling. I have taken it on several backpacking trips and it has always done me right.

Oct

2009

(0 of 1 customers found this review helpful)

5.0

Hot and Tasty!

By Cold Commuter

from St. Paul, MN

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Pros

Easy To Prepare
Flavorful
Lightweight

Cons

Best Uses

Backpacking
Car Camping
Weekend Trips

Comments about Backpacker's Pantry Biscuits and Gravy - 2 Servings:

I've taken this on two backpacking trips up on the Superior Hiking Trail. When you are cold and hungry, note those two words, this meal is wonderful. Its basically a one pot (+ mixing bowl) meal and tastes great.