 COSTCO are now stocking boil in the bag meals.Manufactured by Good Country of Australia, they currently have 3 types, the one I bought was Lamb Navarin, there is Beef Madras curry and Lamb Shanks available as well.
They come in boxes of 6 x 400g meals and heres the good bit. At £9.99 for a box of 6 they work out at £1.66 each for Lamb Navarin, and at £14.99 for 6 Beef Madras (£2.50 each) they are a lot less expensive than the Wayfarer equivelants.
The Lamb Navarin does look nice on the box, containing lamb, mushrooms, carrots, onions and red wine.
They come in a plastic type bag, not a foil one, and take the usual 8 minutes to cook.
I have yet to try one, but as soon as I do I'll post what I think of it.
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 Cheers for the tip James. I have a Costco right next door to my work ;)
Would be interested to know what you think of it before I go and spend me dosh though.
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 cool. Am heading to Costco on Friday so will check them out... might get some for heading off on Sunday (going island hopping from Oban before I start uni as a mature student)
thanks
Amanda
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I tried the Lamb Navarin yesterday. I boiled it in the bag for about 8 minutes. It was a fairly large portion. There was plenty of chunks of lamb, with large chunks of carrot and a sauce containing mushrooms and onions.
Probably best served between two people with potatoes, rather than eaten on it's own. It had quite an overpowering taste, I think you could taste the wine and herbs.
The lamb and vegetables were all good quality, with very little fat on the lamb.
Pretty good value for the portion, although I have to admit the sauce was not to my taste.
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 Now sit back and await the all important 'reaction' If you survive, please tell us :p
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how do you get into costco if you don't have your own business?
i've been on the website and i can't find a sneaky loophole to get through, any pointers?
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 You don't need your own business, it's not Makro.
Just take down a couple of payslips from a 'proper' employer e.g. the local council or whatever they state and some other form of ID IIRC.
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 And don't forget the £25 for the card!!
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 I used to use cost co when I lived in leeds and I thought their own brand stuff was very good quality.
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They do very good hydration systems for about £12 as well.
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Yeah I have one of those - price includes a wee daysac and the full H2O system so it's a bargain. Anyone who's been out with me this summer will have seen mine.
Three pockets carry waterproof, spare layer, mini first aid kit, bag of scraps (spare lace, pen, puritabs etc), food, 2L of water, sit mat...lots of other bits too, in a sac smaller than an A4 folder. Incredibly well-designed by California Innovations.
And in a downpour it was way more water-resistant than Bob's Quechua one....
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I went to Costco today to investigate.
The Lamb Navarin is £15.98 for 6, not £9.99, so they're not that much cheaper then Wayfarers and with no potato or rice included it'll lose the convenience of an all-in-one meal.
We got some of the Lamb Shanks to try (no curries in stock) as they are cheaper at £13.98 and you get a whole lamb shank each so good value. They take 30 mins if you heat in the bag so we'll use them when we have the big petrol stove to save on gas/meths.
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Any way guys (n gals) I make my own boil in the bag scoff. MAKRO do the "foodsaver" which vacuum packs anything you like and removes all the air, sealed just like the "smokey sausage" you can buy. Around £100 to acquire, but thats either something a group can share the cost of or you just wait for a seasons worth of "wayfayrers" costs to be recouped. The 3- laminate plastic comes in presized bags or on a (sleeved) roll and is heated / cut to any size you like. The vacuum device is that powerful it would crush an empty drinks can... I buy tesco all day breakfast for about 80p and empty the can into a bag, vacuum, DONE. Same with canned rice pud, curried chicken, tinned burgers n beans, leftover takeaways - WHATEVER. The instructions advise that food without air contact can keep for a LONG TIME. Long enough to create your own menus for a week long hike either way. No cleaning of pans, eat out of the boiled bag, have a brew with the water and the bags can be rinsed, microwaved, frozen and are also REUSEABLE... just make the bag bigger to allow for the cutting open and resealing next time round. CHOW Si
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 I've never really understood the point of CostCo (...Macro etc) unless you're intending buying a 50 kilo block of cheese or a van load of meat. I have a Costco and a Macro close to me and have never seen anything in either that can't be bought cheaper elsewhere.
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 I agree, never seen the point myself either. Plus in the past few years they seem to have fallen behind in the price wars, you can now get most things just as cheap if not cheaper at a supermarket!
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 I make my own boil in the bag scoff. MAKRO do the "foodsaver" which vacuum packs anything you like and removes all the air, sealed just like the "smokey sausage" you can buy. These are turning up on the home shopping channels now for less
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Almost 2 years to the day, this thread has been resurrected. Hallelujah!
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well lets be honest, food is about as important as you can get! 
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Can't disagree!
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Please be very careful if making your own vacuum packed meals. Botulism is one of the nastiest food poisoning bugs which thrives in a vacuum. Any bags which have 'blown' should be discarded. I wouldn't keep any meals left over from your trip. Also some food doesn't keep too well in vacuum such as onions.
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