Just got back from Waitrose, and they're stocking 5 new Look what we found recipies. Details aren't up on the LLWF website yet, but it looks as though they might be exclusive to Waitrose?

Anyway, the recipies are:

1. Cumbrian Lamb Hotpot
2. Fellside Beef in Thyme Gravy
3. Fellside Beef Casserole
4. Home Reared Beef Chilli con Carne
5. Beef n Basil Meatballs in Tomato Sauce

The LLWF recipies I've tried previously have all been really tasty and as they don't need refrigeration they're great for camping. Only downside is the 300g weight.

I'll post   or reports as I eat them!

Ah! You've brightened my day! I thought these were just a Waitrose item, but then noted that a lot of the SYHAs stock them too - where they come in very seriously useful.

My wife is well into rabbit, but my favourite is 'Gloucester Old Spot Pork Meatballs with Butter Beans in a Rich Tomato Sauce'. So quick and a lovely meal too.

i have one of each to try. they're smaller than the usual grey packs. and cheaper of course.

must admit the meatballs and butter beans are very good.

Have used the older recepies, and found them very tasty, especially as an alternative to Wayfarers.

I think the weight, price and nutritional values, compare well with the Wayfarer products.

 spoke to the guys from LWWF at last years Outdoors show, so they'd obviously twigged onto an alternative market for their product which was initially aimed at time pressed execs who wanted a quick posh meal.

You can also buy the stuff on line  at http://www.lookwhatwefound.co.uk/store/

LWWF stuff is great - real food, made local to the the hills we walk in. If you pick the high protein products, and eat them with rehydrdated carbs like Smash or rice or couscous the weigh penalty isn't too awful considering the quality and the nutritional value. In addition to the five new ones Kate mentions, there is also a Pork and Herb Sausage Casserole, according to their newsletter. Another tasty food option is John West Seared Tuna Fillets - a whole tuna steak barbecued in a choice of  sauces in a sachet. Makes a great nutritious meal with some savoury rice or couscous. Princes have similar products. For the amount of protein you get, they weigh less than the LWWF options.

Home reared beef chilli con carne with Uncle Ben's quick cook rice.

Chilli - 306 calories; 25.8g protein; 18.6g carbs; 14.4g fat.
Like all LWWF meals, this was rather thick on coming out of the packet, and I know some people rinse out the packet to get the last morsels of food out and dilute the thickness a bit too. I'd certainly recommend this with the chilli. It heated through pretty quickly. Lean meat and with a generous helping of kidney beans (and small chunky bits of tomato and red pepper too), perhaps not quite as hot as I like my chilli, but maybe that's a good thing if you're camping and don't have several pints of water to wash it down with, and it was slightly oilier than I make my own chilli. But for a tasty meal ready in five minutes, it'd be hard to beat.

I'll award it though at present I'm not sure how many s there are on the scale!!

How much do they weigh as a packet?  That's the main thing that puts me off.  I tried them at the Outdoors show and they tasted good though.

Fellside Beef in Thyme Gravy.

288 calories; 49.8g protein; 6.9g carbs; 6.9g fat.
You have to ignore the appearance of this stuff as it comes out of the packet - kind of reminds you of those cat-food pouches as bite-sized lumps of meat slop into the saucepan with a load of gravy. Heated up very quickly indeed, and I ate it with Smash (I'm testing this stuff, so am using the kind of ingredients you'd use camping rather than real spuds). This one doesn't really need watering down as the gravy's not overly thick, and there's a lot of it. Which also means you need to eat with carbs that are good at soaking up liquid, unless you like to drink a load of gravy on its own at the end.

The meaty lumps were very good, lean without a hint of gristle anywhere, but though there's a lot of it, they're fairly small lumps and I tend to prefer more chunky casseroles. The 'Thyme' gravy was a bit of a disappointment. It wasn't greasy in any way, but just didn't have a huge amount of taste and the dish as a whole could have done with a bit more in the way of herbs and / or pepper to give it a bit of zing.

That's less than 1 cal / gram. You would need a huge rucksack on a long trek.

Mike - what would you eat to give you 50gm of first class protein?

ps. Kate - what's a 'recipie'? Is it like a steakpie? Is there a recipe for one?

Beef and Basil Meatballs in Tomato Sauce

408 calories; 33.9g protein; 26.1g carbs; 18.6g fat.
Large chunky meatballs emerged from the packet along with plenty of tomato sauce; I cut the meatballs up a bit so they'd heat up quicker. Sauce had a pretty good consistency - not too thick, not to watery, and I ate it with couscous that did its 5 minute soak thing while the meatballs were heating up. It may be that living in Italy has led to my palate expecting more from words like 'basil', but as with the Thyme Gravy of the previous meal, I didn't find the meal sufficiently herby, so ultimately a little bland. I'd add some ground pepper or a dash of Italian herb mix for the extra zip. Obviously it's a matter of personal taste though. With the couscous, a satisfactory though not quite there for me sort of meal. And as with all these so far, great quality meat.

  (the second's a half).

Traditional Pork and herby Sausage Casserole

360 cal; 23.7g protein; 27.9g carbs; 17.1g fat.
I may have it wrong, but in my book, casserole is meat and / or vegetables, and by vegetables I mean more than just sliced spuds. Traditional Pork and herby Sausage and sliced Potato might be a more accurate description, which is frustrating because I really wanted some veg with it, and if you're doing carbs to eat with the casserole, you then find a lot more carbs when you open the packet. It tasted fine, but I'd cook it with some mixed veg and therefore it's not one to take camping.

Metric Kate wrote (see)

Beef and Basil Meatballs in Tomato Sauce

408 calories; 33.9g protein; 26.1g carbs; 18.6g fat.
Large chunky meatballs emerged from the packet along with plenty of tomato sauce; I cut the meatballs up a bit so they'd heat up quicker. Sauce had a pretty good consistency - not too thick, not to watery, and I ate it with couscous that did its 5 minute soak thing while the meatballs were heating up. It may be that living in Italy has led to my palate expecting more from words like 'basil', but as with the Thyme Gravy of the previous meal, I didn't find the meal sufficiently herby, so ultimately a little bland. I'd add some ground pepper or a dash of Italian herb mix for the extra zip. Obviously it's a matter of personal taste though. With the couscous, a satisfactory though not quite there for me sort of meal. And as with all these so far, great quality meat.

  (the second's a half).

I would agree with that. Upon reading your first post I went to our Waitrose and found they had quite a selection of these meals. as you say, the meat is excellent (reminds me of my mums home made beefburgers). I too added some extra dried Basil.

I haven't tried 'camp type' cooking them though - just used the nuke machine. Has anyone else 'boiled in the bag'?

I suspect that they are low in salt content. I rather like a lot of salt and found them quite bland, but I shouldn't complain as I should cut my salt intake.

I'll definitely buy more.