 I know there are already some fans of Look What We Found on the site. It is good food in a package that it can be heated in (by immersing in boiling water). You can eat it straight from the bag too. Last trip I had the meatballs and added them to a Mughsot of pasta twirls: it was like a full meal. If you're wild-camping and looking for a tasty meal they are an excellent solution. They are available online (various sites) and also in Sainsburys. I bought some from Morrisons when they were still on BOGOF. Bolognaise or chilli is £1.99, lamb hotpot, beef caserole or the meatballs are £2.66. £2.66 for really tasty food that is conveniently packaged and a doddle to heat up is a snip, highly recommended.
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.JPG) The only problem with them is that they are quite low in calories.
..also the water used boiling in the bag has to be pitched out due to the ink in the paper labels.
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 I've seen some of the meals are now made without papers labels - water might now be usable if the plastic package doesnt spoil it. A couple of wholemeal pittas and one of these is enough for me, even the lower calorie ones. 
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Rod, I had read that about lables too, but they are entirely plastic now. Just drop the bag in water, bring it to the boil and leave it to soak up nthe heat: 5 minutes is ample.
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Yep I'm a fan and there's an easy way to boost the calories - rice. It's light, packs into just about any space and you don't need to worry about it getting smashed up like pasta. And now the LWWF labels are plastic you can just stick the rice in the water you're using to heat the bag in. If you're really feeling paranoid you can put the LWWF bag inside one of those oven-proof roasting bags just to be sure.
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 I'm a fan of some of them... meatballs being one of them! I eat them with a good size portion of cous cous made with Marigold Bouillon. I get round the calories thing by eating 2 =8O
Also you can often find them on special off in supermarkets last deal was BOGOF, can't say fairer than that.
Just musing but I wonder how much LWWF is/has hurt companies like Wayfarer?
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 lwwf are not meant to be meals. they are just a "main" course to which you should add whatever you want and consequently they aren't, and shouldn't be, rammed full of calories and the other additive shite that bulks proper outdoor meals out for the high calories can't carry anything person. if you want loads of calories in an outdoors meal then lwwf isn't for you at all.
however, those who are less weight shy just take something like some nice bread and oil to eat as a starter whilst the meal is warming up and your carbohydrate of choice is cooking. crack open some wine and enjoy the best tasting pre-prepared food you can currently buy.
for short trips why is having to throw the water away a chore? if you're that involved in the weight of the extra meths then why are you carrying a very heavy wet food?
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 I had the meatballs yesterday, with two bags of wok noddles (cooked on my new mini-wok) and jolly good it was!!
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 The only problem with them is that they are quite low in calories. ..also the water used boiling in the bag has to be pitched out due to the ink in the paper labels. Think outside the box, carry some of these and transfer the contents. Problem solved. Extra calories? Loads of pasta, noodles, cous cous or quinoa.
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Mostly good stuff but the spag bol is shite. Then, Mrs Mal's spag bol is to die for so I've been spoiled rotten.
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Think outside the box ? Carry boil-in-the-bag bags and transfer the contents ? Nah, think I'll transfer the contents into the pot and heat up in there. Uses about 1/5th of the fuel as b-in-the-bag.
Still think 200Kcals is poor return for the effort, even if it does taste nicer than most.
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The extra fuel use isn't really relevant if you're using the same water to cook rice as well.
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Yes it is, if I'm cooking rice or pasta it couscous then its getting cooked first so that the main part if the meal is hottest when I eat it.
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Why not do both at once though? That's why people are suggesting leaving it the bag (or using another bag if the original bag worries you).
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As I had a bit of free time this bank holiday monday evening I decided to retry the all-in-one-pan approach using the new LWWF packaging with the non-paper labels. I haven't done this up until now because I tend to buy a few of them at once so had old stock. Anyway, for the sake of 'realism' I stuck about 2/3 of a litre of water in a small pan on top of my Pocket Rocket, brought it to the boil, then dumped in some rice and the LWWF bag, put the lid back on and came back 8 minutes later. Result: Mmmm. Complete with MSR plastic plate for yet more 'realism', and the food even looks the same as the picture on the packet - have that Wayfarer! Anyway the rice tasted perfectly normal, there was no sign of any discolouration in the water, and more tellingly no sign of any damage to the bag at all. The labels were still impossible to remove from the bag (I'm starting to think they might be heat-welded on) and the bag felt physically unchanged - even where the edge of it had been in contact with the side of the hot pan, sans l'eau. In summary, from my incredibly scientific testing, there are probably more dangerous chemicals in all the waxy crap they put on the outside of supermarket apples than is likely to leach out of these new bags. And if that's not enough for you, remember that the bags have already been boiled once because that's how they cook the food in the first place.
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 I hope you took realism to the extreme and ate it with a spork whilst sitting cross-legged on the floor 
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More like with a spoon on the sofa while watching Grand Designs. 
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This weekend I took two "home reared beef in black velvet porter with potatoes". Excellent food, very tasty, boil and eat in the bag (or eat on a plate like my lad did). I made coffee with the water afterwoods and am still alive to tell the tale!
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