Outdoor Meal Shootout: We Rated and Compared 11 Meals So You Don’t Have To. That's pretty nice, some of those companies I hadn't even heard of. I did have an idea years back of getting the people I knew who backpacked together in early spring to do a "cook-off" of their favorite trail recipes. Never got around to doing it and I don't really know anyone who backpacks anymore so that isn't happening anytime soon for me...