About Our POLENTA WITH PORK SAUSAGE
- 1 Serving Backpacking Breakfast
- Dietary Considerations: meat dish (pork sausage); gluten conscious
- all-natural dehydrated & freeze-dried ingredients
- 370 calories
- 14 g protein
- Meal Net Weight: 3.0 oz | 86 g
- Meal Kit Includes: polenta mix
- Requires: boiling water
- Recommended: long handled spoon; Cook–in–Cozy™
Remove
natural desiccant.
Add
1 cup (8 oz / 236 ml) of boiling water to the pouch and stir.
Press
air from pouch and seal.
Rise & Shine!
to your Polenta with Pork Sausage!
Ingredients & Nutrition
Ingredients:
Polenta (corn meal), Whole Milk, Pork Sausage (pork, salt, spices, sugar, sodium phosphate), Parmesan Cheese (partially skim milk, cultures, salt, enzymes, disodium phosphate), Sweet Corn Puree, Sea Salt, Spices, Butter (sweet cream, salt, annatto, nonfat milk solids, sodium caseinate, disodium phosphate), Minced Shallots, Red and Green Bell Peppers, Organic Chives, Green Onions
Special Notes:
CONTAINS: Milk
PROCESSED IN A FACILITY THAT HANDLES WHEAT, EGG, MILK, SOYBEAN, PEANUT AND TREE NUT PRODUCTS.
Press Articles
This meal has a really good flavor and it’s just something a little different — I mean, who eats something like this on trail?
— Homemade Wanderlust: My 5 Favorite Backpacking Meals, YouTube Video, January 2019
A very easy meal indeed – one pot style and doesn’t need a lot of water... Nice mild spicy hint underneath and very creamy.
— Trail Cooking & The Outdoors, October, 2008
frequently asked questions
We recommend that all of our hot meals spend time "steep-cooking™" while snuggled in a Cook-in-Cozy™. We find this method promotes a more consistent temperature and steady cook time for Cook-in-Bag™ preparation; and results in a better serving temperature for your meal. When not in use, our Cook-in-Cozy™ folds away nicely in your pack for storage and weighs in at only 1.4oz.
Reviews (31)
-
An excellent blend of textures and flavors make this a Most Enjoyable backpacking meal. I ate the first one at home so I would know what I might want to bring to "fortify" or flavor it up. Nothing was needed. This is an excellent breakfast, or can be split with a friend to make an excellent breakfast side if you want to share for variety.
-
I ordered this awhile back and the name sounded like a dinner. While eating it, I thought to myself, "This is just sausage & grits that I'd eat for breakfast". It was really good, I made it a bit thin unintentionally. I didn't taste cheese or spices, just sausage & grits. That said, it was very good and I'll definitely order again. Perfect quantity, sausage was plump & soft and it warmed my belly. Might add more cheese next time. I didn't find it salty at all (as another reviewer mentioned).
-
This was great. I didn't measure the water and mine was a bit thin. Added instant potatoes and was very good. Very quick hot meal.
-
I tried this for dinner and added smoked sausage..Perffect! Never knew exactly what this was and tried something new. I would consider this more as a breakfast meal that a side or dinner. But overall...Nice
-
I decided to eat this for breakfast. Because of its ease of preparation I used a simple alcohol stove and and a small titanium pot. This dish fits in really well with my style of easy backpacking cooking. Heat some water, pour over the concoction, let sit and eat. Preparation: Could not be easier. I used the Cook-In-Bag method. I simply boiled some water, added the Polenta mix to the larger outer bag, poured in the hot water, sealed it shut, slipped the bag inside an insulated coozy and waited 10 minutes. I then just ate the polenta right out of the bag with a long handled spoon. The best part was no dirty dishes to deal with. Taste: Very good and filling. The sausage bits, Parmesan cheesy and garlic really made this a flavorful meal. Originally posted on BackpackGearTest http://www.backpackgeartest.org
-
I ate this for dinner in camp. Mine was still soupy after 5 min, so I kneaded it and after 10 min it was still a bit thin. It was very tasty though and I would use a little less water next time. The sausage bits had a great texture and the dish was very comforting on a chilly night. This was my first PG dish, and I look forward to tasting the others I bought (corn pudding & grits souffle)
-
This was easy to make - just add boiling water to the pouch and stir. I ate the polenta for lunch and enjoyed the nice warming sensation. The sausage was especially good. It tasted like fresh cooked sausage. Originally posted on BackpackGearTest http://www.backpackgeartest.org
-
Easy, tasty, extra compact and light. Well worth becoming a breakfast staple. Next time I would add less water to start as it was very soupy, and add more as needed. The sausage was a must. I think it would have been quite bland without. I was still a bit hungry after but it was a cold night and that always stirs the apatite. In better weather I think it would have been plenty.
-
Stove used: alcohol stove My breakfast of choice on the trail has long been oatmeal. It sticks with me, is easy to cook, and is even easier to carry. On a long 9 mile ( km) hike along the LoneStar Trail, I stopped and cooked up the Creamy Italian Polenta with Sausage for breakfast. It was pretty easy and all I had to do was heat water with my alcohol stove, bring the water to a boil, then mix in the polenta and sausage. When it had cooked for a few minutes I pulled the polenta off the heat, added some parmesan cheese, and waited for things to cool off. The wait was more than worth it. I was starving after hiking for about two miles ( km) and the Polenta was tasty. It had a great texture and most importantly it filled me up. It was just enough for a hot breakfast or lunch, but not enough for a dinner. While I am not a grits fan, this polenta was pretty close to what I consider grits and I would eat it again. In fact, I am pretty sure that I have found something to alternate with my oatmeal while planning trail breakfasts. Originally posted on BackpackGearTest http://www.backpackgeartest.org
Cooking Method
just add water
Water Required
8 ounces
Temperature
boiling water
Cook time
10 Minutes
Serving
10 ounces
