Have you tried the AlpineAire Foods Wild Mushroom Fettuccine Alfredo yet?

My wife and I took this freeze-dried food option with us on a recent backpacking trip and tried it out. To make my review blogs more diverse, I want to start reviewing some of the freeze-dried foods we try, in case you want to try them yourself.

In this review, I’ll share our experience packing, cooking, and eating the AlpineAire Foods Wild Mushroom Fettuccine Alfredo on a recent backpacking trip. If you find this review helpful and you would like to support me for creating it, please consider Buying Me a Pizza.

Quick Overview of AlpineAire Foods Wild Mushroom Fettuccine Alfredo

This meal is a freeze-dried meal consisting of two servings of fettuccine alfredo with wild mushrooms mixed in with the sauce.

This is a freeze-dried meal by the company AlpineAire. It’s best for hikers, backpackers, bikepackers, ultralight hikers, and emergency go-bag holders.

This is really one of the best backpacking meals we’ve ever eaten, and I highly recommend trying it for yourself.

About the AlpineAire Company

The AlpineAire Company has been around since 1979, creating meals for outdoor enthusiasts.

They focus on using the finest ingredients. They want their meals to be healthy, easy to prepare, tasty, and nutritious. They produce all-natural, freeze-dried instant meals, drinks, desserts, and soups, and offer a variety of gluten-free products.

In 2012, the Katadyn Group appeared to have acquired AlpineAire Foods.

AlpineAire Foods Wild Mushroom Fettuccine Alfredo Meal Details

There are two servings of AlpineAire Foods Wild Mushroom Fettuccine Alfredo in each package.

Each serving contains about 280 calories each. A serving size is half the package or 69.5 grams. There are 12g of protein, 38g of carbs, 10g of fat, and 510mg of sodium for each serving.

The AlpineAire Foods Wild Mushroom Fettuccine Alfredo is a vegetarian option for those looking for one.

AlpineAire Foods Wild Mushroom Fettuccine Alfredo Ingredients

There is a mixture of different ingredients in the AlpineAire Foods Wild Mushroom Fettuccine Alfredo meal.

The ingredients include spiral pasta (ground durum wheat semolina, water, salt.), sweet cream powder, champignon mushrooms, potato starch, Romano cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, and enzymes) and disodium phosphate, parmesan cheese (partially skim milk, culture, salt, enzymes) and disodium phosphate, natural butter flavor [whey solids, enzymes modified butter, maltodextrin, salt, dehydrated butter, guar gum, annatto and turmeric (for color)]., shallots, garlic granulated, sea salt, natural flavor (baker’s yeast extract, salt), white onion, shiitake extract powder (maltodextrin, shiitake extract, salt), black pepper, spinach.

The meal is made in the United States of America.

There are wild mushrooms in this meal, so if you have any sort of allergy to wild mushrooms, then you would want to avoid this meal.

Taste of the AlpineAire Foods Wild Mushroom Fettuccine Alfredo Meal

As I said at the beginning of this review, the AlpineAire Foods Wild Mushroom Fettuccine Alfredo meal is the best one we’ve had so far.

The mushrooms can really be tasted throughout the meal. They give the fettuccine and Alfredo a new kind of flavor. To me, that was the most important taste. AlpineAire really got it down with this meal.

The sauce thickness after rehydration was perfect. There was plenty of sauce for both servings, but not too much, making it overwhelming.

The mushroom texture wasn’t bad at all. Honestly, it was like eating any other rehydrated fettuccine alfredo meal, only this one had a much better taste than all the others. It rehydrated evenly, and the whole meal was very good for both of us.

AlpineAire Foods Wild Mushroom Fettuccine Alfredo Preparation

Packing, preparing, eating, and disposing of the AlpineAire Foods Wild Mushroom Fettuccine Alfredo meal wasn’t a problem at all.

The meal is about the size of any other freeze-dried meal. It fit perfectly into my backpack and didn’t require any additional packing strategy.

Cooking the meal was simple. Pour in 1 ½ cups of boiling water, stir, and wait 12 minutes. You’ll stir the food again right before you serve it to ensure the sauce is evenly distributed.

We cooked our water in a small backpacking pot using the MSR Pocket Rocket stove.

Packability and Weight of the Meal

The weight of the meal is 4.9 ounces.

The meal packs are like any other freeze-dried meal. The durability of the pack seems to be very stable, and we didn’t feel that the material would rip easily. You could easily eat the meal straight from the pouch if you wanted to.

Performance on this Meal on the Trail

This meal was very filling for my wife and me when we tried it on our backpacking trip.

In fact, we had also cooked some mac and cheese from another brand to go with it in case it wasn’t enough, or we didn’t like the taste. The AlpineAire Foods Wild Mushroom Fettuccine Alfredo was so tasty, we both ate all of our servings and were pretty full after we were done.

The meal gave us plenty of energy return to sleep on and then get up the next morning for a hike back to where we started in the hilly Shawnee National Forest region.

I’d recommend this meal for lunch or dinner on your backpacking trips.

How Does AlpineAire Compare with Other Brands?

As I said, the AlpineAire Foods Wild Mushroom Fettuccine Alfredo meal was our favorite so far.

We’ve tried all the other main brands out there, including Peak Refuel, Mountain House, RightOnTrek, and others. While these brands are good in their own way, none of them were able to even closely mimic the great taste we got out of the AlpineAire Foods Wild Mushroom Fettuccine Alfredo meal.

We would definitely choose this meal again and again if it were available next to any other sort of freeze-dried backpacking meal.

AlpineAire Foods Wild Mushroom Fettuccine Alfredo Price

You can get this meal for $11.95 from REI.

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AlpineAire Foods Wild Mushroom Fettuccine Alfredo Final Thoughts

We really enjoyed eating the AlpineAire Foods Wild Mushroom Fettuccine Alfredo meal. The taste was really delicious as we are a big fun of wild mushrooms. The texture was spot on, as well.

This would be our go-to meal for any backpacking trip in the future.

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