LYO Mash & Cheese

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Lyo offer meals using natural, fresh ingredients and no preservatives or artificial additives. They stand out from the crowd with unique recipes, the use of chunky ingredients that result in more natural, home style meals. 

LYO says: 

Chewing and swallowing at high altitudes is rarely easy and alpinists know it better than anyone else. It was Mathieu Maynadier’s stories that ignited a spark and got us thinking… How about we create a dish that would be effortless to consume and at the same time provide enough energy to keep you going? The very essence of the idea behind LYO EXPEDITION line.

Mashed potatoes and a hand-picked selection of the finest cheeses combined with mushrooms marinated in a home-made Worcester sauce. Mesdames et Messieurs, we give you Mash&Cheese by Mathieu Maynadier.

He dreamt it, we freeze-dried it.The Mash & Cheese by Mathieu Maynadier is third meal from a unique menu of meals developed together with our brand ambassadors.

PREPARATION

1. Tear off at the notch above the zipper
2. Remove oxygen absorber
3. Add 280 ml of hot, boiled water – fill line № 2 (see inside)
4. Stir thoroughly
5. Close the zipper and leave for 9 minutes
6. Tear off at the notch below the zipper, stir again & enjoy

Our Verdict

LYO have tried to take a different route with their meals focussing on natural, fresh ingredients and no preservatives or artificial additives. They proudly cultivate some of the fruits and herbs on their own fields. Other fruits and herbs as well as vegetables come from farmers known to them personally. All ingredients are carefully verified to ensure that their products meet the highest quality standards.

The majority of the meals use interesting combinations of natural ingredients with chunky vegetables, authentic flavours and more of a home cooked approach. We’ve been lucky enough to test a variety of them and have always been impressed with the end results. Generally, we appreciated the good combinations of flavour, texture and portion size.

The full line for adding water to the packs is novel, with a blue area from the bottom showing how much water is required. It is quite a subtle design feature that can be easy to miss and some form of internal indicator would be best, but it still works.

– Reviewed by Ultralight Outdoor Gear

Features

• Meat Free

Specifications

• Weight: 150g

Material & Construction

• mashed potatoes (potatoes 91 %, milk, butter, spices, salt) 49 %, cheese sauce (milk 59 %, cheese cheddar 18 %, cheese pecorino romano (DOP) 8 %, potato flour, cheese gruyère 3 %, butter, onion, plant-based broth (corn flour, salt, onion, yeast extract, flavors from natural vegetal extracts), salt, spices) 39 %, mushrooms in tamarind sauce (mushrooms 89 %, olive oil, salt, apple vinegar, agave syrup, tamarind, spices, sugar) 12 %.