Mealkit review

A review of the mealkit appears in Inside Bay Area. I enjoyed the review, but the spork is only $3, not $6. Here's the meat of it...

Mess(y) Adventures

When I unpacked the newfangled lime green and gray plastic mess kit from Light My Fire, I was nonplussed. I like my Girl Scout mess kit. And besides, plastic melts. Convinced that this was a loser, I decided to test it out. I sent it on a field trip to Arizona with my trusted assistant, where it was filled and dropped and tossed around from meal to meal.

My assistant (OK, my daughter) reported that the kit performed quite well. The small bowl was perfect for yogurt. The medium bowl held just the right amount of cold cereal, and while the large, triangular bowl wasn't quite large enough to hold a Navajo taco, it sufficed. The strainer, she said, was perfectly useless, and the spork — a fork on one end, a spoon on the other — made people laugh. Although the plastic mess kit may not be a great pick to take on a camping trip, where open fires are the norm, it's a compact, useful choice for a road trip. The kit is $24. The spork is $6. For more information go to http://www.lightmyfireusa.com or call (888) 297-6062.