Looking for basic vegetables: corn, peas, carrots, green beans. The popular names like Mountain House and such used to have them, but I guess not profitable enough so no longer. Backpackers Pantry adds butter like stuff and salt. Harmony House and Honeyville seem to be two current options. Packit Gourmet also but they seem to cater to smaller packaging at greater unit cost. Not interested in dehydrated for these vegetables - too much loss of flavor, appeal, and nutrients as well as longer prep time.

North Bay Trading Co looks like they have them in reasonably sized portions. No, I haven’t tried them.

Good find. Seems like at least slightly better prices but no detailed comparison yet.

I have used Harmony House vegetables in dehydrated & freeze dried. In freeze dried they have celery, corn & peas (which I have used) along with mushrooms & edamame. They do not have carrots or regular green beans in the freeze dried version, only dehydrated. I like their quality, their portions & their prices. I order their freeze dried fruits too, although you can now find a lot of that in a supermarket now. Have used them as my go-to to supplement my own dehydrated meals along with Hoosier Hill for powdered cheeses & etc. I have not tried Honeyville or Packit Gourmet.

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North Bay Trading Co looks like they have them in reasonably sized portions. No, I haven’t tried them.


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Have been using North Bay for some time. Real similar to Harmony House in shipping/handling orders quick and accurate. Offering a big selection with many choices between air dried and freeze dried (some veggies it makes a difference like green beans loose all flavor air dried). Taste wise nothing queer, carrots taste like carrots, onions the same and so on.

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I have tried Pack It Gourmet and have been very happy. I haven't tried any of the others. I like several of the Pack It Gourmet meals also. They have great service.

Check your local co-ops. I used to work with a guy who got them there for a very reasonable price in smaller quantities if wanted. I tried them and were very good both in taste, texture and value. Let your fingers do the walking, good luck.

If you’re in the Twin Cities, Midwest Mountaineering has a selection of freeze-dried vegetables—but I don’t remember the brand(s) so I apologize if it’s one of the brands you don’t care for.

I second the comments above about Packit Gourmet—they have a good selection with great customer service.

+1 for Harmony House. I like this one personally, billed as soup mix. It has carrots, onions, tomatoes, peas, celery, green bell peppers, green beans and parsley, which seems to fit what you are looking for. Harmony House Veg Mix

Mother Earth Freeze Dried Vegetables

This company has free samples.

Nuts.com also has some reasonably priced freeze dried vegetables and fruits. Nuts.com

I also buy their fruit powders to make smoothies. Fun variety of stuff.

Karen's "Just Peas" and "Just Corn" were very good. I'm planning to try Mother Earth this trip as their prices are a little better. Both available on Amazon.

I'm trying to figure out these portion sizes. If I'm throwing together a mixed veggie bag for sides or to add to a dish like fried rice, how much do I need for 1 serving? How much is 1oz? How much would I need to compare to a regular sized can? Or to a small frozen package?

I'm planning on meals for 4 guys and I'm thinking at least 3 of the meals would need some veggies. Assuming 1 serving for each person that would be at least 12 servings. Approximately how many ounces of freeze dried mixed veggies would that be?

A 4 oz. bag of Karen's Just Veggies is equal to 20 ounces of fresh vegetables. So you could do a conversion based on a rough weight of fresh veggies you would normally put in a stir fry and then divide by 5.

Looking at most of my recipes that call for freeze dried vegetables, they call for anywhere from a couple tablespoons to 1/4 cup per serving.

One 4.5oz bag of rehydrated Karen's Just Peas yielded a decent side-dish portion (when served with a meat and starch) for our group of 9. Unless you are planning the veggies as a major portion of your meal, you should easily get 8 servings from one bag.

Camp Chow has them too...

camp chow peas

Karen's has great dried fruits, haven't tried vegetables, but should be good based on how they dry the fruit. Also, they are lighter than just dried fruit. We got green beans and diced carrots from nuts.com. They were better than most we've tried.

Freeleo1: "Karen's has great dried fruits, haven't tried vegetables, but should be good based on how they dry the fruit. Also, they are lighter than just dried fruit. We got green beans and diced carrots from nuts.com. They were better than most we've tried. "

We used Karen's peas and corn last trip. Super light weight and cooked up as well as any bagged frozen veggies I've ever had.