The TORQ Explore Supercharged Adventure Food range has expanded to include main courses to offer a complete selection of meals, writes Mike Gormley.
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Since I last covered TORQ Explore foods they have expanded and improved their range, importantly adding three pasta-based dehydrated main meal pouches.
The TORQ Explore Breakfasts have been a personal favourite for a long time, with some really nice flavours, so now it’s a chance to try out their Mains. Alongside these, TORQ have a really good energy drinks powder range, as well as gels to boost the serious athletes.
My all-time TORQ favourites, however, are their range of flapjacks. I first tried these a few years ago at the Outdoor Trade Show, was hooked, and have been munching my way through their selection ever since. I enjoy them at home and when out and about, often having one for my ‘lunch’, and I often find one of these is enough to fortify me as a mid-morning snack or for the afternoon. If I have an early ‘sparrows’ type morning, one of these flapjacks with a brew is a great way to get me going until I have time to stop and have a proper TORQ breakfast.
However, the real point of this article is to give a heads-up on their main meals, which are new to the range from TORQ. I tend to think as a vehicle person, which is perhaps unsurprising with my tractor and military off-roader commercial working life roots. To me TORQ equates to torque, which we need to get things moving, and TORQ put a great deal into the technical details of their food products so they all produce the required amount of energy that is essential to power you along, or up, no matter what it is you are doing.
Generally speaking, for me TORQ foods are all tasty and fulfilling and seem to keep me going pretty well when needed. The company puts a huge amount of research and effort into producing foods that are fit for purpose as well as being good to eat. Generally speaking, they do not just take some ‘nice’ ingredients and mix them up into a pouch, something which TORQ have also redesigned recently, for you to eat when out. Their ingredients are UK-origin, where possible, and mostly organic plus the end products are produced in the UK.
Each meal or pouch is nutritionally balanced and is the same as for the other products in the range, so one main meal will have the same energy as another and will be close to that of a dessert or a breakfast pouch. In ‘TORQ Speak’ their Supercharged Adventure food has been designed to deliver identical nutritional profiles, regardless of flavour or whether the recipes are savoury of sweet. So, in vehicle speak once again, you put one gallon / litre in the tank and you get the equivalent amount of power out.
On a recent trip out to Dartmoor I tried out the Banana & Mango breakfast and a Creamy Mushroom Pasta and both did as required on a fairly ‘Dartmoor Sunshine’ sort of late winter weekend. Much better fuel than our vehicles have to put up with. I have more to try of these so keep an open eye on the Gormley’s Gear section a little further down the line.
[images © Mike Gormley]
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