Real Meals

Shop the full range of Real Meals freeze dry meals. Whether you're after a freeze dry breakfast to supercharge your day, a nourishing meal to recharge at the end of it, or delicious freeze dry dessert to treat yo self, we have the full range of Real Meals at great prices. We deliver Australia wide for a flat rate of $10 or free if you spent over $75. We offer free click and collect from our Sydney warehouse. Spend over $50, get a free gift with purchase. 

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  • Real Meals - Berry Smoothie
    9% off

    Real Meals - Berry Smoothie

    $13.50
    $13.50 $14.95

    Real Meals Berry Smoothie is a lightweight, freeze-dried drink option designed for quick, convenient energy on the trail. Made in New Zealand, it delivers a fruit-forward...
  • Real Meals - Choc Shake - Single
    12% off

    Real Meals - Choc Shake - Single

    $10.50
    $10.50 $11.95

    Real Meals Choc Shake – Single is a lightweight, freeze-dried drink option designed to deliver quick calories in an easy-to-consume format. Made in New Zealand, this...

Real Meals produces premium freeze-dried meals designed for serious outdoor use. Made in New Zealand, the range focuses on generous portions, bold flavours and high calorie loads — built for hikers, hunters and expedition-style trips where energy demand is high.

Each meal is cooked before being freeze-dried, helping preserve flavour and texture once rehydrated. The result is a thicker, more substantial consistency compared to lighter, snack-style options. Portions are typically large, with strong calorie counts suited to longer days and colder conditions.

The range covers hearty mains across meat and vegetarian options, with recipes centred around classic comfort dishes—curries, pastas, noodle meals and slow-cooked style flavours. Preparation is simple: add hot water to the pouch, seal, wait, and eat straight from the bag.

Real Meals is known for:

  • High calorie, large-serve formats
  • Bold, comfort-driven flavours
  • Cooked-then-freeze-dried process
  • Expedition-ready performance
  • Made in New Zealand

If you’re after substantial, energy-dense freeze-dried meals that feel like proper food at the end of a long day, Real Meals is built to deliver.

Why Hiking Food Australia?

We've got the bigger range of lightweight, freeze dry, and plant-based hiking food in Australia. Here's a bunch of other reasons why you should shop with Hiking Food Australia.

We've counted, and we have not only the biggest range of lightweight hiking food in Australia, but the biggest range of freeze dry food in Australia and the biggest range of plant based hiking food.

We stock your favourites like Back Country Cuisine, Campers Pantry, Real Meals, and On Track, as well as exclusives like SLY Foods and Nomad Nutrition.

We make it easy for your to shop your favourites and to discover new food to enjoy on the track.

Orders are packed with care and dispatched within 1 business day from our warehouse in Sydney and are shipped using reliable shipping partners and are fully trackable.

Some of the items we list are on 'special order'. This means we don't hold stock but we can order it in from our supplier and have it in our hot little hands within a few days. If you order a 'special order' item we'll upgrade you to Express Post so when we dispatch it it'll be super quick to get to you.

We don't sell end-of-line meals. We rotate our stock regularly to ensure you buy the best quality.

What do we do if we do have freeze dry or MRE that's got less than 12 months of shelf life? We list it on our clearance page and you can buy it at a healthy discount.

Our website is designed to shop food. Whether you're wanting to shop by special dietary requirement, calorie content, size, or you're looking for something new, different, unusual... we make it easy.

Whether you're a camper, boater, 4WDer, hunter, climber, sailer, or you're prepping for when SHTF, we have a huge range of lightweight and long shelf life meals for all your needs.

Our warehouse is located in Kingsgrove, Sydney.

Want to click and collect? Absolutely you can. We're in the warehouse from 10-3pm Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday, and welcome you to stop by and have a chat. Just give us a call on 0466 655 973 before you pop by so we can let you in.

We don't store our product in some hot steel box of a warehouse. Our facilities are air conditioned and never go over 25 degrees. This keeps our products in top-top condition.

We've been hiking for over 25 years and have taken a lot of freeze dry and energy bars in that time. We know a thing or two about eating well on the track.

We respond to emails within 12 hours during the week. Or you can get us pretty instantaneously on live chat. Heck, feel free to even send us a text on 0466 655 973.

What can we say, we love talking to you!