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“Hey Roger and guys!
Very impressed with your product FIRST and thanks for letting us test it for you and here is a report that I wrote directly after leaving the Kimberley expedition.
FIRST gave me a definite advantage in the field compared to my team members consumed a traditional outdoors diet; I had more energy, had more servings and it gave me an extra 2 hours of productive time during daylight compared to my trip partners. Without my time on FIRST I strongly believe I would have been in far worse shape coming off the trip; I only lost 4kg, where as other trip members lost 8 kg!!
Ironically though, initially no-one wanted to test FIRST in the field as it meant giving up two day of normal outdoors food. This all changed though when I was testing it and ended up looking into the envious eyes of my expedition partners. Not feeling hungry, having higher energy levels and eating 6 times a day, I felt guilty! Anyway, here’s the report ….
All of the expedition members are young and fit but we all experienced a huge reduction in energy and endurance over the 3+ weeks we were in the field. A trip like this is inherently physically demanding but in the Kimberly region this is greatly exaggerated by the extremely high temperatures, coupled with the massively high levels of humidity.
These conditions manifested themselves during the last half of the trip with significant lethargy and measurable reduction in physical performance. In other words, an ideal environment to test FIRST for the first time in high temperatures and humidity. Out of the three packages you provided us, the group shared one of them and I consumed only FIRST two full days.
It impressed me a lot and did not have the protein powder taste like some things I’ve used in the past. The taste of the model you supplied reminded me of a Blue Heaven milkshake and is very pretty strong, however that may have been exaggerated by the fact that we were not eating anything sweet or artificial for a coupe of weeks before the test but I did grow a bit tired of the on its own.
I guess that’s bound to happen when you are having 6 servings of the one food each day and nothing else as this was the purpose of the field test. Different flavours would definitely be appreciated on longer trips.
It’s worth stating again that before the use of FIRST, when we were out there on our expedition we defiantly felt tired and drained from the lack of diversity in our diet.
But after I began using the product I felt good! My energy levels were definitely higher, especially in comparison to the dehydrated meals, wraps and oats diet that I was previously eating. In other words, it did not get tired and I had a felt an energy rush straight after eating each serve and when I could feel it wearing off, then it was time for another serve.
I did have problems sleeping after a hit of FIRST and in some ways it was similar to having a “treat” that was full of colour and flavour. (PS. Bowel movements were normal and solid, too much info maybe? Ha ha!!).
Another great feature I found about the product is that it’s so convenient so it’s excellent for missions where daylight hours are limited. You do not need to worry about setting up camp and then making a fire etc; you get all the nutrition you need in a few minutes with little to no preparation, which is itself a significant benefit as preparing food adds a least a couple of hours work to each day.
For future trips of 10+ day duration I would take FIRST, however definitely would also bring some extra things like beef jerky and dried fruit to go with it to provide some different flavours and textures. Something to chew on was missed after our time out there only on the FIRST diet. Thanks very much and look forward to talking with you some more about the “SLIME” as we called it!”
Lachlan Carracher – 4 x Australia Kayak team member, competing internationally across 4 continents, team member major expeditions to the Kimberley region (W.A.) and South East Asia.
In addition:
“I just wanted to say thanks for the ability to trial your product FIRST on our Kimberley expedition. Lachie was the tester for two full days and the rest of us split the third day's supply into a couple snack size beverages. We loved the taste; it was almost like a blue heaven thick shake in teh flavour you supplied.
We're looking at doing a couple of ultra light trips next season in the Kimberley, maybe 5-9 days only using playboats and our thoughts were along the lines that it would be an awesome primary source of food but we may also have one meal a day from another source to break up the taste and texture a bit.
But for now, thanks again and good on you, are you on track for its release any time soon? I'd be pretty interested to hook up a supply for some missions around and about so please keep me posted on where and when we can purchase the goods!”.
Sean Boz - Kimberley Expedition.