650ml Buc Food Bag

Useless, shouldn’t be available for sale

Yet another person chiming in to echo the appalling reviews of this item. While it is lovely that it has been redesigned to stand up on its own, what they don’t mention is it does not stay open on its own. So picture if you will, trying to eat your meal out of a backpacking bag, while using one hand to hold it open. When I reached out to ask if this item had been field tested because the design is so poor that I could not have imagined anyone had actually tried to eat a hot meal out of it on the trail, I was told that they recommend it be used with a cozy. Unfortunately that is not mentioned anywhere here in the description. What’s more, a cozy will not help with the core problem: the bag will not stay open unless it is held open, and if you are eating hot food not only is that awkward, you’re at risk of scalding the hand that is holding the bag open. Then to make it worse, as a customer you’re responsible for return shipping, which to include tracking, costs almost as much as the item itself. Don’t make the same mistake I did. Listen to the bad reviews. Order almost any other brand: OXO, Human Gear, Ziploc Endurable. Do not order this item. It shouldn’t be available for sale for rehydrating hot meals. It’s that bad.

I waited a long time to get these food bags. I’m glad I waited. I love them. I will brag about them to my hiking buddies!

Great for cold soaking

Ordered Litesmith cold soak containers and the these little 2 cup CNOCs for cold soak meals. In the end, the CNOC made the pack-list as the Litesmiths just took up too much volume in our packs when not in use vs. the CNOC that folded flat. The red plastic opening is really stiff to work with a first but mellows out. I gave them to one of my kids to flex for a while while watching YouTube before the trip. The CNOC was a little fussier to clean, but some sand and agitation into the little corners with sea water did the trick. Used them for overnight oats, smoothies and pudding-style deserts. I'm not sure I'd like them for boiling water as it's easy to overfill them and only find out when you fold the seal -which would be bad with boiling water spilling. I'd bring them again.