Several years ago, I read about
Andrew Skurka's rice & beans with corn chips & cheese
hiker meal, and, after finding a sample package of
dehydrated refried beans,
needed some corn chips to try the recipe.
Fritos brand are silly expensive, so instead, I bought the ultra cheap Clover Valley brand (Dollar General's house brand).
I tried to buy the regular (non "chili") flavor, however it was not in stock.
Front of package (left), and Ingredients & Nutrition info (right):
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Contents:
These were hyper processed fake food, as expected.
The "chili" flavor was not spicy, and there was no noticeable "cheese" flavor (IMO).
I did eat some straight from the bag, all by themselves, and they were tasty albeit very strongly artificial tasting.
I resisted having more than a sample, and mostly ate these as part of the Skurka meal. :)
If bought on a Saturday, with Dollar General's "$5 off $25" coupon,
these cost $0.80 and have 1280 calories (per pouch), so their cost per calorie-day
is $1.25 which is very frugal.
There is (most definitely) no noteworthy nutritional perk.