I like a lot of hot/spicy foods and the Thai Spicy Peanut to me tasted under-spiced so it fell back on the peanut taste. Having said that, I'd rather have had a peanut butter sandwich if I'd craved peanuts all that much.

So far I've liked a good portion of the Backpacker's Pantry meals with the exception of that one.

I agree with the observation about how much water you use in the stroganoff, but would add that the same goes for a couple of their other meals as well. I wonder if that's how it stretches out to the advertised 2 meals. The meals didn't seem to be undercooked in that the noodles or rice hadn't had a chance to absorb enough water for them to be tender, they just seemed soupy. Even so, I can't say that they weren't pretty good overall.

I really like the diversity of Backpacker's Pantry too.