During the big Covid run on food and stuff, of all things Idaho could run out of, I couldn't find taters in the store for a while. So as part of my preps of stocking extra pantry items during the craziness, I picked up a box of Hungry Jack powdered mashed potatoes at Costco. Eight individual 4 serving (or 2 Ben servings) packets per box. I never ended up using them as the grocery stores got back to normal. I was just going through the pantry this week and saw the box with the "best by" date some months past, so decided to give them a go and use them up.
I was very pleasantly surprised. For reconstituted potatoes ,they are very good. Boil two cups of water, add it to the powder, stir 30 seconds and you're done. With a little butter and some Johnny's garlic seasoning, they are as good as any mashed potatoes I have eaten in a restaurant (where they probably do reconstituted potatoes anyway). While I still prefer my own mashed potatoes, as a backup food supply, these are tastier than most. I'm going to try and find some more to stick in the pantry.