Customer Reviews for Mountain House 72-Hour Emergency Meal Kit

Mountain House 72-Hour Emergency Meal Kit

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Description of Mountain House 72-Hour Emergency Meal Kit

Features: A complete 72-hour emergency meal kit that contains 3 full meals per day. Just add water. 1 adult serving size. 7 year shelf life. Breakfast & Vegetables: Granola with Blueberries and Milk. Scrambled Eggs with Bacon. Scrambled Eggs with Ham & Peppers. Garden Green Peas. Whole Kernal Corn. Cut Green Beans. 10 ounce Lunch & Dinner Entrees: Beef Stroganoff. Chicken Teriyaki. Chili Mac with Beef. Rice and Chicken. Pasta Primavera. Sweet and Sour Pork with Rice.

Ideal for keeping on hand in the event of emergencies, power failures, hurricanes, floods, and other unexpected events, this 72-hour Emergency Meal Kit from Mountain House provides hearty meals that are easy to prepare under challenging circumstances. The kit includes three breakfasts, three side vegetables, and six 10-ounce packets of lunch or dinner entrees. Featuring a seven-year shelf life, all of the meals can be easily prepared by adding water.

Kit Contents:

Granola with blueberries and milk
Scrambled eggs with Bacon
Scrambled eggs with ham and peppers
Garden green peas
Whole kernel corn
Cut green beans
Beef stroganoff
Chicken teriyaki
Chili mac with beef
Rice and chicken
Pasta primavera
Sweet and sour pork with rice

About Mountain House Freeze-Dried Foods
Mountain House creates their line of freeze dried foods by cooking fresh or frozen foods and then freeze drying them. All the goodness, flavor, and taste are locked in just if you had hand-made them yourself from scratch. Mountain House foods taste as close to fresh, frozen, or better, as you can get. Backpackers consistently rate Mountain House as one of the best tasting freeze dried food brands and praise their ease of preparation.

Sports reviews of Mountain House 72-Hour Emergency Meal Kit

Customer Review: Almost perfect
Sport shop rating: 4 Stars

Ok, the product is fine as advertised. It's an emergency supply of food for 1 adult for 3 days (remember to have enough water). I like to bring Mountain House packs with me when I go motorcycle camping or backpacking. They're light, easy to pack, and I enjoy them. Sometimes they take the role of "just in case" food, and sometimes they serve as a planned meal. The chili mac with beef is a personal favorite, as is the beef stroganoff. I'm not particularly fond of beef stroganoff usually, but there's something about a savory meal when camping. Mountain House meals typically taste better than many of the freeze-dried alternatives.

So why did I say "almost perfect?" Well, I'd prefer it if they sold this kit with the 2-serving packets. I'm usually moto-camping or backpacking with someone. It's super-convenient to have one package for two people. Less waste. On the plus side, it's not 5-serving packages like some other emergency kits. Since it's advertised for one person, this is expected.

Second, the vegetable packs (which are 2-serving packs, though I'm guessing are intended for a single person) are a waste for a home emergency kit. Get canned vegetables instead. The vegetable packs are great for backpacking, as they will help keep your digestive system happy. They don't come out quite as good as canned vegetables, but they're much lighter.

If you are debating between this and MREs, there's a few things to consider:
1) Personally, I think MREs don't taste as good as Mountain House meals
2) MREs don't require a stove and fuel (MRE heating packs)
3) MREs don't require additional water (true of canned foods, too)

I do have MREs occasionally for moto-camping, but not for backpacking, as I prefer the Mountain House meals.

Customer Review: Good but consider carefully
Sport shop rating: 4 Stars

Mountain House has been around a long, long time. They have put a lot of effort into improving their product over the years and the current food is really very tasty considering it is freeze-dried. All of the entrees we've tried have been very good. (Although of course we haven't tried them all and there may be some that barely resemble food. Like anything else, personal taste will be the deciding factor. Adding some spices, hot sauce, etc. to your stash will make a world of difference. ) And the seven year shelf life is nice. The only caveat is that as with any pre-packaged "kit" you cannot simply take their word for how long something is supposed to last, or for how many people. You have to look at the number of calories and do the math and decide for yourself how much you will want or need. Will this keep you from starving? Sure. But if you have the foresight to "be prepared" surely you can plan to do better than just not "starving." And consider that in many of the scenarios where you might really need this food, increased physical activity and the greatly increased calorie requirements that brings might be the order of the day. We have five day's worth of MH food for three people, but we did it by doing the calculations and deciding how much we needed/wanted. And it's a much bigger pile than what this package might lead you to believe is sufficient. Lastly, in addition to adequate drinking water, don't forget the water needed to prepare the food (and although not strictly required, a way to heat the water is a huge plus.)

Customer Review: Good food
Sport shop rating: 4 Stars

I'd give it five stars but they sent 3 granola with blueberries and milk instead of one granola, one eggs/bacon and one eggs/ham. As it turns out, the granola is really tasty so I wouldn't mind three days of it. But they need to update the contents or inform that substitutions may be made.

Each entree has been good to great, in my opinion. The advantage of 5-7 years shelf life and lighter weight vs canned foods has to be weighed by each individual. I opted for both to give me somewhat longer than 72 hours before getting into larger cans of freeze dried foods, and to give me a lot of variety over a short period.

Customer Review: Exactly what I expected
Sport shop rating: 4 Stars

This product delivers as advertised. The packets pack small and light for my emergency supply bag and provide nice variety. Pretty much the only way to improve this is to include Beef stew. That's probably my favorite Mountain House product and is conspicuously absent here.