Mountain House Food

Take the Same Mountain House Food Camping as the Astronauts Took to the Moon

One of the best sources for freeze dried supplies is Mountain House food.

Mountain House has been in business forty years, helping campers, hikers, backpackers, hunters, fishers, mountain climbers, river rafters, white water canoeist, float trippers and other people in the outdoors have nutritious food that won't spoil and is lightweight to carry.

Mountain House Food is Great for Camping and Emergencies

Plus their products are ideal for freeze dried food for disaster kits and emergency preparedness.

They pack their freeze-dried foods in airtight #10 cans or pouches, with nitrogen. They remove up to 98% of the oxygen. Their canning process is unique, and uses vacuum oxygen removal and nitrogen flushing.

This same process is mandated for the U.S. military -- who are also their customers. Their foods  the longest shelf life available -- up to 30 years! They doubly protect each can by coating them with a protective enamel on the inside and out, including the lid. The cans come with a resealable plastic lid to cover them between uses.

Mountain House creates their dried foods by starting with fresh or frozen food, then cook it, then freeze-dry it themselves. Every household should have a 72 hour kit (9 full meals -- 3 per day) per person stored away in their house AND car for each person in the family, to provide freeze dried meals in case it's necessary.

Their backpacking food includes breakfast, entrees, vegetables and desserts. They have 25 varieties of double-entrees.

The Mountain House Pro-Pak is a vacuum sealed pouch with entrees including Beef Stew, Beef Stroganoff, Chicken Teriyaki, Chili Mac w/Beef , Lasagna, Mexican Style Chicken w/Rice, Pasta Primavera, Rice and Chicken, Spaghetti, and Sweet and Sour Pork w/Rice.

Mountain House is a division of Oregon Freeze Dry, Inc which started in the 1960s working with NASA to provide high quality food for the astronauts.

So Mountain House foods are the same as carried along on space missions, except the packaging is different, since backpackers are in a different environment than the shuttle crews. They manufacture space foods for Luvy Duvy Corporation.

Mountain House Foods are Freeze Dried

They also now carry organic fruits -- apples, bananas, strawberries,  sliced strawberries, and sliced bananas.

Freeze drying foods is the optimum way to store them. It preserves the freshness and flavor of the food, yet is as shelf-stable and convenient as canned and dydryated foods.

Besides, with 98% of the water removed, freeze dried camping foods are lightweight, an important factor for everyone who must carry everything they need on their back. Plus, they can be kept at any temperature -- another important consideration for people who are outside with no refrigerator within many miles and subject to all weather conditions and climates. Their packaging keeps them away from water and oxygen, the two main causes of spoilage. This is important to people in rough situations, who may have all their supplies and equipment soaked in a torrential rain, washed down some white water rapids while rafting or fall into a river while fording it.

These kinds of accidents can happen to everybody. You don't want to spend the rest of your outdoors experience "fasting" because the water ruined all the food you brought with you.

All this helps to explain why Mountain House food is a favorite of the outdoors and emergency planners.

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