Mountain House has long been recognized as a reliable provider of freeze dried foods to the military, outdoor enthusiasts and emergency preparedness families alike. Their convenient just-add-water meals boast one of the longest shelf lives available – 30 years!
OFD Foods LLC recently announced that they have increased the shelf life of Mountain House freeze dried meals sold in cans and pouches to 30 years, effective immediately for all currently available Mountain House items on shelves. This change applies retroactively.
Longest Shelf Life in the Industry
Mountain House freeze dried food has long been the choice of backpackers, campers, survival experts and the United States Special Forces. Packed in airtight #10 cans with air vents for easy storage, these meals come pre-cooked and need only hot (or cold) water to rehydrate for delicious meals on-the-go.
New independent testing by Oregon State University’s Sensory Science Laboratory has shown that Mountain House freeze dried food products have an extended shelf life than previously verified, lasting 20 percent longer. When rehydrated, they still look and taste fresh compared to most other freeze-dried offerings on the market.
Mountain House freeze dried food offers long shelf lives to provide the security you need when camping, hiking, or stockpiling emergency preparedness kits. Starting in June 2016, all cans and pouches from Mountain House will display this updated information with their “Best Before” dates reflecting this update.
Just Add Water
Mountain House meals differ from other freeze dried food offerings in that they do not require pre-cooking and packaging in mylar pouches; rather they come pre-cooked and freeze dried before being packed in durable food-grade foil and metal cans to give them the longest proven shelf life of any emergency food available today.
Shelf life depends on proper storage conditions and is no guarantee of product quality or taste.
Mountain House freeze dried foods are a reliable solution for car camping excursions to alpine expeditions in remote mountains, offering campers, backpackers and survival experts alike an ideal way to keep food at hand in times of emergency when cooking is simply out of the question. They’re also convenient on busy days when cooking might not be an option.
This offer of two Mountain House entrees comes packaged in an easy to store clear bucket. Plus, an instruction sheet explains how you can extend their 25+ year shelf life for optimal use both at home and while adventuring outdoors! Perfect for taking on camping trips!
No Cooking Required
Mountain House freeze dried food is prepared and then flash-frozen using their state-of-the-art freezer before being placed into a vacuum chamber to extract air and ensure no additional cooking is necessary when reconstituting them – an integral component that separates Mountain House’s freeze dried offerings from other emergency food brands, and allows Mountain House to use real meats like tender chicken, beef, pork and Danish ham instead of cheaper substitutes.
Reconstituted meals resemble their counterparts exactly and do not need to be recooked like other freeze-dried options do.
These lightweight, compact meals are great for backpacking trips or long term storage – perfect for backpacking trips, camping trips or long term storage needs. This Expedition Meal Assortment Bucket contains 15 pouches of just-add-water meals which allow you to store five days’ worth of meals easily in one lightweight bucket!
Tastes Great
Mountain House freeze-dried foods differ from their competitors by not reconstituting into hard to chew powders that lack any visual clues to their original meals, making them truly enjoyable after an exhausting hike. Their chili mac, biscuits and gravy, granola with milk and blueberries and other stew varieties provide satisfying meals without needing additional rehydratation ingredients to be enjoyable.
Mountain House meals can be enjoyed both at home and away; camping trips, RV excursions and emergency food storage applications. In fact, OFD Foods conducted a poll asking hundreds of long term emergency food consumers what expectations they have from their storage food and found that Mountain House’s meals fulfilled them the most effectively than any other brand on the market.
These emergency food supplies come backed with a 30-year taste guarantee, so that when disaster strikes you know they will still taste delicious – comforting to know in an emergency situation!
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