| Years ago Mom and or Grandma had a food cellar | | | | with beef, rice and chicken, pasta primavera, and |
| where they stocked up on food just in case of | | | | sweet and sour pork with rice. All this emergency |
| an emergency. This custom has virtually | | | | survival food can be prepared easily in challenging |
| disappeared from the American lifestyle. Thus the | | | | circumstances by adding water, and have a seven |
| advent of emergency food rations, freeze dried | | | | year shelf life. Satisfied customer Christopher |
| foods. You never know when you might | | | | Coakley of Santa Barbara, California said, |
| experience an emergency. With the recent | | | | "Mountain House meals typically taste better than |
| horrendous snow storms on the east coast, and | | | | many of the freeze-dried alternatives." My son |
| the severe weather on the west coast, it is | | | | agrees with Mr. Coakley, and takes them on |
| smart to be prepared. The Mountain House | | | | motorcycle trips because they are also so easy |
| 72-Hour Emergency Meal Kit is the perfect | | | | to pack. |
| answer with meals for three days for one adult, | | | | The Mountain House food for emergencies are |
| and you will rest easy knowing you or your family | | | | preserved because greatly reduced amount of |
| are ready in case of hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, | | | | water halts microorganisms and enzymes that |
| earthquakes, and other events. Some people also | | | | would result in spoiling the food. That allows the |
| take these delicious foods camping and | | | | food to be stored without refrigeration. Satisfied |
| backpacking as they are easy to pack and easy | | | | customer M.O. Gomez of Northern California said, |
| to enjoy. They are ideal when there is a power | | | | "The food is amazingly good. We purchased this |
| outage, as you only have to add water. The | | | | to add to our earthquake preparedness kit, but |
| Mountain House Company cooks fresh or frozen | | | | we tasted the stroganoff before we filed the |
| foods and then freeze dries them so the flavor | | | | rest away. It was surprisingly yummy." The chili |
| and goodness are locked in. Backpackers have | | | | mac with beef is a favorite of my daughter's. |
| said these are the best-tasting freeze dried food | | | | Mountain House has put a lot of thought and care |
| they have ever had. You don't have to add | | | | into their food preparation, and customers |
| anything or cook anything to get a complete meal. | | | | appreciate the taste of these hearty, |
| This Mountain House meal kit includes three | | | | well-balanced meals. I know when camping my |
| breakfasts, three side vegetables, and six 10 | | | | family appreciates a hot meal, and during an ice |
| ounce packets of lunch or dinner entrees, food | | | | storm Maine had the Mountain House foods we |
| enough for an adult for three days. Included are | | | | had collected were doubly appreciated. In my |
| granola with blueberries and milk, scrambled eggs | | | | opinion the foods taste as good as if I had |
| with bacon, scrambled eggs with ham and pepper, | | | | cooked them myself from scratch. I find also that |
| garden green peas, whole kernel corn, cut green | | | | they are very easy to store as they take up little |
| beans, beef stroganoff, chicken teriyaki, chili mac | | | | room. |