Mountain House Review

Mountain House is an emergency food retailer that sells a variety of ready-to-eat meals and emergency food supplies. Here’s our Mountain House review.

What is Mountain House?

Mountain House is an American company that sells emergency food supplies, freeze dried meals, and ready-to-eat meals. Typically, you just add water and heat up the meals to make them ready to eat.

Mountain House products can be found at retailers all across America, including major retailers like Walmart, Sports Authority, and REI.

While other freeze dried food manufacturers often focus on selling to the “prepper” crowd, Mountain House primarily advertises to the outdoors crowd. The meals are designed to be light enough to take on weekend camping trips.

However, the company does sell larger buckets and kits designed for long-term storage and emergency food supply storage. See a full selection of products below.

Mountain House Products

Mountain House products are broken five different categories, including breakfasts, entrees, desserts, sides & meats, and buckets & kits.

Most meals are priced at around $3 to $4 per serving. You can purchase them in 2.5 serving pouches (typically around $6 to $9) or in 10 serving buckets ($30 to $40).

Each meal listing posted online features cooking instructions along with a full list of ingredients and nutritional facts.

Breakfasts

Popular Mountain House breakfasts include:

— Breakfast Skillets
— Scrambled Eggs With Bacon
— Granola With Milk And Blueberries
— Biscuits And Gravy
— Scrambled Eggs With Ham And Red And Green Peppers

Entrees

Entrees include a diverse range of dishes, including mostly beef and chicken-based dishes:

— Beef Stew
— Beef Stroganoff
— Chicken Teriyaki with Rice
— Chili Mac with Beef

Desserts

Mountain House offers four different types of desserts, including:

— Apple Crisp
— Ice Cream Sandwich
— Neapolitan Ice Cream
— Raspberry Crumble

Sides & Meats

The Sides & meats category includes a variety of items that don’t really fit into the other categories. They include things that you would mix with other meals, including:

— Garden Green Peas
— Fire Roasted Vegetable Blend
— Diced Beef or Ground Beef
— Diced Chicken
— Cottage Cheese
— Cinnamon Apple Slices

Buckets & Kits

The Mountain House buckets and kits are designed to be an emergency food supply. They’re sold in denominations by “day”. Some of the options include:

— Just In Case 2 Day Emergency Food Supply ($39.99)
— Just In Case 3 Day Emergency Food Supply ($59.99)
— Just In Case 4 Day Emergency Food Supply ($79.99)
— Just In Case 5 Day Emergency Food Supply ($99.99)
— Just In Case 14 Day Emergency Food Supply ($250)

There are also 72 hour kits and “Just In Case Essential Assortment Buckets”

Each kit includes all of the meals you need for the listed length of time. There’s a mix of different meals. The 2 day emergency food supply, for example, contains 2 breakfast skillet meals (hash browns and scrambled eggs mixed with pork sausage, peppers, and onions); 2 spaghetti meals with meat sauce (“mouth-watering tomato sauce accompanied by tender pasta and beef chunks); 2 rice and chicken meals (“rice and chicken in a savory sauce accented with pimientos”).

How to Buy Mountain House Products

Mountain House products can be purchased all across America at major retailers like Walmart, REI, and Sports Authority.

To find an authorized Mountain House products retailer in your local area, you can use the form at MountainHouse.com

How to Make Mountain House Meals

Making Mountain House meals is about as easy as you would expect. Most of the meals have the following instructions:

— Step 1) Open package at tear notch, then remove and discard the oxygen absorber.

— Step 2) Carefully add 1 3/4 cups of boiling water.

— Step 3) Stir carefully and close zipper. Optional: After four minutes, stir again.

— Step 4) Let stand 8-9 minutes. Stir and enjoy right out of the pouch.

Who Makes Mountain House Meals?

Mountain House is a division of a company called OFD Foods, Inc.

That company is based in Albany, Oregon at the following address:

You can contact the company by phone at (541) 926-6001 or by email at [email protected]