Mountain House Beef review

[xtriggerman]

  Recently, I freshened up my survival stash with the 30 year Mountain House #10 cans of Ground Beef.  One can has 28.12 oz of freeze dried beef. That requires 14 cups of boiling water to reconstitute it.  Yesterday, we tested it out buy fixing half a can into spaghetti sauce. By its self, it finishes into tiny 1/4 inch mini course meat balls and I would rate their flavor at a good 90 percent of fresh ground beef. And thats probably because there is no visible fat any where to be seen or tasted while making this eatable. After adding some fried onions and a dash of salt & pepper, this is as good as any lean premium ground beef you can buy aside from the size difference in kernels.
  This runs $54 (cheapest) a can at Sportsmans Guide as long as you give them a $9.99 3 month membership and free shipping deal.  This stuff is still not unobtainium but goes out of stock regularly.  Next on my hit list will be the cubed chicken when it becomes available.  If any of you guys don't have a good stash of long term food REAL meat is mostly found at Mountain house while Wise food is imitation meats in their products and rated for 25 years.  I can't profess the absolute necessity of long term storage foods. Crazy how folks throw thousands of dollars away annually on auto & home owners that turns to less than dust every 12 months, yet have little to nothing on long term food that can be eaten and rotated out!  I guess the lowest figuring denominator is any one who is scared enough to pay 2 or 3 times more for ammo today may think with that, they could all ways take some one else's food. Dont be that guy!

    https://www.sportsmansguide.com/productlist?k=mountain%20house

   

[Toad]

Here's my review. It's wannabe dog food the dogs, dog worms, raccoons and maggots won't even eat. If you want to buy dried beef, you can get it by the bucket for .99cents at WalMarx. Free with a WIC card.

[xtriggerman]

  Am I that far off?  OK, checked for any one on UT for a review and bingo, another Spaghetti review.  I think their taste buds run pretty similar to mine so despite the fact that they sell the stuff along with other brands, I dont see any nebulous fluff in this review since its a been there, done that.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T0UnX7TAMw

[Toad]

I'm to the point I'm giving up on prepper food. As it got popular, the quality tanked over the years. The preservative amounts are scaring me.

[xtriggerman]

I'm to the point I'm giving up on prepper food. As it got popular, the quality tanked over the years. The preservative amounts are scaring me.

  It used to be just hammer the product with sodium and few few other minor preservatives and bingo, bacteria turns its nose up at it for a while. yuck. In the case of this beef, it has Beef, rosemary, and salt as its only ingredients.  1/2 cup serving has 15g fat, 6g saturated fat, 70mg cholesterol, 470mg sodium, 20g protein, 2mg iron, 191mg potassium.
 The cost is simply because Freeze drying is the most expensive and best way to preserve food. MRE's are shelf stable for only a few years since the water is left inside and only irradiated to flash kill any bacteria.  As you can see in this vid, Mountain House spent some huge dollars in the freeze dry room!  BTW, I had some of our spaghetti sauce on elbows last night.... Excellent!
   You clearly get what you pay for in this instance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNXat2MbN_M

   

[Filroy77]

Back when I was much younger and did a lot of back packing. I used only mountain house because it was good. Glad to hear the beef is good. May invest. Never hurts to have things like that on hand. A lot of the freeze dried stuff has no meat so this could be additive for sure.

[xtriggerman]

We made up the other half of the beef tonight since you need to reconstitute it within 1 week after opening a can. I weighed the dry (half can) 14.6 oz beef after the water freshened it up, drained, it comes out to just a hair under 6 lbs of ground beef ready to eat out of the full 28.12 oz dry #10 can. Thats $8.83 a pound for extra lean grade that is good for a 30 year rating. Not bad at all really. 

[Toad]

I'm a little late to the show. Check out dried beef at your grocer. It looks like a jar of salami...with a shelf life, that of the half life of Chernobyl. Dried beef, salt, inna sealed jar. This was depression era food. Anyone USMC Viet-Nam remember Marine Chipped Beef (Sh!t onna shingle)? Same stuff. It's protein and salt. Dumb-as-it-comes, circa 1400 sailor food. Mix it up with potatoes and white sauce. Dinner of a generation. No NASA vacuum packs needed. Just food in a jar that lasts forever.

[retcolusa]

I'm a little late to the show. Check out dried beef at your grocer. It looks like a jar of salami...with a shelf life, that of the half life of Chernobyl. Dried beef, salt, inna sealed jar. This was depression era food. Anyone USMC Viet-Nam remember Marine Chipped Beef (Sh!t onna shingle)? Same stuff. It's protein and salt. Dumb-as-it-comes, circa 1400 sailor food. Mix it up with potatoes and white sauce. Dinner of a generation. No NASA vacuum packs needed. Just food in a jar that lasts forever.

Now you've gone and done it, Toad.  Been retired for 28 years, but your post made me crave SOS.  Now I got to go find some or get a good recipe.  Geez!

[Workingzombie]

I bought some freeze-dried food, but I am dismayed by the meager calories they provide. Like 300 calories per packet. I don't know how outdoor folk live off this stuff hiking in the wilds for several days and burning more cals than they eat. I see them only as a supplement to real food in an emergency.

[Toad]

I'm a little late to the show. Check out dried beef at your grocer. It looks like a jar of salami...with a shelf life, that of the half life of Chernobyl. Dried beef, salt, inna sealed jar. This was depression era food. Anyone USMC Viet-Nam remember Marine Chipped Beef (Sh!t onna shingle)? Same stuff. It's protein and salt. Dumb-as-it-comes, circa 1400 sailor food. Mix it up with potatoes and white sauce. Dinner of a generation. No NASA vacuum packs needed. Just food in a jar that lasts forever.

Now you've gone and done it, Toad.  Been retired for 28 years, but your post made me crave SOS.  Now I got to go find some or get a good recipe.  Geez!

Devil Dog....its a trap! lol