Watch this before you buy Mountain House or ReadyWise freeze dried food!

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Freeze dried food is probably the most popular meal option for serious backpackers and preppers for several reasons. It’s light, nutritious, and easy to prepare. What (if any) place should freeze dried food fill in someone's emergency preparation plan?

In this episode Rusty and Chris cover the benefits of including freeze dried meals in your bug out / prep plan and they taste test two of the most popular commercial options: Mountain House and ReadyWise.

Fifty pound buckets of wheat and a freezer full of meat won’t do you much good if you have to hit the road or the trail. This is where freeze dried food comes in. Including freeze dried meals in your 72-hour kits, go bags, or bug out bags SHOULD save you weight, work, and frustration. Part of the E2E team’s evaluation considers these factors in addition to simply what tastes better between the two compared options. [In case you’re interested, the Mountain House packets used in this video are six years old.]

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0:00:00 Intro + Explanation of Freeze Dried Food
0:02:36 Meal Prep
0:04:45 Taste Test
0:13:04 Verdict
0:14:58 Bonus Content

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[EquipEndure]

Have you actually tried the food you bought for your storage? If not, you might want to soon.
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[dsg]

I drive a tractor trailer and always have mountain house food in my truck. Not all truck stops have food 24 hours or I get stuck someplace without food. I have a single burner MSR and water. Always have a decent meal.

[matthoward]

I love how that veteran is so honest. No bullshit.

[ParamedTX]

I lived off my Mountain House stash during the grid collapse here in Texas last week. I also used my stash to feed my guys at my EMS station due to all our local restaurants being closed. Not a complaint was heard.

[calebtolliver]

I used to sell readywise. When talking to the rep from the company, they told us that there regular line was focused on pure survival first and flavor second. The directions have you put extra water in them solely to up your water intake during times of emergency. The Readywise camping line is better then the bulk emergency line as far as flavor goes, most people don't realize they are different from the bulk meals. I would however agree that Mountain House is better on flavor. Mountain House and Readywise started by targeting two different markets. One focused on campers and hikers, while the other was more prepper and emergency focused.

[hawaiivolcanosquad]

If you were in a long term calorie deficit, where foraging from the forest was your only food source, even ready wise would taste good. That said, I prefer MH too.

[thedeaderer]

That's cuz mountain house needs their food to be good cuz hikers use it. Readywise doesn't expect u to actually eat it

[TR-Mead]

Mountain House came in almost all of the arctic MRE's (cold weather - white ones) I had in Afghanistan and they were AMAZING, so good sometimes I bypassed regular chow to eat those MRE's since we had tons where I was at way up in the mountains. Needless to say, I have been a Mountain House devotee ever since.

[MountainHouseMeals]

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[redbeard]

Used to work security in remote locations, always kept 2 or 3 mountain house meals in my pack in case I was stuck doing double shifts. I worked out of a truck and I eventually found I could just add water to the bag, seal it up, and leave on the dash with the heater blowing to warm it up. Worked better during winter when the heater was going anyway. I used to leave it 30 minutes on one side, flip it and leave it another 30. Was always nice and hot.

[kurtismeinhardt]

Look at the amount of actual meat in Mountain House vs others. That explains the price difference. It’s a big investment, but it’s food. It will be eaten eventually! It also makes it way easier to get my wife out in the backcountry knowing we have a yummy meal on hand.

[billt]

Remember. If you’re not always prepared, you’re never prepared. Keep the new content comin’

[Badger]

Two things I've learned from trying a few different brands: Don't use as much water as the instructions say (or you end up with soup, like the ReadyWise did here), and let it rehydrate a while longer before opening up to eat. Usually use about 75 - 90% of the water, and add about 25 -35% more time to rehydrate. The less water to avoid soup, the longer hydrate time to make sure the water has a chance to rehydrate everything (or you end up with crunchy food that's not supposed to be crunchy).

[kwahwah]

Mountain House Chicken with Mashed Potatoes - 2 Servings& Mountain House Beef Stew

These are my go to freeze dried meals

[lazy_OS]

I asked Ready Wise about this review - here is the response I received: They didn’t compare apples to apples. They used Mountain House camping meals, but did not use our camping meals. We have camping backpacking meals that are prepared in the pouch just like Mountain house does. It would be nice if they compared apples to apples and such. Our long term food storage (which they used) does need to be prepared in a pan like they showed. There is no doubt Mountain House put out the most expensive product to the marketplace, and they do have a good product. I am not going to dispute that. Our food holds its own in both the Emergency Food market, and the Outdoor/Camping food as well.

[nextleveltosuccessdenisewi]

I’m new to buying freeze dried foods so this was helpful to actually have you prepare and taste it. I’ve seen both brands and now I know which ones I will purchase. Thanks

[AZDesertExplorer]

With mountain house, I use the exact amount of water, but double the wait time, stir & again double the wait time. Then I let it sit unsealed for 5 min before digging in. Absolutely perfect every time. My go to adventure meals.

[NMWanderings]

I've been backpacking for 55 years, usually preferred Mountain House to the alternatives. Used to love the Turkey Tetrazinie, especially since it came in a very light aluminum bowl that I could reuse for those other meals that didn't cook in the bag. Always expensive, but worth it for the light weight if backpacking. For emergency use though, where that is not so important, I have a box of MRE's. Newer ones even self-heat, and contain other useful items; seasoning, cookie, drink mix, coffee & creamer, sugar, toilet paper, matches, etc.

[shelpippg]

I tested out a few dishes from MH during the Texas freeze, and they were all great. Despite the circumstances, I was excited to test out some of my emergency food. Cooking on a tiny Sterno stove and canned heat in my garage was my go-to, and these meals were awesome. They were SO easy, and there was more in that little pack than we thought. I have Saratoga Farms, Augason Farms, and MH, and MH will be my staple. I’ve bought much more since the freeze, and I’ll continue to buy more. Great products. Great reviews.

[mattdiehl]

This was one of the better reviews I've stumbled across, genuine and informative responses. Loved the kid's reaction too! Thanks for the great content, subscribed!