Mountain HouseGround Beef #10 Can | Freeze Dried Survival & Emergency Food | Gluten-Free | 22 Servings

This cooks-up nice for UL backpacking. Trick is to pre-soak with a little good oil (olive). 15-min pre-soak with olive-oil and it's better than fresh hamburger. Doesn't require perfect heat nor long cooking time (it's pre-cooked and tastes pre-seasoned). Using only a half-oz of alcohol-fuel, quarter-oz of olive-oil, 2oz of this freeze-dried, heat and water to get delicious 8oz hamburger meal. It's the most efficient, light carry-weight, delicious meal on trail.One can lasts a few weeks (14 meals) if one happens to be thru-hiking.

I use Mountain House cooked ground beef to add into many foods - like soups and casseroles to make them better. It tastes great and adds flavor to whatever you put it into. It’s spendy, but it goes a long way. One can last me almost a year. I keep the open can in the freezer to keep it fresh. I bought two, so when I open the second can, it’s time to order more again. I think it’s cost effective since there's so much ground beef in a can. I recommend it…

This tastes great for cooking on the go, and the weight of the product once it’s rehydrated you get your moneys worth

Survival food is the correct category for this product. It does NOT suck, and there is "decent" beef flavor to it. In simple terms - it beats heck out of chewing on leaves and grubs when in a pinch.

Bottom line up front: This type of food is a great choice for an emergency food supply, especially for sheltering in place or evacuating by vehicle. The #10 cans have a 25-year shelf life, so you can buy them and not worry about rotating your stock for a couple of decades. The biggest downside is that once opened, they need to be used up right away.SHELF LIFE - The #10 cans have a 25-year shelf life (unopened). The biggest downside to #10 cans versus individual pouches is that the 25-year shelf life turns into a 1-week shelf life once they've been opened. Since each can has enough for 10 servings, you'll be eating the same thing for several meals unless you're cooking for a group.TASTE - In my experience, Mountain House food is really tasty. Let me caveat this review by saying that although I've eaten other Mountain House freeze-dried food, I haven't had occasion to open the ones in the #10 cans (see my review of the "Mountain House 72-Hour Emergency Meal Kit"). That having been said, the Mountain House food I have tried has been very, very good tasting -- not just good compared to other survival foods, but good period. I have no reason to expect that these would be any different.WEIGHT/CONVENIENCE - As steel cans, they're reasonably durable and reasonably lightweight (not backpacking light, but you don't have to be a weightlifter to move a large box of them). They do take up a bit of volume, but since the overwhelming majority of long-term emergency scenarios involve sheltering in place or evacuating by vehicle, I wouldn't let that be a deal breaker (personnally, I have a stock of individual pouches just in case I have to leave on foot, but most of my food is in these cans).CALORIES - The problem with most freeze-dried emergency food is that a so-called "serving" has too few calories to meet an adult's energy requirements (2500 a day for men; 2000 a day for women -- more with heavy exertion), so you end up consuming more than you planned. These are no different. So even though a typical can ostensibly contains 10 1-cup servings, you really need to eat two servings per meal to get enough calories to survive -- perhaps more. Plan your purchase accordingly.

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Good taste. On the can it says to consume within one week. I took almost one year to eat all of it, stored it at room temperature and it was still good.

Love mountain house freeze dried food. Always top quality and great for camping or prepping! Highly recommend this product. We have all of their different choices of meals.