Diced freeze-dried beef, egg noodles, and mushrooms in a sour-cream-and-onion sauce, sealed in a Mylar zip pouch. Add 1.75 cups of boiling water, stir, seal, wait 9 minutes — hot dinner in the bag with no pot to clean. 2 servings, around 590 calories.
The comfort-food pick on a long trail day. Used by AT thru-hikers, Western elk hunters, BWCA paddlers, and anyone who’s eaten enough beef-and-pasta nights to want sour cream and mushrooms instead. Pouches stack flat in a pack and have a tested 30-year shelf life.
Mountain House is freeze-dried in Albany, Oregon by Oregon Freeze Dry — operating since 1963.
