Mountain House and Health
 

Has anyone ever lived solely on Mountain House foods for an extended period of time?

If so, how good/bad was your health afterwards?

Thanks

Re: Mountain House and Health
 

I don't think Mountain House is intended to live on for extended periods of time. I've read that extended use of MREs without other foods will cause some intestinal distress. The MH stuff seems a bit more wholesome, but I still don't think it has enough fiber for being a good diet.

This is one of the reasons for rotating your emergency stash...so that you can eat it and get accustomed to the flavors and textures and know just what else you have to mix with it to make it O.K. both for your taste buds AND your body.

Re: Mountain House and Health
 

Homeless people can survive for years off the crap that goes into a McDonalds dumspter. MH is survival food. Some of the meals aren't that great tasting, and I don't imagine all that healthy, but if it gets to the point where you need to dig into your freeze dried stash I don't think you'll mind. You can't store a fresh salad for 30 years or bug out with a trunk filled with your garden veggies and a months supply of fish you just caught.

Some people get through life right now on coffee, donuts, fries and cigarettes. They remain reasonably productive (probably they can put in a 12 hour day of moderate work). If they can live for years, even decades, that way, then I feel pretty good about my odds with the Mountain House.

MH probably shouldn't be your entire food plan, but it plays an important role because of how long it lasts and how much of it you can fit into a closet in your house or the back of a car. A year's supply for one person (double the size of what they label as a year's supply) fits in a closet in my basement with room to spare. I bet I could fit half of it in the trunk and back seats of a small car.

Re: Mountain House and Health
 

Ash,

I'm not saying that MH isn't good stuff. We have a small stash of it as well. and what I've eaten of it tastes pretty good, and it will be considered wonderful if TSHTF. As you say though, we all don't want to rely on just one type of food.

In Ruff's book, "How to Prosper in the Coming Hard Times", he says that there are a lot of sources of calories available if the system breaks down, that the problem will be quality of food and nutrition. I don't know if that is correct, but it sounds logical. MH will be a GREAT suppliment to berries and roots and leaves.

It will also be a great thing to have in a natural emergency for a few days or even weeks. I bet a lot of Katrina victims would have liked to have a few cases of it while they were sitting on the tops of their houses hungry.

MH is designed for camping, and it's good stuff for short periods of time. I just don't think it is something you want to eat exclusively. But neither is McDonalds, if the movie "Supersize Me" is any indication.