{"product_id":"mountain-house-14-day-emergency-meal-kit","title":"Mountain House 14-Day Emergency Meal Kit","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMountain House 14-Day Meal Kit\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe Mountain House 14-Day Meal Kit is built to keep one adult fed for two weeks without a grocery run: 42 pouches, 84 total servings, and eight meal varieties that only need boiling water and about ten minutes to become dinner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Freeze-Drying Program Built for Long Hauls\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eMountain House grew out of Oregon Freeze Dry, which opened its first large-scale freeze-drying plant in Albany, Oregon in 1964. By 1966 the company was supplying freeze-dried rations to the U.S. Armed Forces during the Vietnam War, and it held a multimillion-dollar military contract within the year that followed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eIts freeze-drying line also fed NASA's astronauts through the Apollo program. In 1969, Oregon Freeze Dry partnered with REI to sell that same technology to civilians as Mountain House. The military brief was never about a single meal. It was about food that could sit in a supply chain for months and still be good when it finally reached someone, which is the same problem a 14-day kit is solving on a shelf at home instead of a depot overseas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat's in the Box\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe 14-Day kit holds 42 pouches across eight meals: six each of Beef Stroganoff with Noodles, Fettuccine Alfredo with Chicken, and Creamy Macaroni \u0026amp; Cheese; five each of Breakfast Skillet, Granola with Milk \u0026amp; Blueberries, Beef Lasagna, and Chili Mac with Beef; and four of Biscuits \u0026amp; Gravy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eEvery pouch holds two servings and doubles as the cooking and eating vessel. Add boiling water, reseal, wait about ten minutes, and eat straight from the bag. The full kit calls for about 56 cups of water total, close to 3.5 gallons, which is worth factoring in alongside whatever water storage plan goes with it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eIndividual servings run 220 to 410 calories depending on the meal, and the kit averages roughly 1,700 calories a day across the full 14 days for one person. None of the meals contain artificial flavors, and the Breakfast Skillet is gluten-free. The full box weighs 15.62 pounds, measures about 20 by 12.5 by 15.75 inches, and carries Mountain House's 30-Year Taste Guarantee.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBuilt for Staying Put, Not Bugging Out\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis is a shelter-in-place kit more than a grab-and-go one. At over 15 pounds, it isn't built for a bug-out bag; it's built for a closet, a basement, or a pantry shelf, where it can wait out the kind of event that shuts down grocery stores for longer than three days: a hurricane, an earthquake, an extended power or water outage. Eight meal varieties instead of two or three matters more than it sounds like it would. P\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003ereparedness planners point to menu fatigue as a real problem in a multi-day event, and rotating through different dinners for two weeks straight is easier to stick with than eating the same pouch on day nine that you ate on day two. Households scale it by buying one kit per adult; two kits cover two people for the same two weeks. Bought this way, per-serving cost runs below buying the same number of individual Mountain House pouches one at a time, which adds up when the plan covers more than one person.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eQuick Specs\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e42 pouches, 84 total servings, about two weeks of meals for one adult\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEight varieties: Beef Stroganoff with Noodles, Fettuccine Alfredo with Chicken, Creamy Macaroni \u0026amp; Cheese, Breakfast Skillet, Granola with Milk \u0026amp; Blueberries, Beef Lasagna, Chili Mac with Beef, Biscuits \u0026amp; Gravy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJust-add-boiling-water preparation, ready in about 10 minutes, eat straight from the pouch\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRoughly 1,700 calories a day across the full kit; 220 to 410 calories per serving\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNo artificial flavors; Breakfast Skillet is gluten-free\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e30-Year Taste Guarantee from Mountain House\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNet weight 15.62 lbs; box measures approximately 20\" x 12.5\" x 15.75\"; needs about 56 cups (3.5 gallons) of water total\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Americana Pipedream Apparel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50492238561521,"sku":"50492238561521","price":464.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0564\/7043\/8085\/files\/14-day-emergency-food-kit-main-with-pouches_1b9504fc-6a68-4f8f-ac0c-ad9e03dd3e82.webp?v=1790190042","url":"https:\/\/www.americanapipedream.com\/products\/mountain-house-14-day-emergency-meal-kit","provider":"Americana Pipedream Apparel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}