Freeze-Dried Emergency Storage Foods EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS < Back to Mountain House Product List Could you survive a Food Emergency? Emergencies can take many forms, from storms to power outages. Keeping food on hand for emergencies protects you in the same way as insurance on your home or auto - for the unexpected. With Mountain House® freeze dried foods in your food reserve, you can be ready for just about any unexpected crisis. Imagine, for instance, what a lifesaver these foods can be when your electric power is knocked out for several days by a storm. With Mountain House products on hand and a one-burner stove or candle to heat water (cold water can be used in a pinch), you can still enjoy a hot, satisfying meal in less than 10 minutes. Having a private food reserve makes a lot of sense. Good sense for both financial and security reasons. Use pouches for limited short-term emergencies. Use cans for potential extended emergencies, or an emergency situation affecting a lot of people. Simple Food Preparation Our freeze-dried foods are easy to prepare-just add hot water...wait 10 minutes...and eat! If a heat source is not available, room temperature or cold water can be used, too. Because no cooking is needed, these foods require much less water and fuel than most fresh, frozen or dehydrated foods (further conserving these two precious commodities.) 30 Year Shelf-Life Mountain House freeze-dried foods are packed in airtight NITROGEN PACKED #10 cans or pouches. Up to 98% of the residual oxygen has been removed. Our unique canning process uses both vacuum oxygen removal and nitrogen flushing. This is a time consuming and slightly more costly process...but well worth it. It is the same process mandated by the U.S. Military for whom we also can. Our foods will have the longest shelf life available...up to 30 years! We've been around for 35 years so we know first hand. Each of our cans is coated with a protective enamel inside and out for double protection, including the lid. The cans contents are protected until you are ready to open and use them. After opening, we recommend using the contents with 2 to 3 weeks for best results and taste; using the convenient resealable plastic lid between uses. Treat any leftover food as you would fresh food. Taste the Difference! Mountain House® freeze dried foods taste superior to competitive products because we actually start with fresh or frozen foods, then cook and prepare them, and finally freeze-dry them ourselves. All the goodness, flavor, and taste are locked in just if you had hand-made them yourself from scratch. In comparison, other food companies do not freeze-dry or cook their own foods. They blend the dry components of other companies and package them. Mountain House foods tastes as close to fresh, frozen, or better, as you can get. Backpackers, for example, consistently rate us #1 year after year as the best tasting foods and ease of preparation. Why Is Freeze-Dried Best? Freeze-drying provides very unique benefits and advantages over other food processing methods. Frozen foods maintain fresh flavor, but they must be kept frozen. Dehydrated and canned foods are shelf-stable, but their high-temperature processing reduces their flavor, texture, color, and nutrients. Freeze-drying combines the best of these processing methods--it locks in the freshness, color, texture, and aroma of frozen food while providing the shelf-stable convenience of canned or dehydrated food. Freeze-dried foods are the ultimate long term storage solution. Our Quality Control Oregon Freeze Dry, Inc. has a firm policy to produce only high quality food products in the cleanest, most modern food processing plant. Our facilities are USDA and FDA approved and are continuously inspected. We use the highest quality meat, poultry, eggs, fruits and vegetables - NO SUBSTITUTES. Every batch of food we produce is tested, and retested several times by random statistical sampling to insure a premium quality product every time. We don't stop there though. We continued quality control (QC) testing and sampling until the foods are packed for shipment. Even then we're not finished. We pull off random cases from each run for further QC inspection. Afterwards, our QC Department holds each completed canning run until the testing is completed. Only then are our foods ready to leave our facilities. Does all this make a difference? You bet it does. For over 30 years, our reputation for producing the finest freeze-dried foods is unsurpassed. We invite your close inspection. Try some of our premium quality foods for yourself. We believe that you, like thousands of other food storage buyers, will agree that Mountain House offers the best tasting and finest quality foods for long-term storage available today. < Back to Mountain House Product List