Mountain HouseMountain House Chili Mac with Beef & Freeze-Dried Food for Camping, 10 Servings, 30-Year Shelf-Life

Great product. Easy to prepare. Good flavor and will feed six hungry guys camping. Would recommend.

After trying other companies products, I can honestly say Mountain House is the absolute best tasting emergency supply food I’ve ever had! They have a lot of gluten free options which the other companies do not. Hands down the best!

This is my favorite dehydrated chilli of the few I have tested. I opened the can and used over a couple weeks with no issue. I did leave the dry packet in the can and keep the plastic cover on it. The fact that a plastic cover comes with the can implies this product can be opened and revealed for future use. No idea how long an open can will last but a couple weeks was not an issue.Making smaller meals from the can was not difficult. I boiled the same amount of water as the size of the mix. I did 1 cup of mix and added 1 cup of boiling water. I sealed in a bowl using tin foil and it came out perfect.Recommend the can if you can get it cheaper than the pouch. Note the pouch is two servings and the can is 10 servings or equivalent to 5 pouches.

I was pleased at the flavor, taste better than say a name-brand can spaghetti. I was expecting regular length spaghetti pasta but it's all about 1 inch length. SO don't expect to twirl it on a fork. I used a spoon as I ate it. The dehydrated tomatoes were very tasty. I would buy this again because of the good flavor.

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.

This diced chicken is an affordable supplement to family groceries. It is on my shelves to help in case of winter storms, wildfire, or store shortages. You can add it to stews and soups and chili. Try it!

On my 3rd can dogs love it. I sprinkle it on their food as they are picky eaters and wow they eat now! Great product!

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.