Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

When I go offroading/tent camping, I usually bring an ice chest with real food, but one of my friends always brings Mountain House freeze dried food and gives very high ratings for it. So I bought the "classic assortment bucket" just to try out. The meals taste as good as Hamburger Helper with fresh ground beef. The seasoning is spot on and the sodium content fits with the typical American diet which tastes good and helps you retain water. This is good in a survival situation. It's bad for people with heart failure, but it's really good for healthy people that are starving and have limited water supplies. Skeptical that I know what I'm talking about? I'm a molecular biologist and a board certified sub-specialist medical doctor trained at University of Washington, UC Irvine and Stanford (you can Google me). The "per serving" numbers are rubbish. It says each packet is ~2.5 servings of food at ~220 calories each. Think of it this way: 3 square meals means eating 1 bag for breakfast lunch and dinner each day, so the 12 packets in this bucket is 4 days worth of food. That will provide you with 1700 calories per day, of which 19.2% comes from protein, 25.6% from fat and 55.2% from carbohydrate. This is also pretty much ideal in a survival situation. With that said, if you are the typical mild to moderately overweight American, I would recommend eating half of that amount each day, "just in case," so that you don't starve after eating all your rations. The bucket has 6,800 calories total of which 1,795 are from fat. In my opinion, this is a HIGHLY recommended product.