Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

The Mountain House foods are a cut above the other brands; real food and meals compared to mush or cup a soup for the most part with the other brands. The other brands are rice with a few veggies, or mac n cheese for their big stick to your ribs meal! The other brands don't have enough calories when they have a bucket, usually around 1000 which is great if you want to go on a starvation diet but if you are a adult you should figure 2 buckets per adult and you are going to get sick of the same bland bland bland food. Mountain House foods have a wider assortment of entrees, and one of my favorites is the blueberry granola w/milk which you can eat plain as a snack. They have desserts like cheese cake! Mountain House has lasagna with real meat sauce and if possible the only complaint too much cheese? If someone really does like mac n cheese Mountain House has some too, but it's more of a side. You can buy #10 cans of meat by themselves too as well as vegetables and fruit so you can make your own meals. I ordered beef stew and chicken alfredo as some of our family favorites. I have dried eggs in my cupboard just in case I am baking and I don't have eggs on hand, you can't tell the difference at all. I have dried milk in my cupboard but I buy it by superpail... you can use it to thicken alfredo sauces without calories. A good comparison between Mountain House and Honeyville or Wise would be going to a good sit down restaurant (MH) and a restaurant (HV,W) where all the meat is precooked and just rewarmed where they had the pink slime controversy. I am a cook, bake my own bread so I don't eat out very often at all and couldn't think of buying Wise or Honeyville. My husband would be very hungry and have to eat about 3 servings at a time. I bought Mountain House with him in mind.... Real Food! Very satisfying. Just use HOT water