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Going backpacking for 4 days with my boys (who hate veggies, including onions). What are the best Mountain House meals, in your opinion?
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Spaghetti with meat sauce, and beef Stroganoff IMO. Not a lot of calories in there so if you can supplement with a little nalgene bottle of olive oil, that's the way to go.
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Beef stroganoff and chili (depending on your definition of veggies).
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I like the chili mac - can always take a block or two of cheese to cut up in it too!
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Lasagna, chicken breast and mashed potatoes, and chicken a la king. Best breakfast is their granola with blueberries and milk.
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Yep, if you eat the chili mac you'll be cuttin the cheese all right...
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Beef stew, spaghetti, chili mac, chicken teriyaki.
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Best and Mountain House, isn't that an oxymoron?:)
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Lasagne, or sweet & sour pork
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totally a personal thing as to bests... like any food.
Wife goes for chicken and rice. None of them bother me. But then again most MREs don't bother me either.
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sweet and sour chicken and the scrambled eggs with bacon! 
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They simply get the job done so this year I went by most calories. Mac and cheese at the top with 960, taking some chicken in foil to go with those.
Next is Chicken ala King at 840, boosted by a side of Idahoan instant potatoes (400).
Sweet and sour pork is 725. Taters also.
After that chicken fried rice and beef strogonof at 650 and the others at 575. Beef stew is only 475, no wonder I lost so much weight those trips.
I take olive oil for calories and southwest spice for zest too. That meal before getting in the sack is important after chasing around the hills all day.
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Chili Mac. I've crumbled saltines on top of some of the mountain house meals to add some calories.
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Beef Stroganoff, Lasagna, Spaghetti in Meat Sauce, Chili Mac.
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Chili Mac, Spaghetti in Meat Sauce, Lasagna...
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There are other brands out there. Are you deliberately limiting it to Mountain House?
If so, Beef Stroganoff and Lasagna are the two I tolerate the best.
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There are other brands out there. Are you deliberately limiting it to Mountain House?
If so, Beef Stroganoff and Lasagna are the two I tolerate the best. Thanks everyone for the input. Mountain House is the only brand I see in the stores here, which is why I asked about that brand. I'm taking some fishing gear, so I hope to supplement with some fresh Brook Trout.
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I would be interested in suggestions for brands that are better than Mountain House.... I order most stuff online anyway.
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I've had good luck with Alpine Aire and Backpacker's Pantry. IMO/E no one brand is better than the other. I've had good luck just getting what sounds good and going with it. I do make sure to look at the prep instructions. I don't like the ones where you have to hydrate this, pull it out, then do this one, and mix them together.
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