Mountain House Breakfast Skillet | Freeze Dried Backpacking & Camping Food | 2 Servings | Gluten-Free

When I was in college, I, “accidentally” found my way into an old Cold War bomb shelter. There were lots of freeze dried meals, so I liberated a few, being a poor college student. After eating a couple of them, I decided that it would actually be better to die in a nuclear holocaust than to have to survive on those things.fast forward to 2025. I’ve tried a whole bunch of camping meals by many different manufacturers and they all have left me wanting for a variety of reasons. Either the food was bland or it was just disgusting or the packaging was bad. I heard that this brand was supposed to be really good. A friend of mine who is a nurse sent me a text message one night saying that she was hungry but the cafeteria was closed and nobody would deliver food that late. I sent her four of these meals, all different, and suggested that she keep one in her bag and one in her car for just such an occasion. She told me that they were delicious. I bought a bunch of them for myself and I have to agree. These meals are wayyyyy better than anything I’ve ever tried. They have great flavor, great texture and are substantial in size. The packaging is awesome. It is thick, heavy material with a zip lock that really holds in the moisture. This is important for two reasons. I add the hot water, seal the bag and let it sit for five minutes and then I turn it over upside down for another five minutes so that the remaining water drains down to the top of the bag and hydrates everything up there. I have yet to have a single drop leak out. Really a great value for the money at 10 bucks. I keep them around for those situations where I’m working at 2 o’clock in the morning and I am really hungry, but don’t want to take the time to make food. I can get a great meal in 10 minutes.

Easy to prepare, great taste, perfect for camping trips! This pouch is definitely not two servings though, my 120 lbs of self can easily eat the whole thing for breakfast. Please prepare enough portion for yourself.

Tastes pretty good for being a dehydrated meal. Kind of like gourmet jail food. It’s great for camping. I bought the 2 serving one, but I split the amount in half and used the 2nd half the next day. It says to cook in the package, but I just used a pot with lid. It is pretty expensive for one or two meals. But when you need protein and are tired of protein bars, it does the job.

Good clean ingredients and great taste! Would recommend taking some tortillas with you on your backpacking trip to make this meal even better. We looked at cheaper options from other companies but they used junk ingredients. I am so glad we chose this brand!

Easy and fast to prepare, makes enough food for two people, and is fairly good tasting. My one gripe is that while all of the other components got rehydrated properly, the pork bits were a bit tough and chewy.

wonderful breakfast! Because of the potatoes, it isn't that watery egg FD meal. My favorite these days.

The meal consisted of a good amount of eggs, with some peppers, sausage bits, and shreds of potato. Since it is a freeze-dried meal once everything reconstituted it became kind of mushy. It did not affect taste but people who are sensitive to texture should keep that in mind.Aside from that the meal reconstituted fine and I did not have any crunchy bits in my meal. However, the taste of the meal itself was lackluster. It was not bad, but was not good either. It tasted quite flat and plain. It would probably be much better with some black pepper, salt and hot sauce. I would suggest adding some sort of bread to eat with this meal (tortillas, toast, etc.). Overall it wasn't spectacular but it was edible. Would highly recommend the before mentioned modifications I listed if you decide to purchase this meal.One last thing, as with most Mountain House meals add slightly less water than it calls for and let it sit for 5ish extra minutes as well for better taste.

Thus is my first Mountain House purchase. I am gluten free and was pleasantly surprised. I like this one!! I will absolutely buy this again.