How many mountain house meals?

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I have been lurking and reading everything on here thanks for all the advice on this site. I have one question though on mountain house meals they say they are approx 2 1/2 servings so for a 7 day hunt how many packages do you figure for 1 person per day assuming only one MH at night? I am trying to get my pack weight dialed in and this is the one place I am not sure on and weight is a premium but dont want to go hungry either. Thanks for your help.

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2nd rifle near Pagosa.
 
Depends on you. I'm on the smaller side and I still eat a whole 2.5 serving MH for dinner every night. I eat other stuff throughout the day of course. This fall was the first time in my life I had eaten MH for 8 straight days, and I won't be doing that again. Just gets old.
 
hard to say,

I can eat an entire mountain house chicken and mashed potato dinner in a sitting, at least all the chicken and most of the potato. I would definitely want a few of the bigger meals with me on a 7 day hunt


you have some time why not try a few to get an idea, there are some flavors I don't like
 
I would just plan on one per day if only using them for dinners. Definitely try some first to weed out the ones you can handle and the ones you cant.Lasagna and stroganoff and their biscuits and gravy are my favorites. The pro pak's are nice as they are packed smaller,but are only 2 servings vs. 2-1/2 but still are normally a perfect amount for me and I would say I normally eat a descent amount.
 
I too would tell you to plan for packing 7 or even 8 in as you never know when you might have an extra night or even a tough day of meat hauling and need the extra calories to help your body recover or maintain. Eating just MH for a week can be a tough endeavor just in itself for meals, but as stated previously it can work wonders if you have the ones that you enjoy eating.
 
When you look at the caloric content you will see you need the whole 2.5 serving meal. You need to keep the calories coming or you will fade as the hunt goes on. If you loose a bunch of weight while hunting you are working against yourself.
 
I am 5'6" 159 lbs so I i will plan on 1 per day like I have it packed now. I have lived on MRE's for a couple of weeks in a past life and if I can eat something that smells like Alpo dog food (cold) then MH should be like gourmet food lol. I have tried a couple and they were pretty good in comparison. Thanks for the help.
 
So if y'all are eating MH only for dinner, what are yall eating for breakfast, lunch and snacks?

I will be going on my first backpack hunt next year so I'm just trying to get ideas.
 
For me cliff bar for breakfast, same for lunch with peanut butter crackers, small meat stick with cheese stick and trail mix for me. Worked well when the horses packed us in 7 miles only dofference is I am the horse this time.
 
So if y'all are eating MH only for dinner, what are yall eating for breakfast, lunch and snacks?

I will be going on my first backpack hunt next year so I'm just trying to get ideas.

Breakfast: Coffee with hot cocoa, protein shake (<-- 275 cal/oz is your friend!)
Lunch: ramen
Snacks: Nature valley protein bar, trail mix, jerky
Dinner: MH, hot cocoa
 
2 pkts instant oatmeal for bfast.

Clif bar for mid morning and mid afternoon snack.

Butthole sammich for lunch

Mtn house for dinner.

Worked like a champ for this 6', 240# guy.
 
I don't know how you guys are eating an entire mountain house for dinner. My hunting partner and I split one for dinner. I eat less when I am out hunting than when I am at home. I might eat breakfast and rarely eat more than a couple of snacks throughout the day.

You can ask ten different people what to do about chow and you'll get ten different answers. Bottom line is pack food you know you'll actually eat and its probably better to pack more food than not enough. After a couple of trips you'll have it figured out.
 
Like others have said. Check out the calories per package. If I ate MH for a week, i would be so grossed out that I may never eat again. I would certainly never poop again.
 
Like others have said. Check out the calories per package. If I ate MH for a week, i would be so grossed out that I may never eat again. I would certainly never poop again.

I have been married for twenty years and thank god she will never read this. If I can eat my wife's cooking I can handle MH for a week. You say homemade she says where is the hamburger helper. I swear me and the kids called dinner runny stuff for years:) that and military chow hall food I should be good for 7 days.
 
I always eat a MH for dinner, two oatmeal packets for breakfast, tune for lunch and misc snacks of snickers, Luna bars and jerky throughout the day.
 
Between deployments, field problems, gunneries, and schools, I ate A LOT of MRE's from 2002-2006, many of those were eaten cold and on the go, I would rather eat those than most mountain house meals...

I need to inventory, but I think I have like 30 MH propaks left (bought a whole bunch from a store closing) and I will hopefully never eat one again, I may just try to sell them here soon....

Look into dehydrating your own meals, far better option I wish I had discovered earlier...
 
For the past 5 or 6 years, my hunting buddy and I have relied on MH meals. Some are good and some are pretty bad. I don't think I have ever been able to eat a whole meal but they do fill me up and I've made it through several hunts without loosing much weight. A couple of the MH meals I've tried, I could take no more than a 3 or 4 spoonfuls and had to bury the remainder….hoping that bears wouldn't find it and get pis*ed off. This year we are cooking and freezing meals for 4 hunters and a wrangler for 7 days. We are probably going to need an addition packhorse just for the food.
 
This was my first year eating dehydrated food. We ate other foods for breakfast, snacks, lunch and after lunch snacks. We hunted hard covering 7-10+ miles per day in wicked country. For supper, we each ate one mountain house 2.5 serving meal, often supplemented with foil chicken, tuna or meat. Went down easy. I still lost weight. Lol.
 
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