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Beef Stroganoff with Noodles

Classic comfort, anytime. Tender pieces of beef, onions and mushrooms in a savory cream sauce over a bed of egg noodles – a taste of home on the trail.

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How to Prepare Freeze Dried Food

Mountain House freeze-dried meals have been keeping climbers, soldiers, explorers, hunters, anglers, hikers, backpackers, preppers, and all sorts of other people happily nourish...

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The Best Freeze-Dried Meals for Camping, Hiking, Emergencies, and Home

Freeze-dried meals have a whole host of uses, from the backcountry to the home pantry. Here at Mountain House, of course, we’ve been leaders in the freeze-dried food industry f...

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What Are the Best Mountain House Meals You Can Eat at Home?

Think Mountain House meals are reserved for backpacking and camping food or prepping stockpiles? Well, as they say: Think again! Our freeze-dried food is also perfect for at-ho...

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20 Best Places To Visit in North America During the Winter

We’re starting to hear the (distant, but undeniable) footsteps of Old Man Winter coming down the pike. Whether you absolutely live for heapfuls of the white stuff, or you treat ...

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Bringing Back Mountain House Classics: Same Great Meals & Original Taste

These days, there’s a lot of nostalgia for the 1980s and 1990s. You can see it in the clothes, the television reboots, the music, the cultural references being dropped in media...

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13 Best Places to Stargaze in the US with Naked Eyes

The majority of Americans (and much of the rest of the world’s population) now live under impoverished night skies. Artificial light pollution has degraded the after-hours cele...

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What to Key Into in a Weather Forecast When Planning an Outdoor Adventure

Lots of devoted outdoorsmen end up becoming amateur meteorologists of sorts. After all, the hiking, camping, paddling, hunting, fishing, and climbing we pursue are all very much...

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Early Signs of Spring to Look for in the Great Outdoors

Groundhog Day’s come and gone, but whether or not that oversized squirrel saw its shadow or not, spring is inevitably in the air. We don’t need to tell you that winter can be a ...

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12 Incredible Sunset Vantages in the U.S.

Sunsets anywhere have the potential for breathtaking beauty: some of the most breathtaking beauty that our big blue ball of a planet delivers, in fact, yet it’s an everyday deal...

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6 Great Hikes in the U.S. for Seeing Fall Colors

North America's host to perhaps the most famous displays of fall foliage in the world. That's especially true in southeastern Canada and New England as well as the Midwest, wher...

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Fall Wildlife Spectacles to Seek Out

Fall offers some of the very best wildlife-watching opportunities of any season in North America. Across much of the continent, animals are preparing in one way or another for t...

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5 Ways to Use Mountain House

Best Ways to Use Mountain House While there are certainly more than 5 ways to use Mountain House meals, here are some of the most popular uses. Backpacking All experienced backp...