Gear Review: Mountain House Wraps!

Buffalo Style Chicken

Mountain House has long been a main player when it comes to dehydrated meals. When they came out with their “Wraps” line we were excited to try them out. With the Mountain House Wraps, Mountain House provides dehydrated filling which needs to be reconstituted with water. Warm treated water or boiling water are preferred of course. The fillings can be eaten alone as a meal or added to user-provided tortillas to make trail wraps.

Barbecue Sauce with Beef

The Mountain House Wrap Line currently consists of four flavors: Breakfast Skillet, Mexican Style Beef, Barbeque Sauce with Beef and Buffalo Style Chicken. After tasting each flavor we feel they are appropriately named. Two new flavors, Chicken Fajita and Chicken Salad, are expected to come out in January 2011. Each “Wrap” filling comes in a 16-oz re-sealable, insulated bag. The user can add boiling water directly to into the pouch (the Chicken Salad will use cold water, as opposed to boiling, to reconstitute), stir up the ingredients, close the pouch and wait eight to nine minutes for the filling to rehydrate.

Breakfast Skillet

Each single-serving package of Mountain House Wraps actually does an outstanding job of filling us up. We typically take tortilla wraps and can make two huge, monster wraps (too big for some to handle), three medium-sized wraps or four slightly smaller wraps with each package. When we spilt packages between two people we usually make the four smaller wraps and bring in cheese or hot sauce to make the wraps larger. Other times we simply make three medium wraps and split the third wrap in half. Either of these typically provides enough food for a meal for two. One package completely stuffed us on the occasion when we were famished enough for one person to eat the entire package.

Mexican Style Beef

Wherever our backcountry adventures take us we are glad to have Mountain House Wraps as a delicious and filling food source. These quick and easy to prepare meals offer a lot of energy for us to focus on enjoying our backcountry experience instead of worrying about a growling stomach.

Manufacturer	Mountainhouse
Flavors	Breakfast Skillet, Mexican Style Beef, Barbecue Sauce with Beef, Buffalo Style Chicken
Price (MSRP)	$6.99 - 7.09
Calories	360 - 390 per serving (1 - 2 servings per package)

Update: Apparently since publication of this review, Mountainhouse has discontinued the Mexican Style Beef and Barbecue Sauce with Beef Wraps.

 This story was originally posted September 7, 2010.