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Mountain House Grilled Chicken Breasts and Mashed Potatoes - 2 Servings

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Quick and tasty meal of grilled chicken breasts and mashed potatoes flavored with herbs and chives.

Stand-up pouch creates an easy way to cook and eat your meal; made from high-barrier foil, the pouch keeps your meal hot
Grilled chicken is fully cooked and only needs boiling water--ready to eat in four minutes
Each meal requires only 1-1/2 cups of water for both meat and potatoes
Nutrition facts displayed here and on packaging may differ; information on packaging reflects actual contents
*Discount will be applied when you check out. Offer not valid for sale-price items ending in $._3 or $._9

Ingredients: mashed potatoes with herbs & chives: potato flakes* (potatoes, mono and diglycerides preserved with sodium acid pyrophosphate and citric acid) and herb & chive seasonings* (nonfat milk, butter [cream, salt], chicken, modified food starch, salt, natural flavor, parmesan cheese [pasteurized milk, salt, cheese culture, enzymes], whey, maltodextrin, hydrolyzed wheat and corn gluten, onion, chives, yeast extract, spices, chicken fat, chicken broth, garlic, citric acid, herbs, annatto, and turmeric [added for color]). grilled chicken breasts* boneless skinless chicken breast fillets with rib meat, potato starch, salt, sodium phosphate. Allergen information: milk, soy,wheat

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Mountain House Grilled Chicken Breasts and Mashed Potatoes - 2 Servings Customer Reviews

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Mountain House Grilled Chicken Breasts and Mashed Potatoes - 2 Servings

4.3

(based on 34 reviews)

85%

of respondents would recommend this to a friend.

Pros

Flavorful (28)
Easy to prepare (24)
Lightweight (24)
Nutritious (16)
Quick cook time (15)

Cons

Lacks flavor (3)

Best Uses

Backpacking (30)
Extended trips (15)
Weekend trips (12)
Car camping (10)
As a snack (5)

- Reviewer Profile:
- Avid adventurer (16), Casual/ recreational (13), Casual adventurer (3)
- Was this a gift?:
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Jun

2013

2.0

Not the best from Mountain House

By wrench62

from Harrisburg, PA

About Me Casual/ Recreational

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Pros

Lightweight

Cons

Lacks Flavor
Little meat
Long Cook Time
Potatoes Flat

Best Uses

Backpacking

Comments about Mountain House Grilled Chicken Breasts and Mashed Potatoes - 2 Servings:

This was supposed to be a meal large enough for 2 but either the bag was underfilled due to a manufacturing issue or the bag tipped over and some of the contents spilled out before the bag was sealed.

The chicken breasts were small and the mashed potatoes tastless. Perhaps some butter flavor could be added with some salt and pepper to try to enhance the flavor.

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Mar

2013

5.0

My favorite hiking meal

By Tandreen

from Los Angeles, California

About Me Casual/ Recreational

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Pros

Easy To Prepare
Flavorful
Nutritious
Quick Cook Time

Cons

Best Uses

Backpacking

Comments about Mountain House Grilled Chicken Breasts and Mashed Potatoes - 2 Servings:

This is easily my favorite meal when hiking. When I get above 10,000 feet my appetite vanishes (seriously, I could barely eat half a Pop Tart during my Mt. Whitney climb) and it becomes difficult to find anything that doesn't gross me out. THIS meal is perfect. It's tasty and easy to prepare and doesn't upset my system when I'm in upper elevations. It's also almost always sold out at the Santa Monica REI so I'm just gonna stock up via online ordering.

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Jul

2012

5.0

Best freeze-dried meal I've tried so far

By Geofre

from Seattle, WA

About Me Casual/ Recreational

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Pros

Easy To Prepare
Flavorful
Lightweight
Nutritious
Quick Cook Time

Cons

Best Uses

Backpacking

Comments about Mountain House Grilled Chicken Breasts and Mashed Potatoes - 2 Servings:

Lightweight, simple, and quick to prepare. Most importantly the chicken and potatoes taste awesome!

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May

2012

4.0

Good, but a little lacking

By JEmote

from Carbondale, IL

About Me Casual/ Recreational

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Pros

Flavorful
Quick Cook Time

Cons

Difficult To Prepare

Best Uses

Backpacking
Car Camping

Comments about Mountain House Grilled Chicken Breasts and Mashed Potatoes - 2 Servings:

Picked up several new entrees on sale at REI to try. This one sounded good, and Backpacker's Pantry Mashed Potatoes and Beef is one of my favoties. I found the cooking of the chicken "breasts" separate from the mashed potatoes a little annoying. The texture and taste of the chicken was good, but I was not a fan of the seasoning for the mashed potatoes. I should have added some Butter Buds...that would have helped. But this is really splitting hairs. Mountain House quality is always good, and I wouldn't think twice about including these on a trip (as long as I pack some Butter Buds).

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Apr

2012

4.0

Pretty good for freeze dried

By Rob In AL

from Talladega, AL

About Me Casual/ Recreational

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Pros

Easy To Prepare

Cons

Requires a plate

Best Uses

Backpacking
Car Camping
Extended Trips
Weekend Trips

Comments about Mountain House Grilled Chicken Breasts and Mashed Potatoes - 2 Servings:

Prepare this at home first to avoid surprizes.
Also have something rigid with which to stir and something to hold the chicken while you're recostituting the potatoes.

Personally, I didn't have a problem with the chicken reconstituting and returning to "normal" as one reviewer posted. Granted it's not like fresh, homemade, but the texture seemed ok to me.

The potatoes are potatoes. There's not a lot of seaoning/spices in this meal (a plus in my book) but it's real easy to add your own, making this a good offering for people (like me) that prefer to season to taste myself rather than rely on someone guessing correctly at the factory.

All in all, this was a good meal that required a minor amount of effort on my part to prepare.
And like always, "2 servings" means 2 children, not 2 adults!

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Feb

2012

5.0

Excellent meal

By jack diesle

from Middle TN

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Pros

Easy To Prepare
Flavorful
Lightweight
Nutritious
Quick Cook Time

Cons

Best Uses

Backpacking

Comments about Mountain House Grilled Chicken Breasts and Mashed Potatoes - 2 Servings:

It really is as good as the other reviews state. Very hearty and flavorful, surprised at how good the chicken actually was. I too recommend breaking the chicken up before adding water.

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Nov

2011

(0 of 2 customers found this review helpful)

1.0

Leathery Breast?

By Swagman1956

from Hancock, MD

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Comments about Mountain House Grilled Chicken Breasts and Mashed Potatoes - 2 Servings:

This meal is not a total write-off. The mash potatoes are editable. The freeze dried chicken breasts are something else. The first time I prepared this meal I followed the instructions to the letter. The texture of the breast meat was liken to the soles of my hiking boots. The second time around, I let the meat stew for an additional twenty minutes in hopes that the added time and heat would reconstitute thoroughly. No such luck. My advice, call out for Chick-fa-lay or Colonel Sanders if you're really craving chicken. Please pass the beef!

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Jul

2011

(2 of 2 customers found this review helpful)

4.0

Another delicious MH meal

By Whopper

from Washington, DC

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Comments about Mountain House Grilled Chicken Breasts and Mashed Potatoes - 2 Servings:

This meal was just like all the other Mountain House meals I've had in that a] it smells and tastes quite delicious and b] the "2-serving" portion is really not enough for two people who've been active all day but is perfect for one.

Unlike all the other MH meals I've had, this one has a two-step prep process where you rehydrate the two pieces of chicken first and then take them out to use the same water for the potatoes. For this extra step and the fact that you may want to use a plate for this one rather than eat right out of the pouch, I'd put this one down as more of a base camp dish than one I'd take out on the trail. (It's also a little bulkier in the package than their other meals, something else to consider.)

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Feb

2011

(1 of 1 customers found this review helpful)

5.0

This is Freeze Dried?

By Bill-Dallas weekend Camper

from Dallas, TX

About Me Casual/ Recreational

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Pros

Easy To Prepare
Flavorful
Lightweight
Nutritious

Cons

Best Uses

Backpacking

Comments about Mountain House Grilled Chicken Breasts and Mashed Potatoes - 2 Servings:

At [$], it is a little more expensive than many other freeze dried food, but it does have two good sized pieces of chicken! When I made it for my family, they loved it. Nobody believed it was freeze dried. I would make it again and plan to recommend it for our Boy Scout Troop / Venture Crew backpacking camp out.

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Nov

2010

5.0

Freeze Dried 101

By Sailor Chaz

from Lansing, MI

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Comments about Mountain House Grilled Chicken Breasts and Mashed Potatoes - 2 Servings:

This is the meal I use to introduce friends to freeze dried meals. Starts off like a dried out sponge. Reconstitutes to real chicken breasts. The flavor is good, chicken is normally bland unless you add spice, I like the fact I can spice it the way I want. Dried spices are light and easy to pack. you can take 6 of these and have a different style every night. A little Jamaican Jerk seasoning, some Lowery's, some Cajun Seasoning all go well with this. Definitely my favorite dried food, and I have had quite a few. One hint, use the recommended amount of water, then squeeze the bag until the chicken is covered then seal, this is the best way to make sure all the chicken cooks without making the potatoes too mushy.

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