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Mountain House Chili Mac With Beef - Single Serving

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This Mountain House instant entree features spicy chili macaroni with beans.

New compact vacuum pouch leaves more room in your pack and won't expand at high elevations
Stand-up, resealable pouch creates an easy way to cook and eat your meal; made from high-barrier foil, the pouch keeps your meal hot
Just mix contents with boiling water in the pouch provided, let stand for a few minutes, and then serve
Quick and easy meal for camping and backpacking
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: cooked beef (beef flavoring, salt), enriched macaroni (durum semolina, niacin, iron [ferrous sulfate], thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), kidney beans, tomato paste, chili seasoning (chili pepper and other spices, dehydrated onion and garlic, hydrolyzed soy protein, potassium chloride, paprika, sugar, maltodextrin, beef extract, disodium inosinate and disodium guanylate, autolyzed yeast extract, caramel color, natural flavors, citric acid), modified corn starch, salt and dehydrated onions. Allergens: wheat, soy and sulfites

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Mountain House Chili Mac With Beef - Single Serving Customer Reviews

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Mountain House Chili Mac With Beef

4.3

(based on 12 reviews)

92%

of respondents would recommend this to a friend.

Pros

Easy to prepare (12)
Flavorful (10)
Lightweight (9)
Nutritious (6)
Quick cook time (4)

Cons

Best Uses

Backpacking (11)
Extended trips (5)
Weekend trips (4)

- Reviewer Profile:
- Avid adventurer (7), Casual/ recreational (3)
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Jan

2010

(2 of 6 customers found this review helpful)

1.0

Death by Salt.

By JacobRH

from Anaheim, CA

About Me Casual/ Recreational

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Pros

Easy To Prepare
Lightweight

Cons

Unhealthy

Best Uses

Sparingly for lightweight

Comments about Mountain House Chili Mac With Beef:

The normal Mountain House products are great, healthy, flavorful (except for the occasional MSG) But the ProPak series has enough sodium in them to give a horse a heart attack. I like the idea of smaller single-serving packages, but they need to rework the formula to have reasonable amounts of salt.

Hypertension anyone?

May

2008

(2 of 2 customers found this review helpful)

4.0

Mtn.House does it again!!!

By liquidmass

from Hartford, CT

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Pros

Easy To Prepare
Flavorful
Lightweight
Nutritious
Quick Cook Time

Cons

Best Uses

Backpacking
Extended Trips

Comments about Mountain House Chili Mac With Beef:

I am a big fan of most Mountain House meals. But the Chili mac is possibly one of the best meals they offer. It has a great flavor and is really filling. I found it gave me a loads of good energy while doing 30 miles on the AT this past weekend. I would recommend letting this sit about 15 mins before eating because the beans can take a while to re-hydrate. The only thing that keep me from giving this 5 stars is the price. I am planning on learning how to dehydrate all my own food from now on because of this. This and the beef stroganoff are the best freeze dried meals I have ever tried.

ps: try eating this with some tortilla chips instead of a fork/spood :-)

Nov

2007

(1 of 1 customers found this review helpful)

5.0

Very Tasty

By txhiker

from Texas

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Pros

Easy To Prepare
Flavorful
Lightweight

Cons

Best Uses

Backpacking
Extended Trips
Weekend Trips

Comments about Mountain House Chili Mac With Beef:

It was very good! I was suprised by how much meat was in it. Much better than my friends red beans and rice.

Jul

2011

5.0

excellent choice and packaging

By flaxin

from Quincy. MA

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Pros

Easy To Prepare
Flavorful
Lightweight
Nutritious
Quick Cook Time

Cons

Best Uses

Backpacking

Comments about Mountain House Chili Mac With Beef:

Very tasty backcountry meal. Please note these meals are specially formulated for high physical stress situations. Do not eat these meals at home, they are designed for on trail consumption to replenish what your body needs after a big calorie and electrolite burn.
I can't say enough about the Pro Pack series. They are the PERFECT size and the vacuum packaging really cuts down on the space required in your backpack yet still has the handy ziplock strip and same great taste.
I highly recommend these meals as best of breed (for taste, convenience, portioning, and consistency) for backcountry meals.

Jun

2011

5.0

Touch of heat

By Timothy1

from New Jersey

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Pros

Easy To Prepare
Flavorful
Lightweight
Nutritious

Cons

Best Uses

Backpacking

Comments about Mountain House Chili Mac With Beef:

My favorite flavor so far. The beans need a bit of extra time to hydrate fully.

Oct

2010

5.0

Good as Home Made

By samsa

from De Soto Missouri

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Pros

Easy To Prepare
Flavorful
Lightweight
Nutritious

Cons

Best Uses

Backpacking

Comments about Mountain House Chili Mac With Beef:

I was really surprised at how good this chili mac was. Lots of meat and good seasoning. Wasn't dry or chewy like other backpacking meals have had. A delicious backpacking meal, with no mess or cleanup!

Mar

2010

5.0

Yummy

By thesherpa

from MI

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Pros

Easy To Prepare
Flavorful

Cons

Best Uses

Backpacking

Comments about Mountain House Chili Mac With Beef:

One of my favorites! Salty like most other freezdried foods... good electrolyte replenishment is what I keep telling myself

Feb

2010

5.0

Excellent Choice!

By kgantz

from Ball Ground, GA

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Pros

Easy To Prepare
Flavorful
Lightweight
Nutritious
Quick Cook Time

Cons

Best Uses

Backpacking

Comments about Mountain House Chili Mac With Beef:

Sitting in my kitchen as I eat a steaming bowl of this Chili Mac. I am headed out for an overnighter on the AT next week and this package of Chili Mac has been in the cabinet for almost a year. Decided to try it out and get some more if it was good. As far as cooking time, like the other reviewers I would let it sit a full 10 minutes. I poured mine into a cereal bowl and it filled it to overflowing and then some (there should be plenty for one hungry camper). Thought I was going to need to add salt and pepper, but was surprised to find it was very flavorful (if not a little spicy for my tastes). As a matter of fact, it is the TASTE that makes this a winner. Bring along a bag of Frito Corn Chips (you ultralights can crush them to a powder and carry them in a zip-lock). Bring along some TUMs if normal spicy chili with beans gives your stomach any trouble.

Jan

2010

5.0

Stellar

By abarrow

from Houston, TX

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Pros

Easy To Prepare
Flavorful

Cons

Best Uses

Backpacking

Comments about Mountain House Chili Mac With Beef:

I second the review above. On our Tetons trip this was our last meal, and all the other backpackers were super jealous. We had extra cheddar to throw in which made it even more amazing.

We loved this one so much, we bought (what we thought was) the same one for our next backpacking trip...turned out to be the brand "Backpackers Country"... all I have to say is yuck, it pailed in comparison to this Mountain House meal of meals.

This is my number 1 meal right now. Oh, and I would have to add that you cannot put a price on taste in the mountains.

Aug

2009

3.0

Fine...needs a little extra cooking time

By PB

from Louisville, KY

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Pros

Easy To Prepare
Lightweight
Nutritious
Quick Cook Time

Cons

Best Uses

Backpacking
Extended Trips
Weekend Trips

Comments about Mountain House Chili Mac With Beef:

This meal was fairly tasty when we started, but we both burned out on the flavor before we were very far along. Definitely needs more water and more sitting time to let the beans rehydrate; otherwise cardboard beans. The meal started out very hot (it helped to have a bandana to use to insulate our hands from the hot package), and stayed warm almost to the end -- we were eating in temperatures in the mid 50's. We added a bit of olive oil to each meal to improve the flavor and add calories.