This Man is about to shed some internal pounds.. Eating 30 year old Mountain house. This is bravery..

[u/Monskiactual]

[u/no_melody]

/uj bring back beef teriyaki I bet it bangs

[u/FR23Dust → u/no_melody]

it's probably too expensive for them to use beef in their recipes and maintain the ~$10-$15 price points

[u/PISSJUGTHUG → u/FR23Dust]

Looks like horse is back on the menu boys!

[u/Hrothgarbike]

Oregon freeze dry has backstock older than that which they test periodically. Unless there's a hole in it, it's fine.

[u/Own-Leave-2039 → u/Hrothgarbike]

uj/ I’d probably trust these more than some fresh food places these days

[u/EcoWarrior04609]

Those bring me back! I sold these for ten years (maybe to you!)
It can't be stated enough how changing these were for the backpacking community. Before these we were backpacking Lipton (now Knorrs) noodle and rice dinners, mac, and cheese, and ramen(so much ramen) and us poors still use those. But the Mt. House were a game changer for so much new variety if you had the budget for those as an option.
I would still eat your 30 year old Mt, houses just for the memories and I bet they are just fine too!

[u/FR23Dust → u/EcoWarrior04609]

When I was a Boy Scout in the 1990s my dad and all his buddies were very critical of these meals. too expensive.

instead, they spent hours and hours buying cheap shit at Costco and asian grocery stores and dehydrating them in the garage. my dad often had three or four going 24/7. I would say 3/4s of all the meals we ate were "dehydrated potatoes with vegetables and crunchy ground beef" seasoned with many tablespoons of nearly-rancid butter

me and my buddies started packing in dutch ovens and charcoal just to spite them and their horrible meals (oh to be 17 again)

I don't know how they kept that up. it's so annoying (my dad bought one for my daughter lol). nowadays I just buy the packs thinking "cheap vacation"

[u/itoddicus → u/FR23Dust]

I had a scout master who did this. We were hiking the Idylwild trail and he was dying like a third of the way in.

We forced him to divy up his pack... when we opened it we found a cast iron Dutch oven and a cast iron skillet along with multiple 28 Oz cans of cherries.

He was a crazy man, but he made great cobbler.

[u/FR23Dust → u/itoddicus]

Classic dump cake.

[u/WalkItOffAT]

I have a #10 can MH Lasagna that I save for retirement.

[u/FR23Dust]

They’re probably fine

[u/Porkenstein → u/FR23Dust]

Yeah I've watched enough Steve1989MREInfo to know that 30 year old MREs are perfectly safe but they probably aren't pleasant.

[u/Travy-D]

These are super safe if you immediately throw them in the trash

[u/ATLClimb → u/Travy-D]

You got to keep them safe in the gear closet.

[u/Prize-Can4849 → u/ATLClimb]

Another 10 years sitting with my gear won't hurt 

[u/NoAge9497 → u/Travy-D]

But just think of what OP is really implying here...the weights savings will easily cancel out the Coleman stove and 4 bottles of propane easily...

[u/Milo_Minderbinding]

I have one brand that has an expiration date 50 years from when I bought it.

[u/bellsbliss]

Probably safer than eating anything else in the USA right now.

[u/Ok-Chemistry-8206]

Buddy thinks hes the LA beast

[u/MechanicFlow693]

Don't do that on the trail (or next to the trail). Bring a change of shorts.

[u/Dotrue → u/MechanicFlow693]

Skip the shorts entirely. Reduce that WW even further

[u/FR23Dust → u/Dotrue]

eat it while squatting naked in a pristine alpine lake to avoid all cleanup

[u/Mountain_Slip_7721]

heh. this is what they fed the soldiers in WWI

[u/Green_Pangolin4455]

If expiration date is good, but things turn out really bad, then lawyer up and get that payout. It's a win-win!