Hey everybody Travis here, Mud Creek com. Today we’re going to rock the lasagna with meat sauce from mountain house. This is their regular size pouch, which is 2 5 servings, just double check that make sure I’m not lying -, yep 2, 5 servings. This one honestly is probably one of my all-time favorites. It’s not really like what you would think of is lasagna, but I love it. It’s not I mean it’s more of a pasta, really the taste like lasagna, but I’m a huge fan of it.

This one. You know this is probably one of my go-to ones as far as, if I’m throwing it in, like my hunting pack or going backpacking, this one’s pretty much always included so I love this one. Let me give you some details about it. It’s four point, eight ounces, so that gives you an idea of what the pack weight is going to be. Let me give you the dimensions, real, quick. This is nine and a half by just about eight and then it’s probably flip it over a little easier to tell from the bottom it’s about two inches.

Really. If you smash this down- and you can you can smash these down a little bit, maybe shake some of that, distribute it. Sometimes it’s not bad to leave them a little off centered like that or a little offset, because then what you do is you can stack the other one, the opposite direction this way and they stack in your pack pretty well like I said this is one of my favorites. It’s got 14 grams of protein. Let me just give you a give you the nutritional facts, real quick here, so you can see them there.

If you want, you can pause this and you can look at them a little bit more thoroughly, we’re just going to briefly go over it. So it’s 2, 5 servings, it’s 240 calories per serving proteins, 14 grams, cholesterol, 30 milligrams, whole fat, eight grams, carbohydrates, 27 grams. So that’s some of it. If you want to read the ingredients you can read through that, like it says down, there does contain wheat, egg, milk and soy. So if that’s something you’re allergic to something to pay attention to, but I’m a huge fan of the mountain house products just in general, they’re real easy to make that’s one of the things I love about them, especially if you can throw it in your backpack or like for hunting.

You know if you have like a kit like this is something that packs up nice little kit and that there’s a smaller fuel tank that fits inside there, and so it’s a small little pack and I have water. I can boil it right up and cook it. So all you’re going to do with this will open it up and do this, but you’ll take the oxygen absorber out and then you’ll carefully add two cups of boiling water. So we’ll have to get water boiling in this and then we’ll go ahead and add that to it we’ll let it stand for eight to nine minutes.

That’s pretty much! Yet it’s it’s worth stirring, not pretty good in the beginning, just to get it all mixed up. But if you don’t it’s really not that big a deal you might just get some. You know a little less consistency in the flavor, because some of the seasoning and whatnot will you know, maybe not be distributed as well, but it’s not that big a deal. So let’s go ahead and crack this baby open and let’s see what we’ve got here like I said this is probably my favorite one top three for sure.

I, like it you’re picking to hear me, say that a lot I’m really honestly and I’m not just saying this because we sell this stuff but I’m, really a huge fan of the mountain house, stuff, I, think just in general and what you get and how easy it is to make I’m a fan. So that’s your oxygen absorber make sure you take that out. I have I left that in before I you know, I, don’t know if the killer, you probably wouldn’t want to be exposed to it too much, but just remember to take that out, throw it away and get rid of it.

So let’s go ahead and look and see what it is you can see. It’s got quite a bit of seasoning in there and then that’s going to you know, as you have the hot water it’s going to become sauce. So let’s go ahead and get this going here and we’ll get it ready. So we’re going to go ahead and boil two cups. Just make sure I read that right: yep, two cups of water or 16 ounces of water in our pot here and I’m, going to go ahead and put a towel down. I tend to make a mess when the water gets boiling here, so we’re going to go ahead and lay that down just to mitigate some of that, so we’ll go ahead and get the water going first and then dump that in you can see that, but all right so two cups of water on this particular pot- and this is a nice thing about something like this.

This is the optimists crux light. If anybody’s curious, it’s a nice little kit, the fuels not included, but everything else is included. If you get the kit that has the has a little pot and lid- and you know with it so- and we do sell this, it’s a great little kit, I really enjoy it. So, okay, let’s get this fired up here, we’ll get our fuel going, hopefully I’m, not out. If you won’t probably get close so we’ll get our fuel going, get a pot on there. I’m go ahead and put the lid on that will help boil it quicker also help from splash and everywhere.

So we’ll go ahead and get that going and as soon as that’s ready, we’ll come back here and show you what what everything looks like okay, so our water is literally about done. You’ll hear it really start to sound like it’s boiling, just a second we’re starting to get a little bit of a roll now I, don’t know if you technically need to boil I, always think it’s a good idea just in case or you know, I, don’t know that there could be anything growing in there, but you just never know I always like to throw boiling water into it.

But you know just because if there is some bacteria for some reason, that would kill it, but there shouldn’t be any issue. The cool thing about mountain house is, they have a ten-year shelf life. It used to be seven years recently extended it to ten years and what they say is they’ve actually tried them that are 30 years old and the only thing you’ll really notice there shouldn’t be any like bacteria problems. The only thing you’d really notice is a little bit, maybe a little less flavor.

It just may lose some of its potency in that sense, but they’re not it should be good. The cans, if you buy it in a can the number 10 cans which you can use for food storage, and you can also use these for food storage. We sell by the pouch, but if you decide to do a can, instead, for example, they have a 30 year shelf life, all right looks like we are boiling, so I’m going to go ahead and shut that off and but yeah anyway. So you can. You know you can get different shelf lives for these things.

As far as, if you want the 10 number 10 can, if you want to do more of a food storage approach or these, which is technically 10 years, but they just say, you’ll lose some of the flavors all, but so in reality that can probably last up to 30 years. It’s just kind up to you and your preference I would probably trust it. That’s just me so, but it’s probably good practice to boil the water. If you didn’t it’s probably not the end of you know that big a deal, especially you know as long as it’s not past that 10 year point shouldn’t be an issue but I like to boil it just because you know it obviously adds more flavor.

It’s going to have it’s going to help soak through a little quicker and that rehydrate a little bit quicker so that you can enjoy a little faster. So, okay, let’s go ahead and dump the sim and then I’ll stir it up and show you kind of what looks like with everything stirred up just dry that off a Titch. Sometimes you got to watch these handles. You know they get a little hot, even though they got a little rubber coat coating on so we’re gonna go ahead and dump that in just watch your hands.

You don’t like that. I just dumped it on my finger. It’s not too bad, though, but you know get all that in there and I. Don’t know that it’s imperative that you seal it right away. You know what I like to do. You can kind of see what it looks like there with some water, and you can see some that going on, but I like to just stir it up a little bit a lot of times it mount in the field. I, don’t even have a spoon on me and you can literally almost drink it if you want to do a little more water, if you want to do a little less water, that’s cool too! Not a big deal so mix that up real good and I’ll.

Show you what it looks like again here. Just make sure I don’t spill and that’s kind of looks like right there, so we’ll seal that up and let it sit for just double-check. I wanna saves 810 Nancy and you know that’s variable. It’s kind of if you’ve got some experience with these and you know what you like, don’t change it. You know. Eight to nine minutes is recommended time, but if you, if you know hey I like it a little harder, let it go five minutes or whatever you know.

If you want to go twenty minutes, you brother said 20 minutes, that’s not a big deal so we’ll let that sit. The other thing you can do is you can grab it? You just gotta, be careful cuz, it’s usually pretty hot, but you can kind of mix it up like this. Just by squeezing the bag like I said, that’s pretty hot I can only do that for a few seconds before it gets a little too hot. For me, we’ll come check this out here in a minute and we’ll give you a you know the best video taste test that I can and try to describe it to.

You is the best I can like said, you know, I’m a little biased towards this flavor, just because I already love it. So that’s just me you may not, if you’re not into like red sauces and things like that, which normally honestly I’m not not a huge spaghetti guy but I’ve really liked the lasagna so we’ll come check it out here in eight to nine minutes all right, we’ve, let that sit for about eight to nine minutes, so we’re going to go ahead and pop it open and see what see.

We’ve got go ahead and what we’ll do is wound up, putting it. That’s the spoon adjuster with earlier, but we’ll go ahead and dump it into a bowl. So you can see what it looks like in a bowl, but I’ll show you in the bag real quick. So you know some of that water that was in there earlier is definitely set up a little bit now, like I said you know the thing with like the mountain house meals is, they may not look pretty, but you know for what you get and what they are and especially to be able to get that quick meal.

I. Think they’re, really good I haven’t really had one that I didn’t like that much you know, there’s some I, definitely like better than others and like so. This is one of my top fades or favorites of all time. So far you know I know they’ve got some new flavors coming out in here in 2014, from what I’ve heard and talking to them, but we’ll see so. Ok I’ll give this a try. You can see it’s pretty hot. You know, there’s a Maxwell just to show there’s you know a little bits of tomato chunk in there I’m, not honestly, there’s one right.

There I’m, not honestly, a very big tomato guy, but I don’t mind these they’re small enough that they don’t bug me and and I don’t mind them. So they says not really as much a true pasta or a true lasagna of what you’d think you know it’s not like a chunk of lasagna, it’s more of a actual pasta. So you have the noodles here. If you hear my boy in the background he’s hanging out with me, my little guy so yeah, you got these noodles right here and you know that’s it so they’re similar to the noodles you’d get and regular is on yet, but you know maybe a little different.

So that’s cool a little bit see if I can do this without burning myself, all right, give it a try. Okay, that’s actually like I said it’s really good um and it’s actually got cheese in it. So one thing: you’ll notice is you’re, taking a bite, it’ll kind of be a little stringy cuz. It’s just got melted cheese in it, which is really good. That’s a my little guy but anyway, so here’s the pasta, I like it it you know it’s not really spaghetti. Ii I, don’t know! If that’s even a word bit.

It’s a you know: it’s it’s red sauce, a little bit almost like that. You know it’s probably almost a consistent depending how much water you put it’s almost like a chili as far as the consistency goes, but it’s not spicy at all. You know it’s it’s well, at least not in the sense of like chili or anything like that in the sense of Italian red sauce, lasagna, maybe a little bit. But to me it’s not spicy at all, so I really enjoy it. Like I said this is probably my favorite one, especially like out in the cold.

When I’ve been out. You know, I went out shooting oh about a month ago, and it was freezing cold and you know we were duck hunting and it was about 16 below and I pulled out, stove fire a couple years out for me and my buddy, and they were just really good and it just hit the spot because it just warmed me up and that you know I just really enjoyed it, gave me the calories I needed to to keep going and stay outside. We ended up staying out quite a bit longer. So I don’t think you can go wrong with these I enjoy it.

You know it’s up to you to decide that if you like it or not- and if you don’t think you do if it’s you know possibility that just red sauces, don’t do it for you, and that may be the case and I understand that. But you know if you’re open-minded, give it a try and I, don’t think you’ll be disappointed. I really like it so come check us out at mock recom. Will we sell these individually by the pouch and also by the case, or we will be here by the case, so you can buy it.

You know if you want to buy a larger amount, you can or you can mix them up and buy different flavors and get a little variety of everything. But you know for what it is in a quick mill. I think it’s great so come check us out at Mud Creek com thanks, alright I’m, coming back real, quick just because I couldn’t get my boy to get on air, but he didn’t want to try this at first because he’s the pickiest eater in the whole world Isaac. What did you think of it tastes? So good I think you could sure you would try I think you would like ei.

Okay here, take a bite grab. It just don’t spill. What you think was it tastes like? Well, it tastes like cheese tomatoes. Those and type of noodles goes well and I, think it tastes good cool. So there you have it even my kid who’s, the pickiest boy in the whole world liked it so I think you’d like it give it a try thanks again cap checks out of mud, creek, calm.