Pack Sausage Chips, Spinach Dust, Pancake Flakes—and Fare Thee Well

The following tasty menu for two will cost you $14.99. Breakfast: Mountain House Sausage Patties ($2.55) and Rich-Moor Blueberry Pancakes (80�). Lunch: EMS brand Beef Stew ($2.35) and Mountain House Cocoa (30�). Snacks: Rich-Moor Banana Chips (89�) and Mountain House Plums ($1.25). Dinner: Rich-Moor Beef Stroganoff ($3.75), EMS Spinach Savory ($1.70) and Mountain House Ice Cream ($1.40).

If you feel that freeze-dried foods are a mad fancy of science, you may be disappointed. Underdeveloped countries can be supplied in part with freeze-dried food, with its marvelous storage capabilities, rather than depending on the annual vagaries of harvests and prices. As women ignite their apron strings in more affluent parts of the world, the freeze-dried dinner will replace the frozen glop now eaten by lonely husbands. And as we move out to the stars, freeze-dried peas will be taken on the long run to Pluto. Oregon Freeze Dry Foods even now sells survival units to the military, as well as catering to the needs of NASA . The company's freeze-dried Stroganoff will be a nice bit of culinary detente in the upcoming U.S.-Russian Skylab mission.

The only way to retaliate against hordes of the post-hippie generation swarming through the suburbs, gnawing space food sticks and swilling Tang, will be to sit down to an elegant freeze-dried Beef Wellington. Let us hope that somewhere in France a madman is developing a decent powdered '57 Lafite-Rothschild for those lazy summer evenings in our V-8 campers.