Be careful with some of those pre-packaged dehydrated meals and soups. I nearly did myself in last week with an MSG overload!

For supper I had a package of mushroom soup mix, farmer's sausage, bagel & PB. As soon as I devoured the soup, I started getting a tingly feeling in my fingers and originally thought I was just cold. But by the time I finished the entire meal, I was "bouncing" around the campsite. I felt like I needed to puke. Knowing how my brother's heart arrhythmia reacts to MSG (hospitalized 2x), I was immediately concerned and drank as much water as I could to dilute effect. I've reacted before to heavy amounts of MSG but this time it was on the extreme side for me. I followed up with some very weird dreams that night.

Even though the packaging often say MSG free, there is MSG used in the manufacturing/processing that doesn't get reported or labelled properly. In any case, the remaining mushroom soup mix in my stock will get deep sixed.