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Augason Farms Breakfast and Dinner Variety Pail Emergency Food Supply Everyday Meals 4 Gallon Pail $59.98
$59.98
$84.99
- 106 nutritionally balanced servings
- 15 Food Pouches
- 19, 810 Total Calories
- 13 varieties of entrées and soups, plus chocolate pudding and milk
- Shelf life ranges from 10 to 25 years*
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Yes, but you can't bring your entire pantry down to your bomb shelter.
Hmmm. Apparently that's a real thing. Anybody tried it?
Anyway, what I learned during my weight loss and losing 80 lbs is my body simply didn't need all that crap or volume of food. My dinners consist of 350-400 calories now, and the rest of my day around 1,000-1,200.
I am no longer pre diabetic, I no longer have high blood pressure, I know longer snore in my sleep. Reading this post though, a lot of this reminds me of how I used to eat. Guys, in an emergency situation, you don't need 2,000 calories to survive. Have you seen how long people have survived on with under 800 calories? Yes that will eventually lead to death, but at 800 calories it usually takes YEARS.
If you have a family of 3, and aren't all overweight, it'll be easy to survive on 800-1,000 calories a day. That is enough food for 3 people for 7 days. When I was losing weight I never went under 1,200 for health reasons. Cutting out 200-400 more calories a day would make me hungry for sure, but it wouldn't make me feel exhausted and unable to do anything. You'll be a bit more weaker after 5 days, but believe me your body has plenty of extra resources in it to help keep it optimal for that week.
If a family of 3 dies and can't survive in 1,000 calories a day for 1 week, then maybe that's a wakeup call that you're consuming WAY too much to begin with. I read on another person that someone eats one of those bags of Wonderful Pistachios all in one go and others too agreed it was too small. Turns out the entire bag is 1,200 calories. If that's a snack, then no wonder the US has 50% or more of the population being overweight. I was one of them too. Best choice I ever made by losing weight and controlling the amount/what I eat. My wife too, who was told she was going to be dead in a year unless she lost the weight. Pretty severe Type 2 diabetes. She was 320 lbs. What is she now? 168 lbs and her diabetes is almost gone, enough her doctor is taking her off her meds for it. She also has NASH and liver disease from her abuse of eating. The damage has stopped since she lost the weight. Doctor says she basically saved herself from dying in 2022-2023 because it was progressing extreme fast. It's stopped. And it's all stable now. Just saying. We kill ourselves over food every day and it's sad...
Go read on starvation and death in countries where the 10 year old kids are consuming about 400 calories per day. IT TAKES MONTHS AND MONTHS. If you eat 2x more than that, you should be OK and survive for a week. Come on! For the long haul I would say 1,200 is probably the ideal goal here to survive for years and years. Ya'll will be fine on limiting your calories. Do it now though before you get to a real survival situation and your body does shut you down and make you feel super bad because you had to go from 2,500 calories per day to 1,000 in an instant. Your body definitely won't like that for more than a few days, but it's not gonna die or shut down or anything, but if you get your calories down to a more healthier level (2,000-2,500) is recommended for a man over 5'9", and an ACTIVE lifestyle. You'll see straight up that a man that doesn't do a lot of physical activity all day long needs closer to 1,600-1800. You'll be fine, but even dropping it lower to 1,400-1,500 per day. You will HARDLY notice when shit hits the fan when you have to drop down to 1,000 per day. It will be noticable, but it won't be "OMG I'M STARVING I CAN'T SURVIVE!" feel from 2,500 to 1,000.
#pureMichigan #neverEatMoreThan1FishPerMonth
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But you can easily replicate 90% of the functionality by buying similar shelf-stable products in your grocery store. Here's what you do: go to Walmart/Home Depot/Lowes and buy one of those 5 gallon buckets (and the lid!). Next, swing by your grocery store and purchase a bunch of boxes of flavored oatmeal packets, boxed or pouched flavored rice and pasta mixes, instant soup packets, snack bars, tea bags, hot chocolate mixes, etc. Throw all that in your bucket along with several cans of tuna and chicken meat. If you really want to make it complete, toss in a cheap single burner propane camping stove (e.g.: https://smile.amazon.com/RANDDER-Portable-Adjustable-Replacement-Backpacking/dp/B08ZNN63QM/ref=sr_1_... [amazon.com]), fuel and an old sauce pan. That'll get you the same or slightly better emergency sustinence. Will it offer quite the extended shelf life as an Augason Farms product? Probably not (although off the shelf boxed and pouched food products are perfectly safe and palitable well beyond their stamped "best by" date). But in any case, if you restrict yourself to the kind of products that you normally eat, you can rotate out your emergency food stores every couple of years and always have a ready-to-go emergency food supply at far less cheaper cost than these pre-made kits.
Different ball game if you're talking about true freeze dried meal entrees like Mountain House. Yes, they're even more expensive, but they do offer a more nutritionally complete and balanced option that's lightweight, convenient and can easily be tossed in your car in the event of an evacutation from wildfire, flooding, hurricane, etc.
Prepping isn't just for doomsday nuts anymore. Every household should have a grab and go kit in the case of a natural disaster or other emergency.
Also, you may have read news about the many people who got stuck on I-95 in freezing weather for 27 hours a couple of weeks ago. I keep emergency rations in the cars for something like that, and they need to be able to withstand widely varying temperatures from summer to winter. Canned food can't withstand the wide temperature swings.
In that emergency when people were stuck in their cars, they couldn't easily go out to start a campfire to cook normal store-bought rice/pasta; but they probably could have taken a few bottles of water, some dehydrated meals from this bucket, and at least had a cold pouch of food. If they had some MRE heaters in the car, they could have even had warm food--pretty important to keep up morale for the family who's been stuck for 27 hours in the cold with nowhere to go and nothing to do.
Mr president, its ok we have domesticated animals. You dont need to raise wild ones.
#pureMichigan #neverEatMoreThan1FishPerMonth
Cook salmon sashimi and avoid tuna.
All of these emergency food buckets and MREs are extremely unhealthy and nonideal. They are loaded with sodium, which is very dangerous for vulnerable communities.
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