Amazon has
4-Lb 1-Oz Augason Farms 72-Hour 1-Person Emergency Food Supply Kit on sale for
$20.64. Shipping is free w/ Prime or $25+.
- Note: Usually ships within 2 to 4 weeks
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4-Lb 1-Oz Augason Farms 72-Hour 1-Person Emergency Food Supply Kit on salefor
$20.64. Shipping is free with Walmart+ (
free trial available) or orders $35+, otherwise select free store pickup where stock permits.
- Note: Availability for free store pick up may vary by location.
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Product Details:- 42 servings
- 2, 667 calories per day & 8, 000 total calories
- Easy to Prepare. Just add water.
- Up to a 25 year shelf life.
- 5 meal varieties included:
- Maple Brown Sugar Oatmeal
- Banana Chips
- Creamy Chicken Rice
- Creamy Potato Soup
- Hearty Vegetable Chicken Soup
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But pulling all those cans and boxes of dry mixes out of storage may not be viable if you're in a wildfire, hurricane or other emergent disaster situation and are forced to evacuate quickly. Every household should have a go-bag ready to, well, grab and go. That includes lightweight, easily transportable and extremely shelf stable food stores.
Which segues to @Edxzxz's question, to which he's received multiple answers. Yeah, sure it's fun to joke about end of the world, zombie-type apocalyptic scenarios. I'm as guilty of that as anyone (ufozs.com). But unless you're not following recent (and not so recent) events - things like California wildfires and mudslides, Hurricane Ian and even going back to Katrina all demonstrate the very real possibility of being forced to leave home and hearth quickly. And Katrina and Ian especially vividly showed that in a widespread regional disaster, you absolutely cannot count on the authorities to provide for your basic needs. Certainly not in the first 72 hours.
I actually hate terms like "bugging out", "SHTF" and other doomsday vernacular. It marginalizes what is a legitimate and very real contingency that many of us will face at least once in our lifetimes. Even the federal government recognizes that help will likely be at least 3 days away in large scale disasters. So they encourage every single household to have an emergency kit. And if you live in places like modern Japan, you'd be consider loony if you didn't have an earthquake/tsunami kit ready to go at a moment's notice.
https://www.fema.gov/press-releas...mergen
https://www.ready.gov/kit
And finally, to naysayers who argue what's the point in buying a bunch of over-priced food that you won't use for the next 25 years, I'd posit: how different is that from the thousands of dollars of auto, health, life and property insurance premiums we all "waste" over our lifetimes knowing full well we probably won't need most of it? Ditto for those smoke detectors you faithfully change the batteries in every year or so. If a measly 3 days of food, a change of clothes, RX meds and photocopies of your important papers aren't worth gathering in a grab and go kit, then surely insurance, smoke detectors and household fire extinguishers are a waste of money.
It's called managing risk and involves expending resources on things that - God willing - you'll never, ever use. Disaster preparedness isn't just for doomsday preppers anymore.
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2. Whole lot of salt
or in 25 years, ive wasted $60
Is is better or worse than just buying and keeping 20-30 cans/sealed packages of tuna, soup, veggies, canned ham, regular dry oatmeal packs, etc that I swap out every 1-2 years (eating them in rotation)?
Uhhh... No.
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The soup I'm guessing is going to be like Knorr sides+bouillon cube or ramen seasoning+dehydrated vegetables. Something you could piece together with normal groceries and an air fryer/dehydrator/convection oven.
But pulling all those cans and boxes of dry mixes out of storage may not be viable if you're in a wildfire, hurricane or other emergent disaster situation and are forced to evacuate quickly. Every household should have a go-bag ready to, well, grab and go. That includes lightweight, easily transportable and extremely shelf stable food stores.
Which segues to @Edxzxz's question, to which he's received multiple answers. Yeah, sure it's fun to joke about end of the world, zombie-type apocalyptic scenarios. I'm as guilty of that as anyone (ufozs.com). But unless you're not following recent (and not so recent) events - things like California wildfires and mudslides, Hurricane Ian and even going back to Katrina all demonstrate the very real possibility of being forced to leave home and hearth quickly. And Katrina and Ian especially vividly showed that in a widespread regional disaster, you absolutely cannot count on the authorities to provide for your basic needs. Certainly not in the first 72 hours.
I actually hate terms like "bugging out", "SHTF" and other doomsday vernacular. It marginalizes what is a legitimate and very real contingency that many of us will face at least once in our lifetimes. Even the federal government recognizes that help will likely be at least 3 days away in large scale disasters. So they encourage every single household to have an emergency kit. And if you live in places like modern Japan, you'd be consider loony if you didn't have an earthquake/tsunami kit ready to go at a moment's notice.
https://www.fema.gov/press-releas...mergen
https://www.ready.gov/kit
And finally, to naysayers who argue what's the point in buying a bunch of over-priced food that you won't use for the next 25 years, I'd posit: how different is that from the thousands of dollars of auto, health, life and property insurance premiums we all "waste" over our lifetimes knowing full well we probably won't need most of it? Ditto for those smoke detectors you faithfully change the batteries in every year or so. If a measly 3 days of food, a change of clothes, RX meds and photocopies of your important papers aren't worth gathering in a grab and go kit, then surely insurance, smoke detectors and household fire extinguishers are a waste of money.
It's called managing risk and involves expending resources on things that - God willing - you'll never, ever use. Disaster preparedness isn't just for doomsday preppers anymore.
A more shelf stable answer for electrolytes is just a container of salt. Lite salt if you want potassium as well. Lite salt will have roughly a 1:1 ratio of sodium and potassium, so to get a 3:1 ratio of sodium to potassium, you just need 1 part Lite salt and 1 part salt.
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Odd no one complains when a bag of Lays says "3 chips" is a serving size but suddenly everyone breaks out the pocket scales when it comes to emergency food kits. LOL.
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