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4-Lb 1-Oz Augason Farms 72-Hour 1-Person Emergency Food Supply Kit

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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+.
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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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  • About this deal:
    • This deal price is $2.29 lower than the September 2022 Frontpage deal which received + 20 votes from the community.
  • About this product:
    • 4.6 out of 5 stars rating at Amazon based on over 2,250 customer reviews
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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
Walmart also has 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.
Thanks to Deal Hunter Rokket & Community Member bluekiwi for finding this deal.

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

Editor's Notes

Written by citan359 | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • This deal price is $2.29 lower than the September 2022 Frontpage deal which received + 20 votes from the community.
  • About this product:
    • 4.6 out of 5 stars rating at Amazon based on over 2,250 customer reviews
  • About this store:
  • Additional Note:
    • Please refer to the Forum Thread for additional discussion regarding this deal.

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Jan 17, 2023 10:00 PM
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bucdanJan 17, 2023 10:00 PM
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Quote from Edxzxz :
OK, but I'm just pondering what scenario I'd need a 3 day emergency supply of non perishable food, and in all those scenarios I'm able to work on the 3 months worth of shit I perpetually have laying around the house anyway, lots of which is non perishable. If the zombie apocalypse happened tonight, I could lock my doors and live off what I already have for over 3 months, and all of it is better than dried oats. If the crisis lasts more than 3 months, I'd prefer to have stockpiles of ammunition instead of oats.
3 days of food is considered the recommended minimum for a bug-out-bag. That's where the 72 hour idea comes from. Bug-out-bags in general are supposed to have enough supplies to sustain 1 person for 72 hours. Consider this 1 container enough to fill the food aspect of it.
Jan 17, 2023 10:10 PM
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gclc1216Jan 17, 2023 10:10 PM
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Quote from Yuhreka :
Those pictures of the food served in clean white bowls with cloth napkins are ridiculous and misrepresentative. These are supposed to be emergency meals. Shouldn't they show the food being served in a bag or old tin can in a makeshift bunker? Or someone eating on the go as they're being chased by a horde of zombies?
Well if I'm being chased by a horde of zombies, I'm not sure my hunger is the first priority!
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Quote from petite :
Wonder what's put there to keep the 25 years of shelf life
1. Lack of water
2. Whole lot of salt
Jan 17, 2023 10:28 PM
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minieodJan 17, 2023 10:28 PM
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Quote from Edxzxz :
OK, but I'm just pondering what scenario I'd need a 3 day emergency supply of non perishable food, and in all those scenarios I'm able to work on the 3 months worth of shit I perpetually have laying around the house anyway, lots of which is non perishable. If the zombie apocalypse happened tonight, I could lock my doors and live off what I already have for over 3 months, and all of it is better than dried oats. If the crisis lasts more than 3 months, I'd prefer to have stockpiles of ammunition instead of oats.
well for $60, I can set my family up for 3 days of food in a very crazy emergency, if it ever happens.

or in 25 years, ive wasted $60
Jan 17, 2023 11:07 PM
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IntranetusaJan 17, 2023 11:07 PM
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Can anyone comment on the taste of this item?

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)?
Last edited by Intranetusa January 17, 2023 at 03:10 PM.
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Jan 17, 2023 11:47 PM
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ColoradoFoxtrotJan 17, 2023 11:47 PM
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Rice, soup, and oatmeal for $20?

Uhhh... No.
Jan 18, 2023 1:14 AM
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gabate3863Jan 18, 2023 1:14 AM
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If you're consuming 2,667 calories per day in an emergency, you don't deserve to survive.
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Jan 18, 2023 1:40 AM
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MadJukesJan 18, 2023 1:40 AM
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Quote from Edxzxz :
OK, but I'm just pondering what scenario I'd need a 3 day emergency supply of non perishable food, and in all those scenarios I'm able to work on the 3 months worth of shit I perpetually have laying around the house anyway, lots of which is non perishable. If the zombie apocalypse happened tonight, I could lock my doors and live off what I already have for over 3 months, and all of it is better than dried oats. If the crisis lasts more than 3 months, I'd prefer to have stockpiles of ammunition instead of oats.
This is definitely for the "oh I'm a survivalist" type that has no real practical use. Like you said you'll never need overpriced 3 days worth of food in the house. And anything here that you need for food you'll also need water which is a much bigger issue during times of emergency.
Jan 18, 2023 2:19 AM
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TheXungJan 18, 2023 2:19 AM
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Shelf stable food already lasts way longer than people think. I've eaten 10 year old rice, cans of coconut milk, and fish sauce. Other than the rice needing a little more water to cook with, I wouldn't have been able to identify that they tasted 10 years old. Sure the taste was a little different, but no more than taste variation across different brands and I ate them knowing they were 10 years old. If you want to be more certain about dried goods or just make it last as long as possible, I guess you could vacuum seal rice/oatmeal/banana chips with a desiccant bag and freeze it for a week.

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.
Jan 18, 2023 2:27 AM
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majorhavocJan 18, 2023 2:27 AM
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Quote from Edxzxz :
OK, but I'm just pondering what scenario I'd need a 3 day emergency supply of non perishable food, and in all those scenarios I'm able to work on the 3 months worth of shit I perpetually have laying around the house anyway, lots of which is non perishable. If the zombie apocalypse happened tonight, I could lock my doors and live off what I already have for over 3 months, and all of it is better than dried oats. If the crisis lasts more than 3 months, I'd prefer to have stockpiles of ammunition instead of oats.
Quote from DivineShadow :
I agree. To me, the value of a prepped bucket kit is the ability to grab it and go. This bucket is a good deal as far as prepped kits go, but it's basically a few snacks with soup. If I am truly "on the go," I don't want to waste drinking water to make a soup with little protein that will leave me starving anyway. Canned chicken from Costco added to cans of soup (also from Costco) will offer more food and better value. Even minimal prep at your local Costco will offer food and water for a very long period of time if you plan it even a bit. .
DivineShadow, I think you've hit the nail on the head with the grab and go aspect of this kind of emergency food kit. But I'm going to challenge you a bit on the Costco canned food route as an alternative. If you're serious about long term prepping that involves sheltering in versus bugging out then yes, absolutely lay in a supply of canned and other shelf stable foods from the grocery store. By rotating them out every few years, you've surmounted the shelf life issue that companies like Augason Farms tout. I certainly do exactly that.

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...mergencies
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.
Last edited by majorhavoc January 17, 2023 at 06:34 PM.
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A couple jars of peanut butter, couple boxes of granola or breakfast bars and Gatorades or Powerades. If your goal is only to survive 3 days, you don't need to worry about nutritious foods. Just some Vienna sausages, can of ravioli, etc. will work. These survival companies make it sound all slick with their nutritional breakdown. Now in a long term emergency, I'd be worried about nutrition, but just for a 3-5 day disaster to make it through till authorities get things under control of you get rescued, buy some cheap can goods or power bars. Don't forget some sports drinks as they can replenish the electrolytes and things your body will need in a high stress situation. Heck, the Dollar Tree sells all sorts of canned goods and breakfast bars, lol
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DontTaxBeerJan 18, 2023 3:22 AM
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wish their wheat berries would come down in price. its quadrupled the last time i bought any.
Jan 18, 2023 4:36 AM
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Mattphoto101Jan 18, 2023 4:36 AM
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Quote from Intranetusa :
Can anyone comment on the taste of this item?
The thousands of reviews on the amazon page could.
Jan 18, 2023 4:45 AM
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TheXungJan 18, 2023 4:45 AM
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Quote from swgfanforlife :
Don't forget some sports drinks as they can replenish the electrolytes and things your body will need in a high stress situation.
Electrolytes is just a marketing term for salts. If you read the nutrition label of sport drinks, those electrolytes are just sodium and potassium in a 3:1 ratio. A bougee one for diarrhea might also have a small amount of magnesium. These salts should already be in your food in ample amounts. The reason why sport drinks are marketed towards athletes is because they are often sweating and hydrating without eating.

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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Quote from Robert13 :
Because "serving" for nutritional values is based on very small amounts, unless you really think 1/3 cup of soup is a meal
Recommended nutritional amounts vs American actual servings differ slightly.

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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