Posted on 10/15/2016 3:14:20 PM PDT by Paved Paradise
I would like to have some emergency food stored for whatever disaster is coming...blizzard, grid down, etc. Does anyone have any recommendations? I see numerous vendors and businesses. Thanks!
Be sure to lay in a supply of dehydrated water.
More complex food items always taste best when freeze-dried. We prefer Mountain House, and Amazon always has buckets of this at great prices during its Black Friday sale weeks.
I had my Ronco dehydrator give up the ghost after 18 years of service this year.
I checked out an Ebay supplier to see if it would just be better to order the stuff.
It’s not.
Buy a dehydrator and use it. You WILL appreciate it !
Are you asking about dehydrated or freeze dried? There’s a big difference.
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Mountain House. Decent quality.
Ask Ronpaul.
He’s down to hawking a prepper freeze-dry kit on radio ads these days.
“...even ice cream”
I’ve been happy with augasonfarms.com and honeyville (https://shop.honeyville.com). Augason has some nice - repetetive - daily deals, you can stock up on white rice, hard white wheat, butter powder, biscuit/pancake mixes, creamy wheat and granola cereals, carrots, potato flakes, peas, beans and more all in #10 cans for long-term storage.
If you’re looking for a basic, nuts and bolts guide of sorts on survival, food planning, I put something together a few years ago you might find useful. Here:
https://www.scribd.com/document/77847015/Zombie-Attack-Plan
Skip to the end for food basics. Good luck.
There is no real need to get too exotic. If you live where you can store stuff at reasonable temperatures then realize that canned goods last indefinitely stored at 75 degrees.
And some water.
It might be worth considering Soylet. It is nothing fancy, but it is cheap and you can live on it indefinitely.
Lay in a supply of Boost Plus with 360 calories/8 oz bottle. About $9 for 2160 calories. Has the advantage of providing most of your liquid needs as well.
Might make a good start for a prepper thread.
I am a happy customer of buyemergencyfoods.com.
Oh I agree.....
Layered. A lot of back up nonperishable foods you eat every day, then canned goods and rice, then long term storage and maybe MREs. Don’t forget lots of water and a a way to purify water.
I tried some of the Auguson Farms stuff and it’s not bad but also not especially good. As survival food it’ll be fine, but I think I’ll try the Honeyville and Mountain House offerings to compare.
I recommend Dollar General for cans of cashews and Beenie Weenies. Great price per calorie/nutrition.
Walmart for 6 packs of Maruchan noodles.
Seriously. You might as well save money.
Beans and Rice store a decent amount of time, especially if you seal them in mylar bags with O2 absorbers. As mentioned, canned goods are pretty much indefinite including canned meats. Try to stay away from pull top cans. Pasta lasts a long time.
Store what you eat
Eat what you store
Rotate
MREs (Meals Ready to Eat) Military food, new version of C rations are good.
Freeze dried lasts forever but is costly. Mountain House is supposed to be tops.
Dehydrated; depends on what it is as far as how long it lasts.
Dehydrated and freeze dried need water, canned goods already have water in them. In a shtf scenario, you don’t pour out excess liquid from canned goods. It gets served with the solid or used in some way. That’s where a lot of the nutrients end up anyway.
How are you going to get water if the grid goes down for a lengthy amount of time? At some point, driving to get water or anything else won’t be an option.
...Be sure to lay in a supply of dehydrated water.
And some water....
Take a look at Berkey water filters. They stand alone...don’t have to be connected to anything... Better ones use use at least 2 black ceramic filters. Each will clean 3,000 gallons of water to .99999. When they start cleaning slowly, clean them with a green Scotch scouring pad and they’re good for the next 3,000 gallons. If all you have is swamp or muddy water, just pour it through a sock to take out solid particles as you pour it into the filter, and it’s good to go with the dirty water you put in. Ones that filter about 3 gallons a day are about $225 on Amazon.
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