Posted on 06/02/2022 12:17:21 PM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
Ok, so today I ordered meals from 4Patriots (33 days supply) and freeze dried beef (19 separate servings) in anticipation of severe food shortages being predicted.
I really hope I don't have to use them, but I'll have them just in case.
My question is, does anyone have any recommendations or specific companies you've used to order the same type of thing?
If so, did you like them?
With all respect, I could probably live on C-rats and enjoy it, as long as all my other needs were being taken care of and maybe I had a few extra crackers! They have mystery meat in that, sometimes, right? Wooooo-hoooooo!
But I understand what you mean. This is why the first thing we always do after an extended camping trip is hit the nearest burger joint.
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A freezer is a wise investment and a generator to run it if power goes out.
Visit a large group with your large container, and let them feed you a few days/weeks.
It wasn’t that the C-rats were so bad. It was that there were only those same 12 meals... day in... day out... day in... day out... day after day after day come sun or monsoon or typhoon... day in... day out...
???
Silenced .22LR, and voila, Brunswick stew!
The downside is that a generator makes noise and attracts attention.
I have a bunch of canned soup, below is an image from my walmart reorder page... the 26oz cans of condensed chicken w rice, second from left, is a really good buy, it's condensed and so makes a huge amount when you add the water back in.
It's a great soup stock to add more veggies and meat to :-) And they deliver many foods for free w a 35$ minimum purchase! That's hard to beat.
Couple of summers ago, every week at the grocery store, I picked up about $5 of additional canned goods. My larder is pretty full and it didn’t break the bank.
Here in New England winters are cold. If we have power outages thanks to Brandon, it's good to have a second source of heating (e.g. a wood stove) and also some bottled water for cooking etc. since your water pump may not work during winter months. Sturdy metal shelves you can quickly assemble are sold at Home Depot - use them for your water jugs. Once warm weather returns, you can use your own well if you have an emergency hand pump. They make them for drilled wells. Water is critical for cooking and hydration.
We are in our early to mid 80’s, and our appetites are not that big. My wife maintains her weight with about 1000-1200 calories.
She feels that we can last for a week + with what is in our standard freezer, protein wise.
Then, we keep a couple of dozen Progresso Soup cans on hand. She is satisfied with about a 1/3 of a can, and I’m fine with 2/3 of a can. We keep a couple of dozen of store brand canned beans, corn and ????, and they make a great mix with the canned soups. Just put an unopened cans of soup in the noon day sun for a couple of hours to warm up the lunch/dinner.
We keep about a dozen each of beef stock and chicken stock which require no refrig until opened.
So buy somethings like above on sale or from Costco/Amazon or your local store.
Our grocery discount store has a lot of canned goods on sale with good dating.
We are now ordering canned tuna and salmon with Olive oil.
My wife can do wonders with pasta, rice and beef stock and chicken stock.
We love Seeds of change rice mixes. 90 seconds in a microwave and my CPAP spare battery and solar charger can meet that challenge in about 1 hour of solar.
I have 2 propane tanks, and one is all ways full. One tank starts a lot charcoal for outdoor cooking on our Char-Broil Grill..
Bambis and the fat gray squirrels will donate to our needs.
We told our adult children, if they come here, they bring their food and water.
lots of canned goods, freezers full, dry goods as well.....
I need to get more flour and sugar though....I get to baking and go thru it like mad.
I ordered a month’s worth (for 2 people) of 25-year shelf-life meals from Patriot Supply a couple of years ago. Wife keeps wanting to crack some open so she doesn’t have to cook, and I keep telling her no. I’ll be gone in less than 23 years, and I’m sure the first thing she’ll do after the funeral is to start eating them. :)
Buy a little bit of everything. Dry goods, rice, canned goods. Expiration dates are kind of fuzzy.
Emergency Essentials in Utah.
Been in business for many years, have good products and their flat rate shipping can’t be beat.
https://beprepared.com/pages/shipping-rates
We home can, Have chickens and a pond full of fish. Flour lasts forever if you treat it right. I just made some pancakes out of 2014 flour and it is just as fresh as new.
Have tried a few of the survival foods. After eating them a few days you may not want to survive.
Eliminates the problem of your stash getting stale, come shtf. You contribute a certain number of meals, they give you about that number of meals (minus rent, tho work can adjust this).
They used to be my goto, but they don’t sell superpails anymore.
I’m thinking, collect some some things that make “staples” more tasty.
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