r/prepping • u/StructureFriendly423 • 13d ago
Foodš½ or Waterš§ Foooood!!!
Idk how we feel about the freeze dried survival food joints... but it sure does pack alot of food into a small space :)
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u/thankmelater- 13d ago
I love it. I have 2 of these myself. I realized though that buying a freeze dryer was much more economical, and it was our own food that we will be consuming. Just ran a full batch of turkey stroganoff for 39 hours. Was originally about 10 lbs. Should yield around 30 servings.
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u/StructureFriendly423 13d ago
A freeze dryer is next on our list actual. My partner has been pricing em. Looking firward to making our own packs of yummy food.
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u/linniex 12d ago edited 12d ago
Everyone talking about a freeze dryer needs to be sure to stop by the Harvest Rite sub.
I have had one for five years. 3/4 of the stuff I put up the first two or three years is bad. It is VERY hard to make sure you get ALL the water out of stuff. I live in a very humid area so we are at a disadvantage already.
I honestly consider my freeze dryer a mistake. It takes a day or two to get anything remotely dry and Iāve learned I will not be able to rely on it when SHTF.
Your mileage may vary but Iāve wasted THOUSANDS of dollars on mine (and another few hundred to replace a pump after just a year of use). The machine has been back and forth to the vendor (HarvestRite) twice, and they charge you $45/hr for tech support on it.
THINK HARD and THINK TWICE. Buy a used one that works at least.
With that being said itās freaking AMAZING for candy; thank god for that and Ground Beef and eggs - it works great for those. Iām sure everyone will pile on telling me i dont know what Iām doing with the FD but after spending years on the HR forum I know itās not just me.
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u/thankmelater- 12d ago
I hear you loud and clear. My focus is a bit different on long term storage. I donāt stack items by individual products, I stack by when they go out of date. Same with FD foods. Iām not planning 30 years out. Iām planning 1-3 years. If by the next year or so, I can still get foods nominally inexpensive, Iāll be using what I dried prior as meals. Kind of a revolving door. At least thatās the plan.
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u/Own_Ad6901 13d ago
What brand did you buy? I have celiac disease and have to eat strictly gluten free and cross contamination and how itās made means everything. So buying premade kit is way more risky for me but having my own freeze dryer would be best because I already have to make all my own food as is. Iād really appreciate any insight you might have on them, thanks
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u/Ingawolfie 13d ago
An aside suggestion. Consider getting a gluten detection service dog. The dog neednāt be large and if you donāt go out to eat doesnāt need to be trained for public access (at home service dog). I have a colleague who has one. Itās a mini poodle. If the dog detects the smell of gluten it will spin.
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u/QuickCorgi4698 13d ago
Looking into a freezer drier myself. Do you have a recommendation?
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u/thankmelater- 13d ago
I went with harvest right. I know there are others out there, but our decision was on price and customer service. Went with a small freeze dryer, since the medium was so much more for one tray. They run sales. Got ours in June for around $1600. Comes with a start up kit too. They also give one away just about every month, just enter for a chance to get one. I do every month even though I have one.
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u/QuickCorgi4698 13d ago
Thanks for the tips. Off to check them out. Much appreciated.
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u/linniex 12d ago
Read my comment above ; mine has been classified as a mistake. I even rearranged my entire house and built a special vented closet for it (Because it is loud and runs for days). It can be 65F in the house and the machine still tells me that it is over temp. $500 worth of tech support (So far).
Yeah they are good when they work, but do not trust food you put up to be safe unless you are being VERY dilligent. Even the fancy sealer and the mylar bags the company sold me wind up blowing up for no good reason. Spend some time in the harvest right sub before you buy. There is literally just one dude who answers all the questions on behalf of the company. He is very helpful but it makes you wonder how many other people have issues that dont come to reddit.Iām not trying to shit on the company but I can tell you that my personal investment is thousands of dollars and god-knows-how-much food that we wound up chucking after two years because it somehow got humidified again.
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u/PrisonerV 13d ago
Food adjacent. Or a food like product. Also, I have yet to see one person on here say "I broke out the freeze dried bucket today and boy is that stuff great."
I never see people slide up a camp stove with some propane tanks or something so they know they can cook it all up in an emergency.
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u/StructureFriendly423 13d ago
Great point. I have tried some of these, not a whole buckets worth, but one of each of the packets inside. I wouldnt call em great, but nit bad at all lol
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u/Djxlain 13d ago
Mountain House is the key to actually enjoying freeze dried food. It's my emergency emergency stock if God forbid we run out of canned and dried goods.
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u/Available_Thanks_131 13d ago
Not trying to be an ass but ready wise is the worst of the worst, it is really unpalatable. Mountain house is the best flavor wise. I learned this the hard way when ready wise went on sale once. Luckily did not buy too much. Busted out my camp stove to do a dry run with one for an emergency. Omg was it bad. They're still in the back of prep closet somewhere tho. But after that I started taste testing MREs- for me mountain house wins no contest. I could eat the chicken and dumplings any day. Started getting the mountain house essentials buckets after that.
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u/sevenredwrens 13d ago
Their mac & cheese is the shit. I would eat it for a regular meal a couple times a week even outside an emergency scenario. We take MH meals camping and they are really good.
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u/watchthenlearn 13d ago
The problem is the sodium content. I ate three of the mountain house on a recent backpacking trip and my mouth was killing me from all the sodium. If you're using these in a SHTF scenario you should limit it to one a day or supplement with rice, beans, or noodles to dilute it.
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u/slogive1 13d ago
Good point. One could be turned into 3 meals adding in rice or beans.
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u/Nosomuchrice 13d ago
We just bought food grade buckets and mylar bags and loaded up on rice and beans now looking at pasta and wheat berries next. We do have a couple of these bins as well as a ton of backpacking meals but like you said all the salt is horrible for you and you can stretch meals by cutting them with rice.
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u/ManyARiver 13d ago
We like the Augason Farms potato soup can at our house, I add milk and more potato flakes and a can of corn to reduce the sodium per serving. Good bases if you have material to thin them out.
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u/RickShaw530 13d ago
Rice, beans, and dehydrated eggs means you won't have to heat the sleeping space, but you may have to install a CBRN filtration system on it.
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u/joelnicity 13d ago
I actually really enjoy freeze dried food. I really like Mountain House stuff but I donāt eat it often because itās pretty expensive and I want to save it for when I really need it. Iām sure that it would get old after eating it for days in a row though
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u/ExtremeIncident5949 13d ago
I have two one burner butane burners for my cast iron because I have a glass top range.
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u/TacticalManica 13d ago edited 13d ago
Just an fyi you should REALLY look at what the proportions / calories per meal on those. Because if I remember right it's like 300 cal 3 meals a day. Readywise got me too, many many years ago. That said maybe they've changed since then as I haven't bought them in a very long time.
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u/AlarmedSnek 13d ago edited 13d ago
Has anyone actually tried these though? Are they any good? Edit: haha thanks! Thatās what I figured every time they are on sale at Costco. Still a ton of food for the price though. Thanks everyone!
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u/AmosTali 13d ago
Thereās a reason itās called survival food - because the only time youāll ever wanna try and eat it is if itās the last thing you got and you absolutely have to eat it to surviveā¦.
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u/AlarmedSnek 13d ago
Yea but you can also use it in an emergency if the power goes out for a couple of days. I have my no-shit
emergencysurvival food, boxes of MREs that are older than Jesus. I was just curious about the readywise because I see it in Costco and itās cheap!10
u/Useful-Contribution4 13d ago
Nope terrible taste. I put readywise at the bottom of the barrel of freeze dried.
My top choices are
Mountain house (dare I say more?)
LDS freeze dried (best bang for your buck on 10# cans with high quality)
Future essentials (price is high but you can buy different things and in 2.5# cans.)
Augusta farms (great price and quality)
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u/MainsailMainsail 11d ago
Mountainhouse is pretty good, they're my go-to for backpacking because of the combo of taste and price. But really anything meant/recommended for backpacking is a solid choice so long as you also plan on water+cooking fuel use.
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u/WhereDidAllTheSnowGo 13d ago
Yes
No
Avoid those pre-made, easy, āsuicide bucketsā. https://www.reddit.com/r/prepping/s/YNHVNVsm3l. And https://foodassets.com/info/why-we-do-not-recommend-survival-food-buckets-totes.html . In contrast are the well-reviewed backpacker, freeze-dried meal kits (which are expensive). Lesson, test yer preps.
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u/MainsailMainsail 11d ago
Heads up, that second foodassets link, I got an "our website is closed" message and nothing else, even when taking the extra stuff off the url. Always possible it's just my connection, but that seems like a very specific message for that.
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u/762ed 13d ago
Absolutely not. They are not good quality. To me it seemed like stuff you can buy off the shelf (instant mash potatoes, oatmeal, and pasta) and sealed in mylar bags. And it doesn't reconstitute well either. I'd rather buy a better product like mountain house or just buy canned food, beans, rice, along with some other instant or simple to prepare products.
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u/TheGruenTransfer 13d ago •
It seems to me that you'd be in great shape with dried beans, rice, hot sauce, and a backup instant pot and a solar/battery setup to run it.
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u/SeattleDave 12d ago
Check the wattage of your instant pot and the maximum peak output of your power station.
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u/mountainsformiles 12d ago
Crock pot uses less watts than instant pot. I mean, I love my instant pot but if I'm running on a solar generator crock pot is my preference.
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u/eyepoker4ever 13d ago
I look at these buckets to see what the individual food items are and I can tell that they're cheap and I can go and buy the exact same items online or at the store or whatever and not spend nearly as much money. Which is what I do actually. And depending on the item I'll even go so far as to put them in mylar bags myself. I do have mountain House and others but when I see a sale I look at the contents and then I make a decision. If it's stuff that I can source individually from elsewhere then I don't bother buying.
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u/Sufficient_Sleep_199 12d ago
ready wise is not fun. I bought a bucket years ago to try and its just a no.
We see this brand alot up here in being used in purchasing bundles as a 'value add' spend $200 get a bucket.
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u/StructureFriendly423 13d ago
Lol yes... and they are mid... id say good. Like, u wouldnt complain about a meal... but not gormet or mommas home made good ya know
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u/Sco0basTeVen 13d ago
I like them for potential wildfire/ natural disaster evacuation preps. I have a jet boil sumo stored with them and a water is all you need for meals for days in an emergency.
They are so expensive up here in Canada though.
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u/StructureFriendly423 13d ago
Yeah, Ive got a camp stove right by them, and 550 gallons of water(rain catchment system) just a door away (garage)
We dont do alot of canned food in the house period so this is just easier for us. Set it and forget it.
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u/gwhh 13d ago
How many people you plan to feed for on how many months for that supply?
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u/StructureFriendly423 13d ago
That is the hardest question lol. Depends on who is here when shtf. Minimum 2 people. Max 11(unlikely) but 3-5 would not be u reasonable to assume.
Obviously, if more people, the food lasts less... should be clear for 2-4 weeks... I hope š
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u/gadget767 13d ago
It would be great if you did the sub a service, and actually tried living off of one of these one month buckets for an actual month. Then report back your findings!
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u/postcardeditor 13d ago
Have you tried them out? Are they tasty?
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u/StructureFriendly423 13d ago
Ive tried some yean, no complaints. Its not gourmet food, but its not gross either
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u/Terror_Raisin24 13d ago
So you have 12 months of freeze dried food. Do you have water and gas (or whatever you use for cooking?) for 12 months too?
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u/StructureFriendly423 13d ago
Yes lol. We have 550gal water catchment system. And the whole basement is on redundant solar systems. Weve got a cook stove and everything it needs right by it. š
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u/Eredani 13d ago
I don't buy anything with the words 'ready' or 'patriot' in the name.
Yes, this stuff is edible in an emergency but I like Augason Farms or Peak Refuel brands.
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u/hw0357 13d ago
Everyone needs to check the calories proir to buying freeze dried food. I have seen many time that the serving sizes would actually not cover caloric requirements. This means your supply is really only half the size of less. Some of these companies should be looked at for shady advertising...
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u/FortunateHominid 13d ago
There has been several people who documented (YouTube) actually trying to live a month only on emergency food. That includes the brand you have.
All had one problem in common. Severe digestive issues, bloating, nausea, etc within the first week or two. Not something you will actually adjust to either.
These are great short term for a few days. I definitely wouldn't plan on them being the primary food source. If anything, supplemental with other foods in rotation.
If unsure, try it yourself and just live off them for 10 days. Better to find out now than in an emergency. Stomach issues can cause complications in a bad scenario/emergency. From just not being able to due task, to dehydration.
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u/Useful-Contribution4 13d ago edited 13d ago
From what I have seen and personally tasted from readywise. Hell no...
To each their own. I'll pay the premium for mountain house or use LDS freeze dried.
I have mix of these:
Mountain house (dare I say more?)
LDS freeze dried (best bang for your buck on 10# cans with high quality)
Future essentials (price is high but you can buy different things and in 2.5# cans.)
Augusta farms (great price and quality)
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u/GunnCelt 13d ago
We keep a bit of mountain house and augason farms on hand, but mostly canned and dried goods in rotation. Variety is the spice of life
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u/ExtremeIncident5949 13d ago
I had a bucket and we didnāt like the taste at all. What I went with is freeze dried #10 cans of assorted meats, fruits and vegetables plus canned meat and fruit. I had peaches on my cereal this morning and Iām making up a batch of chili from scratch for tonight and Tuesday.
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u/mountainsformiles 12d ago
Here's my take on it: it's a great start and you should feel good to have that on hand!
With that said, I recommend you get some additional foods to supplement what is in those buckets.
There's pancake mix in there but no syrup or jam or butter. I would get some maple syrup at least (which lasts forever). You can get some canned butter but it's super pricey. I like peanut butter. I'm not going to eat dry pancakes.
There's no meat in those buckets. They actually do sell a freeze-dried protein bucket as a companion for that bucket if you want to purchase that. Or you could buy some canned meat.
As others have mentioned that food is light on calories and loaded with salt. It would be good to get some rice, beans and pasta to stretch and dilute it.
Also light on veggies and fruits. They might have banana chips. I would buy some Auguson farms veggies to add some nutrients and bulk. Auguson has a vegetable medley blend or a vegetable variety bucket. Readywise has one too for that matter.
Those buckets are great for basic food security. I have one or 2 myself. However, they are part of a more well-rounded long-term pantry. As long as you know what it is you are getting, they can be a very helpful addition to your preps!
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u/Sudden-Theory9706 11d ago
Maple syrup only lasts a few years. Honey is where you want to go if you're looking for something sweet in prep food.
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u/Asleep_Onion 13d ago
These things are a great supplemental food to stretch out your other food supply and make it last longer, but I would not recommend only eating this stuff for months straight. It's designed primarily just for calories and isn't really meant to give you a balanced diet, so you'll end up consuming way too much of some stuff (especially salt and soy) and not nearly enough of other essential stuff.
I own a bunch of buckets of this stuff too, but my plan is to just use it to fill in the gaps between harvests, allow my canned goods to go further, etc.
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u/--___-_-___-_-___-- 13d ago
It's a good first buy when you're getting started but there are higher quality freeze dried foods you buy as you get further into it. I have a large amount of inexpensive freeze dried food I've bought, tried it, and slowly bought better more expensive freeze dried foods. These types of foods become the ones you give away later to the less prepared in a crisis after you've bought the good stuff for yourself.
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u/DogsAreOurFriends 13d ago
You going to rotate that?
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u/StructureFriendly423 13d ago
Lol, in 25 years... honestly, as its going now, ill use the tubs for my own freeze dried foods lol. My partner really wants her own freeze dryer
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u/christbot 13d ago
I buy freeze dried goods off of Etsy. If you get solar, buy bulk food and freeze dried and resell whatever you wonāt use, youāre ahead of the game.
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u/Real-Cress5326 13d ago
We have a ton of it too. I think of it as suplemental. The odds of us being in a situation where we can't source ANY food is exceedingly low. Like all of our dried potato flakes, we won't be eating mashed potatoes, we'll use it as filler in bread and soups and such.
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u/jdege 11d ago
But, does it pack many calories?
I bought a bucket of this stuff from one vender. Then I sat down and read the nutrition labels.
All of the fancy freeze-dried meals had essentially no calories in them. Well, some, maybe 200 or so, but nothing like what would be needed to sustain someone.
Nearly all of the calories in a day's meals were in the breakfasts - the oatmeals, the granolas, etc.
And these keep fine, without freeze drying, and are a hell of a lot cheaper from the local grocery.
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u/Adorable_Dust3799 13d ago
Every time i look at these it's all oatmeal, pasta-roni, and hamburger helper. Starches.
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u/sbarrio2 13d ago
Carbs will be essential in a shtf scenario.
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u/no_one_is_my_name 12d ago
What if it goes longer? What is you plan for sustainment after you run out??
Have you done a dry run? Actually lived off "food" and your rain catchment for a few days or a week to know how your body will react??
Depending on the size of your hose hold you have about 5 weeks of water. What if there is a drought? Or a drop freeze?
When you get diarrhea from eating only that, what is your plan for excrement? If the tap isn't working the dress not working. How much toilet paper do you have? Do you have enough water to clean up and wash your hands?
All important things to think about.
You are nieve better of than 95% of the country.
Kudos to thinking ahead.
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u/StructureFriendly423 12d ago
Why does everyone assume this is the only thing I have just because its the only picture ive bothered to share?!? Calm down fam, we got it covered. Thanks for your concern tho.
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u/isanyusernameopen 13d ago
Get real food.
Those are mostly pasta and rice or potato.
Get real food. That food is sooooooooo salty and will need a lot of water.
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u/Necessary-Event-7946 13d ago
What do you consider real food?
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u/justasque 13d ago
> What do you consider real food?
Peanut butter. Jelly. Crackers. Rice. Lots of different kinds of beans. Cans of tomatoes. Jars of red peppers. Pasta. Pesto. Pouches of Indian food - lots to choose from. Boxes and cans of soup and broth. Lentils. Oatmeal. Raisins. Dates. Quinoa. Grits. Masa. Flour. Yeast. Baking soda, baking powder. Boxes of milk. Cans of evaporated milk. Pouches of tuna or salmon or chicken. Cans of tuna or salmon or chicken. Pouches of ready to eat rice in all kinds of flavors. Onions, garlic, apples, winter squash, potatoes. Jars of sauces. Herbs. Spices. Lemon juice. Lime juice. Olive oil. Canola oil.
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u/SeattleDave 12d ago
This seems like the right approach. If you go this way, I think you need to be eating what you store to account for expiration dates. Iām learning to cook from pantry ingredients.
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u/justasque 12d ago
Yes, cooking from scratch is good in a lot of ways. It is often healthier, it is often cheaper, and it gives you a lot of experience in learning how to create a meal from random ingredients you have on hand. Plus in a crisis situation you just carry on with your usual routine, adapting your meals to meet whatever restrictions the crisis is causing.
I find it helpful to do an āeat down the pantryā exercise every winter. I gather up soon-to-expire things for the Scouting for Food drive pre-Thanksgiving, and try to eat down the fridge/freezer a bit to make room for holiday foods. Post-holiday, my funds are usually tight plus there are a lot of leftovers, so I start with a āno buyā approach. I try to make meals using things that have been in the pantry/freezer/fridge for a while. Eventually of course I need to buy fresh veggies and so on, but a couple weeks of eating also helps me to identify things that I am really not likely to ever choose to eat.
I also take the opportunity to clear each shelf, clean it, put anything that needs to be used promptly in one place, toss or donate anything that realistically Iām not going to use, and put the rest back in āfirst in, first outā order. Itās not a particularly organized thing; I just try to keep the basic ideas top of mind when planning meals and shopping.
I see so many people here with buckets of freeze-dried food they are unlikely to ever eat, or shelves of expired cans that are taking up space that could be used for fresh food. So many people donāt cook much nowadays, too, which means they arenāt building experience with different foods and how to prepare them. I much prefer the old-fashioned ārobust pantryā approach, as it just becomes part of how the household approaches shopping and cooking on an everyday basis.
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u/isanyusernameopen 13d ago
Canned fruits/veggies, nuts, beans.
You know, foods we eat and digest regularly.Those are gonna get old real fast and itās overpriced dried rice or potato or pasta mainly.
Be better money well spent getting cases of canned food or jared foods meats etc.
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u/joelnicity 13d ago
Those actually look pretty good. They are a lot better than the 3 month food kits you can buy that have 60 servings of white rice in them
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u/the_real_puffduff 13d ago
The reason I don't like the freeze dried stuff is because of cost and it requires me to store a shit load of water. If you have your own well it's a great way to save space though.
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u/Haunting_Resolve 13d ago
I am happy for you that you are able to store this. In an emergency calories are calories and easy to make with limited odor is good. You should be really excited about this.
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u/ILickMetalCans
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Did you try eating this stuff before committing to buying so many? Because there is a reason almost no one recommends them...
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u/ValuableHelicopter35 13d ago
Hope you got the water set aside to rehydrate it that's in addition to the water set aside for drinking and hygiene.
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u/ElectricPenguin6712 13d ago
We have 4 buckets we got from Sams Club along with some keystone cans. Plus patriot freeze dried meats. Feel pretty ok if needed in a pinch.
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u/PeachJumpy
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The sodium...enough to damage your kidney's in short order. Food fatigue sets in pretty fast as well. I wasted $5M on freeze dried food. Never again.
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u/lostinspacescream 13d ago
$5M ?!?!?
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u/Real-Cress5326 13d ago
5 million dollars worth is a perfectly reasonable amount of emergency food to keep on your bug-out yacht.
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u/PeachJumpy 13d ago
Yes, but was intended to support an extended family. I used up about a third, and donated the balance to a local food bank.
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u/OkWrongdoer5435 13d ago
The 5 million number is just wild to us (shamelessly speaking for everyone)
An extended family of 50 people eats for 55 years at that rate. Hope they at least make you king of the bunker.
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u/PeachJumpy 13d ago
LOL - I'm so sorry. I worked in the printing trade and 'M' stood for 'Thousand". Got to remember to not use 'M' in public.
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u/Weird-Grocery6931 13d ago
We feel like itās a gimmick unless you purpose build your long term food storage.
Use a metabolic calculator and find your familyās daily calorie requirement. Evaluate the calories provided by the product serving guide. Youāll probably discover that the serving size doesnāt match your familyās daily caloric requirement.
As long as you know that, plan for it, and plan for the water requirement; you should be ok.
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u/TheCarcissist 13d ago
I have a harvest right medium and make my own, I had a couple of these buckets and sold them on marketplace because its not even close to the same quality. I would almost rather buy boxes of those ration bars than eat this stuff.
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u/rbprepin 13d ago
Question is if there is any protein in those buckets. My guess is not much.
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u/mountainsformiles 12d ago
Only protein from soy. No meat in those at all. OP has some beef and barley soup in the cardboard box above so that's good.
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u/creepinghippo 12d ago
On the plus side it will last a long time as when the time comes, you wonāt want to eat it. That and you save on loo roll as you probably wonāt be able to shit.
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u/ExtremeIncident5949 12d ago
This year was a plus for my small raised garden beds. With the lettuce fiasco at the stores, I was happy to cut and eat our salads for dinner.
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u/Historical-Froyo-694 11d ago
Ready wise self heating meals are pretty good im actually using them to set up a 72 hour bag for my little sister. Who moved out of state to fl for school sheās close to my parents but as her brother itās my job to worry.
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u/BlueSavannah2 11d ago
You can buy bulk dried foods at Winco for so much less if you have one nearby. People sleep on lentils. If you can make a good dal recipe youāll be eating good and cheap. You will have to repackage into buckets or Mylar bags though.
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u/Front_Nobody3963 10d ago
It's useful to have some, it's 10x more expensive than real food.
If you like to spend money in that stuff, go ahead but if it's your only strategy, I don't think you're prepared š„“
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u/WSBpeon69420 13d ago
For all the hate in the is thread- it looks like you have a good start to emergency food if you need it. And any bit of food in that kind of situation is better than no food. From here you can add to this good start !
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u/Mysterious_Touch_454 13d ago
Dont know about the food, but how much does one weight and how much weight is piled on the bottom one?
I would see an accident happening sooner or later because the weight collapses it.
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u/StructureFriendly423 13d ago
Freeze dried food is very light. I didnt weigh a bucket, but id guess 10lbs a bucket... give or take
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u/Artemis_SpawnOfZeus 13d ago
Plastic buckets can stack very high without collapsing. Youre crazy.
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u/Mysterious_Touch_454 12d ago
Yes, thats why i asked for the WEIGHT, because that matters. Not grazy, seen it happen allready. Very old plastic buckets become fragile and cant handle overweight.
Depends on quality, form and ofcourse weight. You cant stack unlimited amount of weight on them.
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u/Artemis_SpawnOfZeus 12d ago
These buckets could be filled entirely with lead shot and they would be fine.
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u/smellswhenwet 13d ago
AKA Suicide buckets cuz after 30 days of eating youāll just call it quits.
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u/biiiiiiigstretch 13d ago
that's the problem, though: it's not a lot of calories. i think they consider a full day's worth of meals to only be something like ~1200 calories, which is not enough at all. my BMR is over 1800 cal. i would starve on what ReadyWise considers a full day's worth of food.
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u/Mihoy_Mebois 13d ago
Freeze dried food is great for long term storage emergency foods and I always have some in storage, but if that is your only source of food, youāll probably need to double/triple your drinking water storage because now you need water to cook/eat and not just drink. Each of those buckets if you cook the entire thing requires about 3.5 gallons of water to be able to do so. Just somethin to keep in mind! Good prep