100% vegetarian? Yeah, there is a huge cost savings when no meat is used. I picked up a couple of dozen dehydrated meal packs from REI's recent sale, though I use many of them for hiking. They are actually pretty darn good and at $2 for a double serving, decent for on the road meals.

@attack cow: while bottled water will be fine for a few days, you seriously would be better off with a means to purify water. I have a hiking filter and a SteriPen (needs batteries though) that can be used. I carry my SteriPen when I travel internationally to clean water to drink, brush, or even wash hands. Lightweight and pretty fast.

A bit of math says this has 41,715 calories, or enough to feed 1 person for 20 some days (obviously divide as needed), Or about $3.60 a day. Not bad really. It even seems fairly nutritionally balanced. So basically long story short ditch Nutrisystem and grab this. (at a normal weight loss diet of 1500 calories a day it would last nearly 28 days at a cost of $2.70 a day)

Basically if you can stand to eat this, it isn't a bad deal... bachelor chow for the new millennium.

28 cents per meal? I'm going to live off these for the foreseeable future, no emergency necessary!

valleypoboy said:dustin72 said:conlaw78 said:JoeRocket said:I'm tempted in case the "big one" hits Cali but this stuff just sounds terrible.I live in LA and my plan is to just basically ran sack my nearest Ralphs.

That's similar to my plan, as I live right next door to a Walgreens.

Better hope you bring a bigger stick than the other 10,000 people.

That's why I won't ransack Stop & Shop. I'll get there and wait quietly for the inevitable news crew, and then mug them.

Thanks for the post but I'd rather die with some dignity than eat this garbage.

Alternative: Raman noodles.

Shelf life is far less (two to three years), but it's so cheap (10 cents a meal or less in quantity), you can either use it and restock as you use, or rotate it out every couple of years with new stock. Can be eaten uncooked/dry in an emergency. The little flavor packets can be used to season almost anything, and have high sodium content, which is useful. $30 gets you about 300 meals. Not nutritious, but it has usable energy calories that would keep you alive and functioning for an extended period when no other food was available.

Add a small quantity of cheap, canned tuna (five year shelf life), spam (100,000 year shelf life ), some bottled water, and a bottle of multi-vitamins...you're good to go!

If you are really concerned, stop by your nearest Eastern Mountain Sports or similar store and stock up on freeze dried foods. Indefinite shelf life and most are actually very tasty, certainly better than this "stuff" and about 200 times better than MRE. Throw in some powdered milk, a sig stove and a couple of fire starter blocks and you are good to go. Store it in a Homey Bucket. But, to be 100% sure, always stay within an armslength of the bucket..... or, you could just live like everyone else and figure you can survive off the "fat of the land" for a few days.

dont be fooled

in disaster situations the water supply is diminished if not interrupted in most cases and the water is most likely contaminated..basically its useless

store at 70 well in most parts of the west temp is over 70 lol

tracker2208 said:arribasn said:I bought this at the B&M for about $50 if I remember right last year, probably a lot of the cost is in the shipping as its heavy!
You weren't the least bit curious of what you would be looking towards in case of a disaster? If you're gonna tell us something like that, at least tell us how it tastes. I'm not interested in buying, but I do wonder how the potato fakon taste.

If it taste too good you will eat more. So the benefit of tasting not very good is U will eat only needed. My concern more is how to get clean water for this food.

275 emergency servings, or one good meal for Peter...

"Peter, that food was supposed to last us a year!"

Peter drinks water and expands...

"OK - I have to go to the bathroom... Everybody leave... NOW!"