Can you recommend an emergency food kit for disaster preparedness?

[Anonymous]

Just in case I'm thinking of getting some emergency food supply kits. Those 5-gallon buckets of freeze-dried food packets. I saw the following article in Popular Mechanics that looks at some. If you have any suggestions I'd appreciate it. Thank you.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/home/g37578091/best-emergency-food-kits/

[Anonymous]

In case of what? Really. What do you think will happen that you will need 124 servings of freeze dried meals?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In case of what? Really. What do you think will happen that you will need 124 servings of freeze dried meals?

In case of unforeseen disaster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In case of what? Really. What do you think will happen that you will need 124 servings of freeze dried meals?

Someone isn’t watching Station 11….

Op, we’ve got some (thanks LDS friends!). I honestly don’t know the kind and have never opened one to taste. I figure if I was eating them, I’d have bigger concerns than if my meatloaf tasted like homemade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In case of what? Really. What do you think will happen that you will need 124 servings of freeze dried meals?

In case of unforeseen disaster.

What kind of unforeseen disaster do you think would happen that would make impossible for you to find food for several days/weeks?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In case of what? Really. What do you think will happen that you will need 124 servings of freeze dried meals?

In case of unforeseen disaster.

What kind of unforeseen disaster do you think would happen that would make impossible for you to find food for several days/weeks?

I’m not sure I want to survive any such disaster.

[Anonymous]

OP, I hope somebody posts something helpful for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In case of what? Really. What do you think will happen that you will need 124 servings of freeze dried meals?

In case of unforeseen disaster.

What kind of unforeseen disaster do you think would happen that would make impossible for you to find food for several days/weeks?

NP - I am genuinely curious though what unforeseen disaster leaves you alive and relatively able-bodied but with no food to be found yet potable water to prepare freeze-dried food (I think they usually require at least water, if not heat) is available.

[Anonymous]

We want to get some, too. Our power was out for 3 days in the last storm and we haven’t gotten a generator yet. No running water, no stove, and eating peanut butter sandwiches got old real fast.

[Anonymous]

I found what I need at beprepared.com.

[Anonymous]

For a while, Costco was offering some.

[Anonymous]

Ask the cuckoo on the other thread who doesn’t want to share her stash with her friends and family.

[Anonymous]

Not a prepper, but DH is retired Army and whenever I shop at the commissary I see that they stock MRE kits. Looks like you can buy them on Amazon. I'd recommend those because they come with a heat element and according to DH - some of them are not that bad. Downside is each of them are around 3000 calories because they are developed with a deployed soldier's caloric needs in mind, so eat accordingly.

[Anonymous]

Is there a reason to do these kinds of meals rather than stocking more normal food? By normal I mean jars of peanut butter, cans of tuna, things like that.

[Anonymous]

The freeze dried meals are really salty and I’ve heard they can constipate if you’re not used to them. I would just start buying extra canned goods, bags of rice and beans, jugs of water. Also a LifeStraw for each family member or some sort of filter if you don’t have access to clean water.