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It looks like it has a great selection and budgets on 36,000 servings with 2,000 calories on average per day. Click on the link above and you can see what it contains, but everything from grains, freeze dried fruits and vegetables, dairy and more.
What do you think to kits like this?
I'm afraid it's out of my budget for now though and I think the shipping would kill it for me!
Imagine never going shopping for a year. When we had snow the other week I thought it would be quite possible to live off tinned and frozen food.
ReplyDeleteThe freezer is the one that worries me, if the power goes out for any length of time then there's a lot of monies worth in ours. I killed my generator the other day as well!
DeleteI just don't trust it. I'll make my own....
ReplyDeleteI'm with you on that one!
DeleteMany times in these size cans, the servings are really small. I don't know about this one. I would hate to tie up that much money in food I had not tasted and then be stuck with it and nothing else to eat. I think I do better than that price- and taste-wise.
ReplyDeleteYeah, 2000 calories wouldn't keep me going for a day. I'm a machine when I eat! I could certainly put a better kit together but it wouldbe better than nothing. I just thought it was interesting that prepping was such a big thing over there now that they sell these kits at all in such a big shop.
DeleteI find made kits don't really work. I am a veggie which would make it harder. we were snowed in for the 2 weeks of snow then badly twisted my ankle and have been of my feet for a fortnight. I had a shop delivered this week, and hubby went to the butchers for his meat.we would of still been able eat the stores but it was getting boring, hubby was doing the cooking. I was pleased with the stores.
ReplyDeleteI find a lot of my longer life stuff is veggies anyway, we don't stock tinned meat as we're not the biggest fans of it. Far easier to grow all your own being a veggie though, make sure you have lots of beans in your seed draw. I put as much effort into my animals and the return is nowhere near as much as the veg garden.
DeleteI must be nesting because i've been staring at this for awhile now. It works out to $500/month and for that I've got to think that a person could use this as a shopping list and buy for less as they could afford it (Aldi's).
ReplyDeleteI think you could do it for much less. I like the idea of long life food though, but I like the idea of dehydrating and packaging my own. To be honest I think time spent gardening and raising animals is more important. We wouldn't have the space for this lot anyway! Or the money!
DeleteI live in what is known as an isolated community, no road access. It is also in an earthquake zone. Thus we are very aware of food security and emergency preparedness. Personally I am able to grow and store most of my own vegetables for which I'm very grateful.
ReplyDeleteI very rarely open a tin, so this whole concept fills me with horror!
ReplyDeleteImagine the amount of empty tins around after eating all that!
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't dare to buy those without sampling first (there is so much I just can't eat), but I think similat solution would be ideal base supply for first Mars colonies... and they could recycle tins to growing containers ;-)
What concerns me is what happens in 5 years time when the butter powder expires? Do you bin it and buy some more and think everything might go to pot in the next 5 years? I know you're supposed to rotate stockpiled stores (I don't fancy trying to soften 30 year old pinto beans) but how many people that buy this stuff actually do? I suspect most buy it, tick it off their prepping list and it never sees the light of day again.
ReplyDeleteAnother vote for homegrown resilience and keeping a rotated stock of foods you can't grow (enough of).
What bothers me is the storage space. We live in a modern terraced house, and there is precious little storage space. I think the architect who designed them worked on the theory that everyone would live on takeaways.
ReplyDeleteI have been musing on calculating supplies of late too, but mostly on what we use in a month - and whether we could grow enough tomatoes to make enough passata to not have to buy any.
But this throws up what to me is the key stumbling block in the idea of a year's supply of groceries in one go. Toilet roll. How much does your household use in a day? Now calculate for a year. Then consider storing that.