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Re: Emergency Food Kits

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know brands but I do know some generic outdoorsy/off-grid tips that might help you refine your search choices.

First, consider how long you want to keep it in storage "just in case," and then consider how you're going to dispose of it if it goes bad. If there's a very lengthy safe shelf life, you're golden, but if it expires after only 2 years or less, are you going to make and eat it or just throw it in the trash? I don't like literally throwing money in the trash, all my survival gear has to be capable of being repurposed, donated, or used even if the use isn't an actual blackout or apocalypse.

Second, consider how it gets prepared and whether you have the means (or would, in a catastrophe) to prepare it. Boiling water safely to reconstitute freeze-dried food can actually be difficult in some situations. You would need a camp stove with propane or a jetboil, for a lot of those things. I have one, because I camp, but most people don't, so they don't consider how you're going to build a fire or light a grill and get a pan safely to boiling if the power is out, you don't have fuel/lighters/matches, etc. MRE-style open-and-eat eliminates this step but are also notoriously disgusting, which brings up the next thing.

Third, is it something you can see yourself eating? Desperation eating is different, at that point you'll grab a handful of grass and chew it if it's that or death, but there's a looooooooong slope to slide down before you reach that level. If you just need to make it through a few days, weeks maybe, you won't yet be mentally ready to stomach truly terrible food, and might actually choose to starve yourself rather than eat crap. If it's for survival you need to eat, but overcoming the mental block is easier said than done.

I'd be mostly concerned about shelf life, use potential, and cost, before taste comes into it, but don't entirely dismiss taste as something you don't need to worry about. That moment you're asking yourself if you really want to put this in your face is harrowing as fuck.