Platinum Food Reserve

4 People for 3 Mo. or one person for a year.

This bulk freeze dried food reserve is on sale now (at the time of this post) for $2789 (regular $3155).

“…will provide over 2000 calories per day for one person for one complete year, or a family of 4 for 3 months! It comes with a total of 168 #10 cans (large resturant size cans) that comes packed in 28 cases for easy storage.”

 Mountian House #10 Freeze Dried Food

Freeze Dried Meals

Per Nitro-Pak website;

Our “Easy Meal Security-Pak™”
Provides 45 Gourmet Meals… Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner for
One Person for 45 Days, A Family of 5 for 9 Days, or 15 People for 3 Days!

Emergency Food Storage?
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Freeze Dried Food – This type of food is usually stored in #10 can, but is also available in smaller pouches like MREs. Freeze dried foods taste great because the foods retain their taste, texture, and shape of fresh frozen foods. …

Which Survival Food is Best?

With the economic situation becoming worse and worse every week, many are looking at survival food options. Survival food reserves, traditionally for major disaster preparedness, also serve as great way to prepare for family hardships resulting from an economic depression.

Most everyone agrees that we shouldn’t depend on government emergency support. But only 7% of have taken action to be prepared, according to the American Red Cross.

What kind of food reserve is best for preparedness for most families?

I have sorted through the pros and cons of four survival food options below with these needs in mind.

Two survival specific options, other than bulk canned foods and grains that you may not be as familiar with are MRE (meals ready to eat) and Freeze Dried Food. MRE is what the military uses for mobile activities, but it is available from the same manufacturers as civilian MRE. Freeze dried food is a more longer storing type of food reserve that is also used by the military and government agencies as well as campers and backpackers. Freeze dried food has 98% of water removed and in sealed cans it can store for 25 years.

Freeze dried food and MRE have long to very long storage life for emergency food reserves and most importantly require little or no preparation, water, and no cooking equipment.

Here are some commercial examples of MRE & freeze dried food;

See Examples of;

Freeze Dried Food Reserves

Family & One Year Food Reserves

MRE (meals ready to eat) Reserves

If you take just a few minutes to read below about the advantages and disadvantages of survival food options to make a wiser more well informed choice.

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Survival Food Options

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What are the options for food emergency preparedness?

The conventional wisdom offered by our governments and dedicated survivalists is to go to your local supermarket or big box store and buy canned food and dry grains and carefully store them. There are limitations to this survival food strategy that are highlighted below.

1) Buy Canned Food and Dry Grains

Buy the canned foods, dehydrated foods and grains, and bottled water as many government agencies recommend. Store in your house or apartment.

Advantages

• Can be done in a few hours or less for a 72-hour or one week reserve.

Disadvantages

• Most will forget and some will not store it properly so it will be useless when it is needed. Did you do this years ago? Go look at this food now and check the expiry dates on canned goods and check grains for mold infestations, rodent invasions, etc.
• Canned foods are bulky and heavy, space is often limited people will not be able to store much
• Grains need a lot of water to cook to eat and water may be unavailable or scarce in a disaster.
• You will need to spend a lot of time preparing food
• Canned foods destroy appetites and morale quickly. Even unexpected allergic type reactions can occur if the types of food in a diet are drastically changed.

2) Freeze Dried Food – Prepared Meals

See Examples of Various Freeze Dried Food Reserves

Advantages

• Easy to store and can last up to 30 years.
• Fast simple preparation just add water. But only water that is needed to hydrate the food, much less than cooking.
• Once hydrated, freeze dried food taste is very close to original food taste.
• Light weight easy to store large qty (Mountain house #10 cans) of food for reserves of 6 weeks, 3 months, or a year. A 6 week food reserve can fit under a bed!
• Can be ordered online in minutes, delivered to your house. You will only have to spend less than 30 minutes storing it.
• Good economical choice – cost can be less than $3.00 per meal the same as your average home cooked meal.

3) MRE’s (Meals ready to Eat)

See Examples of Various MRE (meals ready to eat) Reserves

Advantages

• Easy to store and lasts upto 5-7 years in a cool dry place.
• Easiest and fastest preparation time possible and can be heated fast with “MRE heaters”
• Can be ordered online in minutes, delivered to your house. You will only have to spend less than 30 minutes storing it.

Disadvantages

• Relatively expensive per meal ($6-$7) and for extended reserve of 6 weeks, 3 months, or a year a lot space required to store.
• Lasts only 5-7 years so you will need to buy a replacement reserve relatively soon. Hopefully you do not live in a place where there is a disaster that often.
• Tastes like canned food which will destroy appetites and morale quickly

4) Buy Canned Food and Dry Grains and use them regularly on an “inventory cycle” plan

Same strategy as the first option, except you actively manage storing and ‘cycle’ inventory of goods. As you buy new food you use up the old canned food so that the food store is less than the expiry date of the canned food.

Advantages

• Food will not be bad when you need it

Disadvantages

• Most people do not have the time, space, or inclination to do this
• Grains need a lot of water to cook to eat and water may be unavailable or scarce.
• You will need to spend a lot of time preparing food
• Canned foods will destroy appetites and morale quickly

As you can see there are a lot of benefits to Freeze Dried Food over the other options making it the superior choice as a bulk survival food.

Besides survival food it is also necessary to have a good water storage plan to be prepared. See more information on water storage and filter products.

KT

Bulk Emergency Food – Freeze Dried Food and MRE Options

Freeze Dried Food
Family One year Food Reserves

Group Food Reserve 50 people X 7 days or 10 people X 35 days

45 day – 6 weeks Freeze Dried Food

MRE
Bulk MRE (meals ready to eat)

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Survival Food Online – US Suppliers

Available at Nitro-Pak ;

• Mountain House Freeze-Dried Food

• 72-hour Survival Kits

• MRE (meals ready to eat)

Nitro-pak has Free Shipping to contiguous US on orders over $100 and a 120-Day ‘No-Risk’ Guarantee

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Available at the ReadyStore;

• Freeze Dried Food

• MRE food reserves

• 72 Hour Kits

TheReadyStore has Free Shipping to contiguous US on orders over $100

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Available at Amazon.com

• 72 Hour Kits

• MRE

• Freeze Dried Food

Emergency Food – What are the options?

Emergency Food Option 1) Buy the can goods, grains, and bottled water as many government agencies recommend. Store in your house or apartment.

- Good, can be done in 2 hours or less

- Bad, most will forget or not store it properly so it will be useless when it is needed

- Bad, Goods are heavy, space is often limited people will not be able to store much

- Bad, grains need a lot of water to cook to eat and water may be unavailable or scarce.

- Bad, you will need to spend a lot of time preparing food

- Bad, can goods can destroy appetites after awhile

Emergency Food Option 2) Same as 1 except be more careful in storing and ‘cycle’ inventory of goods buying new food so that food store is always edible.

- Good, food will not be bad when you need it
- Bad, most people do not have the time, space, or inclination to do this

- Bad, grains need a lot of water to cook to eat and water may be unavailable or scarce.

- Bad, you will need to spend a lot of time preparing food
-Bad, can goods can destroy appetites after awhile

Emergency Food Option 3) Buy MRE’s (military style – Meals Ready to Eat)

- Good, easy to store and lasts upto 5-7 years in a cool dry place.

- Good, fastest preparation time possible and can be heated fast with “MRE heaters”

- Good, can be ordered online in minutes, delivered to your house. You will only have to spend less than 30 minutes storing it.

- Bad, relatively expensive per meal and for extended reserve of 6 weeks, 3 months, or a year a lot space required to store.

- Bad, lasts only 5-7 years so you will need to buy a replacement reserve

- Bad, tastes like can food which can destroy appetites after awhile

Emergency Food Option 4) Buy Freeze Dried Food

- Good, easy to store and lasts up to 30 years.

- Good, fast simple preparation – just add water. But only water that is needed to hydrate the food, much less than cooking.

- Good, once hydrated, freeze dried food taste is very close to original food taste.

- Good, light weight easy to store large qty (Mountain house #10 cans) of food for reserves of 6 weeks, 3 months, or a year. A 6 week food reserve can fit under a bed!

- Good, can be ordered online in minutes, delivered to your house. You will only have to spend less than 30 minutes storing it.

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