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#270193 - 05/30/14 10:49 PM shelf stable foods for 3 day pack
TeacherRO Offline
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Registered: 03/11/05
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Building a 3 day one person food/water kit.* Any suggestions for reasonably light, stores well foods?

comparison chart of commerical 3 day kits

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#270194 - 05/30/14 11:20 PM Re: shelf stable foods for 3 day pack [Re: TeacherRO]
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Loc: wellington, fl
How about going old school? Peanuts, walnuts, cashews, beef jerky, dried cranberries, apricots, brown rice, quinoa, bulghur. Plenty of calories, protein, fat and fiber, reasonable shelf life, and healthier than the highly processed faux foods. Most of this stuff is available through Costco or sams club, avoiding the marketing mark-ups at outdoor/surplus/zombie apocalypse emporia.

...and lots of chocolate, cuz if I eat an exclusive diet of squirrel food, I get a littel squirrely.
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#270195 - 05/30/14 11:29 PM Re: shelf stable foods for 3 day pack [Re: TeacherRO]
LesSnyder Offline
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Registered: 07/11/10
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Loc: New Port Richey, Fla
for my remain overnight 72 hour bag, and its storage in a SUV in the Florida heat... I went with Mountain House freeze dried entrees...oatmeal packets, cocoa packets, tubs of Crystal lite, packs of GatorAid for EGR, tea bags...sugar,salt/pepper packs... vacuum sealed some ramen noodles ... Sawyer mini filter, Sawyer squeeze bottle, nested stainless cup, Swiss ranger stove, Sterno

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#270196 - 05/30/14 11:48 PM Re: shelf stable foods for 3 day pack [Re: TeacherRO]
hikermor Offline
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Loc: southern Cal
I am going to hit up Nursemike for any extra chow. What he is carrying are a lot of my favorite things, and I am a regular Costco patron for much the same reason. If you refresh your supplies regularly, you will be fine. If you don't, I would recommend well packaged energy bars like Clif, in tasty flavors augmented by my favorite- Tanka bars, which are essentially pemmican - buffalo and cranberries. They more closely resemble real food than the usual survival items and, in my experience, they keep well beyond their expiry date.

Don't forget the tea bags!

Is it intended that this kit will be backpacked? If so, light,high energy foods make sense. If it is for car evacuation or shelter in place, get lots of canned goods. The water they contain will be extremely useful. Canned stuff stores well, and is cheap.
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#270197 - 05/31/14 12:10 AM Re: shelf stable foods for 3 day pack [Re: hikermor]
Russ Offline
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Registered: 06/02/06
Posts: 5357
Loc: SOCAL
What hikermor said ^^ -- I have canned goods, an assortment of Mountain House freeze dried stew and veggies, Tanka bars/bits and other energy bars, and MRE's. Canned goods are by far the most cost effective and they also last beyond their end date. Another thing about canned goods over freeze dried is that you don't have to use water rehydrating them. If backpacking you need to have a source of water, or keep what water you have for drinking and don't use it to rehydrate. You can go much longer without food than you can without water.

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#270199 - 05/31/14 02:05 AM Re: shelf stable foods for 3 day pack [Re: TeacherRO]
TeacherRO Offline
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Registered: 03/11/05
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Both car kit and a pack -- so both canned goods and light weight ones.

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#270200 - 05/31/14 07:47 AM Re: shelf stable foods for 3 day pack [Re: TeacherRO]
benjammin Offline
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Nothing can beat real pemmican.
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#270202 - 05/31/14 05:14 PM Re: shelf stable foods for 3 day pack [Re: benjammin]
Deathwind Offline
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Registered: 02/01/14
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I have a three day grab n go bag where the main food supply is Hormel Completes. These oval bowls are meant for microwave use but can be heated in a pan of water o r eaten cold like and MRE entrée. They come in a wide variety of flavors including new breakfast varietiesand are easy to stack in a pack. I supplemented them with ration bars and snacks and beverage. Best of all they need no water to prepare, simply heat, or not, peel the top off and dig in.

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#270209 - 05/31/14 11:24 PM Re: shelf stable foods for 3 day pack [Re: Deathwind]
yee Offline
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Registered: 12/10/11
Posts: 169
Originally Posted By: Deathwind
I have a three day grab n go bag where the main food supply is Hormel Completes.


Thanks! Great tip. Off to Wallyworld...

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#270210 - 06/01/14 12:18 AM Re: shelf stable foods for 3 day pack [Re: TeacherRO]
TeacherRO Offline
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Tried them...no chance I will eat them before absolutely necessary.

And I read on one of the commercial 3 day packs that "ramen" is the ingredient for lunch. Just ramen.

New rule -- any meal must have at least 600 calories.

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