This THRIVE 6 Month Food Supply contains 54 #10 (gallon size) cans. See below for specific package contents.This stuff is supposed to last one person 6 months. They talk about variety and taste. Just one slight problem: If the SHTF and we are all off the grid living in Mad Max Land, there's no refrigeration. Once you've opened a #10 can you have to eat the contents within a day or so. For example,
2 cans of Instant White Rice (48 servings per can)
6 cans of Hard White Winter Wheat (44 servings per can)
2 cans of Elbow Macaroni (25 servings per can)
2 cans of 6 Grain Pancake Mix (46 servings per can)
2 cans of Cornmeal (46 servings per can)
4 cans of Freeze Dried Potato Dices (41 servings per can)
2 cans of Freeze Dried Sweet Corn (46 servings per can)
2 cans of Freeze Dried Green Peas (41 servings per can)
2 cans of Freeze Dried Green Beans (50 servings per can)
2 cans of Freeze Dried Broccoli (52 servings per can)
2 cans of Freeze Dried Mushroom Pieces (47 servings per can)
1 can of Freeze Dried Spinach (41 servings per can)
3 cans of Freeze Dried Strawberries (45 servings per can)
1 can of Carrot Dices (49 servings per can)
1 can of Mixed Bell Peppers (42 servings per can)
3 cans of Non-fat Powdered Milk (43 servings per can)
2 cans of Chocolate Drink Mix (48 servings per can)
2 cans of Bacon TVP (47 servings per can)
2 cans of Beef TVP (44 servings per can)
2 cans of Chicken TVP (45 servings per can)
2 cans of Taco TVP (42 servings per can)
1 can of Pinto Beans (49 servings per can)
1 can of Lentils (51 servings per can)
1 can of Black Beans (49 servings per can)
1 can of Kidney Beans (44 servings per can)
1 can of Lima Beans (49 servings per can)
2 cans of Fudge Brownies (75 servings per can)
2 cans of Bacon TVP (47 servings per can)If you're hiding in your bunker and you've opened the can of bacon you gotta chow down before it's inedible due to bacteria and a maggot or two. (The maggot could be a garnish at this point.) You will have to gag down all 47 servings of bacon before it spoils, then no more bacon until you open your last remaining can. Doesn't seem like an effective method to provide variety... one day you eat 47 servings of bacon, next day 49 servings of carrot dices, next day 75 servings of fudge brownies... Then in 54 days all of your cans are gone, unless you can find a way to preserve the food in those opened cans. Doesn't seem very likely when you are in your bunker buried three feet under your back yard and a biker dude wearing football pads with razor-sharp spikey things on his shoulders is trying to dig you out of your hidey hole.
Seems to me the better survivalist strategy to follow is small individually-sealed portions, rather than big cafeteria-sized cans. Small cans of tuna, ramen noodles, Dinty Moore beef stew, 12 oz cans of fruits and veggies, stuff like that. Bonus: they're a lot easier hide in your caches and you can more easily trade for gold and bullets. I bet it's cheaper, too!
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Akchurly, I have a bunch of these. The powdered and freeze dried stuff I transferred to jars and small bags, but the TVP can be resealed and eaten over time. There's no water in any of it, so if you keep the lid on tight it keeps for a good while. One can of bacon bits has lasted two months opened and shows no sign of filth.
In other news, Casey Serin and his parents are now officially homeless people.
It said Bacon TVP. TVP stands for texturized vegetable protein, so it's most likely made from soy, and is bacon flavored. They're dehydrated, so remove what you need and put one of the provided plastic can tops back on to keep the rest of the soy-crumbles dry (or better yet, repackage into canning jars with an oxygen absorber).
I'm guessing you're probably thinking of real canned bacon, which come in much smaller cans.
As others note, no water, so no quick spoilage.
However, I'd rather pop open a can of Chunky stew than eat most freeze-dried/dehydrated foods.
They never reconstitute right...
Well, you won't actually have to eat it all in one go. From what I can tell Googling the product, those #10 cans are dehydrated stuff, so once you open them, they can go quite a while -- probably a looong time if you are not picky about staling and rancid, oxidized flavors.
Total price for the supply: About $600.
Note that you better have a decent water supply in your bunker!
I should perhaps also add that a doomer friend of mine bought something similar for Y2K. It was three months of food for three people, if I remember correctly.
His wife made them eat it all in 2000, saying he spent all their grocery money on that stuff, so they needed to use it. And now, even a decade later she is still not letting him forget that purchase.
He keeps saying "Next time we'll be sorry if we don't prepare..."
I bought and have in my basement some of those five gallon buckets of dried foods and sealed packages of water - got them on Amazon. They would support myself and family for several weeks if there was a real problem, plus I just looked through our cupboards - there is enough food here to last for months if used correctly.
As others mentioned, it is all about potable water and sanitation in the end.
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