Posted: 2/8/2020 10:29:16 AM EDT
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Any quick and easy suggestions?
I looked up my patriot supply. They don’t report how heavy the food is, which is very annoying. |
my local Walmart has all the Mountain House freeze dried stuff clearance priced in the sporting goods section. If you want something to just stash and maybe eat, maybe not eat in the next 30 yrs Mountain House is dang tasty for what it is. But you pay for that 30 year shelf life 
If you plan on just staying at home for two weeks, just buy stacks of what you normally eat. If you stack what you normally eat anyway and rotate through it, then its just like money in the bank for "lean times" financially. |
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This isn’t an exciting answer, but we just tracked how much the family ate for a few weeks, and multiplied the average amount of food per week x however many weeks’ worth of food we wanted to keep on hand. Then we made a huge Sam’s club run. Once you get ahead a few weeks’ worth of groceries, you just continually rotate the stock and eat what you normally eat. This is good for the kids too - no big change for them. This method doesn’t require any special storage because you’re eating and replacing the food regularly. We do have a decent pantry and an extra freezer for meat.
We can go about a month eating exactly the same meals we do now, or we could get creative and stretch it further. For longer term you can mylar bag some food or moutain house is an easy option. |
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Assuming at home, just 2 weeks of what you eat now that it's shelf stable and have a way to cook it. Count calories in the package, pay attention to servings per package. Push come to shove, dinty moore has what you need. The .gov recommends 30 days on hand...if they say that you probably need 90 at least. Anyway, the last thing you want in a stressful situation is to drastically change your diet. Two weeks extra is pretty easy if you manage your freezer/fridge correctly you can probably go most of the first week eating out of them as long as the outside temp isn’t too bad. |
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This isn’t an exciting answer, but we just tracked how much the family ate for a few weeks, and multiplied the average amount of food per week x however many weeks’ worth of food we wanted to keep on hand. Then we made a huge Sam’s club run. Once you get ahead a few weeks’ worth of groceries, you just continually rotate the stock and eat what you normally eat. This is good for the kids too - no big change for them. This method doesn’t require any special storage because you’re eating and replacing the food regularly. We do have a decent pantry and an extra freezer for meat. We can go about a month eating exactly the same meals we do now, or we could get creative and stretch it further. For longer term you can mylar bag some food or moutain house is an easy option. |
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Quoted: I think I prefer MREs in case that I don’t have a way to cook. Two weeks of home food storage is a cakewalk by buying what shelf stable foods that you guys incorporate into your daily diet, perhaps with a couple of modifications. You need about 2500 calories per day per person- more if heard physical labor is anticipated (storm clean up, etc). Some ideas, again buy only what you will use anyway- make sure you get enough protein. Peanut or other nut butters, or nuts and seeds. A jumbo jar of Jif has around 7500 calories and stores fine for 18 months plus Velveeta shells and cheddar Canned chicken and other meats Canned pastas (spaghettios, ravioli) Chunky Soups, add rice to them for calories dried pastas and canned sauces flavored rices rice a roni, etc canned or dried legumes Stagg Steakhouse chili at Costco is $2/can and has 40 gs of protein. Stretch it with macaroni and make chili mac |
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Two MREs per day for each person is plenty. You can survive off life boat ratings also. Lifeboat rations are good for the car because they can withstand heat. MREs are good for a self contained meal in a package, but a lot of them don't taste very good and a lot of the calories are junk. For the same amount of money as MREs you could put together your own menu of shelf stable foods that you know you will like. |
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This isn’t an exciting answer, but we just tracked how much the family ate for a few weeks, and multiplied the average amount of food per week x however many weeks’ worth of food we wanted to keep on hand. Then we made a huge Sam’s club run. Once you get ahead a few weeks’ worth of groceries, you just continually rotate the stock and eat what you normally eat. This is good for the kids too - no big change for them. This method doesn’t require any special storage because you’re eating and replacing the food regularly. We do have a decent pantry and an extra freezer for meat. We can go about a month eating exactly the same meals we do now, or we could get creative and stretch it further. For longer term you can mylar bag some food or moutain house is an easy option. and save thousands of dollars while being able to plan a pretty good menu too. |