Posted: 3/8/2010 8:31:22 PM EDT
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anyone try this stuff? I heard about it on coast to coast....
it's all vegitarian |
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Look around. They get brought up in the SF about every other month. IIRC the last time I bothered to do a calorie count it was around 1300-1500 a day for their one week kit (10,500 total give or take 100). Or what a concentration camp internee got per day prior to 1944.
Food insurance that Beck pimps comes out to either 900 or 1800 hundred a day. I emailed the company and was sent an email on their two week kit. Calorie count was 13000-14000 based on one package of each item. The email did not specify the number of containers of each item per two week kit. So if it was one of each 900. Two of each 1800 (both approx). I contacted the company to ask for clarification and was emailed the same exact info with no number of packages per two week kit given. So I wrote them off as yet another waste of time and money. Also like the Efoods kit most of the calories (1/3 to half) came from one or two menu items. Efoods it was mac and cheese approximately 1/3 rd of the total calories in the kit came from that one item. Food insurance it was a chocolate milk drink and I think dry rice. If you are getting it to round out other preps (dry grains beans etc) It may be worth while. IF it is your primary food source plan on being hungry or buying twice as much as what the kit says it is good for. If you have more money than time it might be worth it. As long as you keep total calories in mind. Shit like this and the costco bucket are why, if I have to hunt for a calorie count (For example emergency essentials lists the calories per day in their paper catalog on their xx month or year supplies)or email the company I will not do business with them. JMHO JME YMMV |
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To expand a little: IIRC efoods one week kits are about $70. For the same $70 I can buy:
#50 of dry rice $20 80000 calories (1600 per pound) #25 pinto beans $13 around 30K calories. (IIRC beans run 1200-1400 per pound) 5pk shells &cheese $8 Not sure with out looking it up Misc spices blln etc $20 Variety and a few calories $61 and I have a far more boring diet that lasts 10x as long. Or buy rice a roni chef boyardee  etc and hit some where in the middle of the two extremes.
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Paddy, You confirm my instincts....I'll stick to doing things myself (getting into canning and dehydrating) and keeping some MREs on hand to 'round things out'. Thanks No problem. That is what we are all here for. In all honesty, if you keep the limits in mind and use it accordingly they can be useful. Just like mountain house and MRE's. For Joe suburbanite hoping to ride out a natural disaster for three or four days they are better than nothing. However, they are not marketed accurately and a lot of folks are taken in by the two weeks or 300 servings crap and think they are prepared for a lot longer than what they actually are. My big thing is count the calories. Servings weeks months years are irrelevant UNLESS you know the base, which in this case is calories per day. |