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perl | 09-12-2006 12:36 AM
Costco Emergency Food Was at Costco today and going down the aisles when I come across an end aisle display of 5 gallon buckets marked Emergency food supply. They where freeze dried I think as the shelf life said 10 years. They claimed to contain 90 day supply which I think is for one person. Didn't have much time to check them out. See if your local Costco's have em. $110 for each bucket. Variety of foods inside. Very interesting to find something like this in these times!! Company was out of Utah but can't remember the name. Dang wish I had a notepad and or camera.

Curtman | 09-12-2006 12:40 AM
Re: Costco Emergency Food How do you get a 90 day supply in a five gallon bucket?

Ponce Cuba | 09-12-2006 01:08 AM
Re: Costco Emergency Food Read about it elsewhere and is no good, the price is to high.

softserve320 | 09-12-2006 01:12 AM
Re: Costco Emergency Food Quote:
Originally Posted by Curtman (Post 355599) How do you get a 90 day supply in a five gallon bucket?
Thats what I thought about the five gallon bucket/90 days. Doesn't add up to me. Please let us know if anyone find's out more....thank you. :coolbeer:

Curtman | 09-12-2006 01:30 AM
Re: Costco Emergency Food Yea my cereal bowl looks like Jethro Bodines.

Infidel | 09-12-2006 01:32 AM
Re: Costco Emergency Food http://www.hiddencity.net/2006/06/cu...d-pasting.html This Costco Nutristorage Emergency Food Supply � "Three month food supply for one person", Item # 104893, for $109.99 � is a FRAUD. You will STARVE TO DEATH if you try to survive on the contents of this for 3 months. I purchased this myself. Then I thought it was strange that 25 pounds, 2 ounces (that is about 11.4 kilos) of food could sustain someone for three entire months. That is only about 4.4 ounces or 127 grams of food per day. It can't possibly have very many calories. So I opened the bucket, and counted the number of packets of each item. Then I used 5 servings per packet, and took the nutritional information for each item from the bucket. I put all of this into an Excel spreadsheet and came up with totals from the entire bucket, and what you would get on average per day. The entire contents of the bucket would include 275 servings, which is 91-2/3 days at 3 servings per day. The entire bucket contains 41,715 calories and 1,660 grams of protein. The average daily nutritional value would be 455 calories and 18 grams of protein. To put things in perspective, the Nazis provided concentration camp inmates at Auschwitz with a diet of 1,300 calories per day for light work prisoners and 1,700 calories for hard labor. The average prisoner at Auschwitz died of starvation within three months on this diet. Of the many millions murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz, probably just as many died from the effects of starvation as perished in the infamous gas chambers. There is no way anyone can survive for long on 455 calories and 18 grams of protein per day. That is less than one-third of the starvation diet that the Nazis provided at Auschwitz. You will almost certainly be DEAD from STARVATION before you finish the alleged "three month" supply. And here's a little quote from George Bernard Shaw which is always relevant, but particularly so these last few years. When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Infidel | 09-12-2006 01:37 AM
Re: Costco Emergency Food There is a class action lawsuit because of this "costco" emergency kit thing in washington http://soundpolitics.com/PopeCostcoLawsuit.pdf

perl | 09-12-2006 12:02 PM
Re: Costco Emergency Food Thought there might be a catch. That is just not enough calories. You need a lot of water too as each one I think will need water to cook it so lots of fuel too. I think I will stick to canned veggies, put my own carb stuff together, have spam (I like the new turkey one but the exp. date is not as far out), tuna and those new foil salmon pouches Starkist and Chicken of the Sea have. Pretty tasty and it is wild Alaska salmon which should have the good oils. They have exp. dates about 3 years so you can rotate them and keep fresh ones.

money matters | 09-12-2006 12:57 PM
Re: Costco Emergency Food Anybody who thinks "survival food" in a bucket or even a pallet of freeze dried mountainhouse food is a "soloution" will find out how wrong they are when they can least afford it. Relying on someone elses concepts and ideas, betting your life on them, is simply foolish. "Survival food" ought to enhance your health and immune system, not overload it. The Macrobiotic diet has about the best dietary regimen for building your immune system, and most food stuffs it works through come dry and able to withstand longterm storage. Brown Rice, a variety of beans, rolled oats and hard red Winter wheatberries can all be stored for 10 years or longer. Buy Organic and be sure your doing right by your body. Have a variety of seasonings and flavorings to make the bland enjoyable. Eliminate or cut back on the amount of red meat you take at meals. Many ways to "survive". Just be sure your food is not doing you in.

blueice | 09-12-2006 04:28 PM
Re: Costco Emergency Food Nice post, Infidel. It should read lifetime supply because the user dies before it is consumed. :smokin:

Wyldwil | 09-12-2006 04:49 PM
Re: Costco Emergency Food It's still better than most people have......Water is the real problem. Survival Rules of Three: 1) 3 seconds of panic could spell one's doom.... 2) 3 minutes without oxygen kills you.... 3) 3 hours of extreme temperature & no body shelter..... 4) 3 days without water..... 5) 3 weeks without food.....:wink:

Merlin | 05-20-2007 07:07 PM
Re: Costco Emergency Food Quote:
Originally Posted by gasilat (Post 355615) I read somewhere this is the company that sells it to costco...and that costco sold it cheaper than buying direct from the company. http://nutristorage.com/
The company is still selling the product, but does not claim it's a 90-day supply -- only that there are 275 servings per bucket.

ben shockley | 05-20-2007 07:39 PM
Re: Costco Emergency Food Quote:
Originally Posted by Sukhoi_fan (Post 356032) As I had mentioned previously, storage temperature is critical. The research I had read before stated what Walton is stating (probably the same research), i.e. for every ten degrees food storage is lowered the storage life (of properly stored dry pack food) is doubled, generally. At room temperatures one can only reasonably expect a 7 - 10 shelf life of properly packed, non-processed, raw, dry pack food.
So how deep in the ground should one dig to keep the temperature low?

Merlin | 05-20-2007 07:48 PM
Re: Costco Emergency Food My basement is 58-62 degrees F year-round. That's about 10 degrees below normal room temperature, so I'm figuring 14-20 years on my food storage. If you have a basement, take a thermometer down there and check it out -- you might be pleasantly surprised.

Veritas | 05-20-2007 08:12 PM
Re: Costco Emergency Food Quote:
Originally Posted by Sukhoi_fan (Post 613226) A consistent 70 degrees F for storage is generally sufficient, with storage life doubling for every ten degree F drop in temperature. Food stored at 100 degrees F will only be good for a couple of months. No need to bury anything, burying would likely end in spoilage due to water intrusion. Adequate waterproofing of anything buried is a real challenge, especially of anything which takes up a large volume of space. Just don't store your food above a cool room temperature. Here is Texas I keep my stored food under constant air conditioning in the warmer months. I suggest you be very diligent about the temperatures your storage food is exposed to.
Rotation is important as well. If one is rotating supplies properly, there is no problem with keeping a years worth of food at room tempertature. Anything below 85*F is fine. Not ideal...but fine.

Veritas | 05-20-2007 08:33 PM
Re: Costco Emergency Food Quote:
Originally Posted by Sukhoi_fan (Post 613242) Yeah, the best plan is to store what you eat and eat what you store. 85* F would probably give you about two years.
I agree...and I don't plan on storing any of my food for more than two years. There's really no need to (if you are rotating properly). For the record, I store at a temp no higher than 70.

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