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pairunoyd | 11-25-2008 04:43 PM
Human Food = Dog Food Do you guys know of a food product for human consumption that's like dry dog food and concentrates foremost on nutritive/caloric value and cost? I know you can buy 8 lb store brand dog food for about $4. It would seem they could do the same for humans, but tweak the ingredients and taste and still have it come in at $6 / 8 lbs. This would be a product for survivalists and/or dirt poor folk, like those starving masses in Africa. It contents would/should be high in fat due to it's calorically dense nature and it's economical cost/calorie. Also, it could combine vegetable sources that complement one another's amino acid profile, making for a more complete, usable protein source. This wouldnt necessarily be your mainstay food source, but would play a larger/smaller part as the economy worsens or improves.

mick silver | 11-25-2008 04:47 PM
Re: Human Food = Dog Food They call it dog food , people have been eating it for years

Drumblebum | 11-25-2008 04:49 PM
Re: Human Food = Dog Food Quote:
Originally Posted by mick silver (Post 1434973) They call it dog food , people have been eating it for years
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Metalophile | 11-25-2008 04:53 PM
Re: Human Food = Dog Food Pet food is supposed to be made under the same sanitary regulations as human food. Probably would take some getting used to, but probably wouldn't kill you and would provide you with fair nutrition.

goldbugger | 11-25-2008 04:58 PM
Re: Human Food = Dog Food ralston purina did try to develop and test a bagged dry food specifically for human consumption but dropped the project when the human test subjects kept sniffing each other butts.

silver_addiction | 11-25-2008 05:00 PM
Re: Human Food = Dog Food you can get pasta for 75 cents a pound.... rice for about 40 cents a pound, tuna for 1.75 for a pound, pasta sauce for a dollar a pound, beans for 75 cents a pound....

WilliamC | 11-25-2008 05:00 PM
Re: Human Food = Dog Food Dried beans and rice is about as cheap as you can get for decent human food. Just need to add water, cook, and if you really want to live high toss in some salt and pepper. I'm starting to cook a bean dish every other weekend and incorporate it into my suppers a couple times a week. I've just got to make sure and cook the beans enough but I'm slowly getting the hang of it.

Bill843 | 11-25-2008 05:11 PM
Re: Human Food = Dog Food Quote:
Originally Posted by Metalophile (Post 1434979) Pet food is supposed to be made under the same sanitary regulations as human food. Probably would take some getting used to, but probably wouldn't kill you and would provide you with fair nutrition.
I don't know what the laws are now.... but roughly 15 years ago in the US, the difference between meat for human consumption and meat allowed for pet food was that the pet food had higher allowances of disease and chemical contamination (hormones and whatnot). Sides of meat that failed USDA inspections was diverted to pet-food production plants. -end-

scyth | 11-25-2008 07:57 PM
Re: Human Food = Dog Food An oldie but a goodie, which you can prepare yourself. Pemmican. Pemmican is basically a mix of hard-dried lean jerky which is then pounded into fine granules and mixed with a percentage of fat until you can squeeze it into a mass in your hand, but one which also crumbles; i.e., the fat is a binder, in addition to being nutritious. Don't use any salt. Here in the upper Northwest, where I live, the really first class pemmican had a considerable percentage of dried and pounded berries mixed in with it. Pemmican was a staple throughout the Northern tier, as it provided both protein and fat for people doing strenuous exercise in colder climates, and burned calories at a tremendous rate. People packed it into hide bags, or again on the NW coast, baskets. In both cases it was rammed into the container until it would compress no more. Anecdotal comment from multiple sources indicated that it would keep fresh for several years that way, if it did not get wet. If you want an incredibly good resource book for this kind of stuff, hunt down a copy of Horace Kepharts "Camping and Woodcraft", which is really two volumes in one. The beat up, taped together copy I have was printed in 1949 I think: I don't know about reprints. scyth

Lars Ragnarsson | 11-25-2008 08:07 PM
Re: Human Food = Dog Food Quote:
Originally Posted by goldbugger (Post 1434987) ralston purina did try to develop and test a bagged dry food specifically for human consumption but dropped the project when the human test subjects kept sniffing each other butts.
Not to mention all the injuries sustained from falling off the couch while licking themselves....

Highwayman | 11-25-2008 08:41 PM
Re: Human Food = Dog Food Quote:
Originally Posted by scyth (Post 1435258) Pemmican. Pemmican is basically a mix of hard-dried lean jerky which is then pounded into fine granules and mixed with a percentage of fat until you can squeeze it into a mass in your hand, but one which also crumbles; i.e., the fat is a binder, in addition to being nutritious. Don't use any salt. Here in the upper Northwest, where I live, the really first class pemmican had a considerable percentage of dried and pounded berries mixed in with it. Pemmican was a staple throughout the Northern tier, as it provided both protein and fat for people doing strenuous exercise in colder climates, and burned calories at a tremendous rate. People packed it into hide bags, or again on the NW coast, baskets. In both cases it was rammed into the container until it would compress no more. Anecdotal comment from multiple sources indicated that it would keep fresh for several years that way, if it did not get wet. If you want an incredibly good resource book for this kind of stuff, hunt down a copy of Horace Kepharts "Camping and Woodcraft", which is really two volumes in one. The beat up, taped together copy I have was printed in 1949 I think: I don't know about reprints.
Wow. Nice info scyth. Thanks.

GreenSpirit | 11-25-2008 09:19 PM
Re: Human Food = Dog Food You could put away some canned Alpo for those special occasions, like weddings. :) sorry...

TheNocturnalEgyptian | 11-25-2008 09:24 PM
Re: Human Food = Dog Food Bachelor Chow!

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