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.

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They call it dog food , people have been eating it for years

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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.

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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.

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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....

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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.

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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.

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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

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Not to mention all the injuries sustained from falling off the couch while licking themselves....

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Wow. Nice info scyth.
Thanks.

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You could put away some canned Alpo for those special occasions, like weddings. :)

sorry...

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