Ready-to-eat emergency food rations: Each package contains 9 pre-measured 400 calorie meals. Individualized portions eliminate the messy breaking-up that occurs with other bars. Allows for on-land emergency consumption in a high-stress active situation.
$ 6.50
Great For Backcountry Camping,
As my title suggests, these are excellent for Backcountry Camping. You have the equivalent of 2-3 days worth of food. It weighs next to nothing (2 pounds if I remember correctly), and can be eaten on the go. It’s not gourmet dining to be sure, but it’s not meant to be, and they still taste pretty good. I bought a whole case of these when I drove from the East Coast to Alaska and they cut down on my travel time because I wasn’t stopping all the time to get fast food or some other obese-inducing garbage. As I said, I wouldnt want to live on the stuff, but it does have some practical uses besides stocking up for the apocalypse or some other craziness.
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|One Giant Mediocre Cookie per pack.,
Each package contains 9 bars each. I was hoping that they would be separated, but instead it’s one giant block and if you want a serving then you break off a chunk. This means that once open you have to consume they entire package within a few weeks or it will most likely start to go bad.
These actually taste pretty good for survival rations. It’s somewhat sweet, like the so-so cookies you get out of a vending machine. One thing to note, is that they do contain trans-fats (partially hydrogenated oils) even though trans fats do not appear in the nutrition facts. I was planning to eat one cookie every week so I could slowly rotate out the old ones and always have a fresh supply, but since you can’t open 1 serving without opening 9 and because of the trans fat I will just keep these in storage until needed. It’s not a problem though. They have an expiration date of 4-5 years from when you get them (mine expires in 2014) so they should be good for 2012.
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|Best in category,
I actually conducted a taste test for my family of five, on a scale of one to five (five being the best tasting) Datrex lost out to Mainstay. Daytrex- avg. 2, Mainstay-Average 4. What good is an emergency ration if it is not palatable.
Rev. Dr. Roger Dodds
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