DIY MRE'S Meals Ready to Eat Dollar Tree foods emergency prepping
food meals hi it's AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper whether you're prepping your bug out bag or you
just want some emergency grab-and-go meals in your prepper Pantry I'm going to show you some
ways that you can make some DIY MREs meals ready to eat with foods from Dollar Tree you
can get DIY MRE food at other stores but this is just an example of how simple it is to pick
up easy food items have them packaged situated in a grab-and-go kit you can have enough food for an
entire day MREs are meals ready to eat MRE's don't require any cooking at all you don't need to have
a stove you don't need to have a pot you don't need any other ingredients to eat your meal tear
food open and eat it on the go so the basics to make DIY MRE include foods that are ready to eat
tear it open eat it food you don't have to stop and prepare anything I put DIY MRE together in a
Ziploc bag I use gallon size ziplock because that fits holds a bountiful amount of food ziplock bag
also gives you a container not only to keep DIY MRE food all together you can use bag for trash
when you're done or use bag to collect water if you're in a real emergency situation you
want your DIY MRE to have a variety of food and you want to try to have approximately 1800 or
2,000 calories per bag DIY MRE so you have enough food for an entire day that's my goal
is but it's up to you you want to find foods that you like rooe you're willing to eat and
these are some of the foods that I chose and I'll show you what they are first I picked up
Dollar Tree Brunswick chicken salad and tuna salad these are quite good they have a little
can of meat inside that has a lot of meat in it it also includes a package of crackers I
have tried Dollar Tree Brunswick tuna chicken salad with crackers many times they're very
good there's a lot of meat in the little cans you can really pile it on the crackers to have each
bite be a substantial amount of tasty food what was surprising to me the can of Brunswick tuna
has 190 calories but the can of Brunswick chicken only has 120 calories that's just the can of meat
the little package of crackers is an additional 70 calories so you want to Total that up when you're
figuring out if you have enough food calories to eat in your DIY MRE if you want more meat in your
DIY MRE it's up to you maybe you want to pick up some bags of jerky you can find Teriyaki Beef Pork
turkey you can find all different kinds of jerky flavors at Dollar Tree they all cost the same but
the calorie count is a little bit different so pay attention to that if you want to count up
to make sure there's enough food calories some Dollar Tree jerky have 50 calories some Dollar
Tree jerky have 90 calories another source of meat could be Dollar Tree packets of grab and
go tuna and salmon are the meat pouches I've seen they're very tasty meat pouches also include a
little spoon at the top so when you tear tuna salmon open you have something to eat it with
just like you did with the little packages of Brunswick chicken salad there's a little spoon
inside to spread it on the crackers so that's something to consider you don't have to try to
add in other utensils if you have these little packets you're still able to eat them and you
don't have to scoop it out with your dirty finger you have a utensil that's very tiny but useful
if you want to add more crackers look for Dollar Tree cracker packages that are multi-packs that
they're individually packed multi-packs like this cheddar cheese crackers I've also seen
Teddy Graham crackers that come in little packets and they're 10 in a box at Dollar Tree you can
find different amounts different flavors find food you enjoy Imperial Nuts from Dollar Tree are also
very good Imperial Nuts are a nice sturdy package you can tear it open and it's just like trail mix
you can eat it on the trail if you're hiking or you're on the go you could even put Imperial Nuts
in your pocket reach in get a handful when you feel like you have a little bit of hunger and
you want something to satisfy you Dollar Tree Imperial nuts contain a lot of nuts and dried
fruit there's different varieties ones that I like are the fruit and nut and the protein I
have found the ones with more fruit than nuts tend to last longer because the ones with more nuts I
found seem to go rancid way sooner than the other varieties so these are the ones that I stick with
and they have between 330 390 calories each one has three servings so when you see says it has
110 calories you have to multiply it times the amount of servings which gives you 330 calories
Dollar Tree also has some freeze-dried fruits and some of them are very good I did a video and taste
tested several of them and these are the ones that I bought more of because I like them the
most so you can look for different varieties and try them out see if there's some that you
enjoy these have 60 calories in each packet so that's a nice amount of nice crispy fruit and
yeah some of them really are just delicious to pop in your mouth and let them melt on
your tongue and you really can get a very nice spark of fruit and so they can be pretty good
sometimes you're lucky enough to find the Dollar Tree tropical fruit Blends and these come in four
individual packs and these are really delicious I like them very much they're in very sturdy packets
then you can open up Tropical Fruit mix Portion one package out because there's four inside or
put all of them in depending on how much food and calories you want each of the four packets
has 110 calories so you have 440 calories in the entire bag Tropical fruit mix so you could put all
four packs into your MRE or you could divide it up and put one each depending on what you
choose to eat Dollar Tree also has lots of the little multi-packs of powdered drinks and you
might want to put some of those in simply because if you're Gathering wild water or you're in some
city where the water just tastes hideous you can add some drink powder it helps your water taste
better it also gives you some variety if you get tired of just drinking water because you're used
to having other things you can find some drink powders that include vitamin C you can find
instant coffees choose drinks beverages that you like I have drink powders in diet simply
because I don't want to have more sugar in my life but if I was concerned with having
enough calories in an emergency situation then I would choose something a little bit different
sometimes Dollar Tree will have Loma Linda individual pouch meals that you could add to
your DIY MRE but I haven't seen those in a while if you do try them out see if it's something you
like and maybe you want to have Loma Linda pouch meals not only in a DIY MRE but maybe even just as
a shelf meal that you have in your pantry take the Dollar Tree foods that you choose set them
aside in a bag one for each day keep them together with your bug out bag or in your prepper Pantry
whatever you need to grab and go say you wake up late you have to go to work you can grab one of
these DIY MRE take it with you you have lunch at work you have breakfast lunch and snacks if you
need it if you're going out in the car and you might get delayed put one or two DIY MRE in the
car with you say you have a winter storm or you get stranded in traffic jam or you have to wait
to pick up your kids you'll have something to eat in the car that you don't have to prepare
at all you can have your own variety Dollar Tree open eat foods that you like and you're willing
to eat that's how you become a successful prepper prepping for the unknown make sure you have some
food no matter what the Day brings whether you're at home or away then you're going to
be able to have a better day you have something to eat something to drink then you can figure out
what to do next with whatever the emergency is I try to make sure DIY MRE food items all have
approximately the same expiration date and then at the end of say one year I take them out if I
haven't used them and I use those Foods then and then I replace them so then you make sure that
you're using your pepper Pantry food you're rotating your prepper Pantry food and you are
replacing it and that's how you have a successful supply of food no matter what the Day brings so
stock up food prepping supplies while things are still readily available be sure you have
some DIY MRE ready to go grab meals that you can eat right out of the bag a full Pantry of foods
stockpile you just need to cook a little bit and then also have the longest lasting dried foods
things like rice beans oatmeal pasta that will last for 30 years and that way no matter what
happens you're going to have something to eat that you can make the best of what's going on and then
figure out what to do next that'll help you have every day be the best it can possibly be that's
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