Augason Farms emergency food 72 hour kit bucket meals for 1 walmart long term food storage review
hi it's AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper several people commented on my
emergency long-term food storage videos about emergency food kit in a box from Augason Farms
that is a 72-hour meal kit for one person long term food storage I don't know if I'd never
noticed them before or my store never carried them before so I've been watching for them and sure
enough I found Augason Farms emergency 72 hour kit you can see Augason Farms comes in a very compact
little bucket it's very sturdy bucket has heavy duty handle plus it has indentations on the top
and the bottom that if you bought several of the emergency food meal buckets you could easily
stack them together it clearly says on the front Augason Farms it's a 72 hour emergency food supply
for one person kit it meets the QSS quality survival standards of at least
2200 calories and 50 grams of protein per day the label shows there are 2 667 calories per day
56 grams of protein per day there are 42 servings and up to a 25 year shelf life just add water
included are five meal packs of maple brown sugar oatmeal banana chips
creamy chicken flavored rice creamy potato soup and hearty vegetable chicken flavored soup so
it doesn't sound like a lot of protein but it actually is sometimes we think
that emergency food says chicken flavored something that it isn't going to have any
protein in it that maybe they've only added some flavoring but this actually has a lot of protein
you can read on the side of the box it says it was manufactured in June 2020 and it is best by June
2045 so that's 25 years Augason Farms emergency meal bucket is still fresh because there's 25
years left on it if you look on the back it tells you all of the ingredients in each of the packets
of food that's included in the kit it also tells you right on the back label any of the allergens
it tells you it includes milk and soy it includes milk and soy milk soy and wheat if those are foods
you're allergic to then this isn't going to be suitable for you shelf life ranges from
10 to 25 years based on the food type the Augason Farms unopened food products included in the kit
retain their shelf life after the kit container is opened so you can open the bucket and inspect the
contents and as long as you don't open the packets they're still going to last the life span that's
one of the reasons that I didn't ever really want to buy them before is I was afraid once I opened
the bucket that all of the food would be start to deteriorate just like when you opened the can
so that made me feel comfortable that I could buy one of these and even if I didn't use all the food
at once that I could still have meals put away for long-term food storage the Augason Farms side
panel gives you the nutritional facts it tells you how many servings per container and all of the
details of the nutrition the bucket's very sturdy you can see that it has pull tabs on two sides
it's super hard to pull off I needed to use a pair of pliers which gives me some confidence
that this bucket is very sturdy and it isn't just going to break apart you can see it has a
flip top lid so that you can flip it open access the contents you want and close it back up and
remember as long as you haven't opened any of the packets all of it will last as long as possible
now when you open up the bucket you can see it's packed in there nicely there is no wasted space
when you're storing food for long term it takes up a lot of room and you don't want extra wasted
space in any of your food storage containers you want to make the most of your storage space to
store as much food and nutrition as possible now when you open the Augason Farms bucket
you can see that each item comes in a heavy duty mylar bag they're packed with an oxygen
absorber to last for the 25 years and they're not completely sucked down hard which I think
is a good thing because sometimes when they're sucked up so tight and hard if you have any
little sharp like a piece of macaroni or something it could actually make a pinhole
so when there's a little room for the contents to have a little bit of space to move around you're
less likely in my opinion to get a pinhole leak that would then make your food start to
deteriorate and it wouldn't last the time that it was expected the food packets are still very
tightly packaged but it isn't going to be solid like a brick now if you look on the front each
meal packet is clearly labels what's included and again the nutritional facts and the directions
the banana chips are going to be great to eat just as is or you could add them into the oatmeal
perhaps if you wanted the other entrees need to be prepared so you're going to need a way to
heat water and a container for example creamy chicken remove the oxygen absorber whisk the
entire contents into five cups of boiling water and then you need to heat it for 20 to 25 minutes
and the other meal packets are similar you have to open them up and rehydrate them in water boil
the water add the contents and then allow it to boil for a certain number of minutes until
it's ready to eat that's why it's so important that you have some kind of an emergency stove
or a way to actually boil water and keep things hot for a long enough period of time to utilize
the emergency foods these aren't like a can of food that you can just open and eat it
these aren't ready to eat like you would have foods in your pantry but that's one of the reasons
that they can last so much longer because all of the moisture and the oxygen have been removed
the downside Augason Farms 72 hour kit emergency meal bucket it's for three days for one
person which would be nine meals these aren't designed as breakfast lunch and dinner for three
days where you could just make a small pouch for your serving for that day you have to prepare the
entire package or figure out how to portion it out yourself so you would need to figure out yourself
how to open it up and divide it into say thirds and add a third of the water to use for that
meal that day it can be complicated if you need to figure out how to divide it up into thirds
add the proportion of water and prepare just that amount for that meal that day
you don't want to prepare the whole packet if you don't have a way to refrigerate it to keep
it from becoming spoiled you don't want to risk eating spoiled food in an emergency situation
or decide that you're going to eat this packet one day the next packet the next day and the
other packet on the last day that would be one way you could do it you don't necessarily have to have
three meals a day you can divide up your oatmeal and your bananas and then choose to eat the one
of the three packets of the entrees one per day for the three days they don't give you any clear
directions on the package and so it's something that you might want to figure out for yourself
think about plan how you might want to utilize meal packets these aren't fancy type of meals
they're basic simple meals that are designed to last for 25 years could I open them today
and prepare them yes but I'm to pack these back up because the reason I bought it was to put it away
for long term food storage now that I know that it's a quality sealed up package I've tried lots
of the Augason Farms emergency foods before I know that they taste good so I'm not concerned that
this isn't going to taste good in an emergency when I need something to eat something to pay
attention to there's a best buy date on each package the four meal packets are best by June
2045 just like on the outside of the bucket but the banana chips are dated june
2030. they have a 15 year shelf life which it isn't exactly stated clearly on the outside of
the package it does say up to 25 years so I'm going to stack everything back in here with the
banana chips in the front and then in 15 years if I haven't used it I can take the banana chips out
and eat those and replace them with another type of dehydrated or freeze-dried fruit that's one
reason I don't like to mix together meals in a jar make meals myself out of foods that are designed
to last for 30 years because once you start mixing foods together if one of them has a shorter use by
date then that puts all of the ingredients at risk that you need to use them before the first
date when the first item becomes expired or out of date because it goes off and becomes spoiled it
spoils everything else in your container so that's where it's a nice idea to put food meals together
in a jar but not if you're going to just put them away for long term food storage if you want to
mix foods up together in a jar make sure you're going to use them within a year or two or three
and otherwise leave the long term food storage ingredients stored in a format that are packed
away to actually last for 30 years I'm able to get it all packed up in my bucket
the lid snaps on securely and I know that this food is going to be good for many years Augson
farms emergency food kit 72 hour bucket meals for 1 item that I would recommend yes if
you don't have any long-term food storage and you don't want to have to think about
how to prepare a lot of foods you can buy something like this for only twenty dollars and
put it away in your long-term food Augason Farms emergency food 72 hour kit long term food storage
for about twenty dollars for five packets of food that's only four dollars for a packet that has a
full lot of food in it there are other foods like this that you can buy just off the shelf
you can buy packets of noodles and rice you can buy soup mix packages but those aren't designed
to last as long as the Augason Farms 25-year 72 hour kit for one person they make a lot
of other emergency meal food buckets they're designed for more people for longer term read
over the different choices see if there's one that meets your needs and then consider stocking
up on extra food so you'll always have what you need to keep your family fed if you enjoyed my
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