Knorr Pasta sides Bear Creek Pasta sides taste test prepper pantry food review shortages how to prepare
cook hi it's AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper if you've been adding to your food storage like i have
perhaps you've been adding some pre-packaged simple to make foods that you basically just
add water maybe a few other ingredients do a little bit of cooking and they're foods that
can live in your pantry for several years because they're dry dry packaged goods take up less space
and less weight than canned foods and they might be more of like a full meal type deal
well the foods i wanted to compare today were the Knorr pasta sides with the Bear Creek pasta sides
both of these Knorr pasta sides Bear Creek pasta sides have a creamy chicken and i thought it would
be interesting to compare them side by side now you can see Knorr pasta sides Bear Creek pasta
sides are completely different size packages but they seem to have the same type of a food
the Knorr pasta side is considered one package is one serving of 600 calories that you need to add
water milk and butter lots of times you can find the Knorr sides for one dollar and they
come in all types of different varieties but i've discovered that i like the creamy chicken
and the Bear Creek also comes in a creamy chicken variety i've only seen two different flavors of
the Bear Creek pasta sides Bear Creek have lots of different varieties of soup but the sides that are
pasta sides i've only seen two different varieties and one of them is creamy chicken so i thought it
would be a good idea to compare these and see how they are the same and how are they are different
the Bear Creek pasta side costs 2.28 cents but you can see on the package that it is considered four
servings of 330 calories and you only need to add water then if you look at the package the Knorr
sides cook in 8 minutes and the Bear Creek pasta sides cooks in 12 minutes it's worth noting that
the Knorr side has higher sodium higher fat and more protein that's probably because you're adding
milk and butter you might want to include both in your prepper pantry because the Knorr is a smaller
size package than the Bear Creek pasta sides and sometimes we want a smaller meal or meals for more
people let's go ahead and cook these side by side and compare them the Bear Creek add the four cups
of water bring it to a boil then you whisk in your pasta and sauce mix the Knorr pasta side
says to bring one and one half cups of water one half cup milk and one tablespoon of butter
to a boil stir in the contents for a milk option you can use the shelf stable milk
or you might try then my favorite powdered milk which is Nido fortificada which you find on the
Hispanic aisle not with the regular powdered milk it's actually powdered whole milk and i think it
tastes delicious and it's something that i include and use in my working pantry all of the time
it's time to remove the Knorr sides here's the Knorr side it's been standing for a few minutes
you can see it's still kind of runny saucy but it certainly has uh thickened up some and that's
one of the things that i don't really like about the Knorr is how much sauce there is
but it always tends to be pretty tasty and the longer you let it sit it sort of gels up and
it has a very nice flavor and now it's time to remove the Bear Creek from the stove the Bear
Creek pasta has been sitting the allotted amount of time and you can see it's also extremely saucy
this one's nice because it has the orecchiette pasta noodles and so they're a little different
shape it's a variety and you can certainly see that yes it does have carrots in it
so that's a nice addition you're getting a tiny amount of vegetables but there are some
in there which is always nice to know let's look at them side by side they both have a lot of sauce
they both have a lot of noodles and the bear creek definitely made more which it should
you can see some little vegetables
and spices in the Knorr sides and you can see there's some little carrots and a few
spices in the Bear Creek pasta i've had the Knorr pasta sides many times
so i'm going to go ahead and taste that first
it's creamy the noodles have a nice texture and the sauce is tasty i made a video a while
ago comparing pasta roni alfredo to the Knorr alfredo they were also saucy and that was one
of the things i liked about the pasta roni was it wasn't so much sauce and the noodles had a better
looking texture but it's hard to find the pasta roni plus if you want it to last in your pantry
you have to repackage it whereas these are in nice
mylar type packaging that you can put into say a bucket and they can last a long time that's
why the Knorr and the Bear Creek might be a simpler step all you have to do is put them
set into an airtight container you don't need to repackage everything out of a cardboard box now
let's try the Bear Creek i like the little round orecchiette noodles because they add some variety
they both smell like chicken but it's a little different aroma of chicken let's taste it
this one is good it has a whole different flavor than the
Knorr so the Bear Creek is very good and i like that you can see more of the little carrots
i think the Bear Creek is very delicious and for two dollars and 28 cents you get a huge bowl
of food that you can have for your family now of course you could always add more food to bulk
this up this wouldn't have to be your only meal you could add some canned chicken you could add
some vegetables you could make a salad if you were able to get some fresh foods and you only need to
add water to these and if for every package of this that you store you know you need one quart
of water you could then stockpile packages with a gallon of water and then you have enough water to
prepare for packages and you have everything you need in one spot so there are a lot of different
types of foods to add to your prepper pantry you want to look at different sizes and decide
will you want to make a meal for one do you need to make a meal for your family do you want variety
in those sizes and what can you add in to make it bigger and better and tastier if you want to
make a regular meal because we're supposed to be not only stockpiling food but then we need to be
rotating it and serving this to our family so that we're rotating we have fresh foods these last a
few years in your prepper pantry i like to take these types of foods and store them into a five
gallon bucket and put on a tight fitting lid and they last quite a few years i've never had a Knorr
sides or Bear Creek product that spoiled while i had it in my prepper pantry i've eaten them past
the date and they were all still fine so as long as you're storing your food in a cool dark dry
place airtight of course then it's going to last longer the better you store things the longer they
last if you see a food you're not sure if you'd like it buy one take it home and try it if you
like it go back and get more i definitely plan to get more of the Bear Creek chicken simply because
you only need to add water it makes a little more and if say my grandchildren are visiting me and
we have an emergency and we need something to eat i think they would like this let me know what you
think about the Knorr sides and the Bear Creek creamy chicken pasta sides pasta meals and if
there's another variety that you enjoy share it in the comments below so we can learn from each other
and if there's ways that you use these to bulk them up and make a bigger better meal
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