alright guys welcome back to the PilotPatriot Channel, got something a little
different for you guys today today we're going to be looking at long term food storage
most people nowadays they're so used to going to foodlion or walmart or
something once a week to pick up their groceries that they never really have
more than about three days to a week of food in their house the problem with
that is if an emergency happens it doesn't have to be world-ending
emergency just something like the power's out for a week there's a big ice
storm you can't go anywhere things like that hurricanes tornadoes anything like
that where there's going to be a big rush on the supermarket's and you see
that every time there's a big natural disaster like that the first thing
people do is they go out to Walmart and they buy up all the food if you don't
get there in time most everything is going to be gone by the time you get
there and all you had at home was four cans of food maybe a few bags of chips
and a loaf of bread and that is not going to last you especially if you have
a family it's not going to last you more than a few days so it's always good to
have some kind of backup emergency food for situations like that what would be
great is if you could have at least a month's worth of food and water for your
whole family that way anytime something like that happens you're ready for it
now one of the first things you'll hear when you hear people talk about long
term food storage is they'll always talk about canned foods and that is one way
to do it a lot of people prefer that because it's pretty cheap you just go to
the grocery store pick up a couple extra cans every time you go I do recommend
doing that and keeping some extra canned foods around but if you're like me
what's probably going to happen is when you run out of your regular grocery
items you're going to go straight to those cans and you're going to eat them
all up and it may be a while before you replenish that stock another thing is
the expiration on these cans is usually no more than about five years out a lot
of times it's going to be less than that and you have to remember
to circulate that out what I found to be a better solution is something like the
legacy food buckets it's a great thing about a bucket like this is the shelf
life on these foods is 25 to 30 years that's something that you can just sit
and forget that way when an emergency happens it's there and you don't have to
worry about whether it's gone bad or not as long as you keep it stored properly
now there are a lot of things that set legacy foods apart from a lot of these
other long-term food storage companies legacy has a lot of different options
everything that they have is GMO free they have gluten free options they have
buckets that are nothing but entrees they have breakfast buckets they have
options for meats they have drink options like coffee and milk and
chocolate milk and things like that but what really sets legacy apart is the
serving size the serving size on this pouch here is one and a half cups most
of these long-term food storage companies they have very similar
packaging it comes in a nice bucket like this it's packaged in mylar bags just
like this but what you'll see is a lot of them are only half a cup servings now
I don't know about you but I'm a grown man and a half a cup of food is not a
meal for me that's not going to do it so legacy foods is three times the
serving of a lot of the most popular food storage options there are now in
today's society everybody is worried about calories and keeping their weight
down and being healthy and things like that but it's unhealthy not to get
enough calories a person should be getting about 2,000 calories a day the
other thing that sets legacy apart from a lot of those other companies is that
they have high calorie counts which in this situation an emergency situation is
a very good thing as you can see this particular one here is 420 calories per
serving a lot of them that you that you're going to see are only like a
160 or 200 calories per serving and that's another thing it's a
small serving as well as it's not going to fill you up it's not going
give you the nutrition that you need for your daily calorie count especially in
emergency situations or high-stress situations you really need all the
strength and energy you can get if you're not getting enough calories then
you're not going to have that energy legacy really is the best out
there it's not just my opinion it's a fact you can see the stats right there
on the chart now let's open this bad boy up and I'll show you what what's inside
now if you can see the expiration there on top of that bucket 2045 that is not a
joke that is for real this everything in this book if you store it properly it's
going to be good for 25 to 30 years now this is food this is stuff that we're
going to be serving to our family this is stuff that we may have to eat for
weeks or months at a time the other thing that's really important other than
calorie count and price and everything like that
is taste and quality of food and legacy does a great job of that they have a lot
of options just in this bucket alone there are 19 different kinds of foods
so you get a little bit of variety you're not eating
rice and beans every day it's got things like pasta Alfredo it's got stroganoff
chili mac mac and cheese a bunch of different kinds of soups just a really
good variety of really tasty stuff and we'll actually cook some up here for you
in a minute so you can see what it looks like when it's actually cooked and we'll
do a taste test I know that's mainly going to be what I think about it but
I'll show you that it is really good stuff
you can see this thing is full to the brim with these very well packaged mylar
bags they have all the nutritional facts on the back they have cooking
instructions the other great thing about this is it's super easy all you need to
cook this is water now one more thing about this stuff before we go in there
and cook it and do a taste test is price this stuff is very reasonably priced
this particular bucket is 120 servings right now they're selling it for right
around $300 and I know $300 sounds like a lot if you think about it that's
really only a little over $2 per meal which is amazing for good quality food I
mean you're not going to get that at any restaurant
and it would be really hard to go to the grocery store and cook a meal for that
we've got our water coming to a boil and like I was telling you guys earlier this
stuff is super simple to make instructions are right on the back all
you got to do is open it up add the recommended amount of water cook it for
the recommended amount of time and you're good to go
one thing you got to make sure you do is take out that oxygen absorber uh-huh
that's not going to taste very good alright
guys we've got our water boiling
now we're just going to add the pasta mix that in and we're just going to
reduce the heat to medium and let it simmer for about 15 minutes
all right 15 minutes is up lets give this stuff a try first thing I'm noticing is
really nice thick sauce it's not super watery like you kind of would expect
from something like this. okay give it a try
all right guys here's the moment of truth honestly I feel a little weird
eating in front of the camera, but its for the integrity of the video so here
we go. WOW yeah it's really good actually um like I said the sauce is
nice and creamy it's got a lot of flavor yes if I was eating this for an
emergency I would feel like I was leaving a gourmet meal this is great all
right guys I'm gonna finish this up I'll get that would you later
Alright guys that's it for the legacy foods now you don't take my word for it call them up
get some free samples sent out to you look up the stats for yourself
legacy foods the best and the cheapest and the most practical way to have long
term food storage for emergencies and after tasting it honestly I wouldn't be
opposed to cooking it on any weeknight and serving it to the family it's that
good these pouches would even be great to throw in a bug-out bag or just take
camping or something like that a lot of uses for this stuff now there are other
options for storage like I mentioned earlier you can do the cans or you can
actually go to the grocery store and buy large bags of rice and potatoes and
things like that and put them in your own 5-gallon buckets as long as you use
mylar bags and do it properly I'm actually going to do a video of that and
show you how to do that so you could do that yourself and it won't be full meals
like this it probably won't taste as good as this
but it is another option also you want to make sure you have plenty of water
you can't cook this stuff without water you can't live without order so make
sure you have some water stored also I'm going to do a video on that as well so
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