ReadyWise 72 hour emergency food meal kit what's inside how many calories is it good DIY your
own kit how much cost hi it's AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper somebody recently left me a comment about
the ReadyWise 72-hour kit that's an emergency meals food kit that includes enough food for 72
hours it comes in a cardboard box it can live on your shelf for up to 25 years is it a good deal
well they seem to think it was and so that's why they were asking about it well the one thing that
I know right off the bat when ReadyWise used to be called just Wise foods I tried several of them
a few years ago I did a few videos reviews and the food just frankly wasn't that tasty
but if it's inexpensive and it was all you could get then it would be better than having nothing to
eat at all so this person recommended buying these because they thought that they were a good deal so
how much do the ReadyWise 72 hour emergency meal food kits actually cost the first place I looked
it up was on amazon and it cost $24.98 if you order it from ReadyWise it's $39.99 I found it
also at target online for $39.99 and at walmart for $44.99 that was the thing that shocked me
the most the most expensive place to buy ReadyWise meal kit was at walmart what do you actually get
in the Readywise 72-hour emergency meal food kit it's actually kind of hard to figure out
what's in it when you just are researching about it they make it difficult to find the ingredients
the calorie count and the actual instructions the wise meals that I made before you had to actually
use boiling water and you had to cook them for a while so these aren't just open and eat like say
an MRE or one of the grab and go ready meal type foods you can buy in the grocery store
like a hormel compleat or those little pouches those are already ready fully cooked you can tear
them open and eat them while those foods are great you can grab them open them up and eat them they
don't last in your pantry for 25 years but they also don't require any preparation so what do you
actually get in ReadyWise meal kit food bucket it includes six packets of food two packages of
oatmeal one package of mac and cheese one package of teriyaki rice one package of tortilla soup
and whey substitute milk well first of all I'm not interested in powdered milk and so to get
12 servings of something that I'm not going to eat makes it so it's not that interesting to me but if
you're a fan of having some sort of powdered milk then this is great because you would have enough
milk that you could have a glass of milk with each of your three meals for three days when you look
at the calorie count the oatmeal has 2000 calories the mac and cheese has 1040 calories the teriyaki
rice has 1080 calories the tortilla soup has 600 calories and the milk has 840 calories so that's
a total of 5560 calories so if you divide that by your three days you're getting a little more than
1800 calories a day but when you start looking at the food are you really getting $25 $39 $45
worth of food in ReadyWise kit well let's think about it you're getting eight servings of oatmeal
you could actually go to walmart and buy a 20 pack of instant oatmeal for $3.87 I don't ever buy
those but I'll represent it with eight servings of oatmeal the little packets the 20 packets from
walmart would equal 3 200 calories it has the same amount of food as two boxes of macaroni and cheese
now you can buy generic mac and cheese for 68 cents but the kraft macaroni and cheese taste
so much better than generic that that's what I get and these were two dollars and 36 cents
next it includes the teriyaki rice well you could get two packages of teriyaki rice or
noodles by Knorr for two dollars for both packages the next food it has is a package of tortilla soup
Bear Creek Soup makes a tortilla soup mix and I got it at my local walmart for $4.77 now these
are Alaska grocery prices it may be less where you live because prices just tend to be more
expensive in Alaska next they have some powdered milk any kind of powdered milk you can find 90 I
think it's 96 ounces that equals basically the 12 servings the walmart brand is $3.58
you could even get the carnation for $4.98 I prefer the Nido fortificado powdered milk
and that's just my choice of powdered milk if I'm going to have any on hand
so basically you could get oatmeal mac and cheese teriyaki noodles or rice tortilla
soup and powdered milk you could pick up all of these items at your local walmart make your own
DIY readywise 72 hour emergency meal food kit for $15.41 cents you also have more calories if
you DIY this meal kit yourself this food has 7,470 calories which is almost 2,000 calories more than
the ready-wise food kit it doesn't make sense to me to buy these as a ready-made kit for 25 to 45
dollars when you can do it yourself for a little over 15 and guess what then you still have money
left and you have some other choices what food can you add to this with the money you have left over
how about 20 pounds of rice for 11 dollars
eight pounds of pinto beans for $7.48 you're still below the cost of the readywise emergency food kit
and you have all this additional food in prepper pantry so while it seems like a great idea to buy
a pre-made emergency meal kit you can easily put this together yourself you can spend your
money on the prepper pantry long term food storage foods that you actually choose to eat
and still have them put away you maybe don't want to leave these foods in your pantry for 25
years but you're supposed to be rotating your food anyway you can rotate these foods every few years
replace them and then you have fresh food that you know it's something you're willing to eat so don't
buy a SHTF doomsday prepper emergency meal food kit just because it sounds simple look over what's
in it how many calories is it is it food I even like or choose to eat and am I getting the best
value for my food storage my prepper pantry an d my emergency long-term food storage dollars make
your dollars count it's important that you get some food and always be putting a few things away
don't try to just buy a quick fix it's only 72 hours worth of food make sure that you have food
that you really want to eat because if you have a short-term emergency don't you want the comfort
of knowing that you have three days of food that you actually choose to eat that are inexpensive
and you have money left for the other things that you're probably going to need in any kind of an
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