Saving money on shelf stable foods is a big concern for everyone of us, even more so now that disasters are so common in the news lately. Being the year 2012 a lot of people are worried “the end is near”. I believe the person who was making the Mayan calendar just could not find a bigger rock so that is why there is not 2013 on that calendar. I do not believe there is anything to the end of days being in 2012. But you know that movie and a few other things have people convinced the time is now. I believe “no man shall know the day and the hour”.
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Being a little paranoid I prefer to be prepared. It started with the Boy Scouts teaching us to “be prepared” and the military topped it off. I have always had shelf stable foods around. When I was growing up it was mostly for camping. Now we are planning ahead. In an emergency you
want to be sure you have extra food to eat and water to drink in case there is none available.
Many people believe the grocery store has enough food to supply the local community even after a disaster. The illusion that most people never see through is that most grocery stores are taking deliveries all day long creating an illusion that there is an endless supply. The supply is endless until it ends…
In an emergency or disaster that blocks roads and bridges, most grocery stores will be emptied out in three hours. The solution is to create your own food store in your home with an efficient shelving system and a great supply of shelf stable foods. I have eaten dehydrated foods, MRE (Meals Ready to Eat), LRP’s (Long Range Patrol freeze dried rations), and canned food.
Dehydrated foods are heated to remove moisture taking out a lot of the nutrition and making them chewy and tough.
Canned foods are salted and heated taking out a lot more of the nutrition. What little nutrients are left are usually in the brine. If you drink the brine you will get some of the nutrients but most people dump out the liquid from canned foods before eating them.
Another problem with survival foods or emergency rations is the fact that we are not used to eating them. The introduction of new foods is usually hard on the digestive system. Emergency settings are stressful by themselves. Eating foods that are new or foreign can results in digestive problems adding to the stress of the situation. The best way to avoid this is to incorporate the emergency foods into your regular diet.
The freeze dried foods we found save time in cooking and money because we do not throw away unused portions, you make only what you are going to use. An average meal takes only 15 to 20 minutes to prepare now instead of 45 to 60 minutes.
The Food Life Thrive foods are good for 25 years on the shelf before you open it. After you open a can it can be stored for one to two years depending on which food it is.
We had been looking for freeze dried foods and had found Thrive foods being sold at Costco. We were hoping to taste the foods at Costco but every time we went, there were no samples. Recently, at a gun show we were looking to see what we could get for our go bags or bug out bags. We saw MRE’s and there was a Thrive booth at the show.
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So when we talked to the rep at the booth we were already to place an order. When we found out we could get it from her for less than Costco we got excited. Then she handed us some chicken salad made from the Food Life Shelf Reliance foods it was amazing. “Freeze dried? No way” is what I was thinking”. It sure was. We began to place an order for a years supply of food and found out they had a “time release” plan for creating our own food store. They call it the “Q”.
We determined our goal for our house and for the lab. The Q planner then gave us a list of what we would need. So we took 20% of our monthly food budget and set up an order. Every month we can edit our Q with new or sale items and start filling in the foods we know we will eat on a regular basis and in an emergency.
It went so well that we have set up a fund raiser for They Shall Walk and you can now prepare for disaster and emergency, save money on your food budget and help fund our research by purchasing from
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