E Foods Question for Preppers and SHTF types!

dreher

A friend of mine buys quite a bit of food from E foods, as in the freeze dried emergency food. Jim has given me several different varieties of the E food to try. I was pleasantly surprised at the simple fact that cooking these several products produced a meal that wasn't all that bad. Was it great eating?? No. If I was hungry would it great eating?? Oh yeah!

My question is simply, do any of you prepper/SHTF types know of a source of freeze dried food of similar quality to the E foods at lesser price?? The simple fact is that if I can get 50% more freeze dried food for the same price, I am that much better prepared if the poop does hit the fan!!

1911a1-fan

they actually look pretty cheap for freeze dried 25 year shelf life food, but there are alternitives that are cheaper such as #10 cans of precooked foods and bulk rice and beans

LesWVa

Look over Costco (the chain store) for Emergency Food.

sharpshooter039

most of the freeze dried stuff you can find at wal-mart or other such stores. They mostly will not be in bulk but its cheaper and easier to pick up. Just on the soup isle there are dozens of different dried products , there along with rice and beans will last a lifetime as long as they are kept dry and you can make very good meals with them. I also buy powdered eggs ,dry milk, butter milk and the sealed little bags of instant mashed potatoes. The date on them is only about 5 years but they are honestly good for 25+..its dry it cant go bad. We keep at least 6 months of dry food and them we rotate it out as we eat it. Sams club and costco even sell the boxed prepper stuff at good prices, youcan look it up on their websites to compair prices.

allen griggs

I don't have any freeze dried food, but I need to get some, because it tastes pretty good, is easy to fix, and provides variety.

Your best bet for long term food storage is 5 gallon nitrogen packed buckets of hard red winter wheat, beans, lentils, barley etc.


http://www.pleasanthillgrain.com/buy_wheat_whole_grain_red_white_wheat_berries_making_bread_flour.aspx

I have bought lots of stuff from these guys and they are very good.

Rice is neither here nor there. Brown rice is one of the best foods that mother nature provides but it won't keep more than a few years.
White rice keeps a long time but they have milled all the fiber and vitamins off of it so as to make it hardly worth the trouble to boil up and eat.

You make a batch of kidney beans the night before, then the next morning you grind up a cup of wheat and a cup of corn to which you add a cup of the beans, and make a batch of homemade corn bread. You have one of the most nutritious meals that you can get, before or after the SHTF. Cheap, too.
Of course you need to also get a hand cranked grain grinder.

If you buy these nitrogen packed buckets of hard red winter wheat, or pinto beans or corn, they will last 25 to 30 years if you keep them in the basement.

Mobuck

You can buy those meal size Knorr/Lipton and Uncle Ben's noodles, rice, and/or bean dishes for $1 and pack for long term storage. We eat them 2-3 times per week and find them good tasting and simple to prepare.

plinked

Over the last several years I've been buying most of my bulk SHTF food from these folks.http://www.augasonfarms.com/
When comparing prices to other sites be sure to check the weights of what your pricing