| | |  | Everything Else | Home » » Food For Health Vegetarian Emergency Food Supply 275 Servings Up to a 20 Year Shelf Life Weather Proof Bucket | | | | | | | Description: | | Ready to eat every day of the week! With all-new recipes made from high quality ingredients, all 275 servings burst with flavor and nutrition. Savor the comforting essence of Creamy Potato Soup or the family-pleasing Italian Tomato Pasta for lunch or dinner, or start the day off right with a heart-healthy bowl of oatmeal. These meals are no longer just long-term food supply but tasty enough for everyday use.
Along with the enhanced flavors, Food for Health has also increased the nutritional value as well. Each entrée is high in protein and offers no hydrogenated oils, trans fats, or added MSG. Making a healthy meal has never been so easy or affordable. Just add boiling water, and in 25 minutes, a mouth-watering meal is ready to serve; priced under 35 cents, Food For Health's Food Supply Kit easily fits into any budget.
Although recommended for daily use, the 275 serving Food Kit is still the best choice for any outdoor activity and stocking your shelves with a long-term food supply. | | | Features: | |
• Easy to Prepare Up to a 20 Year Shelf Life* Must have water and heat source 275 servings - 55 pouches per kit (5 servings each pouch) 25 Servings of Cheesy Broccoli & Rice
• 30 Servings of Vegetable Rice 35 Servings of Creamy Potato Soup 25 Servings of Italian Tomato Pasta 25 Servings of Tuscan Butter Pasta 35 Servings of Barley Vegetable Soup 50 Servings of Maple Brown Sugar Oatmeal 50 Servings of Whey Milk
• Sealed in convenient Weather-Proof pail for easy transport 100% Vegetarian - no hydrogenated oils, added MSG or Trans Fats Total Weight 23 lbs. Our company's name reflects our commitment of providing food that promotes optimal health, increased longevity, and a sustained quality of life.
• The Date of Manufacturing is printed on each individual packet, The Expiration Date for all the food is printed on a sticker located on the outside of the pail.
• For best taste and nutritional value, use product before: 20 years of manufacturing date when stored at 60° F (16.6° C) 10 years of manufacturing date when stored at 70° F (21.1° C)
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 12.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 12.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 20.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 20.0 pounds | | Package Length:
| 13.0 inches | | Package Width:
| 13.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 12.5 inches | | Package Weight:
| 25.6 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 55 reviews |
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308 of 313 found the following review helpful:
 Good, but misleading packagingJun 09, 2010
By Matt
"MattMatt"
Fast delivery and I'm happy to have a stash of emergency food. But, the packaging is a little misleading. It's not 275 individual servings. It's 55 packets that contains 5 servings. So you either need to cook 5 servings at a time or have a way to measure, divide, and store the 5 servings between meals. Not a big deal but just be aware. Overall, I hope to never need to use this product!
237 of 245 found the following review helpful:
Lots of food, but very small servingsJul 30, 2010
By Brendan Anthony
Some info to make deciding whether or not to purchase: this bucket comes with 275 servings of food. However, as another reviewer noted, the food is packaged in servings of 5. What the other reviewer did not note is that the servings are relatively small: I computed that the average calorie count per serving is 128. Assuming a 2000 calorie diet, this means that you might be eating 15 servings of this food every day in an emergency situation, which works out to about 18 days of food.
That's less than I expected out of 275 servings, but this is still a huge, cheap, long lasting bucket of food. I haven't tasted any of the food, nor do I plan to for the next 19 years or so :) For now I'm definitely still glad I bought it!
128 of 131 found the following review helpful:
Perfectly fine, quality emergency food supplyJan 06, 2011
By Jon
First, there is a place for having some emergency food on hand that has a very long shelf life and this is one of the better deals out there that you will find. After my first purchase of this emergency survival food supply bucket I was satisfied enough that I ordered a second one. It was very fast delivery and packaged right. The buckets are stackable and the contents individually sealed. I think it has enough variety to be workable. Yes, you can buy these at costco for the same price but you have to pay costco for membership.
Here's my thoughts. As other reviews state, this is not 275 servings sealed in 275 bags. It's actually 55 bags with 5 servings each. This probably isn't the only solution for food storage out there as people's specific food needs can vary. Again, if you are considering this you are probably thinking of only a few scenarios where you would ever use this, and you are probably buying it as an insurance policy thus hoping you don't have to use it. With a 20 year shelf life, if stored properly, it lasts far longer than canned groceries and would work for that.
So I think there is a place for a couple of these buckets on hand. Think of them as your long term food solution. Stack it in a dark, cool place in the basement and forget it. But I definitely wouldn't go overboard. You need to consider your short term food storage needs. While these are great and I recommend them, they aren't super cost effective or varied enough for a short term emergency food solution.
What I do for my family and what I recommend for you is that you augment these with a good dose of canned goods and other normal groceries and household items that your family already uses. Most canned goods last 2-3 years and can be rotated into your normal stock at any time. For example, you can buy canned corn, green beans, mixed veggies, mixed fruit, pinto beans, soups, diced tomatoes, canned chili, tamales in chili, tomato sauce, dry pasta, rice, peanut butter, power bars, canned chicken, tuna, honey, etc, etc...just look at the date's imprinted on the can or package to determine approximate shelf life. You can also find shelf life guidelines on the web. Then rotate them into your current stock if they gets closer to expiring. Also, don't forget that you need water. A case of 28 16.5 oz bottles of water can be purchased for under $4. Bottled water in proper storage conditions should last a year and a half or so.
If you buy a little bit of extra groceries here and there and a bucket or two of these, you will quickly build up a backup food pantry that you can use at any time.
65 of 67 found the following review helpful:
Good Product but other options available!Apr 10, 2011
By John Cossey
I have purchased this product and can say that overall it is a good deal regardless of where you buy it. However, there are other options available that I like better and feel are superior. The servings are quite small so in reality, rather than 5 serving per pouch, if you are an adult it is more like 2 "everyday" serving per pouch. Of course in a true emergency you would ration and eat smaller servings. Also review the nutritional values and ingredients from several similar products.
As for the price going up after the Japan disaster, if you search online for emergency food products you will soon find that there is an 8 week plus backlog in orders from almost every supplier out there. People are waking up to the fact that the security we have enjoyed in the United States is currently just not there. But it's not JUST Japan. There is a food shortage and food prices are increasing all over the world, oil prices are skyrocketing which causes transportation costs to go up, the Middle East is exploding, most national economies are struggling, and the US dollar is in a free fall. It's all coming home. The US has been typically isolated from these things but that is changing and changing quickly. So yes, as the law of supply and demand dictates, prices are going up and this is more reason to buy now while you still can. Because believe me when I say that we haven't seen anything yet. It's only going to get worse!
I have a store of about 6 months of everyday canned and box food as well as supplies of Pinto beans, rice, flour, etc that we use and rotate. If food prices continue to go up significantly or there is a disruption in supply we are covered for a while. I also have 6 or more months of long term storage food with a 15 to 25 year shelf life. This is mostly in the event of a much more significant problem such as a total collapse of the United States economy (which is not only possible but likely) or other disaster that affects food supply, employment, etc. Statistics say that only, at best, 20% of the US population is prepared to sustain themselves longer than a week. Long term food items such as these pouches will serve not only as emergency rations but as a source of barter (money) as well. In addition we have silver tucked away. We also have a fresh garden that we have grown in place of the typical flower beds we had in years past. And, being that we live in the desert of Arizona we have 1000 gallons of potable water stored that we rotate.
Regarding the room it takes to store these items - the canned and box food takes the most storage area but we have a large pantry for this. The long term food storage we have is a mixture of both freeze dried (such as Wise food products) and dehydrated pouches (from eFoods Global). The dehydrated pouches only have a 15 year shelf life compared to the 25 year shelf life of freeze dried but you get much more food in a much smaller area. Of course we also have our bug-out kits and camping supplies in the event that we have to leave our area.
The long and short of it is this... You hope to never have to resort to any of this but if you do, on that day you will be glad you have it. I agree with Arthur Bradley's opinion in general. There are ads all over the place right now from people who are selling large stores of freeze dried food that were purchased during the Y2K scare and are now near the end of their shelf life (beware). Most of this food will ultimately be discarded. But in my opinion I would much rather throw away a years worth of long term food 20 years down the road, than need food a month from now and not have it and not have any way to provide for my family. Do it smart and have a plan. No one can be prepared for every situation but doing our best to provide for today and plan for tomorrow is a responsibility that we can't ignore in today's unstable climate. If you'd like practical help for doing this visit me by searching azsaver in google.
75 of 79 found the following review helpful:
Comforting To Have - RecommendedJan 29, 2011
By C. F. Hill
"CFH"
This is our second "Emergency Survival Food Supply" and it rounds us out to roughly a month of food for my family of four. We opened ours and tried the Potato Soup so we would have an idea of what to expect if we ever had to actually rely on these. Here are my observations:
Pros -
+ Convenient Storage; comes packed in a 5 gallon bucket
+ Convenient Packaging; each meal comes in 5 serving foil pouches (see picture in "Customer Images") and, at least for the Potato Soup, that is accurate
+ Good Flavor; my family was actually somewhat surprised about how good the Potato Soup tasted
+ Filling; the heavy carb load on these (19g to 40g) makes for a filling meal (the Potato soup thickened nicely)
+ Easy to Make; just add water (we have stored one week of water and have several water purification methods)
+ 20 Year Shelf Life; we put this in our basement next to our "Bug-out Bag"
Cons -
- We tried the Potato Soup because the edge of it was slightly opened where it was trapped under the lid, but all of the others were properly sealed
- Hard to remove the storage bucket lid, we had to use pliers, a screwdriver, and wire cutters to get it off
- 5 servings per pouch doesn't really work too well for our family of four since once it is open it would hard to store and later prepare, so we have taken that into account and will just divide each one four ways
This is one of the items that we hope to never actually need, but is comforting to have on hand.
Recommended
CFH
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