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What are the best freeze dried food buckets out there? Anyone ever eaten any of this shit? Any input is appreciated.

What are the best freeze dried food buckets out there? Anyone ever eaten any of this shit? Any input is appreciated.

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Holy shit that’s expensive. 38 bucks for two hamburgers. Guess I’m eating the bugs

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First of all, its six. Quit looking at just the pics.

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Thought the package said 10 ounces. Still 6 Bucks apiece is a little steep. Thanks for the link.

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Mountain House has the best flavor, next I'd say Augason Farms. We've used them camping, and they are both edible, I haven't tried any of the newer brands.

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It’s become a huge fad lately. Either bought in bulk or the machines for thousands. Doesn’t make sense economically, or taste wise. Better off canning, freezing, drying. Plan backups for the electric for the freezer and call it good.

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beans and rice. with multivitamin. don't overcomplicate it. I say this because as soon as anyone discovers that you have food you're going to have to either kill them or feed them. so, it's good to have way more than you think you need so that you can at least feed your retarded liberal family members.

don't forget spices and salt, as that combination will get old quickly.

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"kill them or feed them" sad, but true.

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At this point it is probably cheaper to buy your own freeze dryer.

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Depends. A home freeze dryer costs about $2K and has a year long waiting list. (Maybe that's down, but I doubt it.) It's big enough to do one tray of food, and takes 36 hours to run a cycle, and is sucking down electricity the whole time.

Freeze dried food is expensive. You can convert some of that expense to time by buying your own (and frankly, a huge increase in quality) but it requires you to run it almost constantly, and do all the purchasing, prep, and then packaging yourself. Also, they are huge and will take up a huge amount of space in your kitchen, garage or pantry. Most people aren't willing to do that.

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That's not a freeze dryer. That's a dehydrator. It moves air (tepid or hot) over food. You can duplicate it with some screens, cardboard, and a box fan for $20.

A freeze dryer first freezes the food to solidify the water, and then puts it under hard vacuum to cause that water to sublimate directly from ice to vapor. Dehydrators evaporate 90% of the water, freeze dryers sublimate 99% of the water.

You can use a dehydrator to make banana chips and beef jerky. You can use a freeze dryer to make powdered eggs and astronaut ice cream.

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A few years ago I tried some of the freeze dried Mountain House packet meals the sell to hikers/campers. I thought they were very salty for my taste. But they probably add that much salt to extend the shelf life. Some people like it, though. Try sample packs before you order large amounts.

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I have a 3 month supply for 2 I carry with us in our 5th wheel "just in case". Not sure of the brand but it tastes just OK. I've tried a few of the meals and they all had this weird background flavor probably preservatives or from processing. But it's there for emergencies and I like the pease of mind having it.

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You’re better off just making hardtack. And storing dried beans and canned foods. Much cheaper. Hardtack is something that was so instrumental in the history of our forefathers yet it hardly gets mentioned

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I've had hardtack. it's inedible. pemmican is actually tolerable. I've made it once, and it came out ok. I need more practice.

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You are supposed to make hardtack chili or soup or something. Hardtack was not generally eaten in its plain/"raw" form.

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I don't like that they are selling orange drink and pancakes. Who's making that shit when the power is out?