Posted by:
paintinginthewin
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Date: July 20, 2011 03:19PM
I think its horrible, just awful, to take advantage of someone's anxiety & make them buy junk that is useless to them. Has she even tasted any of this food? Or is she related to back packers she needed to supply food to interfering with her budget for years (that sporting good dehydrated stuff is expensive!)
Agree with above posters re a week of earthquake food. I used up lots of my snacks & quick meals on a new job assignment four years ago; I had no office but sent to move between buildings with no desk or office constantly doing presentations. I began to use up things I had considered emergency food (like one serving apple sauce, cups of soup, lipton's cup of soup mixes, small servings of raisins, & camping food like oatmeal packets) All I needed was hot water. I didn't have access to plates cups or bowls, anything but a microwave, and no refrigerator or space to leave any cup or plate. So using that 'emergency one serving stir & heat' sort of thing, It was far less expensive than eating in a restaurant, and one was not available where I did the work, or between the presentation rooms which were on a strict time schedule. Working giving presentations in five locations without a desk or work platform changed how much food, the types of food, and snack planning for me. I learned finally to travel light. The 72 hour kit is like that. For getting by traveling light, having the essential snacks to just get by.
so I tore up my earthquake kit & lived on it, kept re purchasing, & kept supplies behind my seat in my vehicle so I'd always have snacks, lunch, possibly breakfast if I needed it. & I was working full time, not homeless, just commuting only 17 or 19 miles one way. Leaving home & returning in the dark doing presentations without a home base, basically living out of my vehicle for food. You wouldn't imagine you would need food so light you could carry it, where you didn't need to refrigerate it, where you did not need cup bowl or plate to serve it, lighter in weight than an apple or sandwich - wow that was pretty challenging. Good thing I learned to drink the coffee.
Is this some package deal nobody is going to touch, or an integrated favorite food. for instance anjo ango peppers come dried, getting fresh peppers is expensive & nearly impossible some time of the year. I grind them in a blender with water to make my enchilada sauce.
Dehydrated foods make soup making faster- have you ever used dehydrated tomato power? like magic. but expensive. Tomato paste is less costly for me to make sauces with than tomato powder- but again, I may be closer to the fields, and just twenty miles from a tomato cannery actually. The weight for freight might take the prices higher so dried or powdered tomatoes become cheaper further away. So what are the prices? how can you get the product cheapest & still experience it?
Myself, While I would love to never peel a carrot again, or cut an onion- so if I could find those dried to throw in a soup or stew it would make life easier. Probably not going to do it- I live near farms- the real things are cheaper, accessible, & local.
You have to be concerned about palitability/flavor so its edible, but living on it might get someone sick or make their allergies or immune system dip if it has too many preservatives like msg (causes some people migranes.) so check that out- some things are intended as temporary measures with limited access which wouldn't hurt you, not daily consumption forever (high salt/sodium would be a blood pressure concern etc.) Read that label before you consider eating your dehydrated food storage or ready made food for daily consumption- you could increase your blood pressure or gain weight through fluid retention &* need all new clothes when you were trying to save weight consuming your food storage.
Everyone's access & choices to use food is different. My brother was an accountant at a big salsa producer, and tasked about the most expensive products actually the best, grade, fresh ingredients, and the lower end ones were made from dehydrated ingredients. It was a really big deal. so you have to be concerned with more msg or flavor enhancers being added to dehydrated foods (which I heard aren't that good for you sadly) That's a sacrifice with dehydrated stuff, unless its like potatoe flakes from Idaho- that's just potatoes, not an entire meal needing to be spiced up.
One of my family members is a gourmet cook, was vegan now vegetarian, did big events on the california coast- great food. They cook for pleasure & leisure. their food is a dream.
another member of my family eats half their meals, gets a yogurt and a bagel at university food services on their way to work. they buy a sandwich or salad for lunch and bring it back to their department. They see if their husband cooked anything or if they're going out with friends, or eat left overs from going out or their last event at night. They don't cook & they like meat. This family member lived for 6 years with a two foot closet kitchen, primarily used a microwave they just don't cook they didnt' need it. Presently one intelligent family member finds it absurd to procure the fixings for a meal, so takes his entire family out strategically to fast food based on the daily specials because he estimated a cost savings overall. I don't have the heart to tell him a medical cost benefit analysis might not see it that way or suggest read the nutrients or biochem rather than finances in his strategy. So everyone's really really different about how they could access or use foods.
Its been a ridiculous impromptu run through life- I cannot count the times I have eaten my so called 'food storage' (regular food in a pantry not dehydrated) so I could buy a camera. Another month, drive 700 miles; another month a computer (remember how much they used to cost)