Vanity - What do FReepers think of this deal from Auguson Farms for Emergence Food?

10/14/13 | raybbr

[raybbr]

I am a member of BJ's wholesale. They have this emergency food supply available: http://www.bjs.com/augason-farms-emergency-food-storage-kit-1-year-1-person.product.211362?dimId=8052

Any thoughts? I have a supply of food that I've been building up over time. About two months for my family of four (two adults - two children).

I want a compact supply and something I can build further on.

Thanks in advance.

[raybbr]

I'm not thrilled about the mixes. Also, shipping is included for members.

Link: http://www.bjs.com/augason-farms-emergency-food-storage-kit-1-year-1-person.product.211362?dimId=8052

[raybbr]

http://www.bjs.com/augason-farms-emergency-food-storage-kit-1-year-1-person.product.211362?dimId=8052

[Pan_Yan]

Let’s ask the experts.

[JRandomFreeper]

Store what you eat, eat what you store.

Trying to use 'emergency' food stores is a sure way to menu fatigue and poor health.

It makes more sense to buy what you normally use in bulk, saving up to 10% with the bulk purchase and another 5% by avoiding inflation.

Good luck.

/johnny

[Nervous Tick]

>> Trying to use ‘emergency’ food stores is a sure way to menu fatigue and poor health.

That’s very diplomatic, Johnny... much less harsh than my “if surviving means eating that crap, just shoot me now...” :-)

[rstrahan]

Sometimes space is an issue. It is a lot harder to store a year’s worth of canned goods than desiccated products. Yes, you will get menu fatigue but you will eat.

[JRandomFreeper]

Having fed large numbers of people in situations ranging from fine dining to military field conditions, I've got some experience with menu fatigue. ;)

When I was feeding 1400 of my closest friends in the field in adverse circumstances, getting them GOOD food made all the difference in the world on unit performance.

/johnny

[Nervous Tick]

If you’re a good field cook I think I’ll add a map to your place to my bug-out kit. You feed me good, I’ll hunt and fight for ya — deal?

[JRandomFreeper]

I'll be taking small silver, teenage girls that can pull a plow, and sugar in trade for my cooking, tobacco, and booze. Cash only, no credit. ;)

/johnny

[JRandomFreeper]

Yes, you will get menu fatigue but you will eat.

Problem is that most people with menu fatigue won't eat, or not enough to keep up their health and strength. I've seen it first-hand in the military.

/johnny

[Nervous Tick]

Dang. Alright, I guess I’ll stay on my place and eat bunnies.

I wonder how skunk tastes. If it can be choked down I’ll *never* starve. :-)

[lysie]

Hi. Don’t ever change, Johnny. ((hugs))

[outofsalt]

The price is reasonable but the mix is not great. I buy from these guys and prefer freeze dried combos. Rather than buying a one year package I buy smaller kits of meals and meats. http://beprepared.com/food-storage/year-supplies-and-combos.html
I think I get a better supply by buying a box or two a month. Costs a bit more but not all at once and I get what I really want rather than a bunch of stuff my family wont like.

[DelaWhere]

Buy a few cans - THEN make your decision after preparing and eating them... Just might take a different approach.. I did.

[c-b 1]

I prefer freeze dried food, over dehydrated, we don't go for the package deals where someone else decides what products we get. We chose what we want, that way we have what we eat. We prefer Thrive freeze dried foods, do some reasearch, there are probably distributors in your area, if you find one in your area, they will make arragements for you to try some samples of their products.

The price seems a bit high, not being able to choose what your family eats makes it more expensive.

[IMR 4350]

You could probably put together your own kit buying individual cans a lot cheaper than what they have here.

Multiple cans of rice can get down right expensive when compared to a bag of rice of equal amount you can store in jars.

Same with some of the other foods. You are paying a lot for a can.

Buying cans of dried veggies and some dried meat will let you fix it to your taste the way you want.

[Kartographer]

I am not a fan of such kits. One of the reason and a lot of this stuff you can pick up in bulk at a store and even after buying bags and oxygen absorbers put it up yourself cheaper a good exaxample would be mash potato flakes and dehdrated hash browns.In fact I dehyrated some of my own food and prep it for long term storage in mylar or vaccum pack in canning jars.

The second reason goes like this, say the kit comes with 8 entrees A,B,C,D,E,F,G and H. Now you really like A and C,E and G are good, but B and H you are barely able to choke down, leaving D and F which you wouldn’t eve feed to a zombie! That means you will more and likely eat the good stuff first leaving you with 50% of your food storage that you hate or gags you when you try and put it down. That would get old pretty quick.

Having the makings rather than prepared meals allow you a lot more varity and limits food fatigue.

That’s my two cents.

[Kartographer]

Preppers’ PING!!

[ASOC]

Over on another board, Zombie Hunters dot org, this is a common topic.

Things to look for: calorie count, serving size, cost per calorie and then look closely at the ingredients.

In some of these so-called survival foods, you see things like milk and cheese. In other brands, of the ‘same’ food, you see coffee creamer and “cheese flavoring”.

Last - Country of Origin. I’ve seen many postings on several different sites where this supplier and other vendors have admitted that “some to much” of the food they sell is Hencho in China.

A real red flag to me is when the vendor will not disclose source of food.

I have contacted AF several times asking for this information and been rebuffed. So, no sale for me.

YMMV.

BTW, rather than buy food like this, why not roll your own. See
http://zombiehunters.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=74461&hilit=costco+food
for some good discussion about storage food.

[Kartographer]

I give you Lima Beans and Ham. ;-)