Honestly how pathetic have we become. Stock piling dehydrated food,
get a backbone stand up and use your energy to try to change the world.
Instead of stockpiling crap that some gang of thugs will just come take from you. Your buying your salvation from the same facist system who is scaring you into buying it. Be scared very scared you can do nothing to help others save your self. Dont worry about anyone else unless it benfits you. If tptb exist they must read post like this and pee there pants laughing. Look at these cowardly little monkeys they deserve to be dominated. So huddle and hide and pray for salvation while chewing on your dried food because all your water has gone bad. Not me I will be on the street with anyone else who wants to stand against the long night. Hopefully people will wake up and we can regain are liberty as free men and women before we let it slip away. So stop stock piling worth less food and start talking to everyone u know about how u feel about the society we have created. Education and communication are are swords.

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

cheaper: Buying some seed packets...grow your own fresh food.
Buy a dehydrator and some meat and make your own jerky if you want to nickers> prepare for the man eat man world of tomorrow

Might break out the jerkymaker myself and make packets of "survival food packs"...will even come under the corporate 800 buck price for a year supply

as PT said, "theres one born every minute"

Just a piece of advice for anyone stocking up on this -- also spend the money and buy enough cooking oil to go with it.

Cooking oil is one of the most valuable survival tools when planning on living off of dehydrated food. It's relatively inexpensive and is the best way to cook various foods without electricity. You are not going to want to use any water for cooking -- you'll have to save that solely for drinking and cleaning.

Anybody worried about cholesterol or constipation from using dehydrated food and/or cooking oil isn't really planning on "surviving". And isn't so indicative of the society we now live in to worry about going to the bathroom?

I think people tend to forget that at the point that one starts relying on said dehydrated food - TSHTF and it's all you have left. Suddenly, the "side effects" become irrelevant and the sole focus is on staying alive.

oh, last note on this.

should we come to a time where I have to shoot my neighbor out of fear he will be stealing my freeze dried peanuts, I do hope I died in whatever it was to begin with that started it...because scratching out a existance on a world devoid of food is not a world I would want to be a part of overall.

you can take your moonrock earth...I will check out early...feel free to grab my old bag of rice cakes should you stumble across my home in the new desert planet..oh, and toss a coat or something over my body.

For the best prices on dehydrated food, shop around like anything else. A little internet searching will save you a lot. I also bought some on ebay, very competitive priced.
Buying in bulk and vac sealing is also a way to get stuff dirt cheap. Good luck to all.

Does anyone have a good site or a list of things that one should have to be prepared for an emergency? Or for when TSHTF ?

And coming up next, get your genetically modified foods in I.V. bags for direct insertion.

Why bother rehydrating your food when you don't even have to taste it! Consume at twice the speed for twice the disease!

A Gun
A bottle of Scotch
And some rolling papers

It looks like its no longer available.

Why would you want to give Costco your money?
Just imagine a giant warehouse of over-processed GM food is just gross and corporations like Costco are the ones that are killing us all in any case, they keep us fat, and lazy.
Instead of buying that junk, start supporting you local organic farms, most of them now have weekly vegetable, even meat deliveries right to your door once a week. Fresh, no hormone, grass fed, no pesticide honest to goodness real food. Do you even remember what a real tomato tastes like? Have you ever even seen how yellow the yolk of a real egg can be?
Get out of Costco, instead go out your front door, find your local farmers and give them your 800.00. You'll feel better, and be doing more for regular folks than anything Costco ever could hope to do.

OK ...first of all ...

Costco has had freeze dry food for A while now.
Yes that was A bit of A deal.
All kinds of group packages there.
They have A meat variety pack for $199.99 for 288 servings.
288/200= about $1.44 per serving.
7 to 10 days delivery

Now the only problems left are ...
How much is a serving ?
Wheres it coming from ?
How is it packaged ?
Was it relabeled ?
Has it been repackaged ?(old stock)
Who's making it ?

Now As far as I know quality freeze dried food with proper packaging is A little expensive. I doubt you want to eat it daily.
The only reasons to buy long shelf life foods is if you "know" your going to be there when the SHFT.
If you buy A screw driver from Snap-on and one from the dollar store which is better ?
When survival food is concerned it's better to buy the best quality.

If you can't afford to outright buy the best "stuff" for your survival then budget,save for it and get a little at A time.

As far equipment is concerned get A 72hr kit NOW if you don't have one and work your way up.

Have a nice day.


[edit on 9-10-2009 by The Utopian Penguin]