Are Food Supply Buckets Worth The Price?

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[GruntProof]

Are you ready for the next food shortage? Let's find out if these emergency food buckets are worth it.

[vektorvictor]

As a trucker, i lived off my mountain house for 2 weeks once. 3 mountain house meals per day. I lost weight and started feeling better as a result.

[mynameisstilljafo]

A couple of things I like to keep at home in my emergency food supply

-Canned chicken breast. Love this stuff. It's an affordable, good tasting source of lean protein, and it plays nice with all sorts of instant noodle/rice/soup products from the store shelf.

-MRE peanut butter/cheese packets. These make a good pick-me-up in between meals, and are small and light enough to go with you anywhere.

One thing I haven't stocked up on but am considering is canned tuna packed in oil. I've always preferred water-packed tuna, but the additional calories of the tuna in olive oil might make sense in a prepping situation. Olive oil is a fairly healthy fat, to boot.

[lessharratt]

Thanks Randell. You just saved me from making a big mistake. Please keep doing reviews.

[Spyderontherise]

Family of 5 here. We love off the grid, bushcraft kind of stuff. You're absolutely right! For $79 just build a cooling space and grab actual groceries or catch your food. Thanks for sharing 👍🏼 😊

[chriskeating]

Yes please Randall, make a good video of survival preparedness food ! Great Beagle, I had one years ago ...Awesome dogs ! Just don't let him /her get into bacon grease...that's how mine died of pancreatitus! Great video

[sniperforce]

Mountain house meals, are more geared toward single servings, even though they are 2 servings a pack, I got the classic survival bucket with 24 servings, I would recommend trying those, they say the rule of thumb on food and water is 6 weeks per person, I say 6 months per person to be safe, I've also been told, wise meals doesn't have hardly any nutrition value, so I've been told

[RobertKimble]

Nutrient Survival, Legacy Food Storage and Peak Refuel are my three favorites. I would love to see a comaprison between these three.

[mattb.]

Great video! I have tried a lot of different brands of dehydrated meals. My favorite so far is Mountain House. I love the chili Mac, breakfast skillet, biscuits & gravy, and rice & chicken, just to name few. Been eating them for years and I’ve never actually paid attention to the supposed servings lol.

[NickFrom]

Have to agree. I watched a pretty thorough comparison once and they did a calorie/carb/protein/etc comparison and anything with the word "wise" in the name failed miserably. I recommend having instant meals like this around, but not "*wise*" brand. I'll pay double for Mountain house before I bought this brand.

[logskidder]

I'm with Matt B. and would try Mountain House. Their 24 meal buckets actually contain 12 meals without "fillers", but for those needing calories one will only get one meal per bag. Like MREs you can prepare the meals in the Mountain House bags unlike the Readywise bags. Mountain House buckets do tend to be a little more expensive, but in the US meals, buckets or boxes (84 servings) can often be found for reasonable discounts from Costco and Walmart. The Stroganoff is actually edible.

[dananorth]

I've never been big on pre-prepared meals/food buckets.
I have all the canning tools. A large dehydrator and a large supply of oxy absorbers and plastic and foil bags for my vacuum seal a meals. And corn and grain/wheat grinders.
I buy dried goods in bulk bags wheat, rice, beans, lentals, oatmeal, noodles etc. As well as sugar, powdered milk, seasonings, boullons, cocoa, salt, herbs in bulk etc.
One thing I do recommend in particular are the freeze dried meats chicken, beef, pork, sausage, ground beef which are spendy but go far, last decades if unopened but I usually reseal some in vacuum bags for camping etc.
Also freeze dried and dehydrated vegetables and herbs, I pick up 24 or more types veggies and a dozen or so herbs cilantro, chilli power, garlic powder n salt, etc and repackage in vacuum bags singly and a mega mix I use in soups, stews, stir frys, eggs you name it. The selection, price and quality is amazing. I put it off for decades and finally bit the bullet about 10 yrs ago and have been sold ever since.
I rather put together/cook/pack my own. I don't the trust any corperation. Too much food engineering, mystery ingredients, and toxins. Lol
As you already know knorr, bear, Lipton dried soups and many others put out good products and canned goods as well. Mac n cheese, ramen, rice a roni, etc.
It's easier and cheaper to make your own mre's right down to spices, snacks. Buy nuts, dehydrated fruits and bulk jerky and peperoni's and repackage in smaller vac sealed portions, throw in cheeze-its. and some hersheys choc. your good. Instant tea n coffee, cocoa or reg. Endless variations.
Pack it all in 5 gal buckets or tote's and your good.👍
Eggs by the case (5 doz.) Can be rubbed then dried with vasoline to seal pours, they'll last 9-12 mths in a cool dark place.
Mix 1 part bees wax w/4 parts parafin (20:80 /1:4 ratio) to coat cheese you've bought in 2-5 lb blocks in bulk. Cut smaller a dip a few times, slap a paper label on while last dip is still wet, then dip a couple more times. It'll keep a yr. min. But in theory indefinitely.
P.S. The first time I did it I aimed for a years supply of food....it actually made 2.5 yrs. supply.
My sis said thats alot of food. I told her 1 yrs for one person will last 2 people 6 mths, 4 people 3 mths, 8 people 1.5 mths, 16 people 3 wks, 32 people 1.5 wks.
If you were a small resterant/eatery it'd be gone within a week. Lol

[zacharymartin]

Costco sells 124 serving pails for $55. I've been stocking up on those since I know they won't last as long as advertised but the food is decent and for that price I'm not too bothered by having to buy more of them.

[SurvivorMetalMan]

Man, I think their worth it, my only gripe is non resealable pouches, and not very much variety. But you have to have a metric ton of it to survive for any length of time. I agree they taste pretty good. It’s a shit ton better than eating bugs lol. There are definitely better brands out there. Best to supplement it with a garden. MRE’s are always a good choice. Excellent video brother! Definitely do that video.

[journeyman]

I've seen the ready wise meals here and there and tried a couple. They tasted good but for that price I would have expected more bang for the buck. The orange drink reminds of that orange drink you can get from MacDonalds when you are a kid. Tastes good but is just sugar and crap.
Nate

[DRFelGood]

Love the review Randell 🇺🇸 at least the food comes with its own crap bucket 🪣 ✌️

[tmart]

When I think of “prepping”..I go back to what our great, great and even greater grandparents did. They canned food, made pemmican, and dried food. Garden and mason jars will keep you alive on your homestead. Ammo will keep others from getting at it👍

[steveturner]

You can’t go wrong with Mountain House. I can’t say Wise is bad but they seem to disappoint. Wise also counts their beverages as servings. Everything is creamy pasta or soup. All their breakfast is cereal. Not much in the way of meat. I’ve never been disappointed with Mountain House. Got my last MRE’s for $69.99 a case. Between several of them, lots and lots of Mountain House and canned meats / veggies I got food covered for me and my family. Any MH bucket kicks Wise to the curb.

[scottcrapo]

Try legacy food storage, much bigger portions, and taste great. Peak reufuel is also delicious and large portions.

[chriswhinery]

I'm happy you did this video.
I had briefly considered buying some of these buckets until I researched everything in them, realizing I could easily make my own storage buying in bulk.

Not only that, but I can do it cheaper, and the food will be things I want and use in my normal preps.