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Originally posted by Aeteocles:
I drink Huel as a meal replacement twice a day for over two months now.

Comes out to less than $2 a meal, is nutritionally balanced, and doesn't require cooking.

He is looking for a full meal. There are so many reasons to not do liquid diet for a month or so.

But you did add to your post total.

And while preparing for whatever may befall you, dont forget your pets need to eat.
Unless you plan to eat them, of course.
My cat enjoys Dinty Moore stew. And he enjoys Hormel (no bean) chili.

I need a long term water solution more than anything else.

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
And while preparing for whatever may befall you, dont forget your pets need to eat.
Unless you plan to eat them, of course.
My cat enjoys Dinty Moore stew. And he enjoys Hormel (no bean) chili.

Didn't even think about that. Thanks! Time to place a cat food order

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Originally posted by ruger357:
I need a long term water solution more than anything else.

Buy a good filter. No need to store huge amounts of water. As long as you can find a ditch, puddle, creek, etc you’ll have water for as long as needed.

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Originally posted by Garret Blaine:

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Originally posted by ruger357:
I need a long term water solution more than anything else.

Buy a good filter. No need to store huge amounts of water. As long as you can find a ditch, puddle, creek, etc you’ll have water for as long as needed.

I've got a couple of life straws, figured they'd be smart to have on hand if you are on the move.

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Originally posted by mrmn50:

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Originally posted by Aeteocles:
I drink Huel as a meal replacement twice a day for over two months now.

Comes out to less than $2 a meal, is nutritionally balanced, and doesn't require cooking.

He is looking for a full meal. There are so many reasons to not do liquid diet for a month or so.

But you did add to your post total.

You could easily replace 100% of your meals with Huel and probably have a more nutritionally balanced diet than living off of pantry stock and bulk beans and rice.

Nothing beats nutritional diversity, but something like Huel that is specifically designed to have balanced micro and macro nutrients is better than rice and spam for months on end.

Huel is powdered plant proteins, fibers, and carbs that is mixed with water. In that respect, it's a liquid diet. But it doesn't have to be. The powder can be eaten raw, eaten as a porridge, or mixed into other food as a supplement.

I see no reason to disparage it as a survival food, especially when it also works great as regular food.

(Re: post count, you do realize I've been here longer but have half your post count. I'm obviously not padding my post count any more than you. )

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Originally posted by Skins2881:

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Originally posted by Garret Blaine:

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Originally posted by ruger357:
I need a long term water solution more than anything else.

Buy a good filter. No need to store huge amounts of water. As long as you can find a ditch, puddle, creek, etc you’ll have water for as long as needed.

I've got a couple of life straws, figured they'd be smart to have on hand if you are on the move.

Also good old fashioned bleach, two drops per quart. Rotate the bleach every 6 months as it loses potency...its dirt cheap though. Literally drank swamp water in Ranger School with just 2 drops per canteen and wait 30 minutes, none of us got sick.

Can also fill bathtubs when things start to go south before water gets shut off, they’ll hold over 70 gal, and there are bathtub sized water bags you can buy and pre-po in the bathrooms, that would keep it clean vs having to bleach, filter or boil like if was just sitting in the tub.

Help with Mountain House. Just checked out their website, they have a lot of options.

What are you buying? Popuch/#10 Can/Pro-Pak®/Kit/1 Serving? Just two of us, so I assume the #10 cans would be dumb?

Suggestions on what's good to eat?

I would like to order some stuff this weekend if possible. Do they have a sample pack, I didn't notice one listed?

This 4-Week kit looks pretty good. Thoughts?

Buy the #10 cans and the Pouches.

Do not buy the Pro-paks. Those are for ultralight backpacking, so they vacuum seal and smaller pouches to reduce weight. The regular packs and cans will be cheaper.

Sam's and Costco have boxes with variety packs in them. Those come out to be the cheapest for the pouches I've seen.

Skins

The discount website Sierra currently has some Mountain House food in stock at a good price if you want to try some. I have ordered Mountain House from them before and the food is GTG. If you sign up for their emails they send out coupons/discount codes but you will get a LOT of emails from them. Here is a link.

Beef stroganoff is my favorite.

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Originally posted by Skins2881:
Help with Mountain House. Just checked out their website, they have a lot of options.

What are you buying? Popuch/#10 Can/Pro-Pak®/Kit/1 Serving? Just two of us, so I assume the #10 cans would be dumb?

Suggestions on what's good to eat?

I would like to order some stuff this weekend if possible. Do they have a sample pack, I didn't notice one listed?

This 4-Week kit looks pretty good. Thoughts?

I buy these when they go on sale:

What Pyker say's. I have a lot of the same. Don't forget the ice cream sandwiches!

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Originally posted by Herkdriver:
Skins

The discount website Sierra currently has some Mountain House food in stock at a good price if you want to try some. I have ordered Mountain House from them before and the food is GTG. If you sign up for their emails they send out coupons/discount codes but you will get a LOT of emails from them. Here is a link.

Beef stroganoff is my favorite.

I just picked up 3 or 4 more meals from the local Sierra store last weekend. When you get the 20-25% off coupons it helps even more to stock up.

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Originally posted by Aeteocles:
I drink Huel as a meal replacement twice a day for over two months now.

Comes out to less than $2 a meal, is nutritionally balanced, and doesn't require cooking.

Why, may I ask? Literally too busy? Dieting? Trends?

I'm genuinely curious why a normally healthy person who clearly knows and likes good food and cooks well himself would choose this, ever, beyond an occasional stop-gap. Sounds like some sort of trendy-ridiculous thing on the surface, frankly, and you're definitely no dummy nor fool, so I'm curious.

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Originally posted by 46and2:

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Originally posted by Aeteocles:
I drink Huel as a meal replacement twice a day for over two months now.

Comes out to less than $2 a meal, is nutritionally balanced, and doesn't require cooking.

Why, may I ask? Literally too busy? Dieting? Trends?

I'm genuinely curious why a normally healthy person who clearly knows and likes good food and cooks well himself would choose this, ever, beyond an occasional stop-gap. Sounds like some sort of trendy-ridiculous thing on the surface, frankly, and you're definitely no dummy nor fool, so I'm curious.

Efficiency. I reduce meal prep time down to nearly zero, and save 30-90 minutes a day not taking a lunch. My blood sugar stays level, I don't get sleepy after I eat, and it's more healthful than just about anything I can buy to eat. I'm more efficient throughout the day not being hungry, looking for snacks, or sleepy from over eating.

I can eat whatever I want, whenever I want. I just choose not to waste my time and money trying to make breakfast and lunch at work into something other than just fueling myself to be productive. I eat dinner with the wife as per usual, or eat out for lunch with my co workers if occasion warrants.

Ordered 14 day box, five day bucket, and a few individual pouches. Total of 10 day supply for two. Got some water. Now time for canned other long term stuff just to keep pantry stocked for items to use first before using Mountain House stuff. Hoping to end up with min three weeks, preferably 30 days+ supply.

Way over budget from what I imagined, but money well spent. Wife doesn't agree, but I'll share with her if need be.

^^^^^^^ you might go buy some instant oatmeal. Cheap, very cheap and a healthy enough thing to eat.

While you’re at the store, buy a few packs of precooked packaged bacon, it’s shelf stable at room temp, probably at least 6 - 8 months shelf life.

Good luck to you.

I’ve been meaning to for years. So I grabbed a couple #10 cans of Mountain House. More expensive, but I like the idea of not having to rotate cans in and out of stock. Plus, we don’t eat much canned food, so they’d likely go to waste.

I can put them in a cool dark place and forget about them for twenty years or so.

[/QUOTE] Sorry, but that's not going to happen with MREs or similar.

MREs are about $60-$80 per case. Each case is 12 MREs. You can figure 2 MREs per person each day, since you're not humping 100 pounds of gear for 20 miles and fighting in combat. So that's about $12 per person per day......[/QUOTE]

A retired army vet told me that 1 MRE contains 2000 calories and is enough for one person per day. He said we lived with that OK, you just have to make a little sacrifice...