I bought this over a year ago. My fiance left me 5 months ago and I'm now not living a financially stable life. Just remembered I have this because I can't afford food. I'm so glad you say it tastes good. Gonna make this after work.
I have this same bucket that I bought online--local Wal-mart does not sell anything like this. I opened mine up not to use the food inside but I saw there was enough space to put in 4 additional 4 serving pouches I got from another company then put the lid back on, that way I maximize the available space in that bucket
We bought the buckets from our local tractor supply with the lids to store rice and such in. They have a super solid seal and are good grade plastic. 50 gal buckets.
Use the pancake mix at home to make room for other items like a small jar of honey and cans of spam, chicken, or tuna. Maybe even some small fishing gear, or trap making items to supplement what you have. In a survival/bugout situation, where you are moving constantly, trying to pan fry or gridddle the pancakes could be a problem. And I dont think you would want to drink the batter :) The other items can use cold water if you have to, just let it sit and stir longer.
Augason Farms also makes one-person 72-hour kits that are in smaller buckets and will fit better into tight spaces in your vehicle. All these small grab-n-go buckets are good for no-notice emergency evacuations. I keep some in the hall closet close to the front door. Just make sure you also bring a nesting camp cookware set, a packet of disposable paper or plastic bowls, disposable flatware, enough containers of drinking water, some plastic trash bags and a one-burner butane stove with extra butane cylinders so you can do tailgate cooking during rest stops or safely cook meals in your motel room or inside your van. Do pay attention to the contents of these food buckets and the cooking instructions. Many of the foods in these buckets, such as the pancake mix, actually have to be cooked not just steeped in hot water. And be sure to bring a small bottle of cooking oil and a small bottle of pancake syrup or honey if you will be cooking pancakes. And bring a box of quart size Zip Lock bags because these Mylar food pouches do not reseal and usually contain more than one serving. And bring a small, plastic measuring cup. You can bring along some canned meat and canned veggies to supplement meals made from these food buckets. A small bottle of Tabasco sauce and a little plastic shaker of garlic powder will greatly improve the flavor of the lunch and dinner meals. If you do not want to have to cook your food or bring along cookware and disposable bowls or wash up used cookware, just buy pouches of Mt. House meals if you can afford these. You will still need a way to boil the drinking water you add to the Mt. House pouches and you will need a re-usable spork for each person, but there will be little clean-up because you eat your meal directly from the food pouch. Whatever option you choose for your emergency food, do road test that food under realistic conditions before you commit to buying more than just one little food kit. You will be surprised at the hidden flaws you discover in your emergency food planning. Better to discover the flaws during testing than during a real emergency.
I don't give food to anyone who doesn't prep. Don't expect me to do for you what you tell me I'm crazy to do. When covid-19 hit I shared some of my stores with family and they were like is this all we get? I said "You can give it back if you're not satisfied. " From now on, they're on their own.
I got a few of theses. $20 is what I paid. If you look at the bucket as part of it. $20 is okay deal. Just one use of the bucket could be for getting water from somewhere.
@@biliegh_itiswhatitis I personally would save the bucket for something more important, did you know that you can grow stuff in a cardboard box lined with a trash bag? I watched a video on CZcams about it and it works great.
My mom saw these and we were going to be picking some of these up. Especially after my friend found them at her Walmart for $5.97 each. We also have been canning a lot this year. From veggies and fruit to meats and whole cooked meals and soups.
We have around 8 of these stored away now.Adding the bigger buckets as we can but these 48 hour one's are great.We have added 2 of the small white chicken cans to ea bucket and wrote the cans expiration dates on outside for rotation purposes. Tyvm for the review.
Nice I have been wanting to see exactly what was in one of these. Walmart in Canada no longer sells any freeze dried emergency foods or camping foods of any type. Thanks for the video
I put some packs of knorr rice,dehydrated soup, oatmeal packs ,small spice bottles,and assorted drink mixes in the bucket. Oh I forgot also packs of tuna and chicken.
Found one bucket in Wal-Mart yesterday for $ 19.99. Was on the bottom selve. It was just like this. There were just two. On bottom it said it expired June 6th 50. If it's good for 30 years .It should be good longer... Anyone else bought this product???
These are way more my speed than stocking up regular food that I have to keep checking for expiration dates. I can just stack the buckets in one of my closets and forget about them. Gonna see if I can find some instructions on those online somewhere... wondering if the food can be prepped in the pouches or not. I'm assuming so. That mac and cheese looked good.
I guess you could do it in the pouches, however they are not thick metallic ones like the mountain house entrees. I think they have bigger ones and a wider variety of food too!
Your assumption would be incorrect. This is food that you will need a stove and some other items to cook and enjoy. For instance pancakes, but no syrup or butter. No eggs (I added ova easy eggs to mine, Mrs Butterworth's and a small tin of Crisco, as well as canned meats like beef, pork and chicken.
I have a mix of different companies including Augason but man, Mountain House uses so much meat in most of their products and I just can't get over how normal the food tastes. I have 3 months of Mountain House in case of an Earthquake here in Seattle and from 3 months to a year is other makers. I just feel that the 3 months are very realistic risk in my lifetime so I take very seriously. From 3 months to 1 year is in the just in case category. When I go camping I also end up pulling mountain house meals so I do use them on a regular basis so end up having some rotation.
I wish they had these in a variety of choices so you could buy several different ones without them being all the same. Like one with pancake mix and chicken and rice, and a different one with beef stroganoff and oatmeal, that sort of thing.
Too bad, I just purchased 5 of these buckets and I'm certain they are just fine. However I looked at your website and you are sold out of pretty much all the "meals " which is what I am looking for. Thanks for the video. It was helpful.
04:20 I do the same thing when I open the buckets to check the bags when the come in from Amazon. There is a lot of space left over that you can use to add bags of instant potatoes or a big bag of rice or any other simple prep. Will the foods you add last as long? No but it's nice to have them if you need them. And with what's going on it's not a bad idea...
Great video! Thanks. What a great deal! 4$ per bag at reg price. I had no clue. Someone said once the box is open its a one yr shelf life which makes no sense . Any clue just so we know?
If you open the individual bags it might be one year, but not just opening the bucket. That said I have eaten freeze dried stuff YEARS after it was opened, and I survived :)
It's once you open a bag or can. I have a bunch of #10 cans. I put a bag under the lid because once opened you don't want to leave in contact with the can. I use jars now, but in shtf I will want to conserve dishes.
I got one last week lol but I haven’t tasted it yet Lol you don’t want freeze dry food on a visit lol I was thinking after I get brave and cook up the stuff I might use the bucket for sugar I got two big bags of sugar but I have put in a bucket don’t want to keep in the paper bags Do you put sugar in a molar bag for long term ?
@@Iridium242 ...you don't put an oxygen absorber in, do you? I heard that it will get as hard as a brick. I haven't used mylar bags yet. I have them along with oxygen absorbers.
Ive seen this stuff and wondered (besides preservatives being added) what is the bighest difference between this and a box of bisquick and some boxed mac &cheese.
Not much. It was very good, but I think you could do it cheaper buying the things individually The soup was really good in this but the mac and cheese was pretty much the same as boxed.
@@Iridium242 thanks man. I know augason farms doesnt do much(if any) freeze dried so i kinda assumed this was dehydrated, which isnt that different than store bought. Didnt know if you found any special magic ingredients that made them different
I dont want to sound ignorant but what the hell is cheese powder? says more servings, sounding like a meal, than the Mac and Cheese? isnt there cheese powder in the Mac and Cheese? and if so, what is the cheese powder used for? NVM... just watched the video again and the powder is for TWO bags of Mac noodles. My bad. I watched it like a journalist and left out the important info :(
Keep checking back. After hearing about these and watching this video I decided to get one to keep around for emergencies and two different Walmarts in my area had them. That doesn't mean they have them everywhere but it might be something that they get in and sell out and get more in.
I used to NEVER get bargains, never get any good deals at flea markets, then I moved out here to Nevada and they do pop up a whole lot more often! Thanks
It's interesting how some parts of the country are better for that than others. It appears that people in the NE and parts of the Midwest do well also at thrift stores. San Antonio is pretty much a dry hole for anything like that. Or maybe I just haven't put enough effort into it.
I bought this over a year ago. My fiance left me 5 months ago and I'm now not living a financially stable life. Just remembered I have this because I can't afford food. I'm so glad you say it tastes good. Gonna make this after work.
Add canned white chicken to each serving of creamy chicken rice would for sure do it to take care of your protein needs.
I would use dehydrated chicken with the rice.
@@tongueprowler Either will work...
You could even add tuna for protein.
to make it a bit better use some chicken broth for flavor
instaBlaster...
I have this same bucket that I bought online--local Wal-mart does not sell anything like this. I opened mine up not to use the food inside but I saw there was enough space to put in 4 additional 4 serving pouches I got from another company then put the lid back on, that way I maximize the available space in that bucket
Kaylynn Strain our local Walmart just started selling these a few weeks ago
Just got one from Walmart, price 19.99
Add some.dried chicken or beef with the available space
We bought the buckets from our local tractor supply with the lids to store rice and such in. They have a super solid seal and are good grade plastic. 50 gal buckets.
@@jessicahunsberger8855 make sure you’re using Mylar bag and oxygen remover with it
Use the pancake mix at home to make room for other items like a small jar of honey and cans of spam, chicken, or tuna. Maybe even some small fishing gear, or trap making items to supplement what you have. In a survival/bugout situation, where you are moving constantly, trying to pan fry or gridddle the pancakes could be a problem. And I dont think you would want to drink the batter :) The other items can use cold water if you have to, just let it sit and stir longer.
I've seen a lot of MRE videos and this was pretty straight forward and decently informative. Good job man!
Augason Farms also makes one-person 72-hour kits that are in smaller buckets and will fit better into tight spaces in your vehicle. All these small grab-n-go buckets are good for no-notice emergency evacuations. I keep some in the hall closet close to the front door. Just make sure you also bring a nesting camp cookware set, a packet of disposable paper or plastic bowls, disposable flatware, enough containers of drinking water, some plastic trash bags and a one-burner butane stove with extra butane cylinders so you can do tailgate cooking during rest stops or safely cook meals in your motel room or inside your van.
Do pay attention to the contents of these food buckets and the cooking instructions. Many of the foods in these buckets, such as the pancake mix, actually have to be cooked not just steeped in hot water. And be sure to bring a small bottle of cooking oil and a small bottle of pancake syrup or honey if you will be cooking pancakes. And bring a box of quart size Zip Lock bags because these Mylar food pouches do not reseal and usually contain more than one serving. And bring a small, plastic measuring cup. You can bring along some canned meat and canned veggies to supplement meals made from these food buckets. A small bottle of Tabasco sauce and a little plastic shaker of garlic powder will greatly improve the flavor of the lunch and dinner meals.
If you do not want to have to cook your food or bring along cookware and disposable bowls or wash up used cookware, just buy pouches of Mt. House meals if you can afford these. You will still need a way to boil the drinking water you add to the Mt. House pouches and you will need a re-usable spork for each person, but there will be little clean-up because you eat your meal directly from the food pouch.
Whatever option you choose for your emergency food, do road test that food under realistic conditions before you commit to buying more than just one little food kit. You will be surprised at the hidden flaws you discover in your emergency food planning. Better to discover the flaws during testing than during a real emergency.
Good deal on that bucket, thanks for the review Iridium...
That is good to give to a family members that don’t prep
I don't give food to anyone who doesn't prep. Don't expect me to do for you what you tell me I'm crazy to do. When covid-19 hit I shared some of my stores with family and they were like is this all we get? I said "You can give it back if you're not satisfied. " From now on, they're on their own.
People who dont prep deserve what they get!
@@power_of_Christ_God
Exactly 💯
This sentence is one A too long.
@@power_of_Christ_God i agree, i think poor people should all die during natural disasters too.
I got a few of theses. $20 is what I paid. If you look at the bucket as part of it. $20 is okay deal. Just one use of the bucket could be for getting water from somewhere.
when i have to use mine i plan on using them as planters for vegies
just bought one for 60$ today, crazy price jump. i bought 8 actually
@@biliegh_itiswhatitis I personally would save the bucket for something more important, did you know that you can grow stuff in a cardboard box lined with a trash bag? I watched a video on CZcams about it and it works great.
My mom saw these and we were going to be picking some of these up. Especially after my friend found them at her Walmart for $5.97 each. We also have been canning a lot this year. From veggies and fruit to meats and whole cooked meals and soups.
Ewwwww 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
You can can a whole meal? What would they be?
Thanks. I saw this at WM for $20 and tossed one in the cart after seeing this.
I have lots of rice and beans. Good to have stuff to extend those.
So the bags don't reseal..good to know. Will be adding binder clips to my bucket and canned chicken as someone suggested. Thanks for the review
I will definitely be adding the clips
Good suggestion !
Looks good.
Thanks for the review.
Before I would store them,I would open a bucket and put in a measuring cup and spoons.
Great idea!
and paper bowls
And napkins🙂
I wish Walmart up here in Canada had stuff like this. Thank you for the review
You can order from Walmart.com
We have around 8 of these stored away now.Adding the bigger buckets as we can but these 48 hour one's are great.We have added 2 of the small white chicken cans to ea bucket and wrote the cans expiration dates on outside for rotation purposes. Tyvm for the review.
That's a good size tub and a lot of food. Thanks for the video I might get a couple myself :)
Yeah even at 20 bucks its a pretty good deal, thanks!
My local Walmart neighborhood market sells these... about 25 dollars ... glad I saw this.
Awesome review, made me go buy one and might add a few buckets to my storage, also great to add some canned meat to some of the meals too
Nice I have been wanting to see exactly what was in one of these. Walmart in Canada no longer sells any freeze dried emergency foods or camping foods of any type. Thanks for the video
I put some packs of knorr rice,dehydrated soup, oatmeal packs ,small spice bottles,and assorted drink mixes in the bucket. Oh I forgot also packs of tuna and chicken.
Found one bucket in Wal-Mart yesterday for $ 19.99. Was on the bottom selve. It was just like this.
There were just two. On bottom it said it expired June 6th 50. If it's good for 30 years .It should be good longer...
Anyone else bought this product???
I would augment this with the THRIVE brand of freeze Dried fruits & veggies for a balanced Diet.
Thank you for doing this. I keep meaning to do this with the one I have but haven’t. Lol It’s a great deal, even at $20. Thanks for the review!
No problem, I Kept seeing it in the Walmart here and when I saw it on clearance I had to get another one just to do a review on :)
Ty, for the review, for the price it definitely wouldn't hurt anything to keep a few around..
You can use your EBT card to buy this at Walmart stores.
Stocking up one per family member since I'm the only prepper here
These are way more my speed than stocking up regular food that I have to keep checking for expiration dates. I can just stack the buckets in one of my closets and forget about them. Gonna see if I can find some instructions on those online somewhere... wondering if the food can be prepped in the pouches or not. I'm assuming so. That mac and cheese looked good.
I guess you could do it in the pouches, however they are not thick metallic ones like the mountain house entrees. I think they have bigger ones and a wider variety of food too!
Your assumption would be incorrect. This is food that you will need a stove and some other items to cook and enjoy. For instance pancakes, but no syrup or butter. No eggs (I added ova easy eggs to mine, Mrs Butterworth's and a small tin of Crisco, as well as canned meats like beef, pork and chicken.
I have a mix of different companies including Augason but man, Mountain House uses so much meat in most of their products and I just can't get over how normal the food tastes. I have 3 months of Mountain House in case of an Earthquake here in Seattle and from 3 months to a year is other makers. I just feel that the 3 months are very realistic risk in my lifetime so I take very seriously. From 3 months to 1 year is in the just in case category. When I go camping I also end up pulling mountain house meals so I do use them on a regular basis so end up having some rotation.
I agree, mountain house taste great but it’s like 100 times the price as augason farms
I wish they had these in a variety of choices so you could buy several different ones without them being all the same. Like one with pancake mix and chicken and rice, and a different one with beef stroganoff and oatmeal, that sort of thing.
Too bad, I just purchased 5 of these buckets and I'm certain they are just fine. However I looked at your website and you are sold out of pretty much all the "meals " which is what I am looking for. Thanks for the video. It was helpful.
I got four of these. I use three of them to sit my CB radio on that I'm using.
Throw in a Dak canned ham and you got a meal!
You can find a mini handheld bag sealer online. Would be better than clips.
Just ordered 2 of these online got free shipping
These are investments. We have several. For ourselves and to give to ppl in need. It feeds one person a week with rationing.
What I hate about this item is the bags are not resealable. So you need zip loc bags to save the left overs. Well at least the 72 hour kit I have was.
These are cheaper than the 72 hour pails and it is more food!
You always find good deals.
Great product to have. Bought it about 2-years ago and hope I'll never have to use it.
I have two of these .
I have so many I want to buy for.but not enough money
You could buy their cans of dehydrated meats and veggies to make these different meals. That's what I'd do
04:20 I do the same thing when I open the buckets to check the bags when the come in from Amazon. There is a lot of space left over that you can use to add bags of instant potatoes or a big bag of rice or any other simple prep. Will the foods you add last as long? No but it's nice to have them if you need them. And with what's going on it's not a bad idea...
I got 5 pallets of this
Thank you.
Ty for the take me along
Thanks for sharing. I know this was awhile ago. How much total water did you use?
I ought mine at Walmart also.
Looks like it would be great for backpacking. Way cheaper than camping meals too.
can't find them anymore at Walmart
Add some canned or bagged tuna or some canned ham to the tuna also.
That's cool 😎
Great video!
good review it's too bad Wal Mart in Canada didn't carry some kind of emergency food
Try online ordering. Walmart or Amazon.
I have been wondering about these kits.thank you for the taste test.
I wanted to ask do these need a special tool to open?
Nope no tool needed
@@Iridium242 thank you!
Can you cook the food in the pouch like mountain house?
No, you have to boil it in a pot
Great video! Thanks. What a great deal! 4$ per bag at reg price. I had no clue. Someone said once the box is open its a one yr shelf life which makes no sense . Any clue just so we know?
If you open the individual bags it might be one year, but not just opening the bucket. That said I have eaten freeze dried stuff YEARS after it was opened, and I survived :)
@@Iridium242 that's what I thought. Ty
It's once you open a bag or can. I have a bunch of #10 cans. I put a bag under the lid because once opened you don't want to leave in contact with the can. I use jars now, but in shtf I will want to conserve dishes.
What about the pancakes?
I got one last week lol but I haven’t tasted it yet
Lol you don’t want freeze dry food on a visit lol
I was thinking after I get brave and cook up the stuff I might use the bucket for sugar I got two big bags of sugar but I have put in a bucket don’t want to keep in the paper bags
Do you put sugar in a molar bag for long term ?
Yup, I store it in a mylar bag, in a 5 gallon bucket
@@Iridium242 ...you don't put an oxygen absorber in, do you? I heard that it will get as hard as a brick. I haven't used mylar bags yet. I have them along with oxygen absorbers.
Nope just the cheese with a tiny bit of water no oxy absorber
@@Iridium242 ... I meant the sugar.
Cool video
Ive seen this stuff and wondered (besides preservatives being added) what is the bighest difference between this and a box of bisquick and some boxed mac &cheese.
Not much. It was very good, but I think you could do it cheaper buying the things individually The soup was really good in this but the mac and cheese was pretty much the same as boxed.
@@Iridium242 thanks man. I know augason farms doesnt do much(if any) freeze dried so i kinda assumed this was dehydrated, which isnt that different than store bought. Didnt know if you found any special magic ingredients that made them different
I am stunned. That in Canada for one person 72 hours is 70. I must ask where do you live?
Nevada
Can you store individual pouches in a backpack? How many servings per bag? Thanks
knors mix 1.25
Is this easy for someone who never cooked?
You need a few gallon's of water to prepare this food. Make sure you have water
I dont want to sound ignorant but what the hell is cheese powder? says more servings, sounding like a meal, than the Mac and Cheese? isnt there cheese powder in the Mac and Cheese? and if so, what is the cheese powder used for? NVM... just watched the video again and the powder is for TWO bags of Mac noodles. My bad. I watched it like a journalist and left out the important info :(
Looks good
Add ziplock bags to the bucket. Use them to help save and portion the extra leftovers you don't cook
just add water and eat for most of the food, some need fried
Nice!
30 year shelf life
With Auguson farms shut down for 90 days at least, these are going to get really expensive then disappear fast. Get'm while you can
I bought one a few months before the virus happened- now I can’t find another one at Walmart.
Keep checking back. After hearing about these and watching this video I decided to get one to keep around for emergencies and two different Walmarts in my area had them. That doesn't mean they have them everywhere but it might be something that they get in and sell out and get more in.
Assume its 1 person for 1 week. Hard to beat for $20
Nice price! You must be able to smell bargains!
I used to NEVER get bargains, never get any good deals at flea markets, then I moved out here to Nevada and they do pop up a whole lot more often! Thanks
It's interesting how some parts of the country are better for that than others. It appears that people in the NE and parts of the Midwest do well also at thrift stores. San Antonio is pretty much a dry hole for anything like that. Or maybe I just haven't put enough effort into it.
Good value.
Where do you find the can of fuel and stand for it
Ebay is where I get mine.
and a small can of chicken
Ничего не понял, но было интересно.
this is good quality food and tastes good, BUT it uses a LOT of fuel to prepare.
rick cromwell two words: SUN OVEN
@@kftc1980 Two words 1night 2clouds
rick cromwell 5 words: not your only fuel source
@@kftc1980 5 more words sun ovens are a joke.
You can use a BBQ grill, Fire Pit , Fire Place, Camping stove,
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