Emergency Food Kit: For When the Going Gets (Really) Tough
Costco is good for many things: giants bags of chip, trays of 20 croissants, boxes of candy bars, Post-its in bulk, and most important of all, Emergency Food Kits. For $114.99, you get 275 servings of water-reconstitutable goodness all tucked away in a 23-pound bucket. Have a craving for corn chowder? Just add a corn chowder pack to five cups of boiling water and simmer for 20 minutes. (Kit does not contain water.) You can also feast on Western Stew, Blueberry Pancakes, Whey Milk, and Potato Bakon Soup. Bakon, my friends, bakon!
I don't think this is something you should eat on a regular basis just to save money (as tempting as that may be), but if you're trapped in your house and have no way of getting to a source of real food, it may be time to crack open that bucket. [via Unclutterer]
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6 Comments:
275 servings and 23 pounds? That's just a little more than 1.3 OUNCES per serving! Heck, an instant ramen pack usually has about 3.5!
BerryK at 8:46PM on 07/24/07
Ooh, don't forget about the added water. :) Mm, deliciousness...that you can subsist on! For a while.
roboppy at 8:55PM on 07/24/07
I could picture this being bought by those in hurrican areas picturing a new orleans type situation where they may be cut off or trapped somewhere- but without water and some kind of stove this kit is pretty worthless! But there must be a demand if its being distributed by costco...
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handtomouth at 10:10AM on 07/25/07
Possible remnants of a Y2K (anyone remember that?) surplus sale? I'm sure my grandfather has a few of these in his homemade fallout shelter, smack next to the solar oven.
The Gluttonist at 7:09PM on 07/25/07
I love that song Bakon did with Gwen Stefani.
Oh, wait.
anildash at 7:26PM on 07/25/07
@anil: Heh. I think that was Akon.
Adam Kuban at 9:09PM on 07/25/07