Food Ideas for Winter Car Kit / GHB

[SouthPaw]

Might look at getting some of HERE

[Wulf202]

The above are all fine ideas.

I can add tuna or sardines in oil. The oil can be burned. Sardines are excellent cat bait. Swimming and land based.

I keep salmon in the pouches and some crackers. Adding some relish and ranch packets and you get gormet. Various cheese and peanut butter spreads.

Ive eaten 5 year old jerky before

[HoneyBadger]

What is the oldest Datrex ration anyone has ever eaten?

[Brian]

TV dinners-they're already frozen

LOL. Man I can't think of the last time I've had a "Hungry Man" frozen dinner. You never forget that taste though.

[Brian]

The above are all fine ideas.
I can add tuna or sardines in oil. The oil can be burned. Sardines are excellent cat bait. Swimming and land based.

Are you saying you eat land-cats? Not sure if serious.

[mcantar18c]

I have a few MRE's, a few space blankets, chem lights, a box of protein bars, and a med kit.
Picking up a box of MRE's would be well worth it, IMO.
The bulk boxes of cans of tuna and chicken breast they have at Sam's Club/COSTCO would be good too.

[rbeau30]

I had a bag of Jerky go moldy in less than a year so pretty much anything I put in my get home bag gets checked often.

They have tuna in Mylar bags that are flavored (BBQ, Lemon Pepper, Asian, ETC) I like those they are durable...and last a while. They also have the bags in chicken and salmon. They also have spam slices in these mylar bags as well. I also keep 100% honey packets (quick carb boost and kids love it) which can be eaten and has antibiotic properties.

I Figure though there may be a time where I might need to boil water and for that I keep a minimal cooking/hobo stove set I made out of a SS thermos. I also have some low weight options for a hot meal (it is the winter, and warm food could be a morale booster) Lipton noodle dinner/ramen of which I could dump some of the jerkyor tuna or whatever I have in while it is cooking. I also carry some instant rice (light weight) in those beverage bags you get out of MRE's (they are more durable than zip locks).

I also carry a couple each of the gatorade packets (not sugar free)/hot chocolate packets/and buillion cubes for a hot drink.

[Aloha_Shooter]

The main thing you want is potable water. Hunger pains aside, most of us could stand to go a few days without eating as long as we have enough water to meet our needs. I'm figuring I could go a couple weeks on the weight I've gained since retiring from service. I keep an MRE in each vehicle but you're probably good with a bag of jerky or pouch-style tuna and a bag of granola but the real key issues are heat and water. I keep an Emberlit stove in each vehicle and am making my own fuel with cedar sawdust and candle wax. I save the bottles from Sobe LifeWater or Gatorade and try to keep 3 or 4 liters of clean water in each vehicle.

[brutal]

What is the oldest Datrex ration anyone has ever eaten?

Tracking thread.

Also interested to know if it tasted like stale plastic barrel.

[rbeau30]

The main thing you want is potable water. Hunger pains aside, most of us could stand to go a few days without eating as long as we have enough water to meet our needs. I'm figuring I could go a couple weeks on the weight I've gained since retiring from service. I keep an MRE in each vehicle but you're probably good with a bag of jerky or pouch-style tuna and a bag of granola but the real key issues are heat and water. I keep an Emberlit stove in each vehicle and am making my own fuel with cedar sawdust and candle wax. I save the bottles from Sobe LifeWater or Gatorade and try to keep 3 or 4 liters of clean water in each vehicle.

Water is important. I have several ways of purifying/and several ways of bringing heat to water to boil it. I also have washed/sanitized 8 2-liter bottles for each car and keep them in thebottle rack that pepsi or coke uses to stack them on pallets. They don't roll around all over the trunk that way.