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    Meant to post a link, but I have been experiencing issues posting with my phone.

    Quote Originally Posted by rbeau30 View Post
    Perhaps he is talking about the mylar (I think) emergency water packets.

    http://www.amazon.com/Datrex-Emergen.../dp/B00ANY4EXM

    I agree with the Datrex Bar choice. I think they were the least offensive tasting, (kinda like a shortbread cookie) and the most important thing to me was the ingredient list.

    Wheat flour, Vegetable Shortening, Cane Sugar, Water, Coconut and Salt.

    (I don't know where the heck they put the water... but as soon as the bar hits your mouth it immediately sucks up every drop of saliva in there.) I have a few laying around in the typical strategic places.


    Those look to be the same as ours. They are a polymer-foil packet (same material type as Mylar), but mine feel a lot more like heavy aluminum foil than the Mylar bags I have encountered.

    By design there is sufficient room for expansion during freeze and thaw.

    Ours packets have been through 3 full summers and winters now (2 back east in the Great Lakes Region). No issues and they taste same at 3 years as day one. I keep them sorted into 1/2 galloon lots in freezer bags for convenience and to help keep them from directly making contact with other items in the car kit. I also leave an empty water bottle in the kit.

    They're expensive, but I got tired of most other containers failing after a winter of freeze and thaw back east.
    Last edited by zimagold; 06-25-2015 at 18:26.

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