Is the costco one year food supply worth it???

[cofi]

http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product...whse=BC&topnav


or should i just put the thousand bucks into mres?

[UberTong]

Thats kinda cool, never seen it beforeat costco. I'd say just save the food yourself and invest the money in something else.

[Colorado_Outback]

I want to know how many gallons of water it takes to rehydrate it all..

I would go for MRE's.

[Rooskibar03]

While that price is just slightly less then what you would pay buying from Thrive direct I don't really like the breakdown of food in the Costco bundle. All off the meat products in that package are actually TVP.

I will tell you I've tried their stuff and its rather good. The best part about them while you can get prepared meals like Mountain House you can also get a huge number of stand alone items, especially proteins (ground beef, Chicken, Ham) You can also get cheeses, sour cream, and just about any fruit or veggie you can think of.

I'd rather put together my own package from Thrive myself. It might cost more but Id rather my food supply be made of things we will actually eat.

And as for going with MRE's the cost would be a little more but you also have a shelf life that is a fraction of the time for freeze dried.

[StagLefty]

Someone on another forum brought up the fact that this deal was lacking in what you would need for daily calorie intake. Maybe somebody here can chime in on that

[Rooskibar03]

Someone on another forum brought up the fact that this deal was lacking in what you would need for daily calorie intake. Maybe somebody here can chime in on that

I was trying to find this exact package on the Thrive site and it looks like it's a Costco special. The closest package there is 1500 calories per day so I would assume this is close.

While you could survive on that you couldn't thrive. If you're active that could come up short quick. But if you're eating freeze dried food your are likely held up somewhere and not very active anyway.

The thing about this package is it's also a lot of raw ingredients you must prepare into meals. With MREs or MH type food it's already made for you. But after you've eaten Beefaroni or chicken and rice for a month straight your going to start suffering from appetite fatigue.

[OutdoorsNative]

I would say that is a pretty good deal. I personally like to keep a variety of different products. My plan is similar to Rotts and includes freeze dried, MREs, canned and of course water.

[tmckay2]

if you really shop around, different places, different deals, different coupons, you can buy a years worth of canned foods with quite a bit of variety for dang cheap.