Foodbuckets

[EMT]

Anyone have experience with foodbuckets?

I read about them first in an American blog and they seem to be the where they are cheapest as well.

They are freezedried products stored in a bucket.
Pros:
Lots of servings
Long shelf life of 25yrs
Bucket had lots of uses
Variety of food
Quick to build up a stockpile

Cons:
Water greedy
Cost (cheapest I have found in UK is £100).
Single use unlike seeds or other food which can be composed

Some websites I have found them
US
http://www.wisefoodstorage.com/60-servi ... -only.html
UK
http://survivalwarehouse.co.uk

Article that got me thinking about this.
http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/how-to- ... t-10142014

[defender130]

Interesting reading on some of those links

Only thing that would concern me would be what it may be like taste wise, but I guess if the SHTF then it would be useful to have to fall back on and by that point hunger would probably overrule your brain questioning the taste


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[HBP]

Ahh, freeze dried food!

When it first became available, it was bloody awful. Like eating soggy cardboard. It has however improved a lot and can now almost be described as edible

Pros:
Long shelf life
Light weight

Cons:
Never quite as good as fresh
Needs lots of water.

If you shop around, you might be able to find freeze dried packets to make up your own buckets. If you want to buy enough, there might be a bulk discount available.

It's good for long term storage of food but I would put it pretty low down my list as there are more useful preps to buy first. But, if you have a lot of other basic stuff well squared away then something to add to the stash.

Edit: just been doing some googling and found you can now get freeze dried cheese!
http://www.lio-licious.com/
Looks like it's the same company that does mountain house http://www.mountainhouse.eu/

[Deeps]

Its not exactly 'store what you eat, eat what you store' and depending on how long you're thinking of feeding yourself for its probably cheaper and easier to buy stuff from the supermarket that can be integrated into your everyday eating like rice, pasta, cans, even cheap pot noodles. You can always supplement this with your own dehydrated veg/jerky by getting a dehydrator which works out cheap.

[Arzosah]

You can always supplement this with your own dehydrated veg/jerky by getting a dehydrator which works out cheap.

The dehydrator was my first thought too.

[Hamradioop]

had a look at the caloric count at http://survivalwarehouse.co.uk/emergenc ... ood-bucket seems low to me.

[Decaff]

You can now purchase freeze dried machines for home use, they are very expensive to buy though. Food freeze dried is very very light so you could carry more with you if you needed to.

Check out Bexar Prepper on utube who has bought one and gives great updates on her food stores and she has a great store of dehydrated, home canned and freeze dried food.

[EMT]

Well went to a few supermarkets and poundshops yesterday to see to make my own foodbucket.

No reasonable priced buckets but that can wait and the there really isnt many items sold that are freezedried (instant mash, soup, ice cream).

had a look at the caloric count at http://survivalwarehouse.co.uk/emergenc ... ood-bucket seems low to me.

I think freeze dried products have low calorie count anyway.

[PreparedKent]

A cheaper more varied more wholesome option would be to buy long term food from conserva.de you could buy a box of something smaller once a month of a separate variety. I've been toying with the idea myself

[Hamradioop]

a uk source of wise foods can be found here http://www.ldsbookuk.com/emergency-food ... e-93-c.asp