Forcing My Wife and Kids to Eat Survival Food...

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Definitely have everyone try all the foods lol

Jenna is freaking hilarious. 5:35 Mere: I guess you're meant to cook these in an open flame Jenna instantly: SO LET'S GO START A FIRE OUTSIDE

I would have definitely suggested trying a different brand. Mountain House and Peak are both pretty good to the point that I'll confess that I'll sometimes eat them when I'm feeling to lazy to make real food. Now Readywise on the on the other hand is only good for torturing prisoners of war.

As someone involved in emergency management and disaster preparedness for over 25 years I can say that the people who say "you'll eat it if you're starving" are underestimating the psychological effects. This is especially true when kids are in the mix. NEVER just buy a bucket and set it aside without knowing what it is like. When you are already stressed, physically and mentally, the comfort of a good meal cannot be underestimated. Normalacy in terms of the taste, texture, and flavor of food cannot be underestimated when considering the well being of kids. Sure, it may not be like Mom makes, but if it is camp food or restaurant quality, most kids are fine with it. Try other brands. I personally rely on Mountain House. I tested several brands before settling on them. They are reliable, taste great, have a diverse menu, and lots of mix and match options. They also have a set track record of how long their product lasts because they have been in the business of freeze dried food so long. You need to consider the number of calories it provides per serving (some, like Wise, basically assume you are on starvation rations amounts when figuring the days of food you get) and the diversity of meal types (as seen with the heavy on breakfast bucket you opened), and the amounts of other additives (some are downright scary on salt; extra salt is not a terrible thing in a disaster, but too much over an extended time...).

"World's ending, we can do whatever we want" words of a sage right there. Props Mare.

Pudding probably needs more water, less for the Spaghetti. You'll need to play around with the combinations to get them how you like them. You can also prep honey instead of syrup for pancakes and general sweetener and your favorite spices so you can season the food how you like. The food will be pretty bland seasoned to make it a one size fits most kind of thing.

Addie is so much like Meredith, she makes the same facial expressions and everything... so cute! Also, I'm pretty sure the "brown mac-n-cheese stuff" is chili-mac 😊

Matt; there's different foods in every one of them. Next episode, Matt opens the rest of the buckets and finds another 150 packs of pancake mix 🤣

Definitely a good idea to try it out. Especially if you wanna buy more, you'll know which ones you like and want to invest in. Water purification to go with your water storage is something to consider also.

My parents had a lot of food storage when I was a kid. We would take some of it along with regular food for our camping trips so my folks could see what we kids would and wouldn't eat. They resold the stuff we didn't like, and restocked what we ate. It let my family get used to eating those foods, and kept the stored food from expiring.

Yeah definitely open more buckets to try. I’m super interested in finding out how the actually taste without having to try them myself hahaha. Love the new demoranch table too. Looks awesome

Definitely need to try MRE’s with them that would be cool

When your oldest kiddo asked "Is that the bucket food?" I laughed out loud!

I never thought about opening my survival food to see if they cheated me out of a few meals from what on the content box ! Yes definitely keep testing out the survival food

Alot of pancake mix ingredients have an indefinite shelf life so pancakes will always be a survival food, syrup also doesn't spoil but does crystallize honey also doesn't go bad and crystallized at a much slower rate. Idk why the bucket doesn't include syrup or honey if it's assumed that you have access to water and heat source because all you have to do is heat it up to uncrystallize it

I definitely want to see y'all try the rest of these. I have been wondering about buying some for my family.

I've been doing survival training for around 8 years, you need to learn about lots of things like cooking without power/mini stoves, emergency supplys and kits. Lot and lots to learn but it teaches you to be totally self sufficient in a disaster 👍

Absolutely open another bucket. This was awesome. I absolutely loved the video it was something new and exciting for me. Thank you for all your videos

Sweet!!!! Looks like I'm going to Evansville on Sat!!! See you there!