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    Re: freeze dried food??

    Just was at my local Costco, and they have a great deal on a Mountain House case of freeze dried food.

    They're selling a box of 15 pouches for $54.99, which is a discount of $14 off their regular price.

    It includes:

    Deal expires 9/27.

    You can see by adding up the cost of the pouches on Amazon how this compares to normal prices.

    You could survive on 3 pouches per day, ideally you'd want 4 pouches per day. So this is a solid 4 days of food. Very valuable even if you have bulk foods. You can cut your bulk foods into these pouches and actually have a meal.

    Probably the best deal I've seen this year.

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    Re: freeze dried food??

    i did the same, dont forget to pack your fd foods and your beans n rice in sealed containers. Also a good water filtration (hand pump) is under 100$ and is needed if the power goes down or they start adding any more crap to your water supply.

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    Re: freeze dried food??

    I found five 1.75 liters of JB scotch at Sam's club for $10 each. Almost as good as having preps on hand is the ability to trade for what you need.

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    Re: freeze dried food??

    Quote Originally Posted by JDRock View Post
    i did the same, dont forget to pack your fd foods and your beans n rice in sealed containers. Also a good water filtration (hand pump) is under 100$ and is needed if the power goes down or they start adding any more crap to your water supply.
    some here will recall in a water filter thread around here somewhere, I got a berkey last March... the 1.5 gal Travel Berkey with 2 black berkey elements, & I also sprang for the additional "PF-2" fluoride filters.

    With elements brand new OR freshly scrubbed, it filters around 1 gal/hr... then you'll watch that flow rate drop gradually over the next ~1-2 months, to maybe doing 0.5 gal/hr. This has been my experience through the first ~5 mos of ownership/use, consuming ~1gal/day. They reco' disassembling & cleaning the elements monthly, about a 10m, maybe 20m job if you're thorough & clean everything.

    Past ~month though, with the CA/West Agenda-21 fires, that speed of deterioration in the flow rate since the last cleaning, has increased dramatically! I clean it, & within a week it's flowing intolerably slow again! In fact, the upper/unfiltered chamber is only able to push through about half its content, then it just stalls coz the elements' surfaces have gotten too 'dirty' again, & the "water/gravity-weight" needed to push through, aint there!

    So when I clean the elements, I find there's a "slimy" coating; handling them is like a wet bar of soap, or a fresh caught fish! This slime comes right off under warm running water & rough side of a scotchbright sponge as they recommend... and flow rate is like new again, but give it another few, 5-10 days & WTF again?!

    AND, the kitchen tap water I use to fill the top chamber has already gone through a "whole house filter" which attaches to the hose line which feeds the whole RV.
    Culligan RVF-10 Recreational Vehicle (RV) External Water Filter, White, 250 Gallon

    ^ a couple weeks ago, that jobee's filter element rather 'abruptly' needed a changing, as water flow/pressure to the whole rig dropped off a cliff, to maybe 'a little harder than I can pee' rate... as abruptly as someone flipping a switch! Checked water flow at the outside spigot, was fine, no kinks in the hose line... & once I changed that culligan element I was back to 'normal' again. But I've already noticed in this recent ~2 weeks, it's also deteriorating way faster than it should, judging by my taps/shower pressure dropping off again!

    So I guess point is, at least in my current CA municipality & I suspect across the Western Agenda-21-Fires states, YAWL NEED TO BE FILTERING YOUR MUNI/TAP WATER!! I cringe to think what the plebs (guessing >half the population?) who don't filter in any way, are ingesting... & cleaning/bathing in?! The raw muni H2O quality around here has dropped off a quick cliff!
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