Survival Food Sunday
Volume 1
Issue 7
The Dandy, Yet Unpleasant, Bucket o’ Food
The Dandy, Yet Unpleasant, Bucket o’ Food
Before I begin, I just want to say that I ended up not eating all of the food I prepared. I know, I wasted food, and I don’t like myself much because of it. I intend on giving it another go, just not soon. Also, beginning next week, I will attempt to include the ingredients for the items I write about and maybe photograph the nutrition labels for those who are interested.
This week’s product comes from emergency essentials (beprepared.com). It’s the “72 Hour 4 Person Supply”… bucket. Or, as we have come to call it “The bucket”. I purchased this back in the summer of 2015 and it has sat in my den, next to my chair. I admit, that it makes a handy, dandy table for my sodas, or other miscellany items I need to set someplace, next to my chair, temporarily.
I bought the bucket “just in case” and decided, recently, it was time to replace it so it was nominated for the review blog here. As you can imagine there is quite a bit of food in there and when I opened it up, I made the mistake of doing so in front of my mom, without my wife around to run interference, so she conned me out of a few items.
My intention was to live on only this food for 3 days. I looked at the meal planner that comes included and set aside all of the items for day 1, in the quantity listed, inside of a small box. The following morning when I awoke, I proceeded to make my breakfast. Boy was I excited! Day 1 breakfast was 2 servings “Italian Breakfast”, 1 serving “Chocolate Delight” and 1 serving “Milk”. Following the directions I heated the water, making a note of how the “Italian Breakfast” is identical to the “Potatoes O’Brien” from Patriot Supply, but easier to make. While waiting for the main course I mixed up the milk and “Chocolate Delight” (it’s just a chocolate shake and will be referred to as such from now on). Did I mention that I was excited? Well, I was.
Those 2 tiny pouches (each is palm sized) of taters filled a full sized dinner plate when I got finished. And it looked quite tasty. My plan of attack was to devour the taters, washing it down with the milk and ending the meal in my den with the shake while watching Lake Fork Guy on youtube. That plan was immediately derailed by the bad taste of the potatoes. Potatoes O’Brien quality these were NOT! I gagged a little but kept on truckin’, using the milk to swallow bites whole like they were pills. When I ran out of milk, I used the shake. And that is pretty much where that adventure ended. With both the milk and shake expended, I called it quits. Yeah, I still had almost half a plate left, but I had had enough. The shake was quite good and I wish I could have enjoyed it more. The milk was on par with all the other powdered milk I have ever consumed before.
After I finished eating I sat for a bit and just didn’t feel right. I KNOW it was the potatoes doing it. How do I know? Well, that is just one of those things a person just knows and it can’t be explained in a way that makes sense to others. That off feeling and the taste kept with me the rest of the day too. Very unpleasant. The rest of day 1’s meals were placed back in the bucket and the whole experiment was called off.
I believe the bucket holds some treasures in it, but I have been reluctant to go searching for them. Would my feelings be different in an actual emergency? MAYBE, hunger is the best seasoning after all. Then again, I once ate a field mouse roasted over a camp fire and those potatoes are tied with that, so make of that what you want to.
Funny little side note; when I told my wife about the field mouse she was quite shocked. We have been together since 2007 and she knows about most of the weird and often troublesome stuff from my past, and she has met some of my relatives, so nothing really surprises her anymore, but that look on her face was PRICELESS.
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