Costco deal: $800 for a year’s worth of 'food'

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14 points·soyelmango··7 comments

You can criticize this being "food", but you can't criticize the fact that if you are forced to eat this, then it's better than starving. It'll sustain you, and if you need more than that then something is seriously wrong in the world.

It's super easy to supplement with another $1-200 of dried goods like lentils, black beans and rice from your local grain mill. Replace the air in the food safe 5 gallon buckets you store the stuff in with nitrogen or co2, and you have five years of quality food.

$800 is what it costs to eat in the DC Area for a month (if you don't cook)

Couldn't one send this kind of stuff to a third-world country as a donation? It could help feed a starving family for 3-4 months, no?

>> most of which have a shelf life of up to 25 years.

If you can call that food, more power to you...

/me leaves work to head to costco!

If I was costco attempting to hawk my doomsday preparedness goods, I would purchase some ad time on Glenn Beck.

Glenn Beck and his ilk are total crocks, but I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss food preparedness as paranoia. Ask anyone that has been through a serious natural disaster and they'll let you know really quick that a survival bag (radio, camp stove, water filter etc) plus food is important.

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