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The reason I do these video reviews is because I purchased a meal bucket and stored it away not taking into consideration it might suck, one night I tried it out and was shocked how bad it was and didn’t want people to waste money without knowing my thoughts to help them save money. These buckets aren’t exactly cheap. Now are the decent entry level? Sure if it’s a short term emergency but if anyone goes into a long term shtf situation of weeks to months living off these they absolutely will want to know how these are. Food is one of the greatest unifiers and morale boosters everyone thinks about during the day without realizing it- go out to meals with friends, go get food on the way to or back from work, having bbqs, etc. during an shtf situation are we all of a sudden going to be willing to eat lesser food just because it’s an emergency? At that point living off food storage morale will already be low from whatever loss put a person into an shtf event- hurricane, snow storm, etc. why not settle for less nutrition and quality? People spend thousands of dollars on stupid stuff yearly - new phones, TV’s, etc. but are un willing to sacrifice gluttony now for better quality of survival later. Want to buy trash food storage, go for it? I don’t sponsor any brand and get no commission for my opinions, at the end of the day I just try to provide a starting point of consideration, throw it out or consider it yourself. I did the starving college student diet for years, it sucked i hated living off salt and noodles because I was legitimately poor. In an shtf situation you will be expending more energy than a non emergency situation, what you eat directly correlates to your gut biome which in turn affects your mood, behavior, how much energy you have and for how long.

Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew

​@@RagnarokReady filthy hobbitsiss

It’s always a good idea to consider having at minimum a 72 hour emergency kit including food. We just faced the aftermath of horrific hurricanes and these kits are a go to for many to ready for such events

Very true! I myself own a harvest right and love it, it’s been fun experimenting to see what freeze dries well and what doesn’t. Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment!

Thank you!

Worst case scenario you’ll die from malnutrition , eat what you want but in a grid down situation where you’re living off food storage, an already stressful situation as is, do you really want to be forced to eat junk that has no nutritional value and tastes horrible? Just because things go bad your desires of good food won’t change overnight bud

Happy to help! Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment, best of wishes friend

I’ll check into it! Thank you

All good points, also gardening could be viable in my situation at least the nitrates could help plants. Sorry about the noise I had a portable AC running it’s been hot! I normally turn it off when recording

I’m going off the average a person actually consumes a year, a grown adult man should consume slightly less an a gallon a day. That also depends on activity level as well, and salt intake. We don’t drink nearly as much water as we should, the average shocked me I had to double check several sources

​@@RagnarokReadyas a child, I had an uncle who drank probably 2 gallons of water a day. He ended up in the hospital bc he was depleted of minerals. His doctor told him to cut down on his water intake.

Sorry to hear about that, it depends on activity level for most grown men it’s just below 1 gallon a day. We can certainly live off of less, most people probably consume half a gallon a day, also key to have proper minerals in the water as well. Thank you for your comment

Not a bad idea! I’ll give that a shot thanks for commenting

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Thank you so much for sharing!! Your input as a dietitian coupled with the fact you tested these is such a great case study!! I’m going to pin your comment that is so invaluable

@@RagnarokReady A couple notes - my main meal was always lentils and/or rice of some sort. Even though I did cook with the dry veg, I got into the habit of grinding some of the bell peppers dry in my spice grinder, and adding them to the finished food without cooking them additionally. That way, I'd be sure to maximize the vitamin C content of the peppers. I ate 3 tablespoons of the bell pepper blend every day, to give myself about 200mg - 300mg vitamin C. I also used the spice grinder to make myself a "V8" juice mix out of the chunkier veg with the spinach and tomato powders, with a bit of salt, pepper, and lemon powder (forgot to mention the lemon powder in my first comment.) I had about a quarter cup of that powder every day, for an additional 200mg vitamin C and a big boost of a wide spectrum of carotenoids. That said, I probably could have gotten by with 1/5 the amount of vegetables I used, but I wanted to be sure I was getting enough micronutrients. In a survival situation, I'd feel comfortable rationing myself to about a teaspoon of each veg product per day.

Awesome information!! Thank you so much taking the time to share all of this, a lot to learn from your post

That’s excellent to know!! Thank you so much for sharing

@@RagnarokReady yes sir! Most of the dehydrated veg is briefly heated just hot enough to deactivate the enzymes, about 135ºF, but not hot enough to destroy the vitamin C.

Are all the cans only halfway full

Depends on the contents, some are totally full like freeze dried broccoli. Others half way full or part way full like these bell peppers, however they still contain a lot of servings. So far I’ve been using one can of bell peppers for months and still have many months left, as 1 tablespoon is considered a serving and is a lot of bell peppers

Great information!! Thank you

Exactly!! It has such vast value and is so integral in our lives as well as social events

You have some good points, but plenty of people worldwide that have benefited from having food stored away. That being said, quality is something that may want to be taken into consideration as it can seriously affect a persons physical health, not to mention mental if you find yourself in a situation of having to live off food storage, it can be a great morale booster. I do these tests so people know what they buy before wasting money and leave it up to them if it’s something they want to try for themselves. Thanks for taking time to comment

I make it my policy to only stock stuff that I actually eat. Buying items for emergencies only is a gigantic waste of space, time, and money.

I got it to go away, it seems to be a manufacturing defect of the drain trying to drain when the water build up tank is empty. The fix is to go into the app and disable auto drain under the settings, cycling that will work. Ecoflow recommends ensuring that the until is updated and then unplugging its power source for at least and then plugging it back in again.

Thank you for sharing, and I absolutely agree they are mostly loaded with carbohydrates. Keep up the good work!!

That’s great information to know, thank you for sharing!

It's emergency food, not for daily use. Chill out

Amazon often has #10 cans discounted and is a very affordable way to have emergency food. It beats eating grubs or drinking pine needle tea.

Absolutely! A lot of these brands if you go straight to their websites sell smaller samplers, I suggest trying those out before any purchases. So far as far as buckets go my #1 is peak refuel, then Mountain House, and lastly Readyhour aka my patriot supply however Readyhour is like Augason farms dehydrated not freeze dried so it will require more water and energy to cook rather than rehydrate

Ive tried it with both hoses and it was worse with the outside air intake hose plugged in for me. I actually think the BTU rating is too low for an un insulated camper this big, I’ve used it in a tent it did great, use it in my room daily during the brutal summer heat and it keeps it cozy 65 degrees.

I run the compressor exhaust out the max fan. The compressor inlet pipe sits just above the floor in the coolest part of my van. Way more efficient to pull cool air over the compressor is my theory.

In the settings for it you can cycle from automatic drain on to off and it stops the sound, it seems like this sound is the drain system trying to drain water when the tank is empty

One side is a queen and the other is a standard size bed, on the manufacturer website they have an option to filter recommendations of fit for your own specific model. In my case they recommended two “small extended” which fit both the queen size as well as the standard end perfectly once I fit it properly. I have not noticed any condensation, but that is a very good point to consider

Will always try to remain neutral so others can avoid any costly mistakes, thank you for watching as well as the support ☺️!!

Thank you for watching as well as the feedback, and I totally agree it is better than nothing. I ready hour is a very good option!!

“Hobotech” channel likely has the best in depth review for any further information you’d need, Thank you for watching!

Not sure what you’re getting at, every single review I do on this channel I buy the items at my own expense which is not cheap. These are all 100% non sponsored, so my reactions are always unbiased and genuine. I am not trying to convince anyone of anything, but rather give my honest thoughts and opinions which I felt were clear in that it wasn’t the best breakfast skillet out there and I prefer mountain house in this specific instance

@@RagnarokReady Everything you just said was unnecessary. I was honest and sincere when I said I didn't want you to take it the wrong way, but you're so sensitive you took it the wrong way anyway. Whether you buy the products with your own money or not makes no difference so I don't know why you felt the need to bring that up. Your reactions may be genuine and unbiased to you, I was simply saying you were not convincing to me, an intelligent person would understand if one person is not being convinced there's gonna be more that are NOT CONVINCING and somehow that offended you. Which would lead a reasonably intelligent person to believe TH-cam is not something you should be into, you post your opinion on the internet for the entire world to see and think you're not going to get one negative comment? And you're so sensitive/childish you can't construe that as constructive criticism

Your comment that I am not convincing didn’t make much sense, so I had to make an educated guess as to what it is exactly I’m trying to convince people of, this being a review video the likely explanation would be I am paid, sponsored or received the product for free to ‘convince’ people to try it. So that is why I brought up the fact everything I review is done at my own expense. And now for some reason after originally saying ‘don’t take this the wrong way’ to something that didn’t make much sense again that I’m not ‘convincing’ you are now deliberately actually trying to make me angry filling in imaginary blanks assuming my response for no reason after I made an non emotional response. And that is actually the unnecessary response. Maybe, and don’t take this the wrong way, you should take a step back and evaluate your motivations and emotions before judging and assuming others 🙂, hope you have a great day! I know I will

@@RagnarokReady I see why you only have 116 subscribers. I didn't know that you were mentally challenged. When you do a review of anything you are trying to convince people it is a good product or not a good product. If you are sponsored you could not possibly give a honest review. Or you would lose your sponsorship. I was certainly not trying to anger you that's why I said right from the get-go I hope you don't take this the wrong way. But you are mentally challenged and very sensitive so you did. Bless your little heart ❤

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I’ve done peaches that were store bought pre frozen they didn’t turn out well, really squishy which suggests moisture couldn’t get vacuumed out for some reason, have done blue berries which were more work than they are worth as you need to make sure to puncture each berry individually to allow the freeze drying to take effect, and finally bananas which are so successful every time I never end up with any left for storage 😅

Definitely a worthy brand!

Oxygen absorbers can shockingly be exposed to air a long time before they are no longer effective. The TH-cam channel “Phil at 4800 feet” did a demonstration of this, Thank you for the tip however! And chopping the onions was the worst of it, boiling the onions then freeze drying them left no noticeable odor at all, I say give it a shot! Definitely worth the work, I’ll probably do a bread run with vinegar just in case before my next batch