Emergency Food Rations - 3600 Calorie Bar - 3 Day Supply - Less Sugar and More Nutrients Than Other Leading Brands - (5 Shelf Life)-9 bars

Product not sealed. Completely useless

A little on the stale side this time but still good tasting. It is mislabeled though. If you are a hundred pound waif, this is three days of food. For the average man, engaged in hard work, it's one day. You can't eat these long term but short term these have three important qualities. First, you will actually eat them. They are good tasting and are in fact, in danger of being snacked upon. By good tasting I mean they are superior to the average commercial cookies but better nutrition, lol. Eating them is satisfying due to high caloric intake. They are also, more fat and less sugar. This is important stuff as higher sugar intake will cause insulin spikes and hunger pangs. Second, they take up minimum space and weight. You could easily stuff a weeks worth of food in a pack and carry it with no problems. And lastly, they are not the death sentence, dehydrated foods are. Water, not food is usually the determining survival issue in an emergency. You can live weeks without food, barely two days without water. If you dehydate your body with freeze dried foods you have no water to rehydrate with, you will live hours under stress. Ironically, these are concentrated calories and don't waste space with air like dehyrdrated foods do unless you grind them to powder. If you have no water, MREs are a far better choice. You can live off the moisture in most of those foods. It's a trade off in weight and space. These food bars are a food of last resort. However, if you enjoy being off the beaten path, hiking or whatever, having three days of food in case you get lost will save your life. To be clear, that means three of these packages...not one. People need roughly 10 calories per pound a day, when not under stress. But under stress, add 1000 calories...perhaps 2.

I got these to quality test and taste test for an emergancy kit I'm putting together myself. The quality is pretty good so far. The package came sealed and had no holes or openings. It deffanily looks watter proof to. They are also very recently manufactured to. Mine was made in March 2015 (last month) The dates are easy to read which I like unlike the confusing date codes on MRE's. It uses a simple date format like 3/15 with the expiration date right under neath the manufacture date that reads 3/20 or March 2020 which indicate it's five year shelf life. It looks like one bar (3 cubes) is supposed to last you one day. One cube has 400 calories equaling 1,200 calories per bar. They also got lots of vitamins & minerals. The only issue I see with the bars themself is the lack of fiber (2 grams per cube or 6 grams in a days ration) I think they would make a good edition to my survival kit and they don't taste that bad ether. They got somewhat of a lemony shugar cookie taste & texture but that tastes less sweet than a shugar cookie. The lemony taste is barley noticable when you first bite into it. It also doesn't make me thirsty all that much which is a good thing for survival food. The weight isn't to heavy. It's only a few ounces lighter than MRE's making them easier to carry. They are also half the size of MRE's. The only thing I realy wish they would include is a way to re seal the bag like with a zip lock or something making it more ideal for 3 or more days. I might have to re seal it in a zip lock bag to prevent it from being exposed to long. All in all they are decent survival rations and they are at a great price. Only payed close to $10 even with tax for one individual 3 day ration. I'll also be comparing this to the SOS and dartex survival rations which some say are very similar but with a different taste. I added some pictures to show actual size using a penny for size comparison. They are actualy a pretty good size for the money. I'll be buying these again.

I teach in "bush" Alaska, and am always looking for emergency rations to take with me hunting, ice fishing, etc. This year I'm in the Aleutians and we get very high winds and no-fly conditions for a week or more at a time. The only things flying then are the angels and the coast guard, which is for most purposes the same thing. I carry granola bars (good), Sailor boy pilot bread (the Alaska staple) and peanut butter (good but crackers are stale tasting unless toasted). Canned food and MREs are heavy, and MRE's are expensive. I just weighed 3 MREs that range from 18 ounces to 22 ounces, and are about 1200 calories each. This 3600 calorie bar weighed just over 24 ounces, far less than the 3 MREs required for the same number of calories. Survival situations in Alaska often require a lot of calories, as people tend to be wet and cold. This is a very low cost way to carry good tasting concentrated calories. I bought some of these bars and one of the three I ordered must have had a hole in it as it lost the vacuum seal. This became the one I taste tested. My wife, 2 children, and I all liked the bars, I thought they tasted like a vanilla wafer cookie, but with more of a lemon flavor than vanilla. My wife used to be a girl scout and says they taste like the lemon trefoil (shortbread) cookie. The lemon flavor is not strong, and these were sweetish, but not sweet enough to make me thirsty. I'm going to try a couple of days on these but I'm very impressed with the price and taste so far. It's pretty hard to get a day's worth of long-term storable portable food for this price.

I ordered a couple packs of these too give them a try before stocking up. TlDr, it's time to order more! These are good enough to almost just be eaten as a cookie for a snack. Sweet, dense, and filling - they're looking to be a great option for emergency food storage. After splitting one, my twelve year old asked for another, just because they're that tasty. They arrived last night, and I waited till the AM to leave a review, because I wanted to try one with coffee. Spoiler alert - e-bars for the win! Get yourself a couple packs, then get a couple more. Put a few in the pantry, a few more in a go-bag, and a few more in the back of your car! You won't be sorry!