Affordable Boil In Bag grub

[NorthernRaider]

Thanks to AL, affordable boil In bag meals, scroll down the page on the link

http://www.lookwhatwefound.co.uk/Page/Pr...px?CatID=0

[uks]

Been using this for about a year now great food but the shelf life is abit short for real longterm storage. Keep some in the house and about 12 in the BOV.

[Skean Dhude]

A short shelflife. This is worse than the stuff you can get anywhere. Get tins or puches from your local supermarket instead. You will get a lot more bang for your money.

[BDG]

Look like nice products and a good site, thanks had never seen it before.

Looking at the nutritional info tho they range between 150- 250 Kcal (not counting the Korma as that will be full of cream) and in the non-sedentary lifestyle lifestyle you would undertake and no central heating, you are going to be after 2500-3000 Kcal a day minimum, perhaps a decent amount more. Think about when you have done heavy physical work for a couple of days on the trot, you really hammer into the grub, found that especially when I have been doing site labouring work I was eating a hell of a lot.

Saying that, going off a £/Kcal is no perfect measure otherwise we would just buy blocks of lard. Compare asda smart price beans and sausages - 480kcal / can at 33p a can against asda smart price irish stew at 230 Kcal a can at 49p a can, the stew works out 3.5 times more expensive if measured purely on calories, but the stew has more varied veg in and I would wager tastes nicer.

Has given me an idea to put a £/Kcal table together for common stored foods and tinned goods at least.

[Tarrel]

In a bug out situation, grams per kcal may also be important. When I hiked coast to coast across Scotland the other year I took freeze-dried products (much lighter than MREs because you add the water at the time of cooking - although you do have to cook them). I took a mixture of supermarket stuff and commercial backpacker meals. The supermarket ones were cheaper, and in many cases nicer, but the problem was the calories. I was burning in excess of 3000 per day and was finding it difficult replacing them. Lost a stone over the two weeks, which was welcome, but not an ideal situation. The specilised backpacking meals were much higher in calories.