Grizzly Gear Emergency Food Rations- 3600 Calorie Bar (Vanilla Poundcake) - 3 Day, 72 Hour Ready To Eat Supply For Disaster, Hurricane, Flood Preparedness - Non Thirst Provoking - 5 Year Shelf Life

First off, my order arrived damaged and one of the bars was exposed, I reached out to the seller and they immediately refunded me so kudos to them for good customer service. As far as the bars go, they are actually pretty tasty and definitely filling. I bought them for my bug out bag and it's good to know I have at least a bit of food in case I ever need it. The bars are substantial but they don't take up too much space in my bag which is a win in my opinion.

Very tasty. Goes down easy.

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.

Great for emergencies.

BLUF: I like this product as a food, but I really hate gambling with whether the packaging will be ripped or not when it arrives. Like many people have posted/reviewed, I have had ones where the packaging is not intact on delivery. Look, you're not buying a pack of Clif bars when you're buying these. The intention of this product is to be used as an emergency situation food source (boat ration, etc). As such, one should expect to be able to buy this product and shove it away into storage for a few years. And that is absolutely not possible if it arrives with the packaging compromised. Now, onto the food itself (since I had a few torn packages, I used them for testing). I ate only this stuff and water for a few days. Honestly, I find it pretty tasty. The vanilla is pretty light, but detectable. The lemon flavor is sometimes pretty sharp (pleasantly, citrusy sharp), and sometimes more subtle. I like the variation, to be honest; it makes it less uni-dimensional in flavor from bite to bite. It has a crumbly texture. Like others have stated...sort of like a cross between a cookie and a shortbread. I actually find it quite palatable. And I didn't starve myself or even drive myself to hunger before starting to test, so I would imagine it could only taste better once you're in a "when you're this hungry, everything tastes good" situation. Okay, this paragraph is very much "your-mileage-may-vary." Although the product is advertised to be non-thirst provoking, I'm not really sure how true that was for me. I still felt like I needed a mouthful or two of water after eating one of these. Mind you, that's not very much, so I'd say they're doing their job. Just be aware that it might not be completely non-thirst provoking for you either. For such a small amount, they actually seem to do a pretty good job of staving off hunger too, which I find to be a nice bonus (still somewhat stomach-growling hungry by next ration time, but no hunger pangs). Energy levels feel fine with my day-to-day living (which doesn't include intense workouts, btw). So if you were in a stranded-on-a-lifeboat situation, you would probably feel fine. If you're intention is to taking these and only these on a week-long camping trip, though, there's probably better options. Lastly, as far as nutrition goes, I'm fine with it. Some people are pretty horrified by the amount of fat and sugar it has. Once again...you're not buying Clif bars. These are not snacks. You're buying sustenance for emergency situations. In those situations, you want your fats and sugars, since those are your energy stores and immediate energy.

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.

FALSE ADVERTISING!!!! Box states 3600 calorie BAR, not 400 calorie bars. My husband needs to quickly pack on pounds for cancer treatment. Shame on you for making me believe you actually DID pack 3600 calories into ONE BAR. I spent a lot of money on your false advertising, but they were so expensive, I figured, "Must be true!" Shame on you for the tiny print admitting they are glorified protein bars with just 400 calories each.