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

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.

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.

These emergency food bars aren’t gourmet by any means—but they’re not supposed to be. For what they are, they do the job well. Each pack is compact, shelf-stable, and packs a lot of calories (1600 per bar), making it a great addition to any emergency kit, bug-out bag, or camping stash. The texture is dense and a bit crumbly, kind of like a dry shortbread or compressed cookie. The vanilla flavor is mild and not overly sweet, which I appreciated—it’s palatable enough to eat in a pinch without overwhelming your taste buds. No cooking or prep needed, just unwrap and eat. They're not meant to be your next favorite snack, but if the power goes out or you’re stuck in the wilderness, these bars will keep you going without complaint. Would I eat them on a normal day? Probably not. But for an emergency? Absolutely. Worth keeping a few packs on hand for peace of mind.

These taste pretty good. I had to try these out before I buy more for my emergency food stash. I like how they don’t make you thirsty either. One small issue is a few bars inside the plastic were open from one end of the plastic on a few of the bars. Customer service went ahead and made this right for me which shows they are a company worth doing business with. Replacement was sent and its in perfect condition.

I received my order today unfortunately I was missing one. Haven't tried them, as they are for emergency purposes but they are vacuum sealed very well. No leaks in them. So maybe someone was hungry. Not gonna make a big deal about it. God bless em lol 👊😁🙏 Edit. So, I was able to resolve the issue with the missing package. Yesterday I decided to open one to try them because I try everything I get for long term. So yeah, they are pretty darn tasty and pretty filling. I inspected every package and they are perfectly sealed. With all the craziness going on in the world and the gradual inflation, I'm thinking this is what I'm going to be living on now. Might as well get used to it now before it's here and you're dying for a burger or some Chinese food 🫣🤣💪

Have not yet had one. I’m storing them in-case of emergency. Look good.

Package was not hermetically sealed as should have been. May have affected the taste; may not have, but either way, it was not tasty. I comprehend it is emergency food, and most would eat it if they had to however, at this point we don't have to. I am familiar with emergency bars.