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Mountain House Essential Bucket
Quick prep! Just add water to the pouch and you're good to go in less than 10 minutes, with no cleanup!.32 Servings.Allergens: Soy, Milk, Wheat.30 Year Taste Guarantee. Packaging May Vary.Great for emergency food storage, camping trips, and RV expeditions.
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9 Reddit comments about Mountain House Essential Bucket:

u/swamptech · 21 pointsr/NewOrleans

use this thread as your guide

https://www.reddit.com/r/NewOrleans/comments/49q9b7/heads_up_people_its_gon_rain/

Businesses closed. Stores were raided. It turned out to be absolutely nothing


We'll be lucky to get as much rain as they're forecasting.

Most of the serious storms are going to happen in August.

In other news, ZIMA has made a return to shelves and is currently $2.5 / 6-pack at Wally World.

If you're interested in MRE stocks, these are actually really good packs and take up less space

u/doohicker · 6 pointsr/camping

I second Mountain House. Either the classic bucket or the essential.

u/[deleted] · 3 pointsr/preppers

Let's see here, Mountain House Essential Bucket is $52.49 today: http://www.amazon.com/Mountain-House-80663-Essential-Bucket/dp/B00955337I/

[re]EDIT: Hey it works! (but current price does not match what Amazon says today; has to do with the Amazon API, I am told.)

u/thepingster · 2 pointsr/CampingandHiking

The essential bucket is also lowered to $49.99. I picked up two since I still have some of the essential bucket left and I don't use the breakfast meals. Either way, I would've missed it if I didn't see this. Thanks.

Classic bucket

Essential bucket

u/oiliereuler · 1 pointr/WildernessBackpacking

Grab the mixed dinner buckets on amazon! Usually about $60 for 12 dinner bags. Mountain House Just In Case...Essential Bucket https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00955337I/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_7CVQzbZ8VJ5W9

u/Lurkndog · 1 pointr/bugout
u/fidelitypdx · 1 pointr/CascadianPreppers

This is honestly a terrible article.

For one, the formatting is awful and the recommendations for building a kit are poorly laid out in the text. It would really help to have some bullets that summarize the urgency and necessary items.

Next, advice offered here is awful:

> "We recommend people keep seven to 10 days' worth of supplies in their car because we're Americans, so we usually have our cars with us," Rizzo says. "So if you have seven to 10 days of supplies at your office and seven to 10 days of supplies in your car, that's two weeks' worth of supplies."

Does Althea Rizzo, geologic hazards program coordinator at Oregon Emergency Management, have any idea what emergency food looks like?

10 days worth of emergency food in your car is a terrible idea. Anything stored in your car is going to expire in order of magnitude faster than food stored in a temperature-stable place. Each day's worth of food is essentially two mountain-house freeze dried packages - so you're talking about two of these buckets - and that's not including the water necessary and a stove.

This is just bonkers insane. 10-days worth of food and fuel, plus the supplies (water) to prepare those meals, is going to weigh 50lbs minimum unless you're doing backpacking gear. It would take up an unreasonable size of a vehicle's trunk.

1-2 days of food in your car is ample. In fact, a single meal in your car is probably ample.

Then, in an earthquake, what happens if your car is crushed? If suddenly half of your emergency supplies now under rubble?

> "We really recommend that people look at their lifestyle, look at where they spend time, and just squirrel away food and supplies there," she says. "Make sure you have a flashlight at work or a gallon or two of water. Maybe that's all you can put in your cubicle, but if you do, it'll still be more than you had yesterday."

Ok - keeping some emergency supplies at your office is important. But this shouldn't be a personal thing you do, this is something you should encourage your company to do. Your company should invest in having bottles of water, and if need be you should lead that charge. Not only are bottles of water useful in emergencies, but they're useful for guests attending meetings at your place of business. You can stash away 10 gallons of water at your office for $7 if you buy at Costco.

Very likely employees are walking home - so large gallon jugs are unrealistic for workers to be carrying. Hand-held bottles of water are reasonable.

> "One gallon per person per day is the rule of thumb," says Monique Dugaw, director of communications for the Red Cross in the Cascades region.

Holy crap that's terrible advice!

One gallon?!? That's it?! That's facepalm levels of stupidity right there. One gallon of drinking water is enough to stay healthy if you don't have any major activities. However, if you're going to wash your hands, wash your dishes, brush your teeth, bathe, or do anything else over a 14-day period....

What's incredibly likely to happen is you'll be thrust into a role of volunteering with disaster recovery. This will require real work, real sweat, which is going to dehydrate you.

Then, what about water to cook with? Unless you're opening cans of beans, you'll probably need to add some amount of water to each of your meals.

At minimum you should expect to use 2.5 gallons per day per person. That's the bare realistic minimum.

Edit: the more I think about this and research their prior statements in other article the more I want to throw Monique Dugaw and Althea Rizzo into a legitimate survival situation. They're both clearly not in any position to be making recommendations to the public. Not saying we need a SERE instructor, but at least someone familiar with practical survival skills and emergency supplies. For example, if you've tried a lifestraw, you'd not recommend it.