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Some people like to know where their next meal comes from.  Unless you are a criminal organization, you may enjoy hearing about Thrive brand foods.  Costco has a deal 1 year of food for 1 person for $800, this includes shipping, which makes it $2.20/day.  The downside is that it is 1300 or so calories per day.  This is fine if you are sitting in a bunker, but it is not fine if you are training for release from the bunker or if you are working daily to try to get additional resources.  Just chopping firewood can consume enough calories that 1300 makes you feel really hungry.

You can supplement your diet with fiber, each 14g additional fiber means that you can feel just as full on 10% fewer calories.  A person who feels full on 2000 calories would need 50g fiber per day additional to go from 2000 calories to 1300 calories, and that is additional to the amount of fiber they ate at 2000 calories (usually 24g).I have tried Thrive brand food and it is actually very good.  They also have real meat now instead of just TVP (Textured Vegetable Protein).  I have not tried the real meat, it was not available when I made my order.  I got some taco TVP and it is not bad at all, it is a bit much to eat plain, but if mixed with anything else it would be tasty and filling.

The powdered eggs are fine if baked into things like bisquick pancakes, but if eaten plain as scrambled eggs they taste like the yolks from hard boiled eggs.  I recommend using them in baked goods only

I made blueberry pancakes with the freeze-dried blueberries and powdered eggs.  I could not tell the difference from fresh blueberries and fresh eggs. The freeze-dried blueberries were a bit hard eaten plain, but when cooked into pancakes you couldn’t tell.

The taco  meat TVP looks and is usable as ground meat like you might stick in a taco.  I did not care for the meat plain, meaning by itself.  The meat would have been fine when put in a taco or other food recipie, and is not intended to be eaten plain.  I wanted to eat it plain to see how it was, so that I can make determinations as to its suitability in my pantry.

In all I think that the $800 costco deal is a good value and the food is very edible in my opinion.  The costco sale does end April 25, so 9 days from this post.

I do think that the sugar and some other items in the costco deal are overpriced.  You can also make your own pancake mix and vacuum seal it and have it last at least a year (I don’t know how long it will really last, its fine after 1 year on the shelf).  The pancake mix from Thrive is guaranteed to last years on the shelf.  You can also get bulk beans cheaper and store them in 5 gallon pickle buckets for years, especially if you displace the oxygen with CO2 from dry ice.  The costco deal is not bad for someone who just wants an immediate package ready to go.

I also noticed that while it comes with hard winter wheat there is no grinder supplied in the  costco deal.  Without a wheat grinder those cans of wheat are unusable for the most part, since the idea is to grind the wheat into flour and make something that way.