Anyone suggestions on good places to buy them?
Mine came from good 'ol Amazon!Anyone suggestions on good places to buy them?
the Datrex brand bars come in 200 calorie sub-packages (6, 12, & 18 depending on the bar) & they cost the same as mainstayOkay, I have these and I have tested them (Mainstay). They say you don't HAVE to up your water intake, it's a good thing if you do. The Mainstays taste like cookie dough, sort of, a dry cookie dough. The problem with packages like these are that the entire bar or block is exposed and you pretty much have to eat the entire thing in a couple of days (I ended up putting mine in a zip lock and keeping it in the fridge because I didn't want to eat it over a couple of days). The packages are not resealable, the packages are pretty fragile for what they are intended to be used for. The reason I tested mine was that the packaging had been holed somehow. I keep one in both cars for winter and one in my mini-BOB. All of them have been sealed in zip locks to protect the packaging and to so that the bar can be protected and saved if it is opened. If I were to purchase them again, and I don't know that I will, I'd get the 1200 single bars so that I didn't have to open the entire 2400 or 3600 calorie bars.
I LOVE FRUITCAKE!!!Every year I make fruitcake, not the kind with the citron fruit, just dry fruits, and nuts, lots of them. Its a real dense cake and as nutritious as you would like. When done you wrap them in white gauze or cheese cloth, soak numerous times with brandy, then pack in powdered sugar, lots of it. These will keep for decades, yes I said decades, I have one in the refer that is at least 20 years old, no signs of aging or deterioration. Why buy, when you can make your own the way you 'like' it, personalized nutritional food.
I love it too and I catch hell for it. I always wonder if it's a trick. Why would it be there if they didn't like it? Crazyness.I LOVE FRUITCAKE!!!
My in-laws were just razzing me because I was the only one in the room who actually enjoys it. lol
Drink lots and lots of water. Datrex makes a decent food bar as well (I have had some that tasted like a lemon cookie and others with a vanilla flavor). I susepct all or some Mainstay and Datrex bars may be made at the same "private label" manufacturer. I would aslo drink lots of water with fruitcake as well. The nice thing about fruitcakes is if you have enough of them you can use them as bricks.Okay, I have these and I have tested them (Mainstay). They say you don't HAVE to up your water intake, it's a good thing if you do.
In the first hours/days of an emergency situation, using your stockpile of food may not be a practical/possible thing to do. It might be hard to cook, you might be in shock or injured, etc.
To prepare for just such an instance, we have bought a few cases of 1200 and 2400 calorie emergency food bars (we got a mix to add variety and help with rationing the calories).
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After things "settle down" a bit, then we can dig into our emergency supplies and live off of them. Just not sure that immediately after an "incident" the first thing on our minds will be breaking into our food supply...
Also in the event that something forces us to leave, whether it's destruction of our house for some reason, or government mandated evacuation/relocation, emergency foodbars are light and easy to carry with you in your "go bag/BOB".
So, does anyone else stock emergency food bars? Considering it?![]()
I had my very first migraine headache as a teenager after eating fruitcake. I was sick as a dog.Every year I make fruitcake, not the kind with the citron fruit, just dry fruits, and nuts, lots of them. Its a real dense cake and as nutritious as you would like. When done you wrap them in white gauze or cheese cloth, soak numerous times with brandy, then pack in powdered sugar, lots of it. These will keep for decades, yes I said decades, I have one in the refer that is at least 20 years old, no signs of aging or deterioration. Why buy, when you can make your own the way you 'like' it, personalized nutritional food.
Would you share the recipe?Every year I make fruitcake, not the kind with the citron fruit, just dry fruits, and nuts, lots of them. Its a real dense cake and as nutritious as you would like. When done you wrap them in white gauze or cheese cloth, soak numerous times with brandy, then pack in powdered sugar, lots of it. These will keep for decades, yes I said decades, I have one in the refer that is at least 20 years old, no signs of aging or deterioration. Why buy, when you can make your own the way you 'like' it, personalized nutritional food.
Despite all the jokes about fruitcake, if you stop to think about it, fruitcake is the first survival bar. Before the advent of refrigeration and modern supermarkets, when people grew their own food, and were often isolated out on the farm by poor roads, blizzards, etc., the fruit cake was an excellent way to preserve the harvest of fruits, grains, nuts, etc. in an easily accessible form that required no special storage methods. Cook up a bunch of fruitcakes during the harvest season and have something to eat when you are stuck on the homestead during those long, cold winters! Loaded with calories, and a bit of boozeI LOVE FRUITCAKE!!!
My in-laws were just razzing me because I was the only one in the room who actually enjoys it. lol