Attention preppers: Costco is selling bulk food kits that can feed a family of four for up to a year.
The kits range in price from $999.99 to $5,999.99 and include grains, fruit, vegetables, proteins, dairy and more.
Much of the food has a 25-year shelf life, including the freeze-dried corn, broccoli, green beans and apples. Other items like instant black beans, lentils and sugar, have a 30-year shelf life.
The least expensive kit, at $999.99, contains 96 cans that can feed one adult for a year on a diet of 1,200 calories per day. The most expensive, at $5,999.99, includes 600 cans, and can feed four people for a year on a diet of 2,000 calories a day.
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“Enjoy the comfort in knowing you have the essential foods your family will need to survive an emergency or natural disaster!” Costco says on the product page.
Costco’s most expensive emergency food kit, at $5,999.99, contains 600 cans of food that can feed four people for a year, based on a 2,000-calorie-per-day diet. (Image: Costco)
Worried that your nosy neighbors will see that you’re stocking up for a zombie apocalypse?
Costco notes that the kits are “packaged discreetly for privacy in shipping.”
But note that you’ll need some space to store these kits. The biggest one stands around 6-feet tall and fills two square pallets.
The packages of food are huge, but packaged discreetly. (Image: Costco)
Other items included in the kits are egg noodles, white rice, instant rotini pasta, dehydrated potatoes, Chicken TVP, freeze-dried strawberries, bananas and raspberries.
One reviewer gave the largest kit a five-star review. “As advertised, no problems. (100) boxes with six #10 cans in each box. boxes weigh 8- 36 pounds each. boxed in discreet plan brown boxes. Thank you COSTCO for carrying emergency products.”
That really pisses me off. I used to buy crates of those dried fruits long before Costco decided to take it over… now I can’t afford those and buy them from Saratoga Farms. That is a bunch of crap at those prices.
And, they’ve closed down most of the Mormon dry canning operations.
Looks like my family will be stuck with tried and true pressure-canned foods for the duration.
My wife and I bought the large sized Harvest Right Freeze Dryer last year. I’ll be damned if it wasn’t one of the best things I’ve spent $4k on in my life! (And the Wife would tell you I’ve made FAR too many of those purchases over the last 35 years, given my 18+ guitars all over the house!) Although it’s been a learning process, even the steak that we’ve freeze dried reconstitutes VERY nicely, and if packaged correctly should last up to 25 years…..
Totally agree. My husband loves his Harvest Right freeze dryer. He constantly finds something else he wants to try freeze drying. Ham cut up and dried is very good when used in his soups and cooked beans.
I’m gonna stick to their chickens at $4.99 for a 3 pounder.
Delicious!
You could almost certainly gets the salt, wheat, rice, corn, and beans cheaper. The ‘meat’ appears to be flavored soy poison, so hard pass. There was a place called ‘Walton Feed’ that used to sell most of the stuff on this list, for less money – if you’re in the Pacific NW area.
(72) Hard White Wheat (30 year shelf life / Country of Origin: USA)
(72) White Rice (30 year shelf life / Country of Origin: USA)
(72) Elbow Macaroni Pasta (25 year shelf life / Country of Origin: USA)
(72) Instant Rotini Pasta (25 year shelf life / Country of Origin: USA)
(42) Instant Pinto Bean Flakes (30 year shelf life / Country of Origin: USA/Canada)
(36) Instant Black Beans (30 year shelf life / Country of Origin: USA/Canada)
(36) Instant Lentils (30 year shelf life / Country of Origin: USA/Canada)
(36) Instant Milk (25 year shelf life / Country of Origin: USA)
(36) Dehydrated Potatoes (25 year shelf life / Country of Origin: USA)
(16) Beef TVP (10 year shelf life / Country of Origin: USA)
(16) Chicken TVP (10 year shelf life / Country of Origin: USA)
(12) Freeze-dried Corn (25 year shelf life / Country of Origin: USA)
(8) Freeze-dried Broccoli (25 year shelf life / Country of Origin: USA/Mexico)
(8) Freeze-dried Green Beans (25 year shelf life / Country of Origin: USA/New Zealand)
(8) Dehydrated Apples (25 year shelf life / Country of Origin: USA)
(8) Butter Powder (5 year shelf life / Country of Origin: USA)
(8) White Sugar (30 year shelf life / Country of Origin: USA)
(8) Brown Sugar (10 year shelf life / Country of Origin: USA)
(6) Dehydrated Carrots (10 year shelf life / Country of Origin: USA/Poland)
(6) Freeze-dried Bananas (25 year shelf life / Country of Origin: Ecuador)
(6) Freeze-dried Raspberries (25 year shelf life / Country of Origin: USA/Chile/Serbia)
(6) Freeze-dried Strawberries (25 year shelf life / Country of Origin: USA/Mexico)
(4) Freeze-dried Onions (25 year shelf life / Country of Origin: USA/India)
(2) Chicken Bouillon (5 year shelf life / Country of Origin: USA)
(2) Shortening Powder (3 year shelf life / Country of Origin: USA)
(2) Iodized Salt (30 year shelf life / Country of Origin: USA)
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I just set up this Harvest Right food freeze dryer…bought it a while back on sale with a $500 discount.
I am already seriously stocked up on long term freeze dried staples, I had a pallet delivered during the height of the 2008 melt down…and added regularly, then after the Petulant One was re-elected I went full bore.
I have two generators to run this in a grid down situation, one on propane and one on gas.
Going to put away some buckets of steaks first.
I got the Large Stainless one last year. It works great!
Canning your own would be much better; you’ll know what’s really in your food, and you won’t need to use valuable water supplies to re-hydrate each meal (not an issue if you have a well or live near a river or creek).
Dang, I do any more prepping and I will be labeled a consumer.
Fuck all that food prep stock up on ammo and alcoholic beverages and some of those nice baby wipes and toilet paper . A good simple RO water filter that can produce safe water
RO needs pressure to force the water through the membrane. Might to tough to come by when SHTF.
Depends on the size and needed output, if you don’t need a lot in a hurry it isn’t hard to construct one using low pressure from off the shelf parts. Even “Birky” style RO’s can be made (but a home made “Birky” type using some 5 gallon buckets and readily available and low cost ceramic filters produces water that is almost as good as RO and is a lot easier and cheaper using less water to start with).
I’m sort of with Boat Guy on this one, with the caveat to also have plenty of good lube/ointment on hand when the SHTF. Booze, water, hollow points and ass-paper are a given. Intoxication, hydration, safety, and a lint-free bung-hole will keep you in good stead for seven to ten days. If some form of stability in our hemisphere has not resumed after a week and a half start lubing up and grab your ankles because what happens next is anyone’s guess!
Sorry, I’d prefer starving to death than eating most of that crap. I’ll stick to my own preps, thank you……
“Sorry, I’d prefer starving to death than eating most of that crap.”
You’re saying that on a full stomach.
My mom told me things got so bad during WWII that the people in her village boiled various grasses to stay alive. She thought clover tasted the best.
Should you actually face starvation … and I hope you never do … you will BEG BEG BEG for one of those “crap” cans of food.
Stucky,
I do agree with you. My parents and grandparents went through the same thing as your mother did during the war. I was just being facetious about the taste of that stuff. I’ve been doing my own canning, dehydrating, vacuum sealing, etc. for a long time. I just meant that I prefer my own preps to most of the ones available out in the open market……………
6000 is high for something most people just let sit in place and never end up using.
Better to just keep a year of your regular food on hand, rotate and replace what you use as you use it in your normal daily life.
Use that dehydrated stuff for when/if you have to evacuate in a hurry and can only take a limited amount with you (you can also use it for camping trips if you are a camper, that keeps it rotated and makes use of it instead of just having money tied up and sitting there). Remember, what you can take with you may end up being what you can carry in a backpack and wheelbarrow, roads may not always be passable to use vehicles.
do what you gotta do-but for $1000 at the low end that’s cheap life insurance
This article just shows you how mainstream prepping is becoming.
I have made major water and food and self defense preps…as well as all categories and will continue. I whole heartily believe the day is coming when my extended family will thank me.