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72 Hour Food Upgrade Pack
How to use the food in your 72 Hour Emergency Kit Upgrade pack to make rationing more human
Summary Steps to ration your food for 72 hours:
1) Grab your Datrex Food Ration and open it up.
2) Consume 1 ration bar every 3 to 4 hours. (You get 6 per day for 3 days)
3) Open and eat some Peak Refuel dessert bites as needed for taste and emotional happiness
4) On day 2, you get to enjoy your Peak Refuel breakfast granola pouch. Pour 2 x Datrex water rations into the meal pouch to rehydrate the food. (This is meant to be a cold meal) Stir with your spork, wait 5 minutes and enjoy.
5) On day 3, cook your Peak Refuel entree meal. Using the camp heat, 2 more Datrex water rations, the foldup stove, and the survival candle (matches are included inside the survival candle). Warm up your water pouches, pour them into the meal pouch, stir and wait 10 minutes to enjoy.
Full Instructional Video Transcript:
" If I were in an evacuation scenario where I knew I'd need to spend the next 72 hours on the go or in my car I'd be relieved to know that I have my minimum core calories covered by my Datrex ration bar. I would simply grab my Datrex block from my 72-hour kit, rip it open and plan out my bars. They come in these easy little cookie blocks with each one giving me 200 calories.
My plan would be to eat six of these per day possibly one every 3 to 4 hours during my wait time. They taste like a shortbread coconut cookie and are non- thirst provoking so as not to deplete my internal water reserves. They're actually pretty good. The taste is a little bit bland and they're quite crumbly, but all in all a really good bar. Just eating that half I already feel a little bit full, so these would definitely keep you going.
Now I know that these will give me my 1200 calorie minimum intake per day but I'm also realistic and know that I have a fairly high metabolism and that I also mentally look forward to my meals and food each day.
I also know the thought of eating 18 of these bars straight for three days is not going to be what I'd consider fun. So, with that in mind I've decided to supplement my 72-hour kit with some shelf stable items that I would consider necessities.
My first upgrade is to add the Peak Refuel freeze-dried peanut butter cookie Bites. Popping one or two of these delicious little bites whenever I need an emotional or taste boost is going to keep me going. These bites have a 5-year shelf life and are temperature resilient so I have no problem leaving them in my car all year round. That would really hit the spot in an emergency to add variety and a psychological sweet treat.
You could also swap out and use the peak refuel brownie bites if your family have any peanut allergies. Now I think between the occasional cookie bite and my Datrex ration bars that I could probably make it 30 hours before I start to feel the growing urge to find something else to supplement and mix up my intake.
Based on this thinking I've chosen to add a Peak Refuel Mountain Berry Granola to my kit to help me take the edge off day two of food rationing. It's as easy to work with as all I need to do is add two of my Datrex water rations, stir it up with a spork and then I can go ahead and eat. Mmm… this will add 570 calories today too, and offers some much needed variation in taste, nutrition, and texture. Plus, the Peak Refuel pouches again have a 5-year shelf life. Then eating my six daily ration bars and a couple of cookie bites I could easily make it another 24 hours of rationing without too much pain.
Now knowing myself and how I'd likely be going into day three of rationing I'm sure that by this point I'm going to be craving a warm meal. So, I have planned ahead and brought along a Peak Refuel Butternut doll and have figured out a way to rehydrate and heat it using only the items that are in my 72-hour kit.
I'll teach you how to do it.
From your kit you're going to need the camp heat, some water rations, the foldup stove, and the survival candle. First thing you're going to do is set up your foldable stove and then take out your camp heat and insert that into the foldable stove.
You'll then want to light the camp heat with some matches. You won't get any flame but you'll feel some heat coming off of it. Then you're going to take the lid off the survival candle and use that as a hot plate on top of the stove and you'll balance some water pouches on top of this. While those water rations are heating up it's time to prepare your Peak Refuel meal pouch. All you need to do is open the top, remove the oxygen absorbers and then you're ready to go.
Now the bottom water ration is going to heat up first. It's going to be filled with hot steaming water so just be careful. You're going to remove that one first and pour it straight into that meal pouch, then give that meal pouch a quick stir and then close it up to start the rehydration process.
After a couple more minutes your second water ration is going to be ready to be added to the meal pouch. Again, it's going to be super hot and filled with steaming water so just be careful.
Once that's in give it a quick stir and then this time you're going to close up the pouch and leave it for 10 minutes to fully rehydrate it's nice and warm. This has worked really, really well. It just took the normal 10 minutes after you'd heated up the water rations on the camp heat.
Using this upgrading trick helped me add 870 calories to day three and some much needed comfort and energy. Depending on which Peak Refuel pouch you choose you'll add anywhere from 500 to 1100 calories per day. This will keep me full for my remaining hours until hopefully help arrives or I can find a place of safety. "
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