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Free food today!
Apr. 4th, 2018 08:56 pmSo, as a lifelong batchelor and indifferent at best cook, I now find myself cooking meals for my mom and myself. In being prepared for emergencies, I have a generator, fuel, keep a few cases of bottled water, and I bought one of those buckets of food that was a weeks worth of food for four people.
I researched emergency food a bit, and everyone reccomended actually cooking and eating some of the foods to see if we actually liked it. Better to know sometime when its not in the middle of a disaster that you really dislike the food you have. So I cracked it open, and made up a few of the meals. Bleah. Super over spicy for my taste. So I tried another brand, better, but not very appetizing.
Then I got diagnosed with diabetes, and discovered that nearly all of these foods run very heavy on the starches and low on proteins. I was searching for one that met my diet needs when this Patriot Pantry brand popped up on WOOT! That had a lot more beans and less wheat and rice in it's recipies, so I ordered a box. Not bad. Especially when I realized I could add some canned ham or chicken to the stew which made it a lot better tasting and better for my diet.
These also were tasty enough and easy to prepare. Basically boil water in a pot, stir in the contents of the pouch, cook for the specified amount of time, and done. Perfect for someone like me. So I got in the habit of buying them whenever they come up on WOOT! The timing is about right, I keep one bin in reserve, one bin I'm actually using up. When the bin gets used up, it usually comes around again on the web.
Last week, it came up again, and I ordered one. Then I realized I had clicked my old work address for the shipping address. I tried to change, but the site said cant do that, cancel and reorder. So I canceled and reordered. Monday, the package arrived, as expected, I took it home. Today, the package arrived with the exactly duplicated order. I called them about it, and they said not to worry, they wouldn't charge me for it. I tried to tell them to charge me or let me return it. Nope, keep the package, no charge. Okay. Free food. Yay!
I researched emergency food a bit, and everyone reccomended actually cooking and eating some of the foods to see if we actually liked it. Better to know sometime when its not in the middle of a disaster that you really dislike the food you have. So I cracked it open, and made up a few of the meals. Bleah. Super over spicy for my taste. So I tried another brand, better, but not very appetizing.
Then I got diagnosed with diabetes, and discovered that nearly all of these foods run very heavy on the starches and low on proteins. I was searching for one that met my diet needs when this Patriot Pantry brand popped up on WOOT! That had a lot more beans and less wheat and rice in it's recipies, so I ordered a box. Not bad. Especially when I realized I could add some canned ham or chicken to the stew which made it a lot better tasting and better for my diet.
These also were tasty enough and easy to prepare. Basically boil water in a pot, stir in the contents of the pouch, cook for the specified amount of time, and done. Perfect for someone like me. So I got in the habit of buying them whenever they come up on WOOT! The timing is about right, I keep one bin in reserve, one bin I'm actually using up. When the bin gets used up, it usually comes around again on the web.
Last week, it came up again, and I ordered one. Then I realized I had clicked my old work address for the shipping address. I tried to change, but the site said cant do that, cancel and reorder. So I canceled and reordered. Monday, the package arrived, as expected, I took it home. Today, the package arrived with the exactly duplicated order. I called them about it, and they said not to worry, they wouldn't charge me for it. I tried to tell them to charge me or let me return it. Nope, keep the package, no charge. Okay. Free food. Yay!
