Ambient just means room temperature. That is to say the item is not chilled or frozen. Putting on my deerstalker and clenching my pipe in my mouth I can deduce that you're never worked in food retail
All food in retail is one of the three, chilled, ambient or frozen
It's amazing how much utterly useless and uninteresting information I not only retain, but spew out every so often.........
Look What We Found pouches are currently on offer, 2 for £2 in Sainsburys
The curry has the highest calorific value for those interested in that side of thing. You can heat them in the bag or eat cold. Allegedly you can boil one in the bag then use the water for a brew without getting any bad taste but haven't tried it yet so cannot confirm.
Wolfman wrote:Look What We Found pouches are currently on offer, 2 for £2 in Sainsburys
The curry has the highest calorific value for those interested in that side of thing. You can heat them in the bag or eat cold. Allegedly you can boil one in the bag then use the water for a brew without getting any bad taste but haven't tried it yet so cannot confirm.
Cheers for the heads up Wolfman, if I can get some at that price I will. They're not something I would normally eat so its more for curiosity as I don't really keep things I don't regularly eat. Even if I was going to 'bug out' (which I think is incredibly unlikely I should say), if you're looking at the 72 hr 'standard', I'd just be grabbing some cans of beans and sausages, tatties, packet noodles and stuff like that. You don't want to be going to bed hungry but for 3 days you can get by on reduced calories. Depending on the time of year, hot drinks could be just as important, cup a soups which you can drink over a period of time and on the move if you have to.
Unless you do a lot of hill walking etc and would use these meals anyway it can be an expensive way to keep 'just in case' scran. Each to their own of course.
Wolfman wrote:Look What We Found pouches are currently on offer, 2 for £2 in Sainsburys
The curry has the highest calorific value for those interested in that side of thing. You can heat them in the bag or eat cold. Allegedly you can boil one in the bag then use the water for a brew without getting any bad taste but haven't tried it yet so cannot confirm.
Cheers for the heads up Wolfman, if I can get some at that price I will. They're not something I would normally eat so its more for curiosity as I don't really keep things I don't regularly eat. Even if I was going to 'bug out' (which I think is incredibly unlikely I should say), if you're looking at the 72 hr 'standard', I'd just be grabbing some cans of beans and sausages, tatties, packet noodles and stuff like that. You don't want to be going to bed hungry but for 3 days you can get by on reduced calories. Depending on the time of year, hot drinks could be just as important, cup a soups which you can drink over a period of time and on the move if you have to.
Unless you do a lot of hill walking etc and would use these meals anyway it can be an expensive way to keep 'just in case' scran. Each to their own of course.
I keep very similar products to this in the car as part of the emergency pack because they can be eaten straight out of the packet. It's not cheap, but if they have a decent shelf life (mine still have a couple of years to go) then I personally think it's worth the spend. I don't have bugging out as part of my preps so I wouldn't be buying them for that reason, but as emergency rations for the car I think they're excellent
Wolfman wrote:Look What We Found pouches are currently on offer, 2 for £2 in Sainsburys
The curry has the highest calorific value for those interested in that side of thing. You can heat them in the bag or eat cold. Allegedly you can boil one in the bag then use the water for a brew without getting any bad taste but haven't tried it yet so cannot confirm.
Cheers for the heads up Wolfman, if I can get some at that price I will. They're not something I would normally eat so its more for curiosity as I don't really keep things I don't regularly eat. Even if I was going to 'bug out' (which I think is incredibly unlikely I should say), if you're looking at the 72 hr 'standard', I'd just be grabbing some cans of beans and sausages, tatties, packet noodles and stuff like that. You don't want to be going to bed hungry but for 3 days you can get by on reduced calories. Depending on the time of year, hot drinks could be just as important, cup a soups which you can drink over a period of time and on the move if you have to.
Unless you do a lot of hill walking etc and would use these meals anyway it can be an expensive way to keep 'just in case' scran. Each to their own of course.
I keep very similar products to this in the car as part of the emergency pack because they can be eaten straight out of the packet. It's not cheap, but if they have a decent shelf life (mine still have a couple of years to go) then I personally think it's worth the spend. I don't have bugging out as part of my preps so I wouldn't be buying them for that reason, but as emergency rations for the car I think they're excellent
Fair enough Stasher, a couple tins of beans & sausages would do just as well and for me would be easier to cycle back into my normal scran but whatever works for you. If I can get some at 2 for 2 quid then I'll give them a go. At that price they're probably a good deal for stuff that you have for 'just in case', for me anyway. There's not much chance of them going out of date anyway.
I get my MREs from www.food4adventure.co.uk - they just sell the individual meals so you don't have to pay for the extra bits, some of which will be no use to you eg. coffee drinkers have no use for tea bags.
