Datrex 3600 Emergency Food Bar - 3 Day/72 Hour Bar  enlarge Brand: Datrex Category: Toy Buy New: $6.38 as of 9/8/2010 05:21 MDT details New (6) from $6.38 Seller: Emergency Disaster Systems, Inc. Rating: 8 reviews Sales Rank: 1213 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5 Dimensions (in): 5 x 3.5 x 2.6 ASIN: B001CSAHW0 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Features:   •  5 Year Shelf Life   •  Approved by U.S. Coast Guard Similar Items: Datrex Emergency Water Packet - 3 Day/72 Hour Supply Polar Pure Water Disinfectant With Iodine Crystals Emergency Shelter Tent, Reflective Tube Tent, Cold Weather Emergency Shelter, Emergency Zone® Brand Datrex Emergency Water Pouches Case of 64 for Survival Kits, Disaster Supplies, 5 Year Shelf Life Pack of 10 Light Stick Green 12-Hour for Emergency Disaster Preparedness Editorial Reviews: Product Description With a shelf-life of 5 full years, our Emergency Rations are simply the best source of emergency nutrition available. Unlike MRE's, which are high in sodium and only suitable for use by those with an extremely large pure water supply, our rations are low in sodium, balanced with our Emergency Water Pouches to provide full nutrition and energy 24 hours a day without dehydrating the consumer. Lightweight, compact, and portable, these rations will last an individual for 3 days, providing 4 meals each day. They are easy to digest and have a pleasing coconut cookie flavor. With such unbeatable nutrition, portability, and practicality, it's no wonder the U.S. Coastguard has certified these Emergency rations for use anywhere. Rations contain coconut and wheat. Please consult your physician if you have any special dietary conditions such as active Crohn's Disease or Diabetes. Young children can be fed a half ration, and ration can be mixed with water for babies and others with sensitive digestion or missing teeth. Available for individual purchase or purchase by the case. Case contains 30 individually wrapped 2400 calorie ration bars. Shelf life: 5 years. Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 8 1 2 Next » great for your bug out bag.   August 8, 2010 jovial Ordered this product for my emergency prep. Arrived on time and packaged well. Package is vacuum sealed outer with individually wrapped bars in that. well at least it smelled good!   August 5, 2010 Michael W. Fitzpatrick I got this product in and realized that as a survival product the packaging sucks. After carefully opening and vacuum sealing the contents in to three packages for a day each I stashed them in my day pack for later use. The bars smelled really really good, but I didn't even taste any so I'll have to take other peoples words for it being the better of the two major players on the lifeboat bar market! it did seem like it would hold up just find in the pack in the original package, but I didn't want to open it up and risk getting it wet and not consuming the whole thing in the three days. Good Product   June 28, 2010 Michael S. Owens (Lometa, TX, US) I keep plenty of these on hand in an emergency survival kit. They are easy to store/transport and have a long shelf life. The taste is not at all unpleasant, a little like a coconut cookie. I would not want to live indefinitely on them but in an emergency, they are more than adequate for providing essential calorie intake. Overall an excellent value for the prepared adventurer. Will keep you alive   June 25, 2010 Mern (Four dimensional space) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful Just got an order in from The Ready Store, not sure if they are an Amazon merchant or not at this point but what ever, they're a great outfit and so is Amazon. Let me clarify a previous post, as of the 5/10 batch, my biscuits were individually wrapped. First off, a case of 20 shipped at 31 pounds. Plan accordingly, this was meant for my bug-out bags and separated in 2 bags the weight isn't too bad. In one bag it would have been way too much weight. But hey, the longer the event, the lighter your bags will get right? At 3600 calories per "cube" with 18 biscuits in each, this will very easily get 2 people through 24 hours. If you are expending a lot of energy, less. If you are sitting on your butt, more. The taste is acceptable, in the sense that they are pretty good, think coconut macaroon...But not so good that you'll want to wolf down 5 or 6 at a time. That is taking into consideration that I wasn't exactly starving when I tried them. I'm sure that would change depending on the circumstances. So that should give you an idea of what to expect. At 200 calories a pop, I don't think I want to polish off this bag too quickly. This is last resort, when the defecation hits the oscillation, type rations and pack really good. We are essentially carrying near 30 days of "food" for 2 (after you add vitamins to your bags). I would prefer something a little more "exciting" and may see if I can squeeze in a few MREs into each bag to change things up. But as a very basic *on the go* food source, this fits the bill. chew it and try to smile   June 21, 2010 adjective (place) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful Three days of this mealy goodness would be more than enough for me to start casting longing glances at the canned salmon. And I don't even like canned salmon. It's not that the Datrex bars taste bad--they're like two or three varieties of Girl Scout cookies blended together, though with less sugar. Going by taste alone, they're tolerable, though you should keep the water handy. The problem with the Datrex bars is the ingredients required to keep them edible for their entire five-year shelf life. When you see "vegetable shortening" on the list of ingredients, that means "hydrogenated oils." As a person who abstains from such fats for health reasons, I have developed the knack of being able to detect them by a combination of taste and bodily sensation, basically a sluggish "ton of bricks" feeling that radiates from my gut soon after eating anything hydrogenated. This is not an enjoyable sensation. I can imagine it would be even less so under the stress of an emergency situation. In fairness to the manufacturer, however, they have done about as well as anybody else in formulating long-lasting dry food that does not require preparation. I will probably purchase more and would not try to dissuade anybody from buying them. Like I said, they're about as good as any other survival biscuit, which is to say "not very." Showing reviews 1-5 of 8 1 2 Next »

Disclaimer: This is an Amazon storefront - the products referenced on this site are manufactured and sold by parties other than Camping Gear Broker. Any questions, complaints, or claims regarding the products must be directed to the appropriate manufacturer or vendor, or to Amazon.com. TheFind.com Disclosure: We do not advertise on Thefind.com. The Find is a search engine that crawls our site to find products and prices. Sometimes the search engine gets price information incorrect. The price in the cart, on this site, is correct.