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Re:Costco selling $6,000 doomsday-prepper food kits – feed a... by jandrese on Friday March 16, 2018 @02:26PM (#16602831)
I like that they at least have a decent shelf life. I've seen a bunch of these prepper kits that include items with 3-5 year shelf lives, which means you need to be eating your doomsday food regularly and restocking it. That's not ideal since most of this food is designed to keep you alive, not to taste great.

Of course you'll have the same problem with these kits in 24 years, having a year of eating nearly expired lentils and dried cranberries if the world doesn't come to an end.

And of course this kit seems to forget about the 1 year worth of fresh water storage. Hopefully whomever buys it doesn't.

Re:Costco selling $6,000 doomsday-prepper food kits – feed a... by mywittyname on Friday March 16, 2018 @03:14PM (#16603228)
I feel like people who are seriously concerned about this should make an effort to live exclusively how they imagine for at least a week each year. Going through a preliminary dry-run will probably uncover a number of issues, some of which may be bad enough to make all your planning for naught.
Re:Costco selling $6,000 doomsday-prepper food kits – feed a... by dragonwriter on Friday March 16, 2018 @03:32PM (#16603378)
> Of course you'll have the same problem with these kits in 24 years

If you use and replace 1/25 of your annual consumption with them each year—about a day's consumption every other month—this is less of a problem (with 3-5 year shelf life, the gradual replacement strategy doesn't work as well.)

Re:Costco selling $6,000 doomsday-prepper food kits – feed a... by colanderman on Friday March 16, 2018 @06:36PM (#16604474)
I'm not following your math... I think you need to spend closer to half a month per year on that diet, not 6 days.
Re:Costco selling $6,000 doomsday-prepper food kits – feed a... by dragonwriter on Friday March 16, 2018 @09:57PM (#16605221)
I think I mixed up alternate descriptions of a slightly extended weekend every other month and a little over a day a month.
Re:Costco selling $6,000 doomsday-prepper food kits – feed a... by Nullabillity on Friday March 16, 2018 @03:42PM (#16603462)
Doesn't seem like you can (easily) buy a 25th of one of the kits, so replacing it gradually still doesn't seem like a very practical solution.
Re:Costco selling $6,000 doomsday-prepper food kits – feed a... by Someone on Friday March 16, 2018 @06:40PM (#16604487)
Seems a good opportunity for a startup, if they can solve the problem of how to deliver the stuff without knowing the delivery address (if you are into this, you don’t want anybody to know where your food is)

Such a startup could also offer to take in that 25 year old 1/25th part to give it to a food bank, making the purchase deductible as a gift to charity.

Unfortunately, customers only need to start replacing stuff after years (you may want to replace 1/25th a year on average, but do you really want to start doing that a year after buying this?)

Re:Costco selling $6,000 doomsday-prepper food kits – feed a... by dragonwriter on Friday March 16, 2018 @04:01PM (#16603611)
> Doesn't seem like you can (easily) buy a 25th of one of the kits

There are similar long-shelf-life food products on the market that aren't kits of the same size; it's true that Costco doesn't sell exact 1/25 increments of the kits (but they do sell a 30-day supply, 30-year-shelf-life kit from the same maker as one of the one-year kits, which lets you do the same rate of replacement with a purchase every two years.)

Gradual replacement is eminently practical.

Re:Costco selling $6,000 doomsday-prepper food kits – feed a... by mikestew on Friday March 16, 2018 @05:54PM (#16604286)
From the ad copy, the kits appear to be put together from Thrive products: https://www.thrivelife.com. You don't have to buy it $6000 at a pop. Buy a box of dried beans if that's all you want. I've purchased their stuff in the past, not bad for freeze-dried.