I dont often laugh out loud watching videos but “my parents used to eat them like they are going to be outlawed” was awesome and the look on your face after eating the squeeze pouch then drinking was great! Keep up the good work I look forward to Sunday morning with you. God bless
We hane one Publix here in Louisville, and we only shop there when we want a Pub Sub for dinner. I travel for work and dont really want to eat out every day so your videos give me meal ideas that I can microwave in my hotel room
That's absolutely correct. It's about having things in your toolbox to make life easier. Travel options, lunch ideas for work, I just want to go for a long hike, oops I just lost my job... all kinds of things happen.
Thanks again for trying things that I might enjoy on the road. I use those chicken pouches and a few packets of condiments to make chicken salad for sandwiches. Its better than the pre mixed chicken salad.
The "slammer" product reminds me of what we make with our masticating juicer. A handful of fresh parsley, a slice of raw beet, carrots and one or two apples to fill your glass, you now have power juice. No one ever knows there is a little bit of beet juice in the finished product. Most curry we have found turns out to be flavour cubes and now reside in our pantry for days we are motivated to use them. Everything is packed in a protective box with all Japanese printing. We did find one Japanese curry ready to go in a sachet. Rather small serving size but same as you, chicken to the rescue. No chicken available in sachets but we did find two brands in different size cans and we are surprised with the excellent quality of the contents. This AM was Sunday in the Philippines and we had a product testing. 1. A meal we thought was a Korean style macaroni & cheese turned out to be an extruded rice product resembling rigatoni in a sauce that tasted something like the cheese from a Kraft dinner with some tomato sauce in the mix. The troops were neutral on this saying"yes, but only if we had to." 2. Next up was the infamous Completes-Swedish meatballs, and pasta in a creamy sauce. Total thumbs down! We teach our brood not to waste food and they are aware we do not suffer as so many here in the Phils often do. I ate that one as an example to the troops. 3. The hit of the day was three (3) single serve packs of Kraft mac & cheese purchased on our recent haul from S&R Wholesale. Some canned ham was sliced and diced and added to the mix. One more main dish approved by the troops. The remaining ham and some bacon was used to make Beautiful Daughters favourite, Red Flannel Hash! I super enjoy sharing some "country cookin" from the US with our young troops. Not a camp or emergency meal unless you are a dedicated cook. It takes time to steam the fresh beets and the potatoes. We could make this with canned beets but have yet to find any canned potatoes to make this a practical camp meal.The hash, with some gently, slow cooked fluffy scrambled eggs became our late lunch.
That’s so cool to hear. I really appreciate you sharing your experiences! It’s always eye opening to hear how people deal with these things all around the world!
Another great video! Have fun on your creepy camping trip but be on the lookout for Sasquatch! 🤪 Cant wait to see the teardrop tour, oh!, and the new mystery product.
We just went to outer banks for a week and took mres with us . Came in handy when my son got hungry or wanted a snack or drink ! We went by Publix I wish we had stopped !
I've lived my entire life in tornado alley and only recently moved away. It's a thing for me to have a case of water, three days of food for everyone in the house plus two people, flashlight, radio, and a couple of wool blankets in the "tornado cave." I never had to crack them open except for cycling them out, but it was always a minor comfort when bunkering down that, if it did hit us, we'd have food or water for a few days. Your videos remind me so much of what I'd do.
People in general see me doing these kits and want to think we are preparing for the apocalypse. Your situation is exactly what I tell people to be ready for. If it never happens, great, you rotate your stock and eat the stuff you rotate out. But the day you are forced to dig into your preps you’ll be so glad you took the time to do it right.
I have a friend who is a scientist. Factenating man. He mentioned in passing that cooking originated in India and spread from there. That might explain why that cuisine is so prevalent in our foods today. Good video and I'm looking forward to seeing more of the Teardrop.
My preference, to accompany curry, is Bens Ready Rice (in a retort pouch) Coconut Jasmine flavored. People who are surprised at the prices at Publix are the same type of people who are surprised at the general lack of customer service at Wallyworld 😆 I’m not sure what went on at Publix but they are very proud of their products. I recently switched back to shopping at Harris Teeter (owned by Kroger). HT has upped their game and not their prices. Just my opinion
Thanks Brother for another great vid. We look forward to your Sunday morning installment of selfmade MRE. We always write down your selections, go on line try to locate them to try. Living in a very small town, we must drive 40 min to HEB, Wal-Mart, or United. Looking forward to the Teardrop vid, and the creepy camping vid. As always Bless You & Yours. Enjoy the camp. See you on the trail.
I'm just for taking the Aldi bar and using a saved jelly packet from a previous fast food breakfast. That would be a win win. Thanks for all your videos... until next sunday!
Never heard of Publix. Checked out locations and closest one is down in Indiana. Doesn't look like many total nation wide. Glad you were able to assemble an MRE from there. ✌️🇺🇸
I ordered a trucker's lunchbox after watching one of your other videos. I'm planning a big trip in September and want to be able to cook while on the move. I'm making meals ahead of time and freezing them in aluminum take out trays to reheat in the truckers lunchbox. I ordered the lunchbox you have but it was a little small for the take out trays so I ordered the larger box and it will work perfectly.
Awesome job sir. Thanks for doing these videos. They are endlessly entertaining and informative. 👍🏻👍🏻. I’ve been trying to think of places to suggest that you haven’t tried yet, and can only come up with Ingles grocery stores and maybe Food Lion grocery stores. We have Ingles in north Georgia and the Food Lions are in North Carolina I believe. If you’re near those try them out. We also have Quik Trip convenience stores in Georgia if you want to try them but I’m sure the selection will be limited. Thanks for what you do and keep up the good work!
I love those silly little "baby food" applesauce mixed packets. Even when they put carrots or beets in them. They tend to last a while, they are pretty durable, and they have quite a bit of nutrition in them as well as water and fiber - something MREs tend to lack. Even if they make you pucker up, eat your vegetables... 😀 If you haven't done so already, Costco sells a pouch of lentils that is awesome with rice. Continue to love the content! Keep it up!
Hey…truthfully…if things go sideways…it things go down the tubes….these MREs that you’re making….could be LIFESAVING! So….yes enjoyable videos…however…they fit TASK AND PURPOSE
We’ve been keeping pouches of Indian food and rice in the pantry for a few years now. Great for a fast filling microwave meal. We are also blessed with many great ethnic restaurants in the area.
Here’s another idea, assemble a week’s worth of MRE’s from the different stores you’ve visited using only your favorite items, show the building of them and let viewers decide which one to feature on a future episode. Not my best worded comment but I’m typing while an AI voice is telling me all about type 2 diabetes and how this trick is blah, blah, blah buy our crap. Thanks for your hard work, I really enjoy your videos.
Good morning, not the biggest fan of spicy food but will be willing to try different foods. Looking forward to the new videos you have planned. Hope you and Mrs. have a great week.
Food pairings can be a make or break. I work construction so finding shelf stable snacks to keep around is important to me, i love the flavored canned tuna that comes with the crackers but i ate that on break and then someone showed up with coffee and donuts and then next burp i let out made me regret my decision completely
Ooh I also wanted to say out loud to you, well I actually did when you opened up and smelled that chicken in a pouch as you drew your nose closer I said, "CAT FOOD" and after you took that whiff the look on your face was priceless 😂 It smelled liked "cat chow!"
How about a comparison video. Something like your ten favorites, or your ten least favorites...Or maybe something you'd like to try again... Thanks for a great show.
lol the Aldi peanut butter one is good but the white chocolate macadamia nut one is my favorite. At about a dollar now each still great! And no cliff bars are not a dollar on sale anymore!
Good video. I have found our local Publix is a little pricey. Probably to cover the cost of stuff like the bakery or deli which has high wastage. What is in any store is set by the marketing people who look at the ethnic breakdown and market from there. Indian food turns up because it has a relatively lower cost to produce and so higher profit.
I really like the Dozen Cousins stuff, been using it more and more in my MREs and for dinner, good products. The pouch chicken though, I am so picky about chicken and beef that I struggle with anything pouched, will stick with Tuna as much as I can, thankfully I don't mind veggie dishes and love Indian food. I want to try The Complete Cookie as an option for one of my next MREs, seems like it might be perfect if I can find one with a good expiration date. Great video, thanks again! 🍻
Thanks! I always support making your kits the way YOU like it and not just copying what I’m doing. You have to be able to enjoy it or it’s kinda pointless.
I freaked out a bit when I saw the Trini Chick Pea Curry! I'm from Trinidad and Tobago and I'm 100% sure that's from us lol. A common dish, we call it curried channa.
on one of my mre trips i did get a cousin's bone broth rice packet. to it i added 3 of the bbq chicken packets by starkist. for addictional season & moisture i added 3 packets arby's sauce & 3 of taco sauce generic type. the dish came out great. on the same trip i tried 2 of the babyfood that i thought i would like based on the flavors. they also used a beet base. they where a big 'YUCK'. i will have to go looking for the drink mix. & maybe try the basamati rice. sugesstion try cvs or wallgrens. went to cvs the other day, & found nearly everything expect a dry drink. the drink would have to be wet.
Great video!!! I would be interested in seeing you put together an MRE spice pack which does not include salt. Not single serving spices in an MRE, but a small kit you keep with your MRE's to boost flavor when the packaged food just isn't quite as palatable as you thought it would be. In other words, what 3 or 4 or maybe 5 spices (not salt) would you recommend to make MRE's tasty no matter how bland the actual food?
Just wondering what your dream MRE would be based solely on products you've already tried? (Any product, from any store, and from any MRE filmed to date).
As someone who needs to be really hungry and in a site with, shall we say, luxurious plumbing to want to eat Indian food, the reason you see a lot of it is that vegan food is EASY to put in a can or pouch. Meat is either perfect or it's botulism, which is why the FDA has hysterics about people home canning things like beef and chicken, ignoring that it was done safely for generations. The regulations also allow you to have a longer shelf life on vegan stuff. So pouched indian food is cheap, basically idiot proof, and at least it takes like something unlike, say, naked chick peas would. And some of us just want a shelf stable cornish pastie that isn't these Bridgeport 85% bread things, even if ends up being a spam stuffed poptart.
That sounds reasonable. As far as shelf stable sandwiches, I think it could be done if there was demand for it but so far the all bread no filling stuff is the norm.
No Publix where I live but there's probably no Meijer where you are... I like Indian food OK but why is it that the vast majority instant meals in pouches seems to be spicy Indian food? Next most common is some kind of Spanish rice or Tex/Mex types of dishes. Why no Chinese food in a pouch? No Spaghetti in a pouch? I do sometimes see some Japanese rice balls in pouches online but they require a lot of hot water.
Solely curiosity. Are there not good preserved meats and canned fish and seafoods in the US? Because over here in Europe, I am Portuguese, half German, its common to use them as a long lasting source of protein and food. I have always been an outdoors guy, all my life, mostly Portugal, Spain and South France, and I use canned sardines, tuna, all kind of fish and seafoods, and even some vegetarian options, made of pickled and preserved vegetables, and the preserved meats, that you just need to protect from dust and excessive humidity. Just curious because usually I just see you use canned meats that are, usually, not very good. Also, do you use dried vegetables like apples, pears, orange, etc, and dried mushrooms? Because I have taken, for example some rice, some dry mushrooms, cook them in boiling water all together, season it, in the plate add some tomato caned sardines (that last literally at least 1 year or more, perfectly eatable, I have ate 2 year old sardines and they were good as long as the can is intact) or preserved meats (we literally hang them in the kitchen in rural houses and eat them all year long, things like ham and multiple varieties of "chorizo" and wurst type meats and ham). And there are also the hard cheeses that last, well, almost indefinitely (I hate cheese so I cant comment on those) Just curious.
In the states, canned meats are almost alien. What we have tends to be sub-par and made with leftover scraps nobody else would use. I see so many options for canned bread, meats, and cheese in foreign markets but here, it’s rare to find anything good.
@@dadbudgetadventures Thank you, now I understand. I would not use sub par food either, especially if it is meant to last, but here we have it available and of good quality (some quality sardines or other canned seafood or meats can be purchased by as little from € 1,50 up to € 3,00 for example). Good videos by the way.
Can you review the Stanley square shaped frying pan on their website? It’s called “THE WILDFARE PRO SQUARE PAN COOKSET 5-PIECE SET | 2 QT” for $85. Thanks in advance 🙏
@@dadbudgetadventures it’s not on Amazon yet, just on the Stanley website. I came across it the other day. Take one for the team; most of us can’t afford $85 for this “luxury Stanley item”. You can write it off as a business expense 😉
