Costco Emergency Food Storage Supply with Goal Zero 150 Escape Power Kit, 36 Bucket Pallet of food

[Renew Deal]

It looks like Costco is jumping into the Disaster Prepper madness of some people.



They've got lots of prepper goodies...

http://www.costco.com/service/Featurepage.aspx?productno=11761445

[hlthe2b]

1. Geebus.. Beyond 10 gallons of water, a case of long shelf life milk, canned goods

peanut butter and rice, that I always have on hand, I don't quite see the need for this crap. With a little table top butane burner, some extra butane cartridges (or an outdoor grill)and a solar, hand-crank radio-cell phone charger, I can't see what I'm missing. If worse comes to worse, I have water purification equipment from frequent camping and overseas travel.

Is it really necessary to have some company pre-package all this crap? Heavens. I'm sure they sell a lot to the Mormons, but really..?.

[Renew Deal]

2. I think people are making a fortune on this stuff

"Preppers" purchase years worth of food and supplies, lots of guns and weapons. Someone is making a profit.

[hlthe2b]

3. Nearly $3200 and still doesn't seem to include a lot of basics.

Heavens. Surely one could do better for a quart of that price and that would include paying "New" prices for some basic equipment.

[Bnewfield]

4. Spam deleted by OKNancy (MIR Team)

[AnneD]

5. I have always ....

prepared by having a fully stocked pantry (at least one year). All my Aunts and my Mom had pantries and gardens. The idea was reinforced when I lost my job and was unemployed for over 8 months. I did not have to waste precious money on food. When we had a hurricane that left us without power (thus stores and banks etc were closed.) we did not have to endure the long lines of panic shoppers. A stocked pantry is better than money in the bank. The secret is to rotate your stock.

[Mojorabbit]

8. Same here! With the rise in food prices I have come out way ahead. nt

[TxRider]

6. well if it worth eating..

That's what 3 years worth of food for a single person for roughly $1000 a year. Or put another way, $2.90 per day to feed a single person for 3 years.

That doesn't seen unattractive to me, if the food is worth eating. I know some of the freeze dried foods are quite good, companies have been making such foods for back packers and such for over 30 years, which I have used for those 30 years, and the quality has definately improve since the 1970's. Plus a 25 year shelf life isn't bad either.

[TheKentuckian]

7. Yup, and a lil solar generator as well. Seems like a reasonable deal once broken down.