Ultimate Portable Food for BOB/BOV is Easy Cheese?

[Sicone]

Well not only are Twinkies gross they are cake and nothing is worse than cake

[Night Errant]

[EricinVirginia]

During the Zombie Apocalypse Easy Cheese would make the ideal IED, check out the explosive power of easy cheese in this video:

Ez cheese exploding with firecrackers


While My vote was for Bacon, due to its Yummy Bacon Goodness (YBG), Easy cheese can double as a weapon, so it deserves consideration.

Thanks for the video Big Sal. I think EZ Cheese is probably going to be okay in the PAW, even under pressure just due the fact that it has to survive the manufacturing and shipping process. But, like I said, in Nov, I'm going to shoot at least 10 cans of EZ Cheese with different kinds of ammo, just to see. I'm expecting that they will not explode... they'll just mushify, and if they do explode it'll only be I hit them with small caliber ammo near the top or bottom, in which case, a jet of cheese will shoot up maybe 3 feet before pressure is gone. For those of you that can't wait that long, here's a You Tube video of hyenas dropping a box on EZ cheese from height and also shooting it with an air gun. EZ Cheese Crushed and Air Pellet Shot...

[EricinVirginia]

So, to summarize up to this point...
- Bacon is good.
- Cheese makes a good IED.
- Peanut Butter needs Vegemite-sexy ads to gain more support.
- Peanut Butter has a sordid history.
- Spam made only 1 appearance.
- MREs/pre-pkg food seems to be the universally-preferred food source for a BOB.

Has anyone on this thread ever actually packed a wound in sugar/honey... or has 1st hand knowledge of someone that did and gained a benefit from it?

[Bacteriophage]

two things..

1st - wound care TW is a vet asst with 2 of the vets in town and I have seen wounds routinely packed with honey and it works well. IMHO. The animals just need an E-collar to keep from licking the wounds more than normal. Umm blood and honey who could resist, but be careful it might be that brains and honey are a Zed delicacy or super attractant.

2nd - Just think about it for a moment, canned bacon covered in easy cheese...



post apocalyptic gastronomic heaven

[bark-eater]

Not to muddy the water... but ramen noodles with a spoonful of PB and some hot sauce is
cafe oooolala....

[seraosha]

Bacon Chocolate Bar

Got one of these this weekend.
MRE would still be a better choice, but wow is that one great snack.

[EricinVirginia]

thanks for the honey post... so far I haven't seen a zombie movie where anything except brains made anyone more or less tasty.

makes you wonder... the intrepid discoverer of bacon... I wonder if s/he knew how world changing it would be!

[Kajira]

Bacon Chocolate Bar

Got one of these this weekend.
MRE would still be a better choice, but wow is that one great snack.

Oh, I love these!! I got my first one a few weeks ago at the Whole Foods Market. Everytime I mention it to someone, they say that it sounds gross and they think I'm weird. Glad to see someone else who loves it

[bark-eater]

There has to be a cheaper way to join the infidel club. $8 for a candy bar? Its not even tactical. As a related tangent, i was reading a book about historical reenacting and such, and the pre french and indian war longhunters carried bacon, parched corn, chocolate, and maple sugar as basic provisions.

[Kajira]

There has to be a cheaper way to join the infidel club. $8 for a candy bar? Its not even tactical.

lol yes they are expensive. There is a smaller size for about $3 if you just want to try it first. that's what I did.

[EricinVirginia]

Really? They carried bacon with them? That's awesome! I wonder how they kept it preserved... couldn't be salt, but as we all know - maple syrup on bacon creates candied bacony goodness.

[Chef]

Eric: I've used sugar on my own cuts before, works like a champ. I haven't done multi-year double-blind tests on it, but if you pack the wound immediately, deep cuts heal up in a couple of days and don't fester.

[bark-eater]

Really? They carried bacon with them? That's awesome! I wonder how they kept it preserved... couldn't be salt, but as we all know - maple syrup on bacon creates candied bacony goodness.

Im pretty sure salted and dried bacon will last for ever. Ive eaten a bit of salt pork and salt cod. A couple soaks and changes of water will draw the salt out. With salt pork just a little added straight to what ever your cooking go's a long way for flavor, salt and fat.
And I can tell you that corn mush with pork, maple sugar and chocolate boiled up and then fried in the bacon grease is good livin.....

[EricinVirginia]

I just ordered some of the 3,600 calorie mainstay bars. Even though others have said they taste like lemon bars, I'm expecting them to taste like bacon-grease fried sugar jerky - how else do you pack that many calories into anything?

I'm still a bit surprised that no one put up body building supplements like "progainers" or Beefcake! from the South Park episode where Cartman was pounding the weight gainer supplements.

From a How to Gain Weight website...
a post workout shake containing 40 grams of protein, 80 grams of carbs, and 2 grams of fat would provide almost 500 calories. If you wanted even more calories, you could mix the powder in juice instead of water and also add flaxseed oil.

Given that these come in powder form that you can mix with water, wouldn't these be good BOB foods? Obviously you'd want more than 2 grams of fat, but surely it beats EZ Cheese?

Beefcake!

[oakwoodforge]

Powdered Honey , Powdered Peanut Butter FTW !!!

[bioboy]

Really? They carried bacon with them? That's awesome! I wonder how they kept it preserved... couldn't be salt, but as we all know - maple syrup on bacon creates candied bacony goodness.

Keep in mind though the bacon from that era was saltier and wood smoke cured it's not the stuff we buy at the grocery store now. Chemical smoke is added to change the flavor and the salt is lower. So fridges weren't needed. Also keep in mind people died from bad food often during the time period. They were also use to the idea of eating food with weevil and maggots in the food. Personally on a bugout I don't want to even think about the idea of weevils so I'm avoid anything that could rot. The idea of the cheese is in that level for me I hate processed cheese food. But to each there own.

[Stormrider]

Powdered Honey , Powdered Peanut Butter FTW !!!

Powdered honey? That exsists?
Honey lasts pretty much forever in it's natural state, so why?

[bioboy]

http://www.hunyhunks.com/default.htm

Most likely bulk application and shipping issues. Plus after the first time your youngest goes into the storage and gets into the honey (we where storing it in the containers from the store) The idea of powdered sweetener sounds good.

http://www.bellplantation.com/index.php ... &Itemid=29

Peanut butter does have a shelf life we've never reached it but then we can only hold so much food in our place. The powdered stuff lasts longer.

[nyarlotep]

I loves me some chocolate. I like mine in chip form, both semi-sweet and milk. Ramen's OK but it gets old fast.

I'd take a few cans or pouches of tuna, good lean protein there. Peanut butter's a good idea too, I could eat that every day.

Mac 'n' cheese wouldn't be a bad idea. Just need to repackage it in something waterproof & less rattly

IMHO, any cheese that can be extruded from a pressurized can isn't actually cheese. It's an abomination against real cheese

[EricinVirginia]

http://www.hunyhunks.com/default.htm

Most likely bulk application and shipping issues. Plus after the first time your youngest goes into the storage and gets into the honey (we where storing it in the containers from the store) The idea of powdered sweetener sounds good.

http://www.bellplantation.com/index.php ... &Itemid=29

Peanut butter does have a shelf life we've never reached it but then we can only hold so much food in our place. The powdered stuff lasts longer.

AWESOME! I'm all over the powdered honey. The PB looks good, especially the chocolate one, till you see that they removed 85% of the calories by removing the fat so it would have a longer shelf life. In bug out, I want the calories. You are my hero. 2.2 lbs of honey powder is about $30 including shipping.

[Squirrley]

IMHO, any cheese that can be extruded from a pressurized can isn't actually cheese. It's an abomination against real cheese

+ frackin 1. Cheese is a god among lesser foods, aerosol 'cheese' is an insult.

[bioboy]

AWESOME! I'm all over the powdered honey. The PB looks good, especially the chocolate one, till you see that they removed 85% of the calories by removing the fat so it would have a longer shelf life. In bug out, I want the calories. You are my hero. 2.2 lbs of honey powder is about $30 including shipping.

I'm thinking the honey might not work too bad for home brewing of mead be I'd want to try a really small batch. But certainly easier to pack and use then liquid honey. Throw a teaspoon into instant rolled oats and just add water.

[bark-eater]

Really? They carried bacon with them? That's awesome! I wonder how they kept it preserved... couldn't be salt, but as we all know - maple syrup on bacon creates candied bacony goodness.

Keep in mind though the bacon from that era was saltier and wood smoke cured it's not the stuff we buy at the grocery store now. Chemical smoke is added to change the flavor and the salt is lower. So fridges weren't needed. Also keep in mind people died from bad food often during the time period. They were also use to the idea of eating food with weevil and maggots in the food. Personally on a bugout I don't want to even think about the idea of weevils so I'm avoid anything that could rot. The idea of the cheese is in that level for me I hate processed cheese food. But to each there own.

salt cured bacon:

http://www.apptrav.com/meats.html

recipes:

http://www.accidentalsmallholder.net/ar ... drycuring/
http://labs.ansci.illinois.edu/meatscie ... curing.htm

bug out or bug in i chose the lesser of two weevils....