Emergency Food Bars and Tablets

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Emergency food bars are short-term food storage. The average survival food bar has a shelf life of 5 years stored at at about 70 degrees. Emergency survival food like food bars are an important part of food emergency preparedness. The important thing to remember about food bars is that they are most useful immediately after a disaster and they are primarily useful at the onset of a disaster when physical exertion and stress are high. This is because much of their calorie content comes from carbohydrates and not protein. Survival food bars should be used in emergency kits, in office buildings, and other locations where short-term emergency food is necessary until log term food storage can be accessed. You do not want to use emergency food bars as your long-term food storage.

Product Choices for Emergency Food Bars and Tablets

MainStay Food Bars

MainStay emergency food bars have a lemon vanilla flavor and are popular with children. They taste like a sugar cookie. These survival food bars are used in emergency kits and prepositioned in homes, offices, and schools, for use in the first 24 to 48 hours of a disaster or lockdown.

Emergency food bars are usually not considered a long-term shelter in place type of food storage. A diet of only survival food bars for longer periods is not recommended. We strongly suggest that you consider other food storage items such as dehydrated and freeze-dry foods for long term food storage.

Mayday Calorie Food Bars

Mayday emergency calorie food bars have an apple cinnamon flavor. These survival food bars are found in emergency kits manufactured by many survival companies around the United States. These food bars are packaged in a high visibility water proof mylar bag. A box of 3600 calorie bars provides over 72,000 calories, enough calories to sustain 24 men per day an optimal 3000 calories, or 60 men per day at the lowest calorie intake recommended for survival, which is 1200 calories.

Survival Food Tablets - Survival Tabs

Survival Tabs food tablets provide high density calories with 100% of the U.S. RDA of 15 Essential Vitamins & Minerals. On average, 99% of the calories in these bars are digested and used by the body. 12 Year Shelf life.