Wise Company 360 Serving Package (62-Pounds, 3-Buckets)

My son and I researched a lot before purchasing Wise Company food storage. For the quality and amount of food you are getting the price can't be beat. I hope to never have to use these but they give me great peace of mind adding them to my family's emergency preparedness kit. I have sampled the pastas and potatoes before at a outdoorsman type store and thought they were surprising really good. They were something I could live on without dreading mealtime if I had too. Although I suppose that during an end of world event I would get to the point where any food would be acceptable. An other brand I have tried was hard to gag down and left an after taste that wouldn't go away. Wiseman products are well preserved and packed in foil packets and then sealed in airtight/waterproof buckets. So even if something happens to the buckets the packets should still be okay. I live along a fault line on Alaska and had put off getting serious about having an emergency stash once I moved off the islands. On an Alaskan island food storage is essential but now having ready access to Walmart and Costco I got lazy. I finally purchased these buckets after thinking about it for months cause it is a serious investment. I ordered them on a Saturday, January 23, 2016. I kid you not, super early Sunday morning we had a 7.1 magnitude earthquake. Most stores lost their milk stock and anything in glass jars. We couldn't drink our well water for over a week. I'm not saying we were destitute and desperate but it was a wake up call for sure. The emergency preparedness teams up here tell us that after a major natural disaster we could be on our own for up to 2 weeks because of our location to the rest of the country and that non-perishable food rations are essential. I have since also purchased Wise Company's buckets of dried fruit. Having these food buckets in with the rest of our emergency stash gives me great peace of mind knowing that if it gets down to it at least food is one less thing I and my family will have to worry about. When it comes to that point you will be glad you took the time and spent the money on these.

Great long term storage or for the adventurous camper. I camp and I use a lot of these. Not the best meal you will ever have, but not bad at all. Follow the instructions and you're good to go. For those that have these for a just in case emergency you will be just fine!!

Arrived intact , just as advertised. Cannot speak to the content.

After researching a number of vendors, we decided to purchase this product as one aspect of our emergency food supply. Here are some of the factors we considered, and how this product compared: TASTE: We bought a few of the Wise freeze-dried meals and tried them, and we found that they're not bad tasting... not like a home-cooked meal, but not bad. We figured if we had to live off them for a month, there's enough variety and they taste good enough that we wouldn't find it difficult to endure. (See my review of Mountain House food for a comparison.) SHELF LIFE: The meals come in individual packets, which are in turn sealed in plastic tubs. This gives them an advertised shelf life of 25 years. Since we're not regular hikers or campers who will use the food up on a routine basis, we wanted it to last a long time between replacement. This certainly meets that criterion! WEIGHT: We wanted to be able to take our food with us in case we had to leave on foot. These tubs are compact enough that their contents could be easily be distributed in a standard ruck sack or backpack. The biggest down side to this product is the low calorie count per meal. So if you're doing anything other than sitting around waiting for help, plan on the food being consumed at about twice the rate you'd expect (i.e., two servings per actual meal). Each serving is about 200-250 calories (it varies depending on what the entree is), so the 240-serving package will last one person about 30-40 days at 1500 calories per day. Since, on average, men require 2500 calories per day and women require 2000 per day, you can see that you'll be losing weight or using the food up even faster. So plan accordingly based on calorie count, rather than number of servings.

This product was just as advertized! I have tried Wise Foods survival meals before and found them all to be very good with few exceptions. The survival food was received in 3 sealed buckets. Two buckets were for lunch/dinner entrees and one bucket was filled with breakfast meals. Each survival meal pouch contains 4 servings. Although this product is designed for 1 person for 4 months, my wife and I were purchasing it for 4 people for 1 month. Only possible drawback is that you can not fix the meals in the survival meal pouch itself. You fix the meals in a pan of boiling water. This product is excellent and really a great value! I can highly recommend this to everyone!

I had one small issue. One bucket out of four order did not arrive. I called the company and without any hassle they sent the last bucket. Great job guys! I have eaten their products on camping trips and they are high quality. I just order fur more buckets today.

First of all, I ordered 3 buckets and they sent 2 buckets and a first aid kit. Second, as others have said, this is not an MRE type product. 95% of the meals are some form of dried pasta with a powdered flavor packet (essentially equivalent to ramen noodles). Third, the bucket and title of the product says “emergency FOOD” 124 servings per bucket. It’s not clear that only 64 of those servings are actual meals. The rest of the 124 are orange drink mix and desserts. They don’t make this clear even in the fine print. Fourth, the description leads you to believe that 1 serving = 1 meal, and they base the timeline on this. However, each “serving” is about 200 to 250 calories. So I’m truth, each bucket is only enough calories for one person for about 6 days. Much less than advertised. Finally, for what it is, it’s a huge ripoff. You are basically paying $40/day for the equivalent of ramen noodles or a Knorr pasta packet. Makes me wonder what else in the description is false and if the 25 year shelf life is even real.

Wow - we are prepared. We began assembling emergency supplies and after much research decided up the Wise Company. There products are high rated, long shelf life and taste great! We are pleased with our buckets. They have been easy to store in the garage and we have no fear of the bins spoiling with the strong buckets. I love that you can just grab the bucket and go if needed to in an emergency. There is such peace of mind knowing we are prepared for "life" in the event of an emergency.