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In today's video we're going to look at some emergency survival food options for
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your family and your home when the grid goes down. So stick around
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Alright first thing I wanted to say is that today's video is sponsored by 4
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Patriots. 4 Patriots is a company here in the US that has a fantastic website
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that sells a lot of different preparedness options for you and your
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family. And one of the main things that they sell is emergency survival food. Now
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if you are watching this channel you're probably already tuned in to the whole
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prepper mentality of being ready when an emergency happens. I've talked about it in a
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lot of different videos, showed a lot of different options of things that I do for my family, getting prepared for natural disasters and other grid down
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types of situations. So 4 Patriot reached out to me and wanted me to take a look
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at some of their products and test them out and share with you guys. And when I
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looked at and reviewed their website I was excited because I thought there was
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some really good options. I liked the reviews that I was reading. There's a lot
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of positive reviews. And then just like I said before there's a good depth of
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products that they sell. It's not just survival food there are other things as
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well. And there are a lot of different things that you can look at. There is of
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course the survival food selection which we're going to look at today. There's also
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power and solar options. There's generators and solar panels. There's an EMP bag kit. There's water purification systems. Items for camping and RV. And
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even some gardening and home stuff. A Victory Garden seed vault. Just a lot of
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cool ideas that I think all of us who are into this preparedness thing who
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think this is important have a good resource and one place they can go to to
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get some of this stuff. And I think 4 Patriot's got a lot of things covered in
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here. Now what we're gonna look at today is some stuff that they sent me. And it's
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really interesting. I've got an interesting story about this. So the first thing that arrived from 4 Patriot's, the first shipment that I got
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from them, was this. And this is their cook kit. And it's interesting because
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the day that this arrived happened to coincide with the same day that there
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was a major storm here in Central Ohio. High winds, lots of rain, power out all
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over the state. In my community the power was out everywhere. So I got home
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Everything was off. It was dark. The sun was starting to go down. I was home alone
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that evening. And when I opened up the box, when I got the mail, it was the cook
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kit. And I thought, hey great let's test this out and I'll whip together a dinner
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for myself. Now I wish I'd had the the preparedness food that they were going
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to send me. That came in a shipment later on. But I did get to try this cook kit out. And I'll show you some video from that evening. I actually shot that
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Today is a classic example of emergency preparedness. Simple little thing like a
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power outage can really ruin your night if you don't have some things prepared
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Luckily I have a stove. I have pots. I have pans. I have a headlamp. I have food
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So I was able to prepare something pretty quickly. And it was really awesome
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that this camp cook set just showed up today from Fort Patriot. So nice little
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skillet. Nice little pot. Can't wait to use it more. But really saved the day. And
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just a great example that I could share with you guys. Like hey this happened
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It's no big deal. You know in 10 minutes I had dinner cooked. And I got a delicious
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burrito. Now I've got way too much food to put on that cook kit. Kind of explained what I was
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doing. But the cook kit is kind of a nice option for a family. I mean this
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obviously is not a backpacking cook kit. You're not going to take this out on a
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backpacking trip. But car camping, RV camping is pretty cool. So it's a
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stainless steel cook pot. Pretty heavy duty. Good lid. It's got a nice bail on it
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so you could actually hang this and use this over a fire. And it's big enough for
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a group. I mean a family of three to four. You could easily cook a meal in
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this. Another interesting item that this came with is this kind of kitchen multi tool
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Which has all kinds of stuff on it. Like a spoon. There is actually a grater. There
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are there's a knife. There's a couple other things in here. There's your knife
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So just kind of an interesting item. Obviously like I said this is not
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something you're going to. There's a peeler. So it's not something you're going
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to camp with. Backpack or solo camp like I do. But if you're family camping, RV
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camping, or just you want to put everything together as an emergency kit
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This is an option to give you get you started with some of the kitchen tools
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you need. Now the item that I used that evening was the frying pan. And I really
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liked it. It's a nice deep pan. Stainless steel. Did fine. Handle locks. So very
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basic but sturdy stainless steel set. And this is something I haven't got a
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chance to use yet. But I'm pretty excited about it because I have some experience
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with these types of stoves. This is their wood stove. Comes with a nice stuff sack
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And these kinds of stoves I believe are considered a wood gasifier stove. They
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burn very efficiently in the way that they burn the wood. And basically just
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put that ring up there. And then you've got your support for your pot
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You put your wood down in here. Get that going. And then the way it feeds the air
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through the stove it burns that wood very efficiently. It leaves very little
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ash. It burns it down completely. So it's a very efficient type of stove. So we're
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definitely doing some testing with this. So that's going to be in upcoming videos
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There's some of these food options because I think that is what most people
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are going to be interested in. And that's kind of what the what this video is about. So they have several different options. Different kits. Different
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price points. This is their 72 hour survival food kit. I think it's around
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$30. This food kit is designed for long term food storage. It will last up to 25
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years. Now I can't find an indication of what exactly is in here. So what I want
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to do is I want to go ahead and open this one for you. Because I think it's important to see what you're going to get
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So it is a resealable bag. And the first thing we're going to get is mac and
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cheese. And that is four serving sizes of 260 calories a serving. And the
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directions on this one is remove oxygen absorber. Stir contents into 2 and 3rd
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cups of boiling water. Reduce heat to medium. Cook for 20 minutes. Remove from
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heat and let stand 2-3 minutes. So kind of a standard prepackaged mac and
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cheese. 20 minute cook time it sounds like. Then we have creamy rice and
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vegetable dinner. This is 8 servings at 260 calories a serving. And it's a very
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similar preparation. You add boiling water to this and then you let it sit on
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a medium heat for about 20 minutes stirring until it's done. And then the
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other item is sweet oatmeal. Grammy's sweet oatmeal. And that is 8
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servings, 210 calories per serving. 8 cups of boiling water. Cook 2-3
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minutes. Stirring occasionally. Remove from heat and let stand 3 minutes. So you know
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if you have a family of four this is going to at least help you get through a
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few meals. Now the other kit that they sent me I was just kind of blown away
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by because I wasn't expecting this. So this bad boy shows up on my door. This is the 4-week survival food kit. It
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comes in this tote. So you get a tote right and this is everything that is in
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here. We have Alfredo. We have 9 grain cereal. Another 9 grain cereal. I'm just
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gonna put these down on the floor here. Another Alfredo. Powdered milk. Another
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powdered milk. Sunrise oatmeal. That's rolled oats, cane sugar, creamer, coconut
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oil and much other stuff. So oatmeal. Old-fashioned chocolate pudding. So far
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these are items that you I think would do well with with a family with children
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Dinner roll or dinner bell broccoli bake. Mac and cheese. Broccoli bake again. Another mac and cheese. Another sunrise
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oatmeal. So we're getting we're getting two and two of everything. Sweet berry
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cream wheat. Another sweet berry cream wheat. Creamy rice and vegetable dinner
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Two of those. Another chocolate pudding. Creamy rice vegetable dinner. Sunrise
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oatmeal. Okay we got more of those. More mac and cheese. Long grain white rice
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Another long grain white rice. Fireside stew. Another one of those. And another sunrise
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oatmeal. So as you can tell a good variety of stuff. The thing about these
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kind of meal kits is that they are not the end-all to be-all. But for a family
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who is living in an urban area and who may not have access to a lot of space
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You don't have a big freezer so you don't have a lot of meat. You don't have
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a garden. Everything that you get for your family comes from a grocery store
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just because you don't have access to any of those other things like fresh meat or vegetables. These kind of food kits are nice. They you know you're not
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gonna last forever. That's not the point. The point is in a natural disaster where
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you and your family are stuck at home and you cannot go anywhere. And the
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stores are down and electricity is gone. And you have no way of keeping
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refrigerated food. A kit like this is very easy to slide underneath the bed
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put in a closet and then supplement it with canned goods that you already
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should have in your pantry. And then that is going to give you enough calories for
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that family of three to four for four weeks or more depending on how you
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stretch it and how you utilize it. So and then just adding other things like rice
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and beans, dry rice and beans, sugar, flour. Having those kinds of things and
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then some kind of way of cooking this stuff like on a propane stove or even an
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outdoor barbecue grill. That's gonna give you some options for you and your family
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Alright guys as always thank you so much for watching my videos. Like I said
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gonna be a lot more coming from 4 Patriots. I'll be doing more videos with
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this stuff. Showing you how it works, how it cooks, how it tastes, how my family
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likes it. And hopefully it's something that will help you guys out. Please check
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the affiliate links down below 4 Patriots to my Amazon store. Also check
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out the Facebook group Prepared Wanderer on Facebook. Fantastic group over 4,000
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members roaming strong every day. Lots of extra content and information there. Also
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go to preparedwanderer.com that has blog articles. There is a link to the
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Prepared Wanderer store so you can purchase patches and stickers and also links to
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past videos. As always thank you so much for watching my channel. We'll see you
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next time on Prepared Wanderer
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