Why Buy Dried & Dehydrated Food?

Many people are not familiar with the many sound and valid reasons for purchasing freeze dried and dehydrated food. These foods are in fact, quite common, such as noodles, macaroni, spaghetti, rice, beans, pancakes, potatoes, bread mixes, muffins and many, many more varieties. The same foods you buy in the supermarkets are the same foods we carry, except our food is much cheaper, bulk packaged and packaged for long shelf life for freshness.

Our approach is to simply sell the same foods you buy now, but in larger quantities without fancy labels and packaging at greatly reduced prices over the supermarket. By reducing your dependency upon the supermarket, you will accomplish several things - save money, save gas, always be prepared for a food emergency / crisis, spend less on "empty air and fancy packaging" and will never be without your preparations.

Bulk Food Cost Less!

Purchasing bulk foods is an economical way to save hundreds, even thousands of dollars.  For large institutions, bulk purchases are a necessity, but the average family can save hundreds of $$ a month by doing the same.  Instead of paying for fancy packaging in small quantities at much higher prices, bulk food purchases make your dollars really count.  Our products come in individual cans, buckets or bags (up to 50 lbs) without fancy labels and expensive packaging with the same great quality you've come to expect.

Bulk food are concentrated. A single #10 can (gallon size) of food contains a huge quantity of food. Comparatively speaking, this size can represent anywhere from 12 - 70 servings from a single can, depending on the food. Try that at the supermarket!

Dehydrated foods have come a long way in the last few years. Coming close in flavor and texture to their expensive freeze-dried cousins, these foods not only taste great but can often be prepared in the same amount of time it takes to prepare food purchased from the grocery store. We specialize in bulk foods. Unlike the tiny boxes you purchase in the grocery store, when you buy bulk from us your cost per pound often drops to a few pennies compared to 3-8 times as much per pound at your local store.

We'd like to invite you to take a look at products, compare our prices with your grocery store, assess your needs, then feel free to give us a call to see how we can help you.

Long term shelf life - 7 - 30 years!

Shelf life for bulk foods in cans or buckets is anywhere from 7 - 30 years!! No refrigeration required (if the power goes out, your food is still safe). Shelf life is dependent upon many factors, such as temperature, oxygen and moisture. See the above link for more information.

Easily stored!

Dried and dehydrated  food can be stored just about anyplace and will be ready when you need it.  Even though our packages are larger then the store-bought variety, bulk foods can be easily stored just about anyplace.  You can even keep your extra food under your bed!  If purchased in cans or buckets, your food is quite safe from dust, rodents and insects!

Our packaging doesn't contain a lot of empty air of fancy labels (which is the biggest cost for food today). A single can of dehydrated vegetables for example, represents several cases of "wet pack" canned vegetables! Our food is concentrated, making storage a snap! You will need far less storage space for our foods then what you would require (or currently use) for supermarket foods.

Investment!

Buying food now is actually a sound financial investment. Everybody has to eat, but the cost of food continues to rise each year.  Food is now one of the largest single monthly purchases consumers make today. Purchasing food in bulk quantities maximizes your return by buying food for the future at today's prices.  Strategies such as this can save you hundreds, even thousands of dollars. Just the savings alone in fewer trips to the grocery store at today's high gas prices can make a considerable difference in your monthly budget.

I have a saying, "what you buy today will cost more tommorrow". This is true because of inflation - however, it's even more true then ever right now because of the rising costs of fuel. Fuel costs WILL double and even triple the price of goods (all goods) very soon. Our oil-soaked economy is extremely sensitive to the cost of oil, everything is interlinked to the cost of this energy resource. As energy costs go up, so does everything else, except it's not a direct 1:1 ratio, it's much worse then this. We've seen the cost of metals for example, triple in less then 3 months. Resources such as metal, wood, food, tires, concrete, etc., have dramatically risen in cost in response to the rising oil prices. This situation is just going to worsen as energy sources decline, with the cost of good today seemingly cheap compared to their cost tomorrow.

Most people aren't aware of how intrically linked food is to petroleum. Today's massive production of food is only possible because of oil. As oil supplies decline and dwindle, they skyrocket in price. Food does too, because food is produced using oil based machinery, running everything from farm equipment, to production facilities, transportation and distribution. Even the local delivery truck has been affected by the rising oil prices. Food will never be as cheap as it is today, even when accounting for inflation.

Nutrition!

Freeze dried and dehydrated food retains most of its nutritional value without the added chemicals and additives found in store-bought foods.  Because many bulk foods are packaged in an oxygen free environment, there is no need for additives or preservatives to keep the food fresh.

Studies have shown that dehydrated foods are substantially more nutritious then either frozen or canned foods. The dehydratation process preserves the natural nutrition. For example, the nutrition loss of frozen foods is 40 - 60%!! This is because the food cells rupture when frozen, causing cellular damage and nutrition loss.

Canning is even worse - nutrition loss is 60 - 80%!! This is caused by high temperatures and the foods being immersed in water.

Dehydration is the best method of preservation and retaining all the natural nutrition found in food. The loss is only 3 - 5% making this method of food preservation by far the "best" choice for natural, healthy eating.

Economics!

It's possible that your current financial situation could change drastically.  Tens of thousands of Americans are given "pink slips" every year. Or you could become injured, sick or even fired. The loss of a steady monthly income could seriously affect your ability to continue to feed yourself and family.

A well thought out food storage plan can make the difference between selling off assets to survive (which is what almost always happens, causing you to spend many thousands of dollars more to rebuild your assets at even higher inflated prices), or being prematurely forced to relocate to find employment.

The other economic issue that is often taken for granted is inflation. The costs of goods (all good), housing, utilities, rent, transportation, consumable goods including food, clothing, transportation, etc., is rising every year. In some case, like now with the energy crisis upon us, it's doubling almost overnight. Inflation is unfortunate, but generally unavoidable. What you buy today will wind up costing you more tomorrow, making the proper investments you make today a wise choice.

Peak Oil / Peak Energy

It's already here.  The entire world will undergo a massive transition from cheap energy to expensive energy, including the cost of goods and transportation.  Everything will cost much more and eventually, be found in short supply.  You can offset this global impact by preparing NOW, which we highly recommend.  Bulk foods are a component of those preparations.  We are already seeing the impacts of peak oil and higher costs for everything.  Last year's prices on all consumable and non-consumable goods is significantly higher. The need to properly prepare yourself and your family for this lasting energy crisis cannot be overstated.

In the last 6 months (for example), we've seen no less then three price increases by UPS. What used to be a yearly occurance is now fast-tracking to be a monthly occurance. 2006 turned out to be a frightening year because of oil supplies. Freight shipping costs reflected these changes, with shipping companies charging exorbitant surcharges. You're already paying these fees right now - that's why the supermarket has been changing food prices weekly!

Shipping companies are extremely sensitive to oil prices / shortages. But everything we eat, drive and live in all came into existence because of what was once, cheap energy. It's not so cheap anymore, in fact, it's getting downright ridiculous. Energy costs are embedded in everything these days and we will see corresponding price jumps because of it.

Eventually, energy costs will get so expensive that you will simply learn to do without a lot of things. This is the prediction of analyst all over the world. There is not a single viable alternative replacement for cheap oil. Nothing. There is a lot of hype regarding alternative energy sources, but close examination easily disproves that either they only have a limited potential (and many are still theoretical, unproven) or they can't be distributed properly to be of much effect.

For example, "electric cars". Besides their obvious limitations (range, carrying capacity, price), farmers won't be able to use them to grow their crops, or transport their harvests, nor can truckers use electric semi-trucks to transport products. This is also true for hydrogen and nuclear energy. Nothing can replace the machinery that is being utilized today. Nothing has been found that can actually replace the concentrated energy found in a single barrel of oil.

What's really at stake here is this - the very fabric of our modern civilization hangs in the balance. Cheap oil meant cheap everything - electricity, food, mining, manufacturing, transportation, distribution, and ultimately, availability of goods anywhere in the world. That paradigm is about to come crashing down.

Neither nuclear, wind, hydrogen, energy cells, natural gas, tar sands, methane hydrates or any other "alternative" energy source can replace the existing global distribution network that is entirely keyed directly to oil. Nothing. Ships won't sail on these fuels (ever see a nuclear powered freighter?) Planes won't fly on any one of these things. Neither will trains. Nor will our trucking industry. No trucking - no distrubution. No distrubution - no consumable goods. Even cars won't run on these fuels, and those that do use electricity today aren't even remotely up to the job of replacing petroleum powered automobiles.

What we are facing is "powerdown" and a return to localized economy. The global economy will dramatically slow down because it simply won't have any other choice. It cannot "run" if the energy either dries up or becomes so expensive that the products the economy produced wimply won't be produced anymore.

Your food supply is going to become critical because of this. I cannot empahsize this enough. Food will become the new economy, as the world struggles to feed billions of starving people without cheap energy. This is the crisis that is already found in many nations throughout the world and it will only worsen in the days ahead.

Bird Flu

The avian bird flu threat is very real, now covering almost half of the entire world. The potential for widesrpead death and panic is very real. Many national and world organizations are working towards combatting this threat (and others like it, such as ebola), but have failed to mitigate the potential for pandemic. Pandemic would means that millions could die, with many millions more getting sick and either failing to show up for work, or simply not being allowed to show up for fear of spreading the disease.

This would mean a total collapse of the economy, transportation and distribution of goods. Supermarkets would be stripped bare in a matter of hours. Starving, hungry people would begin looting whatever they could find to eat. They would have no choice.

The World Health Organization and the US government is advising people to stock up and prepare NOW for pandemic. Doctors around the world are bracing themselves for pandemic and are urging you to do the same things. Prepare NOW. Once pandemic hits and humans start dying in droves, it will be far too late to prepare. The demand for storable food, masks, medicines, water containers and other essentials for survival will be so huge, so gigantic, that the supply chain will quite literally collapse from overload, literally overnight.

During Y2K, as the fear of the potential for crisis increased, the demand for food products created 10 month backlogs. 10 months during a pandemic would be a death sentence for the country. And Y2K didn't happen, it was fixed in time by spending billions of dollars. However, there are some things that cannot be fixed, no matter how much money is thrown at them. A biological crisis isn't necessarily going to respond to our technology and our medicines, if that were true, ebola, AIDS and cancer would have been solved by now. Mankind may well find itself on the short end of the stick when one of these pandemics can't be solved in time.

Americans are real prone to panic and overreaction. Human deaths in America (even just a few) will create a massive national panic in the entire nation and the demand for food, masks, medicines and water supplies will jump 10,000% overnight. During the Katrina disaster, shortages were found in states thousand of miles away as American's panicked and rushed to the stores to buy fuel and supplies. Expect this to be much, much worse if bird flu starts killing Americans in the USA.

Preparations - You can't prepare too early

Historically, people use to prepare all the time, because our "just-in-time" delivery system didn't even exist. They prepared for winter, for drought, for a hard year by stockpiling the needed goods and supplies to get them through these situations. But we've gotten away from that, making us very vulnerable to any sort of disaster - floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, forest fires, mud slides, pandemic, job loss, sickness or injury.

The purpose of preparations is to be prepared always, not "just in time" because you simply never know when you're going to need your preparations. Anything can happen and often does. Preparations need to be well-thought out and be ready whenever you need them for whatever may happen.

The essentials of life are water, food, clothing, shelter, heat and medical care. Most American are extremely dependent upon society to meet every single one of these needs. If society is disrupted by riots, or a truckers strike or an ice storm or any sort of interruption, the people affected invariably suffer because of it. Some people even die because of these things. Preparations need to be on hand because its just plain good common sense to be prepared. It's not panic, it's taking responsibility for your own life and those in your family by making preparations ahead of time.

Preparations are essential in today's world as threats are looming over us every day. Preparations are an investment in your future, your life and your well being. Preparations are always reasonable, always timely and ultimately, always necessary for somebody, maybe even you.