This bucket is a nightmare to open. After struggling for about an hour I finally did get one corner and part of one side up and bent back enough to get the pouches out with my hand. Do not buy the food buckets! I am upset and angry that my purchases may end up in the landfill because I can't get them open. I wrote a letter of complaint to the company.

If you notice on the pail it states 21,020 total calories per the entire pail. At 92 total meals as stated, that's only a 228.479 calorie intake per suggested meal. That in my opinion is a near starvation diet. At a 2000 calorie intake per day, that is 10.51 meals. That equates to $3.427 per meal. Its far more economical to do a Walmart search for one gallon Mylar bags and oxygen absorbers and purchase side dish meals, hot cereals, pancake mix at Walmart the very same thing as in these pails and do your own. There's no bargain here at even their reduced price of $36.01, NONE! That's just my own personal opinion.

Had this for about a year in my camper. Finally we opened it up to try it. We tried the Mac and cheese. We used on package of noodles and half of the powdered cheese. Followed the instructions. When I went to dump the powdered cheese in the noodles the powder clumped up. I added some milk and kept stirring. It took a while but the cheese finally mixed in. The taste was fine and nobody complained. We brought some leftovers home and my kids had it with some Wolfbrand chili. They liked it. The cheese powder pouch has a ziplock on it so aren't forced to use it all at once. So far I am happy with the purchase and will be getting another one.

Personally, I found the food to be surprisingly good. However, I do not consider this to contain 92 servings. There are 7 packages with dinner selections, 6 packages of soup selections, 2 packages of elbow macaroni, 1 package of cheese powder, and 1 package of chocolate pudding. Each package serves 2 or 3 people at most. The plastic container was nearly impossible to open, and there are no directions included. Good food in my opinion, but include some directions, provide more servings, and make the package easier to open.

Purchased 2 of these buckets with a 25 year shelf life (sold by JCA VENTURES LLC). Today is March 3rd 2022 and they expire in 2031 which tells me they've had these since 2006. A little disappointed when your expecting the 25 year offer. But 9 more years is better than 1. I'm sure they will be fine long after that. It's just the principal of receiving goods that you pay them for due to their offer and you don't get the offer. That's like a tire salesman selling brand new tires, so you buy they only to find out they already have 30,000 miles on them. Don't offer 25 years if they don't expire in 25 years.

Help yourself to a future of uncertain events with protection. A crisis is too late to think about what you should have done. Never let a crisis control you, control the crisis. Always have food and clean water for sustaining human life for your family and friends. This is part of survival in today's world. Augason is one alternative to eating when food becomes unavailable. If food is always available through out your life, it's a small price to pay "just in case".

WARNING: This bucket of so=called "survival food" is supposed to be good for a minimum of 25 yrs. from date of purchase. But the bucket I received is only good for 9 yrs., according the sticker on the bucket !!! Few people know this info

This went on sale and I jumped on it. A real good addition to our emergency food supply. If it goes on sale again I believe I will purchase another pail.

Very cheap and bad tasting, I should have spent more for quality emergency food. I feel sorry for anyone who’s going to find out in a pinch that their survival food is barely edible

I buy this weekly. In times of need , you won't be complaining about this product , you'll be praising it. Just ask anyone fleeing from Venezuela.