10 Best Survival Food Kits (Review) in 2020

This emergency food supply kit was manufactured by Mountain House. Mountain House has been standing strong for up to 50 years with an unwavering amount of stance with their products. They seek to provide comfort with their products, and the Mountain House Classic Bucket is one of such products. It has a unique design, with meals capable of satisfying cravings and deep hunger for a suitable time of 3 and a half days — which is a convenient treat for those in need of emergency food supply. It offers a variety of over 12 meals, delicately packaged for immediate use. It is also a great option for both outdoor and indoor food supply, due to its easy-to-use feature and has a packaging that is convenient to carry around which enables it to serve both in and out emergency purposes. What’s more, it’s an ideal pick for going camping, vacationing, and even for a casual everyday meal.

Furthermore, the Mountain House Classic Bucket totally removes the need to use dishes, as the meals can conveniently be prepared and eaten directly from the packet. It also has an easy preparation feature, allowing you to make mouth-watering meals with just the addition of water. As for the delicious assorted meals included in this kit is noodles sizzled with beef stroganoff which comes in two packs, two packs as well of meat sauced lasagna, chicken with pasta, beef stew, blueberries and milk enriched with granola, and chicken teriyaki rice. Overall, the Mountain House Classic Bucket of a surety takes emergency food supply to a dimension of comfortability and trustworthiness.

The Mountain House Just In Case 14-Day Emergency Food Supply is another product from Mountain House with 30 years of storage capacity as well. It’s a great option for storage considering the time frame provided and it solidifies the intent of the purchase. Having unexpected guests in the house or unplanned situations could warrant the use of an emergency food supply. With a kit such as this, not solely for personal use, due to the extended time period, it adequately serves as a more generic source of food supply for guests and loved ones.

Whether it’s for emergency purposes, the Mountain House Just In Case 14-Day Emergency Food Supply serves its ideal purpose. For outdoor activities and adventures, as the name implies, it is a suitable just-in-case kit for providing instant access to meals. What’s more, it can also be used as a travel option or for vacations, as well as a great option for hiking, camping, and activities with no place or time to prepare food at all.

Immense amounts of food in a pale, perfect for storing in your RV or camper. This is for those of you who believe that you can never be too prepared, and those with more than one mouth to feed. Augason Farms 30-Day gives you 307 servings, equalling over 55,000 calories for longevity without sacrificing your energy levels. This comes in the form of thirty-five packets in the pale, the only issue is, the bags are not resealable. If you’re digging into this pale, chances are these food bags are going to go within a week or so of you opening them, so you should be good there.

Thee price is beyond right; you get a twenty-year shelf life on this entire container, allowing you to stash it away in the RV (even though it’s a bit awkward to find a spot), or anywhere that’s easily accessible. Between the hard ABS plastic pale and thermal-resistant individual food storage bags, this will be your go-to emergency storage if worse comes to worst. Keep in mind, you’ll need to have ample water stored to hydrate most of this food. Our handy guide to the top dehydrated camping foods features more great products like this. 

The wise company made this container with meat-eaters in mind. Since they don’t want you to be left with that hungry feeling in your gut, there’s also an additional twenty rice packets that are simple to prepare. Wise offers a 15-year shelf life, which helps you keep down on replacing your emergency food supplies, and it’s all thanks to the low-oxygen packaging with thermal-resistant materials. That being said, the actual meat in the containers does come out a little bit bland, so it’s recommended to bring your own spices.

Apart from that, the serving sizes are designated by Wise, and as a result they’re fairly small. Wise Company Gourmet Seasoned Freeze Dried Meat is a preferred selection to those who don’t just want the normal flavored rice-style packets found in most kits; you want meat, something with substance, something that’s going to help stave-off hunger. This container has a total of 80 servings, and take about 12-15 minutes to prepare if you’re looking for a piping hot meal in the middle of a sticky situation.

Mountain House Just In Case kit comes with an ideal setup for campers and full-time RV families, but also has the right stats that you want for emergency situations. With a 30-year taste guarantee and food quality preservation system, you’ll be able to grab any of the varieties of food pouches from the bucket, and immediately enjoy. You get 32 total servings, giving you an average of nearly two weeks of food at three meals per day.

The container is a bit bulky, so it’s not ideal to bring the entire thing in your bug-out bag. The only major downside is the lack of meat in these packets; most of them are flavored pastas and rice, giving you the taste of meat included in the dish, with no additional substance. These go from pouch to hot-and-ready in ten minutes, so if time isn’t on your side, you can quickly prep, eat, and continue moving along.

Everything you need, and not a hair of what you don’t. Premium Emergency Survival Bag comes with seventy-two hours of supplies for a two-person team. Whether it’s you and your SO heading out into the great unknown, or you want to extend that for six days for yourself, this is the go-to kit and editor’s choice, all in one. Those first three days after a disaster are critical, and on average, supply/rescue windows start to look better after that first period. You get access to a plethora of first aid essentials, as well as a guide for those that lack the knowledge.

This kit has a serious amount of necessities in it, and as a result, the cost hikes up a bit. You will be able to forego purchasing other related items as a result. This kit includes a firestarter, one knife, bathing wipes, a flashlight, LED lantern, twelve servings of food, and twenty-four packets of Datrex water. Everything is in the palm of your hand. We recommend getting acquainted with your kit before bringing it out in the wild (there’s a lot to it). Be sure to also check out our list of the top bug out bags for more great items like this. 

Grab and go, with a little bit of everything you need. This United States Coast Guard-approved pack is ready when you are, and brings enough supplies for a party of four in total. You’ll be good to go for seventy-two hours, with close to 10,000 total calories to keep you and your companions in full energy. This pack also includes a first aid kit, but as a fair warning, it’s basically a big box of band-aids with little else to offer.

Ready America Deluxe does contain far more than food. You’ll have biohazard bags, safety goggles and dust masks, among other things: you’ll basically be prepared for just about any scenario, so long as you can find your necessary items without dumping the bag out on the ground. The quality of the bag itself is standard or low-quality, so it’s not a bad idea to grab this kit for the items, and get a bag you’re more comfortable with for the excursion. Love this product? Check out our review of the top survival backpacks for our top picks.

It’s nothing but the good stuff, cutting out all of that GMO garbage, staying kosher and vegan-friendly, but if you have a nut or legume allergy, stay away from this kit. The good folks at NorthWest Fork made a great product, but they should have had more prominent labeling. If that isn’t a bother to you, you’ll be able to take full advantage of the high-nutrition food packets, each with about three to five meals in them. They don’t take a crazy amount of water to rehydrate, either.

You get a total of ninety packets in here, equalling a thirty-day supply to keep you and your companions going strong. In total, you have ten years of shelf life, so long as you use the proper storage conditions (which we’ll cover in the guide below). Organizing these packets and putting them into the appropriate packs and bug-out bags will give you and your family an immediate head start in an emergency situation. You’ll have the upper hand, and peace of mind. If you plan to go to the wilderness, make sure you also check our paracord survival bracelets review and be on top of any situation.

The food is long going to outlast the bag on this 5-Day Survival Backpack. If you’re out for an all-in-one kit for a one-man army, you’ve found your ticket. Wise includes five days of single user sustainability, between hygiene, personal first aid, and waste containers/bags for everything you can imagine. We’re head over heels with the price, but not exactly crazy about the small serving sizes. You’re expected to have 6-7 servings a day, making them relatively low-quantity meals.

With a 25-year shelf life and a portable camping stove, you’ll be all set to grab and go. That stove also comes with 24 refuel tablets, allowing you to reignite the light under any circumstances, including plenty of re-dos for human error playing a role. The bag itself is of good quality, though for being a well-rounded kit, it doesn’t give you as much as you would expect. Last but not least, be certain to pack a few spice packets or shakers; the food is bland, but it gets the job done, and helps to keep you feeling full out on the road.

We’re coming to a close on our list, but we’ve still got a few aces in the hole to keep you and your loved ones safe when disaster strikes. Emergency Zone compiled this killer backpack that comes filled with everything you need. High-quality first aid kit items, hygiene products, food bars: everything for two people to survive by the skin of their teeth in a worst-case scenario. This bag is seriously high grade, and comes as discreetly as possible. While other brands flaunt their name, Emergency Zone keeps it discreet so you’re not the first target of theft in a SHTF world.

With all those notches in the belt, it comes with its flaws: there’s only a five-year shelf life on this, and that’s if you keep the food bars in a perfect temperature and setting for that entire time. While you should definitely have a cool, dry place to store your survival food and bug-out bag, this one is a bit disappointing with the food life. You’ll have to replace the bars every 4-5 years, if you don’t end up using them. The bag is jammed; you won’t be fitting any other survival equipment in here. Apart from that, you’re ready to air on the side of caution, and walk through fire without getting burned. For more great emergency products, check out our portable water filters review. 

It’s a portable chef in a bucket: you get 330 servings of high-quality food in this enormous container, giving you complete and utter control over your day-to-day operations out in the midst of a disaster. While there’s a lot of servings, they’re size-defined by Chef’s Banquet, so they’re rather small. This entire bucket will give one person thirty days of food with a high calorie intake, giving you maximum energy to take on the day. High-quality meals come in eight different varieties, so you can switch it up to prevent getting bored of the same old thing.

This container is heavy as hell and bulky (for an emergency food survival kit), so you’ll want to find somewhere to stash this without needing to move it often. We thought the brand name was a little cheesy at first, until we took a bite out of each different meal. Where other survival kits require spices to keep it edible and fresh, this comes with nothing but a high-quality taste and plenty of seasoning. Enjoy this right out of the container with quick meal prep times, and get you and your family into a full night’s rest with full stomachs. Don’t forget to also check our emergency blankets review because it can come in pretty handy.

Last but not least, we have Legacy Premium, bringing a seriously big punch. You get sixty super-sized servings of food in this container, which puts you and your family as the perfect position to completely fill up, while enjoying the high-quality flavor and consistency of Legacy’s meals. These all come 100% GMO-free, packing a twenty-five year shelf life. Whether it’s tomorrow or a decade down the road, you can be ready for absolutely anything that comes you way. Keep in mind, this is not good for single users; each packet makes a ton of food, and you want to conserve as much as possible.

This does all come at a fairly high initial cost. All of your food is stored in one large food storage mega tub, making it super simple to just slide into the back of an RV storage compartment, or leave in the cupboard (in reasonable conditions) until the time strikes. Legacy Premium is all about quality control: if you’re not happy with the product, they’re one of the few brands that will put their name on the line to make it right for you. If you’re still not certain which survival food kit is right for you, continue reading our guide for more information on proper food storage, the features we found to build this list, and more on the subject.