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Datrex 3600 Calorie Emergency Food Bar for Survival Kits, Disaster Preparedness, Survival Gear, Survival Supplies, Schools Supplies, Disaster Kit (Pack of 2)

Datrex 3600 Calorie Emergency Food Bar for Survival Kits, Disaster Preparedness, Survival Gear, Survival Supplies, Schools Supplies, Disaster Kit (Pack of 2)

  • Value Pack of Two 18 Bar packs, Total of 36 bars with 200 Calories per bar, 3600 calories per pack
  • Tabletized and sub packaged for ease of rationing and storage in your survival and disaster kit
  • All natural ingredients with no preservatives and superior coconut flavor
  • USCG approved; small and lightweight with a 5 year shelf life
  • High energy value; ready to eat; non thirst provoking

Even if you haven’t witnessed a disaster firsthand, you’ve seen the devastation they cause and you know that you can never be too prepared. If you are out on the water; preparation is even more important. Food rations from Datrex are made from all natural ingredients, have high energy value and are tabletized and sub packaged for easy rationing. They have a five year shelf life and are also USCG approved so you know you can count on them when you need them.200 calories per bar/2 packs of 18 bars

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Potable Aqua Water Treatment Tablets

Potable Aqua Water Treatment Tablets

  • Potable Aqua Water Purification Iodine Tablets (50 Tablets)
  • Iodine tablets designed to make contaminated water suitable for drinking
  • Tablets prove effective against Giardia lamblia when used as directed
  • Intended for short-term or limited emergency use only
  • Water is ready within 30 minutes; neutralizes iodine aftertaste and color
  • Ideal for campers, travelers, hikers, militaries, and emergency organizations

Our Potable Aqua Water Purification Tablets make questionable water bacteriologically suitable to drink. Easy to use-water is ready in 30 minutes. One 50 tablet bottle treats 25 quarts of water. Ideal for hiking, backpacking and travel. Perfect addition to your first aid or travel kit.Used worldwide by campers, hikers, militaries, emergency organizations, and anyone else who needs to drink water of questionable quality, these Portable Aqua iodine tablets will disinfect contaminated drinking wate

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  1. 218 of 228 people found the following review helpful
    5.0 out of 5 stars
    Taste’s like Survival, December 5, 2010
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    Ancient Sun “- Braddock” (Pennsylvainia) –

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    My friends ask, “What do you need 3-days of food in your car for?” so I tell them just in case, because if I explained all the terrible things that could possibly happen at any given moment, they’d feel uncomfortable and I’d look paranoid.

    -15 bucks
    -6 Days of Food
    -Lasts up to 5 years.

    Because McDonald’s won’t be there when your dying.

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  2. 95 of 99 people found the following review helpful
    5.0 out of 5 stars
    Tasty “lifeboat rations”, April 12, 2010
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    Wulfstan “wulfstan” (San Jose, CA United States) –
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    This review is from: Datrex 3600 Calorie Emergency Food Bar for Survival Kits, Disaster Preparedness, Survival Gear, Survival Supplies, Schools Supplies, Disaster Kit (Pack of 2) (Sports)

    This stuff is kinda tasty, stays fresh for a long time, and packs small.

    I suggest it for any survival kit where space is limited but still available. In other words, get cheaper bulkier stuff for your home. (Mountain House Hardtack is good there, along with some peanut butter and canned goods). This is for your car, boat, plane, or office. It’s standard issue in many lifeboats. It does not require cooking and is moist enough so that it’s not thirst provoking.

    *WARNING!* Contains coconut, and not just a trace. Do NOT buy or consume if you have coconut allergies! I had a friend break out in hives just for being in the same room

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  3. 54 of 54 people found the following review helpful
    5.0 out of 5 stars
    Mission Specific Rations, February 1, 2012
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    Ian

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    I have several stashes (office, home, car, storage locker) of emergency rations and several ‘bug-out’ bags as I cannot be certain where I’ll be if and when the poop hits the propeller.
    I have had to re-order this item on several occasions to replenish my office stash as I keep snacking on the darn things.
    Several Points:
    1) The ‘brick’ is aluminized plastic vacuum wrapped around 18 individually wrapped bars.
    2) The brick is heavier than you would expect as the moisture content is very low to allow a tightly packed food source in minimal space.
    3) Due to the low moisture content you will want a liquid to drink although the bars themselves DO NOT enhance thirst.
    4) Once the outer wrapper has been breached, the 5 year shelf life is no longer applicable. The individual bars are wrapped in ultra thin cellophane.
    5) The 18 separate bars TOTAL 3600 calories. The Three day calculation is bases on 1,200 calories per day (3 meals a day for 3 days at 2 bars per meal).
    6) For those of you who rightly observe that 1,200 calories per day is below the prescribed minimum…keep in mind these bars are coast guard approved emergency rations. They are MISSION SPECIFIC. I.E.: They were designed for the relatively low caloric consumption of sitting, inactive, in a life boat while awaiting rescue.
    That fact, however, does not diminsh the wisdom of having a supply on hand for emergencies and/or bug-out ration suppliments.

    One Complaint: as I mentioned before, they use a thin cellophane wrap on each bar (no doubt to further minimize bulk of packaging).
    The problem is that it is a B*TCH to unwrap. If you do it wrong, the bar will crumble. My technique is to sliide the side of a pocket knife around the flat side of the bar (Much like you were honing the knife on a whet stone) until the edge of the knife catches the edge of the wrapper and then gently work the wrapper off.
    Bon Appetit’

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  4. 3,278 of 3,298 people found the following review helpful
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    Comparing chemical treatment methods, September 4, 2010
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    Arthur Bradley “Arthur Bradley” (Eastern USA) –
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    This review is from: Potable Aqua Water Treatment Tablets (Kitchen)

    The EPA estimates that 90% of the world’s fresh water is contaminated and unsuitable for drinking. The days of kneeling down on a hike and sipping from the stream are long gone. Don’t make the mistake of thinking that just because water looks clear or tastes good that it is free of contaminants. That includes frozen water, which can house hepatitis A, Salmonella, and Cryptosporidium for months.

    There are many options for purifying the water, but this post will compare commercial products that rely on halogen chemical treatments.

    Polar Pure – contains iodine crystals, has an almost indefinite shelf life if kept tightly sealed, and very inexpensive per dose cost, requires measuring the dosage using the cap (which can be imprecise).

    Potable Aqua – contains iodine tablets, shelf life of up to four years if properly stored – if they’ve turned a light green don’t use, moderately expensive per dose cost, easy to administer doses (two tablets per quart of water).

    Micropur MP1 – contains chlorine dioxide tablets, has a shelf life of at least five years, moderately expensive per dose cost, and comes in easy to administer doses (one tablet per quart of water).

    Simple household bleach – 2 drops per quart of water (assuming a a bleach solution of 5-6% hypochlorite), may wish to double the dose for cloudy water, shelf life of bleach is only about 6 months, must use a dropper to administer dose, very inexpensive per dose cost.

    Tincture of iodine – 5 drops per quart (assuming a 2% iodine solution), may wish to double the dose for cloudy water, almost indefinite shelf life if properly stored, must use a dropper to administer dose, modest per dose cost.

    All of the methods are effective at killing bacteria, somewhat effective against viruses, and of limited value against protozoa cysts. Cryptosporidium in particular is resistant to halogen treatments.

    Most treatments only require 30 minutes. However, very cold water (i.e., less than 40 degrees F) should be allowed to sit for 2 or more hours, or be treated with a double dose.

    As far as taste, all will introduce some chemical taste into the water. In a very unscientific taste test of chemical treatment methods, my own family concluded that iodine-treated water was by far the worst smelling and tasting, bleach-treated was second, and water treated with Micropur MP1 ready-to-use tablets was the least objectionable.

    Finally, you can add Kool-aid to treated water to help the taste. Not only will it help to mask the chemical taste, but the ascorbic acid (vitamin C) converts the chlorine or iodine to tasteless chloride and iodide.

    Written by Arthur Bradley, author of “Handbook to Practical Disaster Preparedness for the Family.”

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  5. 330 of 334 people found the following review helpful
    4.0 out of 5 stars
    All good backpackers have these, but as the label states they are for “emergency use”, January 6, 2010
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    The 5 most common ways backpackers/campers purify water are
    1. Boil it. Obviously slow and cumbersome. If doing strenuous backpacking/canoeing each person will need to boil a big pot of water every night.
    2. Natural sunlight – letting water sit in the sun for 6 hours works (need cloudless day, correct kind of clear plastic container). The World Health Organization published a study on this, but Amazon won’t let me link to it.
    3. Water pump – I have used MSR HyperFlow Microfilter, though there are cheaper options if you can accept it being slightly larger. In my opinion this is the best method.
    4. Household chlorine bleach – the EPA and WHO give instructions on doing this. The EPA says this may not kill Cryptosporidium. I’ve never tried.
    5. Iodine tablets (or other chemical treatments)-

    Positives:
    -Tablets are small/light for backpackers
    -Only takes 30 minutes to have water ready
    -No work required

    Negatives:
    -EPA says it is not 100% affective against Giardia and Cryptosporidium, especially if the water is cold while being treated.
    -The taste is slightly bad (‘metallic’ is my best description).

    I think a good attitude towards these tablets is “emergency use” (which is labeled on the side of the bottle, not visible in the Amazon image). No good backpacker doesn’t have these, but I suggest a water pump as the planned primary method. Note: there are also iodine “neutralizer” tablets that are supposed to remove the bad taste (you drop them in after the 30 minutes is up and wait another 30 minutes). In my opinion they barely change the taste and are not worth it.

    I’m only giving 4 stars since the EPA says it is not 100% effective against Giardia and Cryptosporidium. I’d give 5 stars if the product was named something like “EMERGENCY AQUA” instead of “POTABLE AQUA”.

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  6. 241 of 245 people found the following review helpful
    4.0 out of 5 stars
    Does Its Job, March 12, 2012
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    JNieporte (Ohio, United States) –

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    These do what they’re supposed to do. Before I give a review, I’ll quote the box on a few points.
    1. For use only when drinking water is suspected or known to be bacteriologically substandard. Not to be used on a continuous basis. (Their website suggests a six-week limit.)
    2. Unopened bottles should remain effective for four years. (Look at the bottom of this review for how to date your tablets.)
    3. We recommend that you do not keep an opened bottle for more than one year.
    4. 2 tablets make one quart of bacteriologically water suitable to drink.
    5. Proven effective against Giarda Lamblia when used as directed.
    6. Has not been shown to inactivate Cryptosporidium cysts.

    In a nutshell, use according to the directions and you’ll be just fine. The bottle contains 50 tablets; you use two per quart of water. In really murky water, I use three. The active ingredient is Tetraglycine Hydroperiodide 16.7% and each tablet contains 6.68% of Titratable Iodine. This is the same stuff that I used in the military, but just to be sure, I opened a bottle and got three quarts of water from the Ohio River. Murky stuff. The first quart was treated with just the Potable Aqua (2-1/2 tablets). The second quart was boiled for ten minutes. The third quart was boiled for ten minutes, then given two tablets of Potable Aqua. All water was filtered through an untreated handkerchief first to remove debris and sediment. I’ll note that my measurements were three quarts before boiling, so I’m sure some of the water was lost in the last two quarts due to the boiling process. The results?

    While none of the water was as good as tap water, I’m still alive. The first batch (just Potable Aqua) was okay. I remember Potable Aqua having a bad taste; so bad that they included a separate bottle of pills to add that made the taste more bearable. That other bottle is unnecessary here. The water definitely had a chemical taste, but I could drink the minimum of a gallon a day if I needed to.
    The second batch (just boiling, no pills) tasted better, but smelled bad. I would be hesitant to drink any more than necessary.
    The third batch (boiled, then treated with Potable Aqua) was obviously the best. Considering that boiling only took ten minutes and a metal water bottle, this is the best option. Remember that all of the water was filtered through a handkerchief first to get rid of any sediment, debris, bugs, etc.
    I’ll guess that if you filter the water, then boil, then use the tablets, you can use only one tablet. I’m not a doctor, dietician, or representative of the company, but I do have extensive training in SERE operations and I’ve been using these tablets for over fifteen years.

    How can you find out when your pills were made? Each bottle has a series of numbers imprinted. For example: 403127. The first number is the month; in this case, the fourth month is April. The second and third numbers are the last two of the year; in this case, 2003. These pills were made in April of 2003. The last three numbers (127) indicate that this was the 127th batch made in that time frame. The code can be five or six numbers long; the first three numbers always denote the month and year; the last two or three always denote the batch number.

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