Emergency Food Experiment

I've only found a couple attempts at actually living off of these emergency packs. The rest seem to all be reviews on taste and not if they actually do what they're intended to do, which is keep you from starving and prevent you from losing the energy to function in an emergency situation of little to no non-stored food source.

Of those two attempts 1 was a success (141lb woman on basic Valley Food) and 1 was a failure after the first week (188lb man on Auguson Farms).

You can find Auguson Farms here on this forum: http://ift.tt/23bmOzU

And Valley Food here: http://www.onehundreddollarsamonth.c...upply-of-food/

Given limited experience with limited brands and a 50/50 split on success, the need for experimentation seems pretty obvious given the incredibly small sample size. A lot of people seem to be really relying on these things and there's a lot of controversy about them and when there's no unbiased information about them that becomes dangerous. While I normally do not stock these types of supplies and don't advocate reliance on them, I'm willing to give it a shot and see what happens. If things go well enough I may keep doing it with other kits.

I will live off one of these kits as a normal user would in a survival situation. I'll maintain basic activity levels (running a small livestock farm, a garden, and taking care of a baby and an elementary aged child). Different kits are meant to be used different ways so it may vary depending on which kit I end up with.

I'll chart the event and report back to this forum, or if there's enough demand for it I may do some youtube as well. Mostly it's going to depend on what people want to know. If people really think it'll make a difference I may even do some basic blood work for it (CMP/CBC that should pick up major nutritional deficiencies).

FYI I'm 184.5lbs and 5'5 giving me a BMI of 30.7. That means I'm mildly obese, just above average for an American male, and I wouldn't starve to death even given no food unless we made it well past a month. I 100% fully expect to lose weight during a limited-food emergency and I want to point out that that is not an inherently negative thing and won't be enough to trigger me to stop.

So the questions are, which kit/pack, and what information do people want? The kit must be intended for the length of time I'll be using it for, and I'm going to max it out at 1 month for this first go so no 1 or 5 year kits.

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Emergency Food Experiment