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Roundhouse Provisions, Excellent Emergency or Prepper Foods

I recently gave a few Roundhouse Provisions products a thorough tryout and I’m happy to share the results with you now. I’ve tried a number of different brand emergency meal products in the past, some of which I found to be satisfactory and others, hmm, not so much. I have to say that I found Roundhouse Provisions to be some of the best I’ve tried, with a couple of qualifiers, which I’ll get into below. The kit bundle I tried was the Ultimate Campout Kit, which included a 3 Day Emergency Meal Kit with three meal packets, Survival Mode Emergency Ration Bars, a canister of Hydration Punch, and Morning Kick travel packets.

I’m not sure exactly how many days this bundle is designed to support, but the 3 Day Meal Kit is said to be a one-person kit. I found the three meals to supply considerably more nutrition and stomach-filling food than three days worth; I’d say five to even six days without too much trouble, if your energy expenditure is minimal. Supplementing those meals with the six Emergency Ration Bars and the hydration drink mixes and you’ve got enough nutritious foods to last, in my estimation, a week or maybe more. This is important, because if you’re amassing food provisions for camping or future emergency situations you also want to get as much value for your money as you can.

First, let’s look at the 3 Day Emergency Meal Kit. My wife and I both enjoyed the three meal packets - Oatmeal With Brown Sugar, Cheesy Broccoli Rice, and Creamy Chicken-Flavored Rice - that are included in the larger ziplock bag. We especially enjoyed the Cheesy Broccoli Rice and Creamy Chicken Rice. All of these meals were exceedingly easy to prepare; just add to boiling water. The two rice-based meals were tasty and satisfying and, frankly, could be stretched to last longer or provide additional meals by adding more water than the suggested directions advised, without sacrificing taste or edibility. Each packet supplied both my wife and I with more than one meal, and the second day was just as good as the first. The Oatmeal With Brown Sugar meal was also pretty good. My wife thought it tasted just as good as regular stovetop oatmeal and brown sugar. I was a little more ambivalent about it, although I found it still flavorful, just not as tasty as the stovetop variety.

Each of these meals could of course be supplemented with additional ingredients to stretch them either further or provide more flavor and nutrition. Raisins or fruit could be added to the oatmeal packet, chicken pieces added to the creamy chicken, vegetables or larger broccoli pieces to the cheesy broccoli. They are great on their own, but also provide a strong foundation for nutritional and flavor variety with minimal effort. This 3 Day Emergency Meal Kit has a 25-year shelf life, which is fantastic and should cover just about any emergency situation you might find yourself in. I’d happily include several of these packets in my long-term survival kit. They provide plenty of variety, taste good, are super easy to prepare, and are nutritionally sound. Thumbs up!

Next up are the Survival Mode Emergency Ration Bars. These meals - and each bar is the equivalent of one meal - were my least favorite, as far as flavor is concerned. They are advertised as “buttery lemon shortbread-flavored,” and I have to confess I am not a big fan of buttery lemon shortbread. It’s too sugary-sweet for my taste, and that’s how I judged these ration bars, too flowery sweet. On the plus side, they are calorically heavy, with 410 calories per bar, and they are loaded with vitamins and minerals. One bar was more than enough for me and, frankly, I could have easily made two small meals from one bar. They also contain sorghum, a superfood that contains a ton of great nutrients and antioxidants. So, for the nutritional and caloric content alone these are a worthwhile emergency ration bar to consider, and the benefits of sorghum outweigh my ambivalence about the overly sweet flavor.

The Morning Kick Travel Pack is the most surprising product to me. I say that because I’ve never found energy drinks or nutrient packets of this sort to be worth the hype. None of them have lived up to their marketing. Any of them that have impacted my physical or mental state, that impact has not been positive. The Roundhouse Morning Kick, however, left me feeling noticably more alert and awake, a little lighter on my feet, if that makes sense. It wasn’t an extremely profound positive impact, but it was noticable and a definite improvement. This surprised me, given my previous experiences.

So I checked out the Roundhouse Provisions website for more information on Morning Kick. This product contains Spirulina and Chlorella, superfoods that impact metabolism and boost alertness; Ashwagandha, another awesome plant substance that boosts mental energy, improves cognitive function and a calm outlook while improving energy levels; and probiotics and collagen peptides, which improve overall physical health. So far as I’m aware, this is one of the only energy products out there that does not just target the brain, but rather is both a brain and body tonic. I quite like that. Big thumbs up on the Morning Kick.

Lastly, Hydration Punch is another powdered drink mix designed to not only hydrate but provide you with good stuff like creatine and electrolytes to positively impact your physical and mental recovery and functions. My wife really liked this one. She said it was delicious, dissolved easily and completely, and made her feel noticably sharper and physically more at ease. It’s interesting to me that the Hydration Punch had such an impact on her and not me. I felt fine after taking it, but did not feel the same level of improvement that she obviously did.

This just goes to show that each person is an individual, our bodies responses to stimuli vary to some degree according to our unique physical make-up. Honestly, I think I have to continue to include the Hydration Punch in my diet, because I like the natural, healthy ingredients and I do believe the impact on my mind and body will become more noticable over time. It just so happens that my wife is feeling the benefits straight away. Thumbs up on this product as well.

Finally, a word about Chuck Norris. When I first got my Roundhouse Provisions bundle I didn't realize that this company was founded by Chuck Norris. I thought he was just a spokesman or a paid promoter of the Roundhouse products. Boy was I wrong! Chuck Norris not only founded Roundhouse Provisions (yeah, I should have guessed it from the name “Roundhouse,” I know…), but he also personally developed many of the products in the Roundhouse Provisions line-up. Like millions of other folks, I’ve been a fan of Chuck Norris not because of his celebrity status as an entertainer, but because in a world of Hollywood phonies and wannabes, Chuck Norris always seemed to be one of the few men with real integrity, character, honesty and kindness.

While we've all smiled at the countless jokes about Chuck Norris’s tough guy image, I don’t think any of us has ever heard a negative word or story about the man. To the contrary, he appears to have lived his best life in all regards, and has left a legacy that most of us would love to have. Frankly, I was high on Roundhouse Provisions after testing the products, but now, knowing that Chuck Norris is the main man behind the company, I feel both lucky and proud to say I use and recommend Roundhouse Provisions.

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