Taste Test

So we loaded in the Mountain House freeze dried food - at least the first portion.  As part of that effort, I ordered a small sampler pack and put it on the boat last week.  My thinking is that the freeze dried food can stay there and experience a fair bit of high temperatures - a sort of aging study - although I don't have an equation that one season of boat storage equals how many years of storage in my home.

But we were tired after a morning of boat work and decided to make the beef stroganoff.  

We supplemented that with some fruit we had on board and it was a fairly tasty lunch!

Could I eat this stuff daily for a month?  In an emergency situation, it's better than going hungry and the long storage life means I don't have to think about it much after laying it in.  I'll taste a few more of these before laying in the full supply (we have about 1 weeks for 2 persons currently).  Then once we have that, it will slowly get cycled through the boat for use in situations like this one.

Water addendum

I described my water solution earlier...

Since then I realized that I also have another water backup, though, it's not really a back up but more of a primary plan.  We have a reverse osmosis system under our kitchen sink.

It's a bunch of filters and a small holding tank that tap off of our cold water supply under there and lead to a separate faucet.

To me, much more likely than a water catastrophe (where all drinking water stops flowing) is a water quality issue, where we're advised that the water isn't drinkable.  The RO unit mitigates many of those types of issues and can be our backup.  Yes, technically these units don't have the industrial quality seals that make them "officially" able to purify water, there's ample evidence that we could rely on this unit for a short term emergency.