The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Recap of Ration or Ruin Week 3 w/ FD, NBC Guy & Bankster Breaker

Episode Date: May 25, 2025

XMRE Week for the Ration or Ruin Exercise!

the killing snakes in the back channel. I said pictures of some rat snakes. We dispatched yesterday. Maria got two of them and I got one. Um, I have a judge. I highly recommend that that weapon. It's a, it can fire 45 cold and 410 shotgun shells. So, yeah, so that's what it, you know, 410 shotgun shells. Hey, and this is my prepper tip.

I want to get this in before I forget it. PBN family look up cut shells, cut shells. You'll see videos on YouTube, but it's basically you take a razor blade around the wad of a shotgun shell. You cut around the shell and that holds the the shot in longer. So you get more of an impact, more the shot is held in one little tight group. So that's something you could do, but you can't cycle it. But if you have a like a judge or a double-barreled shotgun or something like that,

you can get far more power out of your out of your shell. So there you go. Check check out cut shells. of your shell. I found out a lot about XMRE. I found out what I liked about it. I found out what, well, a little bit of what disappointed me, but that's the product. Myself, uh, still really hungry. Weeks that we arrived in ruin. Yeah. So, uh, Ben, how are you feeling?

I know you've got a great spreadsheet you're gonna share. It shows a lot of data. I got my spreadsheet. It's been motivating for me as a kind of a data nerd myself. The XMRE week, let's call week three the XMRE week. the last two weeks. I enjoyed better but they were better, more substantive and much more expensive too. But I feel really good this week. I don't know if it's because the XMREs or like you and I were talking about. I have just kind of normalized with this new calorie deficit but the XMREs did bring my morale up because there was some good stuff in there. I'm not going to lie. Yeah. Well, and

the intrepid commander can't join us. He's going to give us an update later. Um his his own update. Um you know Memorial Day weekend. He's he's doing things with the family. He did tell me that a fox got in his hen house last night killed all his quail and one of his chickens.

So he was raided and he's sorry he can't join us today. So guys, you know, when I fast, I noticed some things physiologically. How's your sleep in? How's your sleep? You go first because oh, you asked me. I'm having I was having a little bit of tech issues here. I'm trying to get things working on the background. I'm going to stop sharing my screen. It might have been lagging things out. Go ahead. future Dan and I'll answer afterwards. Yeah. Sleep's Yeah sleep spin Not worse it's not worse Maybe ten percent better. I

yeah, I always thought I got the good sleep, but I I guess it would be enhanced because I'm You know depleted on calories in the evening now. I'm really like probably normally tired Right now not artificially stimulated. I've the That's not in the food. That's like an absence of it. So, um, and I'm eating oftentimes large amount in the evening. So not, not too late, but so I'm tired and I'm full. It's easier to fall asleep. Yeah. And, uh, body pains. Have you noticed anything about, you know, your normal aches and pains?

Are they less or are they more? I got personal circumstances that are more, but it's got nothing to do with ration or ration. Yeah. Yeah. So I am distracted by pains and aches that accumulated over a lifetime. Um, but I can't say that fasting, fasting You know again, I'm not doing a pure fast. I'm drinking I'm drinking Protein shakes on days off. So I'm not going to zero calories any single day

so I can't and I never intended to so The purported health benefits and effects of straight-up fasting right, I can't honestly report on that but in terms of just less calories now you know we've done it for three three weeks I've adjusted to less that's for sure it was a real hard adjustment week one but yeah like like Ben said I'm probably could sustain this level of calories for a while now. Yeah, you kind of reach a steady state. You'll be able to see that in Ben's graph. He has this spreadsheet with different things. It's quite detailed.

And it looks like, well, Ben, how's your sleep been? I'm not quite detailed. and it looks like well, Ben, how is how's your sleep in? You find that you're sleeping better or worse. It depends on what phase of the week it is or what I'm doing. So for example, right now, I'm on about 35 hours, no food, no calories at all. So on the weekends, I've

been having no supplements and no food at all on Saturday, Sunday, but on Tuesday and Thursday I have had between 800 to 1200 calories with a lot of protein as an in between day supplement. But on the weekends I've been going, so on the weekends, my point is I need less sleep. I'm more hyper like this morning. I'm really hyper because I all day. But on the weekends, I've been going. So on the weekends, my point is I need less sleep. I'm more hyper. Like this morning, I'm really hyper. Because I don't know, I hit this different level between about hour 30 and 45 of fasting.

And that's when you're really deep into ketosis. Yeah. Totally out of carbs in your body. It's all burning fat. And you also have some adrenaline. So it is a little stressful for your body. It's all burning fat and you also have some adrenaline. So it is a little stressful for your body. So it's not good to do this all the time. But the point is I'm very clear headed. I need less sleep because my body is not spending a lot of energy digesting. And I have a bad habit of eating a lot of food late at night, which I know makes my sleep worse normally. And since I'm not eating or the nights I'm not eating at all,

I don't have that problem. So instead of needing like nine hours of sleep, which I sleep more than average person, I need like, you know, seven and a half or eight hours, like a normal person when I fast. So if I could bottle up what I feel right now and the sleep I have right now and have that every day, I would. The only problem is, you know, I gotta get calories in at some point or I'll waste away. So can't live like that forever. How about aches and pains? Do you notice more or do you notice them less? Well, I'm gonna split this into two two different sides.

For my workouts, I feel more and it takes longer to recover. So my actual workouts, I feel as strong and as good as ever the last few weeks. I don't know how much longer that will last, though, because instead of being sore for a day, maybe two days, I'm sore for a few days. And I can'm going to get a little bit of a sore because instead of being sore for a day, maybe two days, I'm sore for a few days and I can

feel a little takes a little while after a three mile hike through the woods up and down the hills to recover. So those first two, three weeks, I think I could power through it. But now I think it's starting to catch up to me. We'll find out.

I'm going to go on a long hike tomorrow after about, you know, 60 hours fasted and then I'm going eat tomorrow after than it is like in this simulation. But my normal aches and pains is similar to my sleep and also my hunger. What type of fasting or non fasting am I doing? And this is something where I'd encourage after this exercise, future Dan, to try out a 36 or 48 hour pure fast only water because you have to have, and I've done the research, less than 400 calories. If you have more than 400 calories in a day, most of these anti-inflammation and autophagy do not take much place,

take places strongly, exponentially less. So you might get 20% of the autophagy from having 600 calories compared to the 100% autophagy at zero calories. Point is, inflammation is down massively on days that I fast. I have no

aches and pains. Old shoulder and knee injury I had. Don't feel it at all. Back feels great like this time of the week but probably like Wednesday or Thursday after I've been kind of grinding through my work days and I've had The XMREs or others and so I'm not in that fasted state then I do feel more bloated

I retain a lot of water and I feel more sore Yeah, so take that for what it's worth. I think well, I Yeah, I figured I'd ask these questions now that you guys have been in it for three weeks to see, you know, if there's any similarities between this and, uh, you know, straight up water fast. And, um, so let's go over the review future Dan. I'll start with you. Yeah. So, so in the back channel, Ben, I shot you the scores. Yeah. You want me to go through them? Well, yeah, throw out my score, if you will.

I want to stay consistent and I don't have it in front of me. So if you could throw that out and then tell me if you're, you know, higher or lower and maybe why. Awesome. We'll do one at a time. So from one to ten, ten being the best, the first attribute longevity, you gave it a six out of ten. Yeah, it seems less than Ready Hour and Mountain House. I don't think you're getting 30 years out of it. I agree. I've seen some conflicting info. In fact, I was sharing my screen here for those who aren't just listening on the podcast. We do video by the way now on Prepper Broadcasting Network quite often, but it was kind of lagging us out. So I turned off the video, but I'm looking at it right now on the website. XMREmeals.com says best buy date 2030 so that's only five years for the best buy date now you and I were just talking about yesterday actually the

difference between best buy versus expired and all that but still only five years best buy and I've also read on the back and online that you know if you store it above 90 degrees what is it? it's like six months wait a second, wait a second, Best Buy, I don't see what Best Buy has got to do with prepping it's about how long you can eat the food for exactly but I mean it's five years compared to the 25 or 30 years it says it expires in five?

well okay, I mean we can't really go into that debate too deep right now but. It's gotta last more than five years or it's not even MRE. It said in bad if it's stored poorly it only lasts six months for what it's worth. Oh no no no no I get I think we assume it's stored properly, right? I mean if that if that part's taken care of and it comes in cardboard crates So the packaging is the same score as the mountain house, right? It's not waterproof. It's cardboard, but you keep it safe and dry It's gonna stack up nicely. So it's well packaged but in I guess it's a little bit of mystery We need to follow up on maybe I'm patriot Power, how long are these things actually edible for? I scored it a six, but if it's less than a decade, then that's dropping to a three.

I'm in the same boat. I'm kind of like, I'm not sure. What do you think, Dave? Do you have any insight on these? Well, yeah, in the army, what they do is they buy these huge lots of meals like this, and then they'll keep some of them in perfect storage and they break them out and test them from time to time. And that's how they can extend the shelf life. But there's no one I know that keeps them in perfect storage other than this testing unit in the army.

So whenever they issue these MREs out, they usually go to the units and they are sub-standard storage, you know, supply rooms. Out in the truck. Out in the truck. Thoroughcase MREs in the truck in case we get stranded. Okay. Six months later, still sitting there. Yeah.

So if you got a bulging bag or something like that, you know not to eat that crap. That's a straight trip to the hospital. So Dave, very important for you didn't have XMRE. I was disappointed in so far as these are highly highly

economized Smaller it's like a half MRE Yeah, it doesn't it doesn't come with your standard Bag with the Basco salt salt pepper Tabasco Yeah, yeah that that's not there all you're getting is of like a spork and a little pack of salt and pepper and not all of them come with crackers that's like if you've had real military MREs you're always getting the cracker that's we got crackers but not in every meal. They were none of them exceeded a thousand calories

so on feeding days Monday Wednesday and Friday we had to eat too and I actually you know For certain reasons that my own control. I only had one on Friday. I'd run out. So I Again, this is a third week in a row. I did not hit my six thousand calorie Budget that we have been rational ruin at all But they're not like it. They're not like military. They're not like military. Yep that you know, and No, not all MREs are created equal and that's a good Observation, especially if you're counting on it.

Oh, it's the same as the military. No, even that accessory pack, you have gum in there. You have coffee, M&M's, uh, yeah, cocoa and, uh, toilet paper. Holy cow. That, toilet paper. Holy cow. Yeah. That, that is a big thing. If you're out in the bush and, and you get an MRE, you know, you know, it usually takes about three MREs to get enough toilet paper for one dump, but

highly collected asset. Never ever thrown away. Yep, never. And that toilet paper can be used to start fires. It's just very versatile. And if you're not getting that in the XMRE, that's terrible. No, it's a very civilianized, it's, you've heard of military grade, you know, technology equipment. Well, then there must be a commercial or consumer grade. civilianized it's you've heard of military grade You know technology equipment

Well, then there must be a commercial or consumer grade. This is a consumer grade MRE and I for the price that we Acquired them for there. I believe Just just on the unit of purchase the crate. It's 50% more expensive than Mountain House But we have to do the you know comparison of how many calories are in there. We're working on that but XMREs I think I on this cost scale if you want to jump to that Ben

I gave it a three I gave it a three and you know what if it can't last longer than it does it's It's I drop it even to a very weak too. Yeah. So because if you're freezing them to make them last longer, you could be freezing a whole bunch of other stuff that would take up less space. You know. One thing I'll say is we are specifically using the XMRE Blue Line, which is a case of 12, correct? Yeah, and that gets us into variety. Well, real quick, real quick. They have other, XMRE does have other types.

They have something, a case of six meals, and it's more expensive than the blue line. So maybe that's more of like a 2000 calorie pack. It's called the XMRE 3000 XT authentic military grade. They have halal and kosher as well. But my point is I believe the XMRE blue line is a little bit more civilian focused it seems compared to the you know more I guess hardcore one extended shelf life authentic military grade whatever that means and the prices I got the least expensive exact from xmr yeah so um real quick I know you want to go down to another score just want to shout out j ferg air firewood forge what's happening fire forces I'm not going to go down to the next one. So, um real quick,

I know you want to go down to another score but just want to shout out Jay Ferg and Firewood Forge. What's happening? Fire says it sounds like day hike food rather than like, you know, we're military and I could make sense. Firewood

Forge says carbs make me sleepy. Exactly. I feel like I get hungrier and sleepier on the feed days and I get less hungry and all that. But anyway, back to XMRE. Which one did you hit on, want to hit on, Future Dan? Any others that we didn't go. I know, longevity, six. I think that's a little questionable.

It could be a range of four to six like we just talked about. Nutrition, you gave it a seven. range of four to six like we doesn't really have that much more healthy fat or protein compared to the other two per calorie. Not by much. So, but it, I had way more energy this week. Yeah. I mean, I think part of that might be the morale, but maybe it's just the straight up sugar. Cause I mean, I had 300 calorie packet of chocolate pudding with caffeine in it. And I definitely felt amped up after that. Oh, I didn't get one of those No, I got that. I got the taco

Vegetarian taco pasta. It it wasn't down taste if we want to get the taste it was low but some of those accessory packs the cinnamon buns I had two cinnamon buns and They were more like cinnamon cake but it wasn't like a sugar rush it was substantially more food I ate those at night and the next morning you know the Tuesday and Thursday morning when I got up to go I had much more sustained energy from eating that food. I think XMRE has better nutrition. All right.

Hey, so, uh, when I was in the army, we would take the cocoa powder and dump the coffee, the instant coffee in the cocoa powder, and then we just use a, like a tablespoon or so of water and mix it up. And that was our caffeine induced, uh, chocolate pudding. Yes. You can make the same thing. Yeah. Maybe XMRE took, we got to make that. They probably did.

You know what? That's exactly right. Yeah. I used to make exactly what you're talking about. Everybody did. Oh right. Yeah, I did that. I used to make exactly what you're talking about. Everybody did. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it was great, especially at night when you're on, you know, perimeter watch and you'd save it up so that you can you could hit that at night and stay awake the rest of the night.

Yeah. And so the whole MRE, like how to eat them, how to save them, what to trade, what to keep. You don't get to have that with XMRE on Ration or Ruin. Like, no. I think the only other scores, well I'll just go through them all. We touched on most of them, but I don't disagree with really any of these. Let me just read them off and you could, any that you take, you don't want to have extra comments on variety. Oh, okay. How about this one? I do actually disagree with this variety three. Maybe it's because I got the better packs. I don't know, but I was pretty happy with the variety because not only was

there a main course meal, it was kind of a secondary course meal and also a treat at least in mine. For example, I'd get Italian sausage, which is not bad. Like some chef boy already type stuff. Many cookies, which were awesome. And there was like rice and beans paste. That wasn't bad either. My point is if you had ready hour, all you got was the cheese and broccoli soup. That was like a three in variety. I think this was like a five, maybe even a six. But again, I kinda, I think I got lucky on the random polls of which ones I got. Yeah, I didn't. I got duplicates on Monday and Wednesday and one more of the same. So out of five meals I had I only had two variants oh man

yeah and that's what you get if you had cases and cases of this and that's what you get if family members or whoever you were with were we're taking their favorites right and and in terms in terms of food fatigue I think you might get this faster than mountain house for sure I don't know ready our Maybe you know, there's still a lot of variety in a big case already our you know Foods, I think this one the variety It would be tough You'd start eating duplicates and you would the second time I ate the taco salad and the second time I ate the mac and not mac and tomato sauce

definitely stepping down from where I felt about it just 48 hours earlier. Oh yeah and if you're not augmenting with the you know stuff that you harvest or scavenge or you know man that's tough. I will say if I didn't supplement anything at all on this I would be feeling way worse so not that I can we've talked about this a lot it It's not the belabor of the point. We're not going to crush ourselves and you know, get sick from doing this exercise and yeah, but everybody is on a downward trend for weight. Even even the entropic commander who didn't have a lot of weight to lose at least I

thought he's he Exactly. Yeah. Hey, Ben, throw up your uh your spreadsheet. Perfect. Will do because I think everything else, the packaging you gave a ten portioning, a ten storage, six additives, five, anything there? Yeah. All the portability and

and and how the economy of emergency food, how to split it up share it is its supreme supreme compared I mean, that's what you're paying for in and the and the comment that it's hiking food pack and go well Yeah, you might if for survival purposes not be able to boil water where you're at for a period of time, right? So it comes back you pay for it because it's all separately packed a lot more packaging to it But you know on the front end the variety and cost Suspect that's my overall ex-murray product review from my point of view Packaging we always had to, uh, take our stuff and bury it.

Uh, you know, cause that's, that's Intel. And if someone comes across your packaging, they know that you got top of the line XMRE stuff and you're not scrounging or scavenging you know that it's just the thing that we did in in the army. We had to bury our our packages. So, if you have a lot of packages, you're more of an

Intel risk. Yeah, your target, your target because you might have more. That's right. They find find you have the good stuff, man. We got to find where these guys are and hit them up. One last thing I want to add to this just came to mind. Not only do you not have to boil water, have a fire source, heating source, the smell. People won't be able to smell it like you could open food.

Like that just triggered me because I know when I'm hungry after 36, 48 hour hour fast I can smell food from a mile away. So that's actually a huge part of this it doesn't emit any smell really. And if you open the pouches as designed you perfectly open them. One tactical thing to do on that trash point is don't tear them into two pieces just get it open but keep one piece it's easier to manage and you are able to eat like every bit out of these packages because if you have eat if you if you were to half eat them and leave them around they'll smell those they'll rot they

won't smell good but yeah, usually you're usually you're hungry enough and they they are all edible enough that you can eat every bit of them. Yeah. Hey, I couldn't do it. We're ready. Tell us what you got showing right now. There's a

lot of red on this. Alright, I'll presume people are just listening and not watching but there is a video up on Rumble. If you guys want to go back in the archive or we got some people watching live but this is a day by day calorie deficit versus surplus. A red line means a negative calorie intake for the day. Green means really. It's pretty variable. You can tell that some days I actually have a little bit of a surplus. Some days I have a huge deficit.

That's part of what I wanted to test out was the roller coaster. Would that mess me up or is it a good strategy? I kind of think it's a good strategy, but that's that's just what the data is right now. Cool. That's really cool. Yeah. Now go on. Yeah. Go on to the next one. Now, this right here, I thought this was interesting. Alright. So, I've uh let's just say always tried to map my weight and I've always been interested in over the years. I've learned that you definitely weighed different

amounts in the morning and the afternoon. So, I always weighed myself first thing in the morning and rightnoons. So I always weighed myself first thing in the morning and right before I go to sleep. The orange line is my evening weight which is always higher than my morning weight. Makes sense. But lots of variability. You'll see huge swings. Some days I would go, I would gain

eight pounds if I went from fasting to eating a bunch of ready hour that had tons of sodium. I would balloon up eight or 10 pounds, but within 24 or 36 hours, I would lose it all. So tons of noise on this graph, but if you look at the trend, it's clear that it's downwards. I would say I started this at about 225 pounds,

and I'm down to about 218, so that's about seven pounds, two plus pounds a week That's a fair amount. That's probably too much. Yeah, honestly, but it is what it is I've had swings of between Four to eight pounds between the intraday and evenings intraday. Yeah, I Can never swing that much. I've never been able swing that much in my life the the Interestingly, because you're doing the hard, hard fasting. I am probably average eight hundred nine hundred calories of protein shake on my off days, right, my non solid food days. So I'm I'm always swinging too, because I'm not going without.

If that's what is to be expected, if you're doing actual fast on Tuesdays, Thursdays and weekends, four out of seven days of the week, I mean, it would be expected if line out a little more, I think. Now go on to the last one because this is really telling here. Alright, I mean you're you're definitely on a downward trend. Straight you know down so you you can't keep losing weight.

Now this is. Explain the blue line and the yellow line. Yeah, similar to the last one. The blue line is my morning and the yellow line. Yeah, similar to the last one. The blue line is my morning and the orange line is my evening. So I take, now this has evolved and we've talked a little bit about this. It's kind of my mental energy plus physical energy

and just how I'm feeling. Lack of a better term, if you want a millennial term, it's how I feel. Early on, I was feeling great. Lots of mental energy, a lot of physical energy, good morale. So I was like at a four, four and a half. I had a leading in nice. It started going down, down, down, down, down, down and then

I hit the bottom. Not like the bottom, but my low point was probably, I don't have the exact date. I can go look for it, but last weekend when I was deep into a long fast, point is I was at like a three out of five for how I rated myself average. And I even had lower scores,

like some nights I had a two and a half or a two. But as you can see here, it's bounced back. And the last few days I've been feeling really good. Maybe it's the XMREs. Maybe I've acclimated. Maybe I'm just really happy. It's a beautiful spring in May. I don't know. I think it's more your body adapting to the new reality that you have.

So it takes about three weeks to get into this groove. Dan, are you seeing something like that? So blues the blues the you know the overall feeling of well being is that right? These are two different times. So ones in the morning ones in the evening. So you can kind of just find the midpoint of these and that's that kind of average but um and orange is morning orange is morning and actually my orange now is higher than it was when I started. Whereas my evening is still a little lower than my baseline. But my mornings, I'm feeling really good in the morning apparently.

Well, I'd argue that that late night XMRE had better nutrition. And in week three, you got three different products going on at the same time. Plotting the zones of what you were eating while you felt it could be interesting. I think those MREs had more nutrition in them. No, it's not like whole organic market, homegrown nutrition. We're not talking about that. Talk about nutrition of foods that last for many years, at a minimum, many years.

So I think that orange right there in the morning is a boost, because that's how I felt this week. Yeah, interesting. Yeah, it's very true. Last one I wanna look at, this is protein. So we're not tracking that, we're not tracking carbs and sodium and fat, a little bit of calories obviously but protein we decided was super key to

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I'm going to straight days of zero grams of protein. So, again, I'm kind of experimenting on the roller coaster. It's not ideal, but you might get that. I figure if stuff hits the fan, you're not gonna be able to get your three squares a day and everything's gonna be all hunky dory on timing. PBN listeners, so the idea behind this was to continue to do your normal, whatever your work is for the month.

So the Intrepid Commander is continuing to do his workouts, his runs. The other day he posted in the back channel, he hit the heavy bag and he said when he was done with that, he kind of got a little lightheaded. So yeah. So, yeah, it was hot that day too. Holy cow. I like to see his graph where the protein spiked from eating the raccoon. Yeah. That raccoon got me.

That raccoon got me, man. I, I, so when I put the pictures of the snakes in the back channel, I thought, you know, I think I would eat the snake before the raccoon because I've had snake before. It's not bad. It tastes like chicken. There you go. I said if, uh, if it was prepared properly, I might try it out myself. So a couple last things.

I did stop sharing the spreadsheet, but I'm going to do the cost analysis. So in the next week, I'm going to try to put spreadsheet but I'm gonna do the cost analysis. So, in the next week, I'm gonna try to put together a simple table on this same spreadsheet with the cost analysis of the different types of uh of food. Then, I'm gonna try, no guarantees. I'm gonna

try to do some sort of analysis that correlates calories in versus my energy levels. Um kinda like what Firewood Ford said here like, hey, is this a I'm going to go. Anything else? Yeah, the wardens giving me the stink guy. So we gotta get the work. I appreciate it. You were able to be here today. Well, we'll check in now next week. We're all meeting here. So PBN family expect a lot of content next week. We're

gonna do some shooting on the range and see how these guys are are hitting the target in calorie deficit. So, stay tuned. Awesome. Have a great Sunday, Dave. Uh Dan, we can, if you have anything else to add, future Dan, we can. Yeah, look, look totally look at minutes Totally looking forward to that. Yep, so week three Parkview XM re in the bag

Dave one one question. I Think he's gone How do you cook the food? We don't know Mondays gonna be tough then I have no idea how to cook freeze-dried raw eggs I'm not sure how to cook today. It's gonna be tough then. I have no idea how to cook freeze dried raw eggs. You ready for this is what he told me. I don't even

know how much I got. I don't know if they're portioned consistently and it's gonna be a lot of preparation adventure. So, yeah. What what are we supposed to do? That's true. That is so our fourth week of ration ruin is using NBC guys homestead packed

meals. We have eggs directly from the homestead freeze dry. We have packs of stew. I believe there's two types. We're going to have to I'm going to try to figure out the proper calories and all that. He did say this though for for everything but specifically for the eggs it's one to one ratio of water to powder

so you just can unpack it powderize it just kind of like crush the freeze-dried stuff say you do a cup of that and then you put a cup of water in there mix it up and then it's just like regular okay. Okay. Start cooking. Um the stew, he also said was one to one. Now I've tested this before just straight out of the freeze dryer without cooking it and you can eat it like a cracker. So the stew you can eat straight up without warming it up if you want. Pretty much like a granola bar. Tastes good. So I'm gonna eat some like that, but you can also prepare it. And he also said it was a one to one water to that.

That's already cooked. So. So the stews are precooked, the eggs are not. Exactly. Yeah, and the one to one ratio on the eggs makes them ready to just throw in a frying pan and scramble. That's what he said. I'm an experiment.

I saw, you know, learning some survival cooking skills as part of this. So you gotta if it's a little runny, maybe less water. It's a little thick, a little more. And they said one to one for everything seems too good to be true, but we'll find out. And if it's actually done that way, it's easiest to make, but, um, it's awesome. If it works that way, I think it, you know, it's going to be. Good test. And some of those packages means you can't eat all of it in one day.

You're going to be over 2000 calories, which I think in the last week is going to be really important for your energy balancing, try to, you know, stay consistent. So the calorie expectations of the Dave Jones product review homestead prepared survival emergency rations. Um, yeah, I look forward to it. Uh, I'm going to be really hungry hanging out looking forward to that anything else you want to hit on tonight I think this is a pretty good week three recap weren't able to do it on Friday but in a way it might work better today well wish Intrepid commander was here of course shout out hopefully everything could get better over there but anything

else you want to hit on for week three XMRE week now keep up the good work on the charts but I don't have more to add. I'm just excited to see your charts when they get complete. Really appreciate that. Oh yeah, I love it. I love it. So alright guys and gals, we're out of here. Patriot power hour this Tuesday. Be sure to tune in. Catch you later.