Survival Canned Food Challenge: Final Days & Thoughts

Well people, lets be honest, weekends for college students are how should I say this, "busy" for most, so I couldn't post this weekend I did however keeping making meals so I decided to compile all the photos for this final day.

This weekend I ate mostly leftovers (I had plenty of them) and these two meals which both were delicious. As for this little experiment I would say it was a success and very informative. I was able to get a fairly large amount of canned good for almost 1 dollar each can, it was also enough food to last further than the week I had planned. It was a great variety and I was able to make some pretty good meals, especially under the food restraints I had placed on myself. Some things I learned were that you must keep close watch of you sodium intake (of course in a survival situation this may not be paramount) many of these canned food have high levels of sodium. Also, you have to work to keep a bit of a balanced diet if your eating out of the can alone. There were some foods I missed but it wasn't unbearable and even though I am hardly a good cook the dishes turned out well. Final thoughts, it wouldn't be hard for a student or anyone for that matter to "survive" off of canned and dried foods alone, I would want to live off of them though. I also wished I could have experimented with more dried foods but I have a new found curiosity for them so I may try some down the road (which I will blog about of course) I would give this overall experience a 4.5/5, because there is always room for improvement.

Survival Canned Food Challenge: Day 4

Day 4 here, although this is a very late post. Being a college student I spend much of my time awake in the evening so this is a good time to blog for me. Today was another late day so breakfast was skipped but my lunch was very nostalgic.

Lunch:

My childhood comes flooding back....

I have been getting great use out of my camping cook set this week.

Dinner:
-Mackerel (Pan Fried)
-Cream Corn
-String Beans

I love creamed corn.

Forgot to de-bone....

Adding some seasoning at this point. 

Cooked until darkened.

Nice balanced dinner for 1.

 Now the mackerel wasn't prepared as well as it could have been, but I never claimed to be a cook, needless to say it was a little dry. The string beans and creamed corn made superb sides though. I did enjoy this one, not as much as my Kale Stew but still pretty good. Solid 3.7/5.

Survival Canned Food Challenge: Day 3

Had to use my knife to open this can of milk, it worked like a dream.

Well folks, today was mostly a leftovers day since I have an important Test tomorrow, but I did have some thoughts to share about this little experiment. First I'm glad to say that most of my food is edible and that I bought enough to last for more than a week at least for a single student such as myself. I also wish I could have gotten more, mostly more dried foods, there are several things I would like to try (Spam and powdered eggs for breakfast) and some things I miss (like cheese) that might be supplemented by dried goods. I really want to experiment more with this, I know TheSurvivalMom blog tends to talk about dried goods a lot and I think its worth reading into, especially after this.  Also I've had my craving but I have stayed strong so far, I think I can make it so wish me luck.

Here are some photos of my breakfast:
Oatmeal (Maple & Brown Sugar) w/ a little evaporated milk:

Survival Food Challenge: Day 2

Having some PC problems I had to make this a late & quick post. Also I woke up late so no breakfast edition today sorry.

Simple lunch, was feeling lazy today.

Ramen to go w/ my smoked Ham.

Today I'm using my portable cookware that I have for camping.

All of it was pretty cheap online.

Interesting.....

Sauteed the fish in the pan first before mixing in the pot.

adding mixed veggies

Doing second batch.

This stuff is pretty good gave the sauce that extra kick....

This is sad but being college students, we had no spaghetti.

Being a survivalist, I made do w/ Ramen.

I add some more sauce after mixing w/ the ramen and a little more seasoning.

All in all, my seafood pasta turned out pretty good. A decent 4/5 from me, it would be perfect with a little cheese, maybe next time. I was hungry and had 2 bowls, well dig in.