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Costco selling apocalypse-ready food buckets: 150 servings with 25-year shelf life

Costco wants to make sure you're well-fed when the apocalypse starts, offering emergency food buckets with a shelf life of 25 years.

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Ready for the apocalypse?

Costco wants to make sure you're well-fed when the zombie revolution begins or the aliens land.

The retailer is offering an emergency kit in a bucket that provides 150 freeze-dried food servings, with a shelf life of 25 years.

The Readywise Emergency Food Supply bucket offers a total of 25,280 calories with freeze-dried items such as teriyaki rice, pasta alfredo, potato pot pie and apple cinnamon cereal.

It's listed online at $79.99, though some Costco locations are offering lower prices in person.

Online shipping takes 10 to 15 business days. But it's not clear if delivery can be guaranteed once the actual apocalypse begins, so you might want to make sure your home is stocked now.

While this product in particular has received some viral attention recently, the retailer offers similar products that include a Chef's Banquet one month supply with 380 servings for $189.99 and, yes, an entire pallet of 36 Readywise buckets for $2,500, offering a whopping total of 5,400 servings.

oscarwildeboy on July 17th, 2024 at 17:27 UTC »

it’s kinda weird to be like APOCALYPSE BUCKET, LOOK AT THESE FREAKS as if this isn’t actually a really smart thing to have for any type of emergency, especially a natural disaster or even something as simple as an extended power outage. i live in california and have one of these for earthquake preparedness.

fuzzycuffs on July 17th, 2024 at 15:12 UTC »

Dunno how this is offbeat. They've been selling these for a while and these things have existed for a while outside of being sold by Costco. Freeze dried emergency food with 10-25 year shelf life is very common.

LockedUnlocked on July 17th, 2024 at 15:04 UTC »

This isn't new. We have these at the cabin, in case we are out there and roads get shut down, and we have a smaller one in the car in case we get stuck in a snowstorm or something and have to wait for help. Its better to be prepared for the unthinkable, and these aren't only used for the "apocalypse"