I've never been a fancy gear or food guy, and I love cheap, practical stuff!

While working as a house manager for a rehab center, one of the clients used to make smoothies with mass gainer adding fruit and nuts, milk or juice. I had never consumed anything like it. He would always make me a tall glass of it and I got hooked on it. It was so delicious. One of the foods I love to make on backpacking and overland camping trips is bannock using flour, baking soda, salt and water mixing the ingredients into a flat paste. Making the bread entailed either frying it in a pan of bacon grease, olive oil or butter or placing it in greased aluminum foil and placing it directly on hot coals. Top it off with peanut butter, strawberry preserves or just plain with butter and syrup. A bag of the ingredients minus the water would last me a week. Like the mass gain the bread mix weighed about a kilo as well in a one gallon freezer ziploc bag. Bannock, was a staple of pioneers gone by and I believe by adding one other ingredient you can make hard tack...sorry, yuk! I like my teeth too much. The story goes that hard tack made in the last century can be still be consumed safely today. There's a lady prepper who has a channel who comes up with some fantastic food concoctions that last for long periods of time, just cannot think of her name at the moment.

I never considered Mass Gainer as a light weight hi-caloric food option. Brilliant!!

The Optimum Nutrition Serious Mass is what you want. 1259 calories and 252g of carbs will kep you running. Since 2008 has been my "go to" and what I keep stashed in the bag with the #1 item - ammo! Fish hooks, line, flame, tarp a knife and a few other items and you can move quickly and get everything else on the way.

Down to earth, good common sense. I like and learn watching your videos, thank you for your service, you pay back well.

Nice. Definitely a better call than protein powder. As for taste, when hungry, pretty much everything tastes better. Peanut butter is great (and perfect bait). Adding a little honey to it is nice. Honey keeps pretty much indefinitely. We have used powdered peanut butter in the past also. It's ok... but calories.

I actually had thought of that, but I passed over it in favor of other preps, now that you have fully explained all of the benefits, I will certainly revisit the subject.

I'd always take peanut butter over mass gainer, if taking only one. 1. You can just eat peanut butter, when injured, or moving, it's easy to eat while keeping your eyes on where you are going. Peanut butter doesn't fall off a spork, and you can keep it in your mouth a long time, making you feel less hungry. 2. Altitude. People who haven't spent time above 10,000 feet sometimes don't understand the very odd food cravings they can get, and a craving for fat is one of them. Peanut butter satisfies this. 3. It's calorie dense. You can't exclude the weight of water to make mass gainer palatable. 4. It's a great base for other survival foods. Add mass gainer to your peanut butter, add honey to your peanut butter, add butter to your peanut butter, or bits of chocolate or granola. Peanut butter is a way to get weight efficient calories with different flavor profiles because it works will with so many other items that have long shelf lives. I've found many people cannot eat the same thing over and over, even when they are hungry, and they require variety or they will not eat. I personally don't understand this, as I could eat the same thing 3 times a day for years, and while I wouldn't prefer to eat that way, it wouldn't be hard to do. Others cannot do this, they simply won't ingest enough calories without having a variety of foods or flavors. Peanut butter allows you to change flavor profiles much more than mass gainer.

LOVE THIS CONTENT! Such an awesome channel as always! Thank you so much! I need this more than ever.

This video was right on time for me. I want to be able to travel fast and light. I'm relying a lot on trail mix and jerky and this gave me another simple fast food. Keep making videos. They are really helpful. Thank you for your service to our country!

An excellent addition to any preps, and it’ll go a long ways.

Great tip Randall, Thanks!

Thanks for sharing the knowledge. Keep up the awesome job. Most people who have no support group or group in general this information could highly be beneficial to them.

Thanks for the maxxgainer info. I want to point out the peanut butter label you showed. The brand you bought adds sugar, molasses (sugar) and some other additives. I'd recommend a natural peanut butter that doesn't add sugar or use shelled peanuts in a vacuum sealed bag. Still pretty light without the empty fat calories of sugar

So go check it out do your own research.. spoken like a true man

sick music! great info, thanks man

Love it! Binge watching! And I’m enjoying your intel! ❤️🙏🏼🇨🇦

Fun fact. Your body can convert protein into carbohydrates, but it cannot convert carbohydrates into protein. That's why carbs are not considered essential nutrients.

If you want to be lean, consume plenty of fat. It may seem counter intuitive but it's at the opposite end of simple carbs. Long term energy with the added benefit of keeping your body fat percentage to a minimum. Plus, fat gives meat nuts and avocado's... much of their great flavour. Peanuts are not actually nuts but they are very nutritious, contain plenty of fat and if you're like me, I love eating them. Peanut butter also often contains small amounts of sugar which though it doesn't make it the best for a quick energy fix, it can help slightly to bring your blood sugars up enough to keep you going. There is also the unsweetened variety but for survival, I'd probably not chose it. For survival, I prefer to cover both long term caloric needs as well as something to pull me out of a hypoglycaemia. Now I'm a type 1 diabetic so this may be more important for me, but when an athlete "bonks", they're actually experiencing a hypoglycaemia. This can also occur in a survival situation. Just my two cents.

Top idea Randall cheers for the idea..

Great video glad I stumbled on this channel

Your channel deserves much more recognition.

Shared ... I was ARMY in 1977, but a weak heart (Was not told by my parents), which killed my older sister, sent me home with On able-Discharge ... If you have been following the Preppers, something massive is about to effect the entire planet real soon, so I am sharing your videos

I have stocked up plenty of protein powder but I’ve never thought about this.

Holy crap this makes so much sense Why haven't I thought of this before!

I was thinking about gainers and went with whey protein and with calories in other forms. There's not much going on in there in terms of meal replacement, vitamins, good fat etc. Meal replacements are expensive AF and this is not cheap either. IMO most of the vitamins they list come from the whey protein. It's up to 80% maltodextrin - which is a hydrolized starch. You can mix whey protein with sugar, one multivitamin pill in the whole bag and get the same result. I occasionally drink vegetable oil as my winter fuel. I once tested a crazy vegan version of Pemmican which was just oat flour, sugar, salt in oil in a PET bottle. I could function on it after SHTF.🙂 Instant potatoes is a good hack but depending on recent potato price it's 10 to 20 times more expensive than potatoes. They are 79% water so one must calculate if it's a good deal. Of course it takes energy, equipment and labor to make it. If you ask me, I'd take a diy potato mash with whey protein over a gainer everytime. I dont eat meat much so a good fat (except butter, cheese) is a problem. I'd eat a sausage full of pig lard if I had to but I dont. Otherwise it's almost perfect. Maybe not in the summer. Peanuts 👍are much cheaper than peanut butter where I live. I use sunflower seeds a lot but peanuts have even better ratio of fat/protein/carbs. Even better than beans and you dont have to cook them for hours. I like beans but it's hardr to enjoy them without a lot of stuff like fried onion, tomato, spices and bread

This is a great idea! Thanks!!!

Great suggestions! Short term, you can also use a mixture called "spackle" to supplement. It a high calorie concoction that can save your life in an emergency. It's not terribly expensive to make, but a great energy food.

People dont do the math. You need to know how many calories per person per day in your family and start buying from there.

You got a like from me. I never would have guessed the Mass product.

That's exactly why I was a food service specialists. I think beef tallow mixed in dried beef and powdered vegetables. Make an energy bar out of that

The best survival food is pemmican which was a Native American survival winter food. It’s jerky preferably bison or venison mixed with tallow and berries. It’s has enough calories and fat for the whole day. Animal tallow is the best friend when it comes to fat. This and bannock.

Excellent tips man! I've had Excellent results with mass gainer. Honestly when it comes down to pack weight and the amount of space something takes up powders are the way to go. I've found a decent supplement store with honest staff and good prices. While getting back into work I've been using a mixture of my preworkout and Amino IQ in place of a fat ass meal and a bunch of coffee. It fuels me for the shift and keeps me alert. It's been a while since I got some decent mass gainer though, I'll definitely have to stock up. Nuts are an excellent source of fuel and a guy definitely can't go wrong with some peanut butter or Nutella.

worth looking into, cheers for the tip. i always looked at porridge/oats as being a super lightweight food option. Last trip out i took a couple of army ration packs (havent had any for years) was stunned at the amount of sugar in the, .... they tasted good, not that i'm fussy, but i didnt shit for 4 days, lol

Thanks for the tip! I am certainly adding this to my bag. I do like MRE peanut butter and will toss a few in as well. I also like Vit C+B tablets for the immune system.

A good by product of consuming the mass gainer is you can produce enuf gas to power a small vehicle to get you to your next bug out spot

For me its home freeze dried and dehydrated everything!

Dealing with a powder can be tricky in windy conditions, though. Also if not already in individual portions need to be careful to keep the remainder dry when using some of it.

I roll with Hormel completes, yeah their a little heavy, but for around 2 bucks a piece for a wholesome meal and they can be heated in a GI canteen cup with a little water .

Late to this, but you gotta be careful of those Mass Builders. Most of them are loaded with sugar to boost the calorie and carb count.

Good topic, my man! 🙏🏽

Like everyone else I never would of thought of that thanks you / great tip 👍

Oh, one more thing i find essential, a bottle of cooking oil

I'll have to check that out. I got 2 tubs of PB in my ruck currently but I'm not a fan of PB in most cases, so anything to swap it with something comparable and save some weight is an all around win for me lol

Good information. Thank you.

Dang the intro was longer than the video

Great idea. Never thought about using that in my pack. Great information

Love your videos dude.

Great advice, but now there's gonna be a run on the GNC stores and places like that. I wonder how long it will take for them to run out.

Knew it would have been one of these workout things, smart stuff

But bacon...

That’s awesome advice. Never even thought of that

Great idea brother and glad I came across this particular video because I've been feeling like that little mathematical chicken with those big glasses on the Foghorn leghorn cartoon adding up all these different food preps to have on hand and to stow away for later. Stay safe and keep doing what you do brother.

Thanks good info.

Great info! I'm partial the dymatize meal replacement

You're absolutely right about the worth of nutrient-dense foods for survival situations -- but there's one big caveat that relates directly to the notion that "I could eat it for a year and be fine." Factory foods are likely to have some ingredients that are extremely pro-inflammatory and/or hormonally deregulating. And while chemical analysis may indicate contents of certain macro- and micronutrients, their bioavailability may be in question. Native peoples of North America used pemmican as a survival food during lean seasons and travel (but you can't buy it in the store and preparing it at home can be tricky). But quality dried meat and shelf-stable fats like tallow and ghee, along with dried fruits and maybe some desiccated organ supplements, while not cheap, are another option -- and the recipe options could be slightly better than those with mass gainer products.

Check out the ingredients on almond milk...Packed with vitamins, similar to cow milk but lasts many months...Heavy like water, but much better in protein powders etc.

This is a good item just to have on hand. Rough time are coming and getting as many nutrients and minerals as possible is important. I could probably live on peanut butter alone😂

Great all round ideas

Last i checked peanut butter is pretty stable & calorie dense, for cold environments.

If anyone is buying "Mass gainer" As a long term bug out. Buy the one with the least "filler" otherwise you're basicaly buying dehydrated dog chow. That's all. Good advice for the homeless. I always drop them a canister, if they actually use it they find hundo stashed inside. Love me some humbles humans.

2 great choices. U tube 1st 4 the mass gainer Thnxs 4 sharing

Good idea. I’d suggest storing vegetable oil or solid vegetable suet too, for a calorie boost. 6000 cals per kilo. Same as pemmican. And it keeps a long time if dark and cool.

I didn't think about mass gainer.. 👍Hell yeah

Update to my comment below. Not only did I try it, but I've been drinking it in the mornings (2 scoops, 300ml milk) every work day (5 days a week) for a month now and have experienced no ill effects.

I thought about this once, and then forgot. Hell yeah!

Mucho gracias ..... Extra bueno pro tip.

PB is great but by itself can lodge in the esophagus and kill you. I know this because I lost a cousin that way. Put it on a cracker or something that will take it to the bottom. The powder sounds like a great supplement but if that's all I could get, after awhile, I'd probably eat it with a 125 grain bullet lol.

You know that as the American civil war was coming to an end, Lee saw his troops digging though horse shit to find undigested kernels of corn to eat. Food will be were you find it. Mom used to say"when things get bad, we will pick shit with the chickens.

That crap might work for a few days until you run out of it, then what are you going to do for an extended time period like maybe 6 months? Synthetic stuff like that is not replenishable nor readily available. If there is only ONE vegetable to pick for long term survival it has to be the potato. They keep without refrigeration. They can be stored for months, and they can be grown very easily. This reminds me of the people that take their generator and their Nintendo out for a wilderness camping trip. LOL.

On a lighter side: I heard that in terms of SHTF food, human liver is actually both great and available.

I've learned that weather it's long term or short term bug out to carry a whole bunch of weight isn't a good thing.. I got a whole 2 weeks of meals in a median medic pouch.. It's cool that u planted on your properties .

I believe you. I do the very same thing. and eat it every day. navy doctor assigned to the marines. the best education I ever got.

Have done the protein powders but not this stuff....will ck it out now, thanks!

try some thing new thanks all ways good advice brother stay safe and practice

Awsome channel! Sierras are an old stomping ground of mine. Keep rocking on. Speaking of Peanut Butter, how about powdered peanut butter? And some Ovaltine too for flavor and a little boost?

Hmm never thought of this either lol good idea

Never thought of mass gainer, I've never used it. What kind of shelf life does it have?

Mix the Chocolate Mass Gainer with the Peanut Butter and make Ranger Fudge!

I'm a pinto beans/jerky/dried cranberries/corn tortillas/pinon nuts kind of guy. I can crush and soak acorns if I need to👍

I don't know if your aware, they have powered peanut butter at Wally world

Excellent. A fellow Blue Cord Devil that likes ATVs and Hammock Camping. Appreciate the powder idea, I will look into it.

Cool idea. I'm thinking thou how this stuff could back you up from going to the bathroom, as protein powder, bars etc are known too do.

Smart. Great idea.

Porridge oats are also damn light filling nutricious

good info vid.whats ur thoughts on home made pemmican ?

In the process of storing these powders, say you put a days worth of servings in food saver bags, then sticking these bags in your BOB, how long before they loose their value? You can either stuff your back with survival bricks and live off what amounts to a big cookie for a few days, or go with this powder. Putting some of this in your bag is a great idea, but if expose to heat, cold in your car, how long will it last or be safe for consumption.

Pure genius.

....facts!

Great video and thanks!

When i drove around vietnam the second time i brought a container of protien powder bc the first time i ended up eating only bread for like 5 days in the middle of nowhere no restaurants or stores around

I used to use weider weight gainer. Added bonus, it makes you fart like a Howwitzer.

10/10 opening greeting.

Do you have preferences for dehydrated or freeze dried foods?

This is old school, but Ovaltine is actually impressive for vitamins.

Very informative. Thanks! But, man, did you play Unreal Tournament as much as I did? 😁

What would you say about beef jerky??? Caned sardines. Yea that’s good weight gainer is what most people call it . But whatever that’s a great idea 💡. Gonna start incorporating that into my inventory. Again jerky meats and peanut butter is great 👍🏼.

You didn't mention Pabst blue ribbon as a necessary food prep LOL.

OK, I couldn't find that video on electrolytes you mentioned. I'm currently been drinking Body Armor because it's the only one that has zinc in it so far, though I don't know if it is an electrolyte.

Powder tastes artificial or at best crap. Peanut butter, raisins and salty biscuits made with wholegrain flour and yeast or sourdough, and you're good to go. An for fat; smoked peppered mackerel, full of omega-3 www.scanspecialties.com/products/peppermakrell-peppered-mackerel-by-sunnmore-of-norway Also delicious and can be eaten on it's own not just as a spread.