Customer Reviews for 493 Total Servings of Starter Variety Pack Emergency Food Kit By Shelf Reliance® THRIVE™
493 Total Servings of Starter Variety Pack Emergency Food Kit By Shelf Reliance® THRIVE™
Shelf Reliance® is known for providing unsurpassed quality in all of its products, and their line of food storage is no different. THRIVE™ Food Storage is a premium name you can trust. Every THRIVE™ product has been carefully selected based on taste and quality, and we are confident that you will look forward to using THRIVE™ in your everyday meal planning and emergency food storage.
The THRIVE™ Starter Variety Pack was designed to provide your family with a variety of great-tasting, nutritious foods that can be used in everyday menu planning. The taste and texture of Beef TVP (Textured Vegetable Protein) is consistent with real meat, making it a great addition to vegetarian diets. The Whole Eggs, Instant Milk and Potato Chunks are ideal as replacements for fresh products in all your recipes, and the Sweet Corn and the Strawberries make excellent snacks. This pack provides you with quality foods that also offer maximum shelf life.
For questions or additional information please email costcosupport@shelfreliance.com. Please include your the item number and description that corresponds with your question.
493 total servings
Freeze-dried products have up to 25 year shelf life if unopened
Dehydrated products have up to 25 year shelf life if unopened
Shelf life varies per can/product (see individual cans for optimum shelf life suggestions)
Easy rehydration instruction and useful tips included
The THRIVE™ Starter Variety Pack contains one #10 (gallon size) can of each of the following:
Whole Eggs (236 servings)(calculation is based on a small egg)
Beef TVP (Textured Vegetable Protein) (44 servings)
Instant Milk (80 servings)
Potato Chunks (42 servings)
Freeze-Dried Sweet Corn (46 servings)
Freeze-Dried Strawberries (45 servings)
Average Customer Rating:
(11 Reviews) 11
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9 of 11(82%)customers would recommend this product to a friend.
Customer Reviews for 493 Total Servings of Starter Variety Pack Emergency Food Kit By Shelf Reliance® THRIVE™
Review 1 for 493 Total Servings of Starter Variety Pack Emergency Food Kit By Shelf Reliance® THRIVE™
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Acesandeights
Location:So. Oregon
Date:January 12, 2013
High Quality
Pros: high quality
"I've been buying and eating freeze-dried food for years (in backpacking/mountaineering packages). This though is highest quality and I can make my own "meals" for much, much less. Thrive has the highest quality freeze-dried food I've had. After having purchased Thrive in the past, I purchased two of these starter packs."
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Review 2 for 493 Total Servings of Starter Variety Pack Emergency Food Kit By Shelf Reliance® THRIVE™
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BIGWEEDS
Location:Fly Over Country
Date:November 6, 2012
lack of accurate information
Pros: total product line has a good variety, good information provided on label
Cons: cans easily dented during transport
Model Number: 426531
"this company continues to use descriptions that do not tell the consumer what they are buying. For this package they state that dehydrated items have a shelf life up to 25 years. A true statement, but if you review their total list of foods, one would find that the great majority of dehydrated foods have a shelf life of 8 years or less. They should list for each item the shelf life for that item. In this offering the egg powder has a 3 year shelf life and the beef TVP has a 10 year shelf life. All items in a group offering should have the same shelf life. They could have changed the beef TVP to cooked meat that is freeze dried which has a 25 year shelf life. The 3 year egg powder should have been changed to a freeze dried fruit. Regards"
7 of 7 people found this review helpful.
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Review 3 for 493 Total Servings of Starter Variety Pack Emergency Food Kit By Shelf Reliance® THRIVE™
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hrhr
Location:Carson City, Nv
Date:February 24, 2012
Thrive products
"Great prices and delivery time through Costco!
Will continue to order this great product through Costco, and hope smaller selections will be offered."
Will continue to order this great product through Costco, and hope smaller selections will be offered."
2 of 3 people found this review helpful.
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Review 4 for 493 Total Servings of Starter Variety Pack Emergency Food Kit By Shelf Reliance® THRIVE™
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erphleb
Location:Utah
Date:December 22, 2011
Milk, Eggs...FANTASTIC!!!
Pros: delicious, easy to make, economical
Cons: tvp but fine in a pinch!
"I purchased two of these along with the grain package and I must say, we can really go a very long way and a LONG time with just these simple boxes. I did recently add the assorted deluxe meats to round out the necessary protein in the event of a disaster, but I must say that daily use with this variety pack is EASY and very, very palatable. The milk is fantastic and can be made to please 2% lovers as well as skim. The eggs are fantastic and you can whip up an omelet or scrambled eggs. All of it can be used in cooking. It's a great pack for starters, apartment dwellers and couples."
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.
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Review 5 for 493 Total Servings of Starter Variety Pack Emergency Food Kit By Shelf Reliance® THRIVE™
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PreparedinOhio
Location:Cincinnati, Oh
Date:November 30, 2011
We continue to be impressed
"The quality of the Thrive food is amazing. I highly recommend this brand - buy with confidence."
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Review 6 for 493 Total Servings of Starter Variety Pack Emergency Food Kit By Shelf Reliance® THRIVE™
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boone001
Location:Califronia
Date:April 13, 2011
Products purchase
"Again I bought them for emergency and have not opened them yet. I purchased them because of the shelf life."
1 of 6 people found this review helpful.
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Review 7 for 493 Total Servings of Starter Variety Pack Emergency Food Kit By Shelf Reliance® THRIVE™
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Truthsseeker
Location:Texas
Date:March 29, 2011
Great product and in stock.
"This is a geat product and due to the FEMA contract buyin 140 Million Freeze Dried/MRE type meals, many sites have nothing in stock. The quality of the Shelf Reliance is exseptional and with Costco's speedy delivery, you cannot go wrong."
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.
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Review 8 for 493 Total Servings of Starter Variety Pack Emergency Food Kit By Shelf Reliance® THRIVE™
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MrandMrsPops
Location:Washington State
Date:March 4, 2011
seems to store opened well for almost a year now
Pros: great long term food storage, great flavor/comparable nutrition to fresh, good insurance for food shortages
Cons: freeze drying can powder many foods, cost of a can of potatoes vs fresh is very high
"opened a few cans on April 15, 2010 stored in a dark closet about 68-72 degrees, humidity today is 33 percent indoors and 58 percent outdoors. Stored these in original cans. I have been trying not been using them up to see how well they store and it has been almost a year for the corn, peas, and strawberries! I am very pleased with the results for our house. We do live in a manufactured home that has pretty good climate control. If you live in a wet or muggy climate you might need to vacuum seal in canning jars after the containers are opened or use the cans up quickly
the corn is 1/2 used and still very crunchy with a fresh sweet taste, rehydrated and cooked up they still pass for a very delicious fresh tasting side dish of corn, add a little and yum just as when they were first opened.
The strawberries taste good, nearly all used but they have attracted some moisture making them not crunchy anymore, probably because I dip into them often for putting on cereal. I will still use them up on my cereal as they are delicious
the peas 1/2 used and still crunchy just like the corn, I have not cooked them up in awhile but am sure they are as fresh as the corn was.
I had a mylar sample of the eggs and we actually stored it in the refrigerator used them up after several months, and were very good as scrambled mixed with milk salt and pepper.....mixing the eggs half and half with farmfresh organic eggs...we could not tell the difference when mixing the dried eggs with the fresh eggs( but this made the fresh eggs stretch a little farther), used them in cooking as well. will keep the big can for long term storage to use if we don't have access to our fresh eggs.
if these potatoes are the freeze dried chunks we had good luck with them but couldn't keep the can full for the entire year either. Like the other items, the potatoes need to be first soaked in water and then we fried in olive oil with onions and peppers for a good flavor to suit some tastes but frying them up like those frozen squared chunks of hashbrowns in olive oil and salt topping with salsa or ketsup my son couldn't tell the difference. There were some small pieces at the bottom of the can and some powder as with all freeze dried food but added them to mashed potatoes and had no waste.
This is a good product for long term food storage."
7 of 7 people found this review helpful.
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Review 9 for 493 Total Servings of Starter Variety Pack Emergency Food Kit By Shelf Reliance® THRIVE™
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aDogLover2
Location:San Luis Obispo, CA
Date:January 31, 2011
Some food good, some REALLY BAD
Pros: some acceptable vegetables
Cons: many horrible fruits & vegetables
"Some of the vegetables such as corn, green beans, cauliflower, & peas are acceptable. However, the carrots, bell peppers, & pearl potatoes are so micro-minced they have neither texture nor taste. The oranges are easily crushed in the can and end up an orange powder. I asked Shelf Reliance about this and they told me they had so many problems with them that they don't sell them anymore. That was months ago and I still see they are selling them online. Why recall when there is money to be made. The pearl potatoes I received were a Shelf Reliance mistake. I ordered the chunk potatoes, the label on the can indicated chunk potatoes, but they were actually pearl potatoes. It took many calls (because they keep saying they had no record of the previous call) and after TWO MONTHS I finally received a return label. There are much better dried food companies on the internet.
Instead of trying to deal with them I just threw out all their mistakes & micro-minced products. I'd give Shelf Reliance one more star if it wasn't for theifr customer service"
Instead of trying to deal with them I just threw out all their mistakes & micro-minced products. I'd give Shelf Reliance one more star if it wasn't for theifr customer service"
5 of 9 people found this review helpful.
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Review 10 for 493 Total Servings of Starter Variety Pack Emergency Food Kit By Shelf Reliance® THRIVE™
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Robinsage1
Location:Washington, DC
Date:June 29, 2010
Great Value Buy!!
Pros: more product for the money than other sites, extremely tasty foods, high nutrition value, long storage life!, convenient serving packs, the "freshest" produce in a can.
Cons: need additional meals to mix and serve a balanced
"I like to experience every emergency equipment bought and this is no different. I hydrated each of the products in the sealed cans and was pleasantly surprised to find a delicious, near-fresh taste with excellent consistancy; the storage life is superb; as these are sealed in serving packs, allows one to reseal the containers with confidence no contaminations will penetrate and spoil the food stores. The nutritional values are consistant with contemporary home menus so one can cook this with confidence in the nutritional values. GREAT PRODUCT for E-Food Storage!"
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.
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Review 11 for 493 Total Servings of Starter Variety Pack Emergency Food Kit By Shelf Reliance® THRIVE™
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LuvToShop
Location:Corona, CA
Date:May 1, 2010
Great Starter Pack
"I ordered this and have been very happy. Was looking at ordering the 1 year kit but wanted to try out some of the sampler packs for quality assurance purposes. So far I have used the strawberries, potato chunks, TVP meat and the corn. All was delicious. Used the TVP in chili and it was tastier than I had imagined. Recommend this starter kit if you have never tried this before. Have not tried the milk as I am storing that for emergency purposes."
9 of 9 people found this review helpful.
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