Every Prepper Pantry needs a small variety of dehydrated foods in #10 cans. For me, one of them is Tomato Powder. I long-term store a fair amount of pasta in various shapes and a pasta sauce is necessary to create familiar comfort meals. This simple tomato powder makes great tasting sauces, soups, juice, ketchup etc.
One of the issues with #10 cans of food is the cost. Maybe WalMart has changed that with their online selling of the Augason Farms brand of Prepper foods.
There are numerous sellers of #10 cans and over the years one of my favorite sellers was Honeyville Farms because of their variety, fast service, good prices, and low-cost shipping. Regardless of how many items or pounds the order weighed, shipping was $4.99 for the entire order. However, I recently purchased two more cans of Tomato Powder and naturally shopped my normal sellers for the best price and was surprised at the price and shipping increases today.
Here’s what I discovered: (per can price shown)
Honeyville Farms Tomato Powder:
$26.99 plus $8.99 shipping. A $4.00 shipping increase.
WalMart, Augason Farms brand Tomato Powder:
$26.03 and zero $ shipping because I opted for in-store pick-up. (Also because WalMart has stores here in Florida
Summary:
It looks like WalMart will be the first place I shop for Prepper Stuff especially because of the Free In-Store Order Pick-up!
Links to Augason Farms and WalMart Augason Farms:
Mike, I didn't know about Augason Farms, nor that Walmart sold prepper foods. That's good to know!
ReplyDeleteI didn’t either until a couple months ago when read a Prepper was buying Augason at WalMart. My next trip to WalMart I checked for it but that store didn’t sell it (low sales here where I’m surrounded by Millenials).
DeleteI like the no shipping if I pick it up at the store and no sales tax, so now I’ll check their website before I buy.
Sometimes I can find #10 cans of tomato sauce. If we are making big batch of chili, its way cheaper to buy a #10 vs 4 to 6 regular cans. IIRC if you order anything on WM.com you don't pay for shipping if it over say $35.00 Store don't have order it, they have it in 3 days give or take.
ReplyDeleteMike look at the hash browns and the powdered cheese.
ReplyDeleteThe powdered cheese I've been using for years, it's really good stuff. Haven't tried the hash browns. Right now I use can potatoes, diced, sliced and whole.
DeleteI've been thinking about stocking up on Auguson farms. Anyone know about shelf-life?
ReplyDeleteHerb, 25 years if stored properly.
DeleteThanks Mike. I started looking at Augason on Warlmart.com, shelf-life varies by product (eggs good 5-10 years, beans 25, etc.). Time to stock-up!
DeleteI had no idea that tomatoes even came in powdered form! Seems like a great buy for prepping though. Thanks for sharing!
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