Dehydrated Chicken

When people are looking to buy dehydrated chicken for their long-term food storage, they quickly find that most real chicken meat available is actually freeze-dried chicken. The advantage of chicken, however, is that it provides options and varieties for recipes in your diet, no matter how it is preserved.

Provident Pantry

The quality and competitive pricing of the well-known Provident Pantry makes this a popular product. Offering white meat chicken and prepared chicken-based entrees for varied menus, Provident Pantry provides nutrition that tastes delicious.

Provident Pantry has a 22-ounce #10 can of 100% white chicken, which comes with a resealable lid. The shelf life for the unopened can is 25 or more years when stored in a cool place, but more importantly, reviewers rate the flavor of the product highly. If you are looking for 100% chicken with some barbecue flavor, Provident offers smoked chicken chunks, which has spices and added flavors to give the smoky flavor.

Teriyaki noodles, sweet and sour noodles and fettuccine alfredo all with freeze dried, not dehydrated chicken are available for up to 17 servings per can and are packaged for long term storage. For the vegetarian, Provident offers imitation chicken flavored bits from vegetable protein which reviewers rate highly for flavor and value.

Although Provident Pantry does not offer dehydrated chicken, the freeze-dried chicken and chicken dishes are a nutritional, flavorful choice. You don't have to wait for the catastrophic event to take advantage of this product it is a quick and easy nutritional food to quickly add to a salad or casserole dish on those days that you want a healthier alternative to fast food.

The ReadyStore

The ReadyStore offers a variety of brands and chicken meals but again, it is not dehydrated chicken, it is freeze-dried. You can buy individual packets, six can readypacks and one to 12 month supply packs that include chicken meals as well as a variety of other foods.

The Chicken Lovers ReadyPack offers six #10 cans of Saratoga Farms and Mountain House chicken meals that have up to a 30-year shelf life. The pack has up to 67 servings and includes:

• Chicken Fettuccini Alfredo
  
• Chicken ala King and Noodles
  
• Rice and Chicken
  
• Noodles and Chicken
  
• Oriental Sweet and Sour Chicken Textured Vegetable Protein
  
• Chicken Teriyaki

Reviewers rated the package highly and the varieties of chicken dishes reconstitute in an average 10 minutes and offer flavorful nutrition. You will have a variety of meals for any kind of disruption to the usual routine, be it a natural or man-made disaster.

Beprepared.com

Beprepared offers not only Provident Pantry, Mountain House and other brands but it includes recipes along with the display of products. If you are looking for a quick meal for two without opening a #10 can, beprepared.com has Mountain House Rice and chicken or chicken teriyaki for two. If stored in a cool area, the pouches have a shelf life as long as 10 years.

You can downsize to a single helping with MRE meals such as:

• MRE Chicken Noodle with Vegetables
  
• MRE Chicken Noodle Stew with Vegetables
  
• MRE Chicken Fajita Filling
  
• MRE Chicken with Tomatoes and Feta Cheese
  
• MRE Garlic Herb Chicken
  
• MRE Chicken Pesto Pasta
  
• MRE BBQ Sauce with Chicken, Black Beans and Potato
  

Although keeping track of shelf life is important with all your supplies, it is especially important with the MRE products as their shelf life is up to two years.

Although dehydrated chicken is not available commercially, you have a variety of choices of quality freeze-dried chicken. You can flavor chicken in a variety of ways and use it in multiple dishes with rice, potatoes or vegetables. It provides a healthy source of protein without the complications of butchering your own meat.

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