I bought one of those “30-day emergency food buckets” a few years back. Felt good about it. Checked a box in my head. Then I actually read the label on the back and did the math. It was rated at 1,200 calories per day. For one person. I have a family of five, including two teenagers who eat like they are training for the Olympics. That bucket was feeding us for about four days — not thirty. This is the biggest lie in emergency food prep, and most people never catch it until they are actually hun